Redknapp hints at new contract for Ale Faurlin

[TBLOCKRANGER]

Agree with deeps and brighty, giving out contract transactions is not like buying a pair of jeans, do you need them or not.
It's not that simple.
RVP joined utd as he liked the way the club looked after their older players, the club had loyalty, he could have gone anywhere. With all the money utd still retained a core set of elders who were just respected, it made SAF job so much easier.
We haven't got the luxury of a volume of elder players that have come through the seasons, but AF for us is one of the few. Look how even someone as cold as Barton ran to get his shirt.
Clubs aren't built simply on players that can play week in week out like robots, successful clubs have souls. AF maybe a bridge builder, peace maker, excellent at training, doesn't go out on the lash, is popular.
Often at work not the most productive is the one that succeeds, as he or she may be rude, ruthless and undermines management. For some work other attributes if not more important are as equal as productivity. Clearly dead wood that provides nothing should go but AF is far far off that.
Mention was made of a Gardner who was too old or ill to work, if you were a wealthy landowner (which I presume our owners are as they appear to be buying up parts of west london) and you had a loyal and popular servant that fell on bad luck, why not continue to pay if you can, you may like his company, doesn't rob you and no threat of running off with your wife.
Keep paying the geezer I say.

[DeepcutHoop]

Fully agree with you that if anyone deserves looking after he does. Just be interested to know how many urging the club to do this would, for instance, continue to pay a gardener/ cleaner/ odd job man/ whatever even if they couldn't work for you for a year due to an injury. If you all would, then I applaud you for being such good citizens.

Not quite the same thing, though I take your point.

If they'd injured themselves doing a job I'd asked them to do, I'd feel a little responsible to be honest, especially having got them back to fitness the last time they did it and then got them to do the same job again....

[stainrodisalegend]

Its a difficult one and I certainly see where you guys are coming from. Both TBlock and Deepcut make good points. I too would probably feel obligated to look after the gardener. But if - to keep the analogy going - he was some ultra posh landscape gardener type who was earning 20k a week and you were already paying him for six months work after his injury would you then put him on a FURTHER contract obliging you to pay him for another year on top? There's no easy answer and I'm certainly not criticising you for having a conscience - am just aware that this club has wasted so much money on players who for whatever reason are not contributing much (in Ale's case I fully accept it is through no fault of his). Just imagine if we didn't have all the sick-notes and peripheral players on huge contracts we cd easily afford a Jordan Rhodes or last year a Matt Dawson or AN Other key player that might make all the difference. Harry has a great history of spending the chairman's money - which might at least have been a factor in why Spurs eventually got fed up with him. My only real point is that fans should equate these figures to their own lives and even allowing for the fact that our owners are very rich men, these are big sums you are effectively asking to be handed out to someone who is not exactly needy just as a nice gesture.

[DeepcutHoop]

Its a difficult one and I certainly see where you guys are coming from. Both TBlock and Deepcut make good points. I too would probably feel obligated to look after the gardener. But if - to keep the analogy going - he was some ultra posh landscape gardener type who was earning 20k a week and you were already paying him for six months work after his injury would you then put him on a FURTHER contract obliging you to pay him for another year on top? There's no easy answer and I'm certainly not criticising you for having a conscience - am just aware that this club has wasted so much money on players who for whatever reason are not contributing much (in Ale's case I fully accept it is through no fault of his). Just imagine if we didn't have all the sick-notes and peripheral players on huge contracts we cd easily afford a Jordan Rhodes or last year a Matt Dawson or AN Other key player that might make all the difference. Harry has a great history of spending the chairman's money - which might at least have been a factor in why Spurs eventually got fed up with him. My only real point is that fans should equate these figures to their own lives and even allowing for the fact that our owners are very rich men, these are big sums you are effectively asking to be handed out to someone who is not exactly needy just as a nice gesture.

I understand, but as I said before, why should this be the point you baulk at the club wasting money?

I'm not even sure it could be considered just a 'nice gesture' when there is a chance he could come back from this injury and play for us again. Odds may suggest he may not, but this wouldn't just be chucking money away on an emotionally charged whim.

[davidla80]

There is another difference. We don't have to buy a new midfielder to replace AF but you'd new to get a new gardener.
Presumably also the club think he can play again at some point - hope he does and he he's not rushed back.