"I also think footballers must have varying thoughts with regards to winning medals and what football clubs they win those with. I can't believe that it would mean the same to them to win a medal for Charlton than it would to us. Although it is an achievement it must differ to how we think it feels for them to win something?
And ultimately, some people just aren't as sentimental as others. Some people collect things, some people don't".
I think you've hit the nail on the head with that Suzi. Did he have any feelings for Charlton prior to being transferred to us? I suspect not. And who's to know, perhaps as a Sunderland fan he's not so keen on memorabilia of the day he helped stop them from getting promoted.
The bottom line is, it's his stuff, he earned it, he can do whatever he likes with it. Good luck to him.
To be fair if he didn't value it because he was a Sunderland fan why would he have kept it all these years and be selling it now when the economy is depressed?
I think it's as simple as it looks. The money he made from football has run out and he hasn't managed to find a suitably rewarding alternative career and he has, potentially, thousands of pounds tied up in inanimate objects that perform no function save to be got out and looked at every now and then.
The play off was a unique game and the Division One medals are, technically, the same as Football League Medals the famous sides of the 70s and 80s won before the Premier League. That gives them a better than average value for a player that won them but probably never earned close to what the winners of the Premier League do now. That was always going to make it likely that in due course all the players in our squads during those two seasons are going to find that the medals are worth more sold than locked away in the back of a safe or cupboard.
Mendonca's shirt and the match ball are exceptional, but I'd be amazed if we don't see another half a dozen examples of the medals sold in the next decade.
The players earns the medal because they have achieved something and if they want / have to sell it then it is their choice. Doesn't change my memories. It must be a strange one for mendonca. Sunderland through and through and his biggest achievement is preventing them going up. Football fans have long memories and I doubt if he will ever be forgiven by the sunderland faithful. Whatever has happened to his life since then I'm just glad he acted in such a professional manner in the playoff final. He has earned the right to sell the medals in every way possible.
I guess it depends how skint you've become , and how it affects your standard of living, i don't know why he's selling them?
I mean if it was a question that the money would stop your house being taken away , or paying expensive medical treatment then yes , if its just to have a nice expensive holiday away then no.
I'm not going to judge him as he always will be a genius in my book , and i will never forget what he did in Wembley 98 , so i won't hold it against him if he did , a bit sad , how hard up has he become?
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And ultimately, some people just aren't as sentimental as others. Some people collect things, some people don't".
I think you've hit the nail on the head with that Suzi. Did he have any feelings for Charlton prior to being transferred to us? I suspect not. And who's to know, perhaps as a Sunderland fan he's not so keen on memorabilia of the day he helped stop them from getting promoted.
The bottom line is, it's his stuff, he earned it, he can do whatever he likes with it. Good luck to him.
I think it's as simple as it looks. The money he made from football has run out and he hasn't managed to find a suitably rewarding alternative career and he has, potentially, thousands of pounds tied up in inanimate objects that perform no function save to be got out and looked at every now and then.
The play off was a unique game and the Division One medals are, technically, the same as Football League Medals the famous sides of the 70s and 80s won before the Premier League. That gives them a better than average value for a player that won them but probably never earned close to what the winners of the Premier League do now. That was always going to make it likely that in due course all the players in our squads during those two seasons are going to find that the medals are worth more sold than locked away in the back of a safe or cupboard.
Mendonca's shirt and the match ball are exceptional, but I'd be amazed if we don't see another half a dozen examples of the medals sold in the next decade.
It must be a strange one for mendonca. Sunderland through and through and his biggest achievement is preventing them going up. Football fans have long memories and I doubt if he will ever be forgiven by the sunderland faithful. Whatever has happened to his life since then I'm just glad he acted in such a professional manner in the playoff final. He has earned the right to sell the medals in every way possible.
I mean if it was a question that the money would stop your house being taken away , or paying expensive medical treatment then yes , if its just to have a nice expensive holiday away then no.
I'm not going to judge him as he always will be a genius in my book , and i will never forget what he did in Wembley 98 , so i won't hold it against him if he did , a bit sad , how hard up has he become?
Nothing new I'm afraid.