(04-30-2012, 07:12 PM)abbeyleemania Wrote: You can say the same thing for many players. in this world, Everyone plays for money. if you know a player who doesnt play for money, just tell me.
Sheva left Dinamo Kiev, he got better contract with Milan.
Sheva left Milan, he got better contract with Chealse.
Do you think that a big English side will pay 5+ m euros a year to him? Everyone is not Galliani. if you think, you shouldnt watch football again.
Flamini was awesome at Arsenal, there was Milan and Juve who were after him and offered him great salary. However he went to us. Honestly, now a player who was out with this injury full season, Nobody gonna pay him that kind of salary. in this case, we can renew him at lower wages. 5 m euros was too high for a player like him.
Mate, all players play for money, of course, everyone in this world works for money (or almost). Period.
Like some replied you, Flamini won't get a new 5M contract, nor a new 4M contract, our management will probably offer him a 2-3M contract. He will surely refuse, unless he changed his mind during the last few years ...
This guy was revealed thanks to Marseille, he decided to leave them in a weird way and refused any new contract to be free to sign anywhere ... Marseille could have offered him a new contract and sell him then to get some money from him, he refused.
In Arsenal, the exact same thing happened ... He refused a renewal (the contract Arsenal offered him was lower than the one we gave him) and left the club who allowed him to play at a higher level for free. He left a club where he was guarenteed to be an important player, he also had guarantees that a guy like Fabregas (their duo worked well) would stay, but he chose to join us for a better contract but no guarantee to be in the first XI (and he never managed to be a regular first XI player).
Each time, Flamini never hide the fact that what he wanted was a new challenge, but more importantly, more money.
If we offer him a 2.5M contract, don't you really think that a French side (Lyon, Marseille, Paris), a Spanish side (Malaga for example ?) or an English side (most of them) couldn't offer him a 3-3.5M contract or even better ?
If that happens, and if you think Flamini will accept our offer, then I think you don't know well the history of Flamini ...
So if he stays, well, at least, we will have a new player with Flamini (he hasn't played one single minute in 2011/2012, so we could count him as a new player, but he is quite injury prone), but there are 99% chances that he will leave us, and for free, like he did in all his clubs ... and if that happens, I won't be unhappy because, unfortunately (I had some hopes for him), he hasn't been an important player for us since he's been a Milan player and never stepped up (except in some friendly games, he impressed me in the first games of Allegri, but he disappeared then).
(04-30-2012, 10:31 PM)xudong Wrote: Interesting that both are French players; and Geo doesn't seem to like either.
Ahah ...
Actually, if Mexes had the level of Nesta and Flamini was the new Gattuso, I would be a fan of them and would wonder why we don't offer a new contract to Flamini right now !!
But the fact is that they are two average players, French or not (the fact that they are French maybe makes me be more criticizing, I admit it

I never thought Mexes could be one of our next starting CB, and I will never think and want that, I think he has showed so far that I was right each time I said this guy was overrated ... He's a good-average (or even bad sometimes, depending on his confidence) player, nothing more.
Flamini is just a guy who runs a lot, makes a lot of fouls, but he is often injured and gets too many cards ... Nothing amazing.
One should not speak ill of the dead.
So stop laughing at Juventus !
So stop laughing at Juventus !