Joe Cole's Salary Breakdown

Poor mans Winston Bogarde

Bogarde responded, 'This world is about money, so when you are offered those millions you take them. Few people will ever earn so many. I am one of the few fortunates who do. I may be one of the worst buys in the history of the Premiership but I don't care.'

being a millionaire for literally doing nothing... dat success...

this is one of those threads that makes me question everything i know about football, when Joe Cole left Chelsea i was so upset at the club but boy was i wrong

what the hell happened to him? he was world class for chelsea and england once upon a time

^^ .......And then he moved to Real Madrid ^_^

We're not talking about Michael Owen

YJC was my little cousin's hero back in the day

So sad how shit he's become.

I remember i was so happy when we singed him. In his secong game for us he delivered a world class performance against Rabotnicki. That was the last I saw of the world class JC. I hope someone just takes him from us already, i cant stand to his far another 2 years.

If its true that he smokes that amount of cigarettes a day then I have nothing more then pure contempt for this impish little moocher.

I too was excited for his arrival yet Carlo Ancelotti was right on how he is all talent and ability but no footballing brain. I have come to defend him for years on end on his salary and signing yet I can't find anything any more to defend about him.

If he was classy like Fernando Redondo for Milan he would have reduced his salary instead of continually being the useless lump of organism that he is now.

Just goes to show what a joke Roy Hodgson is with what is probably his 122th transfer blunder given his lack of foresight in anything football.

Kamikaze692 wrote:^^ .......And then he moved to Real Madrid ^_^

haha , i am guessing youre a fellow madridistas so being sarcastic..:p

But love how people have this myth about us destroying every player when most big clubs do it. .. btw owen wasnt destroyed by us ..

Downing on 80k/week.

Consistency (in being completely useless) IS rewarded.

I don't think there's anything weird about his salary. Why?

High salaries are often the price you pay for free signings. Many clubs are interested because there's no transfer fee, so have to pump up the wages you offer to get the player.

He was coming from Chelsea, so he surely was already on high wages. Players current wages are always a bargaining chip when negotiating contract with a new club: Player is out of order to ask for a huge instant raise and club is put of order offering significantly less than what the guy's making right then. You hear it all the time in transfer news, "we were interested in the player but his wages put us off."

He was 28 when signed for Liverpool and still considered a good player. Obviously he has flopped, but the expectations where there and that's what you pay for.

Cole was signed during a time when LFC didn't really have any money to spend, so free transfers were what Hodgson & co were somewhat forced to look for.

A big flop, yes, an idiotic transfer, not really when you consider everything.

RedOranje wrote:Henderson - 70k



Where in the hell did you get that list?

Glad I'm not the only one that caught that.

RealGunner wrote:joe cole in his prime was an unbelievable player tbf.

He turns 31 in 2 days... We've had him for two full seasons before this one. That mean's he was 28 at the start of 2010-2011. That should be the prime of a footballer's career. If anything, he showed great potential early on and peaked early. TBH, I NEVER understood this signing... Why sign Cole when we had Gerrard? Why not buy a backup striker (at the time we had Torres, Kuyt who played RAM, and Ngog) or someone to fix our horrible width problem (we did buy Jovanovic, but he turned out to be... well, he was Jovanovic.)

^Cole is a COMPLETELY different player from Gerrard mate.

I'm certain he meant there was no point in signing him considering he wanted to play in the centre role or "in the hole" in which was Gerrard's position.

ynwa wrote:I'm certain he meant there was no point in signing him considering he wanted to play in the centre role or "in the hole" in which was Gerrard's position.

Fairy obvious that that's what he meant, I think.

Blue Barrett wrote:^Cole is a COMPLETELY different player from Gerrard mate.

#revelation

They may be different players, but they occupied the same CAM slot in Woy's 4-4-1-1...