What do you think about this kind of slavery?
http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=775993
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Have to agree. For high profile players like Ronaldo, it's hardly slavery.
The tactic now, seems to be to lock players into long term contracts. What does a player do, when he finds himself sat on a bench for the rest of his career, when he could be playing first team football for another club? Or offers are short of clubs demands. Or his national team manager says he wont be selected if he remains playing abroad? Or his value in the market increases substantially and it's not reflected in the original contract?
The problem for the clubs is when money-grubbers have no loyalty. They move as often as they can get away with it, for their cut of transfer fees.
If a club invests in a player, surely that club has a right to a return on their investment. How do you calculate that return? Number of seasons in the first team? Amount of marketing dollars generated? Goals scored? Trophies won? Without Ronaldo would Man U have won anything? Hasn't he already provided a good return on their investment?
When I sign a contract of employment I can be head-hunted or resign at any time. A company knows this and will endeavour to keep me at the firm, perhaps with promotion, improved package. If I'm still unhappy I can leave. That's the market.
In football, what does a contract do for you if a player stops making an effort until he's let go? Fakes injury. If you bench him, his resale value may drop and that hurts the balance sheet. He becomes a non-performing asset.
Tricky.
The tactic now, seems to be to lock players into long term contracts. What does a player do, when he finds himself sat on a bench for the rest of his career, when he could be playing first team football for another club? Or offers are short of clubs demands. Or his national team manager says he wont be selected if he remains playing abroad? Or his value in the market increases substantially and it's not reflected in the original contract?
The problem for the clubs is when money-grubbers have no loyalty. They move as often as they can get away with it, for their cut of transfer fees.
If a club invests in a player, surely that club has a right to a return on their investment. How do you calculate that return? Number of seasons in the first team? Amount of marketing dollars generated? Goals scored? Trophies won? Without Ronaldo would Man U have won anything? Hasn't he already provided a good return on their investment?
When I sign a contract of employment I can be head-hunted or resign at any time. A company knows this and will endeavour to keep me at the firm, perhaps with promotion, improved package. If I'm still unhappy I can leave. That's the market.
In football, what does a contract do for you if a player stops making an effort until he's let go? Fakes injury. If you bench him, his resale value may drop and that hurts the balance sheet. He becomes a non-performing asset.
Tricky.
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absolute disgrace, nothing more than mercenaries 
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The key issue from that article is that neither Ronaldo, Frank Lampard nor Gareth Barry, the three highest profile Premier League players who apparently want to move from their present clubs, have not handed in formal transfer requests, so we can only assume that the reason for this is money, as they would miss out on lucrative payouts if they did so; therefore how desperate are they really to leave?
A lot of this stuff is paper talk though, and I can't actually imagine that any of them are really 'unhappy' at their respective clubs. Calling them slaves is an insult to both the paying public who ultimately fund their obscene wages, and to real slaves, both past and present. Blatter is an idiot and the sooner he is removed from football's top job, the better. Maybe the English crowds can start singing negro spiritual songs instead of their usual chants next season?
A lot of this stuff is paper talk though, and I can't actually imagine that any of them are really 'unhappy' at their respective clubs. Calling them slaves is an insult to both the paying public who ultimately fund their obscene wages, and to real slaves, both past and present. Blatter is an idiot and the sooner he is removed from football's top job, the better. Maybe the English crowds can start singing negro spiritual songs instead of their usual chants next season?
When a ship carrying hundreds of people was recently turned away from Benin, Africa, officials suspected that the children on board were human slaves. The incident once again brought attention to the problem of slavery. At this moment, millions of men, women, and children are being held against their will as modern-day slaves. Sometimes referred to as bonded laborers (because of the debts owed their masters), public perception of modern slavery is often confused with reports of workers in low-wage jobs or inhumane working conditions. However, modern-day slaves differ from these workers because they are actually held in physical bondage (they are shackled, held at gunpoint, etc.).
Modern-day slaves can be found laboring as servants or concubines in Sudan, as child "carpet slaves" in India, or as cane-cutters in Haiti and southern Pakistan, to name but a few instances. According to Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights organization, there are currently over 20 million people in bondage. Ronaldo isn't one of them.
Modern-day slaves can be found laboring as servants or concubines in Sudan, as child "carpet slaves" in India, or as cane-cutters in Haiti and southern Pakistan, to name but a few instances. According to Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights organization, there are currently over 20 million people in bondage. Ronaldo isn't one of them.
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Various sites give out different figures. I cut n' pasted the info from this site http://www.infoplease.com/spot/slavery1.htmlMrPlum wrote:20 million. That's appalling. I wonder how many more they don't know about.
Somehow I can't see Ronaldo weaving carpets! Blatter's statement is an insult and inappropriate. He seems to hate England.
