If you were Maurouane Fellaini, would you sign a new contract at Everton?

[Frank Drebin]

My mate always says to me 'Would you rather star for an average club and play every game or be at a top club and warm the bench?' I always answer the same, give me the big club, big wages, big publicity, nice facilities everytime. Im a mercenary, id pick a country where the wages are high, the age of consent low and id have a ****ing ball.

 

[kenada_blue]

Your not that cynical and proud to believe its about money are you ? Come on mate, they could've gone to Russia or Qatar and earned twice as much if not more. The money is a bonus, playing for a team challenging for honours is what its about. No player looks at his bank account with fondness when he retires, you want medals, finals, stories of playing against the best and with the best, thats where the Champions League comes in.

Lescott has actually been immense for City in the past 12 months, he had a poor start in terms of injuries and form, but i know several City fans who say he (along with Kompany) have been rocks, and they are really pleased with them. Its not really relevant how they've done when they left here anyway. It looks like we'll have to agree to disagree on this one though because there is absolutely no way in my mind any player makes a step up with money on his mind. For instance, if Spurs and City had offered parity on the wages they earned here, i still think the deals would have gone ahead.

As for the Chelsea deal, there is absolutely no proof in suggesting he ****ed Chelsea off for Spurs purely for financial reasons. The system that Chelsea play don't particularly use wingers, perhaps he felt he had a better chance of getting into the Spurs team out wide than he did at Chelsea's. I still insist that money is at best a secondary consideration in any move of a top professional in the prime of his career.

Was in the papers and his agent said he was down in London talking to Chelsea, ancellotti said they were talking to him...and lcab said they were only offering him 60k a week...spurs 70k a week

All there matey.

And another example doing the rounds....Nasri to citeh, 185k a week.

Why go to there out of all the clubs he could pick from?

 

[Cookachoo]

Was in the papers and his agent said he was down in London talking to Chelsea, ancellotti said they were talking to him...and lcab said they were only offering him 60k a week...spurs 70k a week

All there matey.

And another example doing the rounds....Nasri to citeh, 185k a week.

Why go to there out of all the clubs he could pick from?

Not neccessarily "all" clubs could meet Arsenals valuation. Its generally been City or United that he has been linked with, perhaps he believes with Nani, Young, Valencia and Giggs, he'd be better served playing at City where he would be an unquestionable starter, just because City have all this money doesn't mean that all players going there are money hungry mercenaries. By buying up all this talent, City are showing the ambition to challenge for the top honours, regardless of salary its impressive to your average player.

I don't doubt his agent will be doing all he can to extort as high a wage out of the buying club as possible, that is an agents job after all, but you have to understand that its rarely upon the demands of the player. I'm sure if Nasri had his heart set on City over United for Footballing reasons, he wouldn't go to United for a higher wage, and vice versa.