His improved form did not merit a threefold pay rise, it stood as some recompense for his previous generally much poorer performances.
For fifteen grand a week Reading can have him. Even with a short career It is seasons like this where I simply can't justify the wages players get, even when they play well. Joel Lynch played well this year, but he could never, ever be said to deserve a fifth of a million pounds for it. McCleary, equally, isn't worth three quarters of a million pounds a year.
When I think about the state of the club, how much Doughty put in to get us nowhere, and how much these people make for playing football, I feel sick. It's taken a few years to really catch up with me, but there's a moral vacuum at the heart of the game and all these players are complicit in it.
Spare me the argument, too, that I'd not turn down that sort of money for my job if it was offered. I've been paid silly money for cushy work and walked away from it before. Overpayment harms the foundations of the industry one works in, and taking an insane cut is not just selfish and vulgar but destructive as well.
Aside from those who came in and took us up from the third tier, have the vast sums of money paid to all these relatively unimpressive and incapable players been remotely justified in that they've received the money in return for the betterment of the club?
I know not all clubs can be successful, but all players in the top two divisions are financially successful no Matt what. It's a filthy ****ing shame and I want no part of it.
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