If only you knew how easy it would have been to convince me today was Thursday.
Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊
Dunk - Refusing to play?
- Thread starter TSB
- Start date
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
And in the mean time he's refusing to play?
'Refusing' to play would be a funny way of showing that.... and would win him no friends.
terryberry1
Well-known member
Cheery at the fact that he will be earning 20 grand a week very soon. At the end of the day there is no loyalty in football. People can sit there as a fan and slate him if he does go but the truth is if me or you were offered a job on 3 times the amount you were earning at your current job then you would go. If you didn't then you would be a fool. Footballers have short careers, they have to make the most of the opportunities whilst they can. I don't begrudge Dunk for wanting to leave, I just wish it was to a prem team. Fulham may be a sideways step in football terms but in financial terms it will set him up for life. Until we get the Premier League we will have to accept that we can't/won't pay top money to buy or keep our players. If however he is refusing to play then he is a ****.
Betfair Bozo
Well-known member
- Jul 24, 2007
- 2,096
So could you confirm or deny the premise that he is refusing to play and also refused to play at Southend? If it's untrue then I agree with most of what you have said (as I posted previously anyway.) If it is true then that alters things somewhat. Like everyone else I sincerely hope it isn't.
Greer playing 3 games in the first week of the season did strike me as odd.
Refusing to play does seem a little extreme for a player that the club has stood by in the past.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
IF he is withdrawing his "labour", then whatever the club fines him he will comfortably make back with his signing on fee with from new club. So he'll either get his move, or an improved contract. Much as the "well let him rot in the reserves" mantra might play to our desire to show who's boss, the reality is, that just ain't ever, ever gonna happen. Never does.
Players and their agents hold all the cards now. Its just a fact of modern football.
Players and their agents hold all the cards now. Its just a fact of modern football.
Until the clubs (note the plural) one day decide enough is enough. Nah, you're right...can't see it happening
bn1&bn3 Albion
Well-known member
Certainly not true about refusing to play Tuesday and I would doubt he'd refuse to play Saturday.
Jimmy Grimble
Well-known member
Unfortunately I have no knowledge on the refusing to play count. I'd be surprised, but that's based on what I know of Dunk rather than anything else.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
First and foremost, Dunk is a professional footballer, and like any other professional, he will look to maximise his earnings from his career. Being "the type of person who is committed to the cause" is neither here nor there. He'll be a committed player to whoever pays his wages - and if someone else is offering more than BHA, then that's who he'll want to commit to.
You'd hope that his professionalism would extend to doing his very best for BHA until he moves on, but as Bridcutt has shown, that's not always how they want to play it. I was HOPING its all rumour and rubbish, which is why I didn't say anything on Wednesday morning when I first heard this. I don't usually bother posting rumours. But seeing it from another source today seems to me to have given it a bit more credence.
A real pity that it should end like this if its true. I guess we'll know by 2pm tomorrow.
I hope this is true. As others have said, no one begrudges him the chance of earning big money, but some ways are better than others.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
It would be very disappointing if this IS true.
TomandJerry
Well-known member
- Oct 1, 2013
- 11,493
Hope it's not true
goldstone rocks
Active member
- Feb 25, 2009
- 163
I believe Dunk will be "injured" for the Fulham match.
Gullflyinghigh
Registered User
- Apr 23, 2012
- 4,279
I'll never really understand why there's such an expectation towards loyalty in football over any other place of employment, at least where it comes to trying to guess a player's mentality anyway.
It probably goes without saying that if I were offered the chance to play for the Albion I'd do it regardless of wage, but as a fan who can only dream of that happening, my perspective is somewhat screwy.
Outside of that small, highly unlikely, scenario, I've been working for the same company for a decade and can honestly say that if someone offered to triple my wages (or whatever the rumour for Dunk is) I wouldn't hesitate to take it, nor would I feel like I've betrayed the company, they've paid me for 10 years and I've done the job asked. I wouldn't withhold my labour to force the move, but then I wouldn't need to.
Even when you look at the most famous one-club men (Terry, Giggs etc) of the modern game, they've tended to be one of (if not the) highest paid players in the squad. Steven Gerrard was the same, until his club decided that he was surplus to requirements regardless of his loyalty so it can even be a two-way street from time to time.
Emotion has a part in the game, (as it should) and I wish it counted for more, but the reality is that the money will always talk.
It probably goes without saying that if I were offered the chance to play for the Albion I'd do it regardless of wage, but as a fan who can only dream of that happening, my perspective is somewhat screwy.
Outside of that small, highly unlikely, scenario, I've been working for the same company for a decade and can honestly say that if someone offered to triple my wages (or whatever the rumour for Dunk is) I wouldn't hesitate to take it, nor would I feel like I've betrayed the company, they've paid me for 10 years and I've done the job asked. I wouldn't withhold my labour to force the move, but then I wouldn't need to.
Even when you look at the most famous one-club men (Terry, Giggs etc) of the modern game, they've tended to be one of (if not the) highest paid players in the squad. Steven Gerrard was the same, until his club decided that he was surplus to requirements regardless of his loyalty so it can even be a two-way street from time to time.
Emotion has a part in the game, (as it should) and I wish it counted for more, but the reality is that the money will always talk.