one thing u cant fault beattie for is effort... n in my book.. thats worthy or respect from all evertonians.. even if he wasnt up 2 scratch in front of the net
I'm sorry, effort should be the minimum requirement. Think about this.
The average man must be on £25,000 per year. (roughly)
So thats about £2,000 a month. They work 150 hours for that amount of money.
A footballer like James Beattie must have been on around £30,000 a week at least.
They train 5 days a week, and they don't do afternoons, so it must be around 35 hours per week including games.
So that's £120,000 per month for 140 hours training and matches which many of which we know he didn't play.
James Beattie earned approximately £118,000 more a month for doing considerably less work.
Lets break that down some more, £118,000 can buy you a fantastic car, or a house per month!
Now I know the whole money thing in football and that it is spiralling out of control, but what I can't accept is when a footballer gets commended for effort. He isn't paid to just try, he is there to perform, to improve the club he plays for, he is a commoddity that should be yielding return on investment.
We could sign anyone from any Sunday league team and he would provide effort. But I'm sorry its not enough in my book, not by a long chalk.