Anyone who says we won't miss him, he wasn't that good, too negative etc etc are talking out of their hat.
I believe that we should have been tying him down to a new contract last summer. In my opinion this didn't happen because of the dispute between Jiminez and Poyet Snr over the latters investment in Les Bordes. This didn't make Jiminez want to tie Poyet down. Jiminez hasn't ended up suffering as a consequence, we have. Likewise not allowing Powell to select Poyet as doing so would involve a 400% a week pay increase which he was unwilling to do because of financial reasons, and probably because of the above too.
Anyone who says we won't miss him, he wasn't that good, too negative etc etc are talking out of their hat.
I believe that we should have been tying him down to a new contract last summer. In my opinion this didn't happen because of the dispute between Jiminez and Poyet Snr over the latters investment in Les Bordes. This didn't make Jiminez want to tie Poyet down. Jiminez hasn't ended up suffering as a consequence, we have. Likewise not allowing Powell to select Poyet as doing so would involve a 400% a week pay increase which he was unwilling to do because of financial reasons, and probably because of the above too.
*all allegedly of course.
I also think that TJ and MS made a business decision. They judged that an untried youth player tied down to a new extended contract would cost them money but not add anything significant to off set the cost to the selling price. As a result they decided investment in poyet was a further drain on their resources
Anyone who says we won't miss him, he wasn't that good, too negative etc etc are talking out of their hat.
I believe that we should have been tying him down to a new contract last summer. In my opinion this didn't happen because of the dispute between Jiminez and Poyet Snr over the latters investment in Les Bordes. This didn't make Jiminez want to tie Poyet down. Jiminez hasn't ended up suffering as a consequence, we have. Likewise not allowing Powell to select Poyet as doing so would involve a 400% a week pay increase which he was unwilling to do because of financial reasons, and probably because of the above too.
*all allegedly of course.
I also think that TJ and MS made a business decision. They judged that an untried youth player tied down to a new extended contract would cost them money but not add anything significant to off set the cost to the selling price. As a result they decided investment in poyet was a further drain on their resources
so when some have been saying that the team has been dictated to CP by the owner they were right, just they were talking about the wrong owner. Why don't we hear more about this, is it because it does not fit the anti RD pro CP agenda?
Don't remember CP's friends talking about this either, maybe it was because the old owners didn't sack him.
I'm sad and disappointed that he's gone. But it was not unexpected. I'll say only one more thing on the matter. He's said to the club that they won't see him any more but his contract doesn't run out until the end of the month, so he's not reporting for work (pre-season training), so he's in breach of contract. I'd fine him two weeks wages (is that the maximum?) and use the proceeds to give season ticket holders a free programme/handbook at the first home league game of the season.
Anyone who says we won't miss him, he wasn't that good, too negative etc etc are talking out instructionsr hat.
I believe that we should have been tying him down to a new contract last summer. In my opinion this didn't happen because of the dispute between Jiminez and Poyet Snr over the latters investment in Les Bordes. This didn't make Jiminez want to tie Poyet down. Jiminez hasn't ended up suffering as a consequence, we have. Likewise not allowing Powell to select Poyet as doing so would involve a 400% a week pay increase which he was unwilling to do because of financial reasons, and probably because of the above too.
*all allegedly of course.
I also think that TJ and MS made a business decision. They judged that an untried youth player tied down to a new extended contract would cost them money but not add anything significant to off set the cost to the selling price. As a result they decided investment in poyet was a further drain on their resources
so when some have been saying that the team has been dictated to CP by the owner they were right, just they were talking about the wrong owner. Why don't we hear more about this, is it because it does not fit the anti RD pro CP agenda?
Don't remember CP's friends talking about this either, maybe it was because the old owners didn't sack him.
Steve I did not say they did not allow CP to play him only that poyet would not get a new contract.
However there is another rumour that his existing contract had a clause that significantly increased his salary on making league appearances and that CP did not play poyet for this reason presumably if true at tj and ms instructions
Anyone who says we won't miss him, he wasn't that good, too negative etc etc are talking out of their hat.
I believe that we should have been tying him down to a new contract last summer. In my opinion this didn't happen because of the dispute between Jiminez and Poyet Snr over the latters investment in Les Bordes. This didn't make Jiminez want to tie Poyet down. Jiminez hasn't ended up suffering as a consequence, we have. Likewise not allowing Powell to select Poyet as doing so would involve a 400% a week pay increase which he was unwilling to do because of financial reasons, and probably because of the above too.
*all allegedly of course.
I also think that TJ and MS made a business decision. They judged that an untried youth player tied down to a new extended contract would cost them money but not add anything significant to off set the cost to the selling price. As a result they decided investment in poyet was a further drain on their resources
so when some have been saying that the team has been dictated to CP by the owner they were right, just they were talking about the wrong owner. Why don't we hear more about this, is it because it does not fit the anti RD pro CP agenda?
Don't remember CP's friends talking about this either, maybe it was because the old owners didn't sack him.
I've seen it mentioned quite a lot on here re the two fuckwits not being able to afford Poyet to play during their reign due to the increase in Poyets wages once he made the first team
But I can understand how you guys may have missed it during your enforced Charlton Life sabbaticals , great to have you back
Been on hols with no wifi and a sporadic phone signal so just catching up.
Wow. The biggest surprise of the summer. Diego's gone. Whatever next, folk will be telling me that Suarez is a Cnut! Err, no surprise here. Absolutely nailed on that he would go.
For all the talk of disloyalty etc, the bit that rubs me up the wrong way is how we could have got it all so badly wrong last year. We have a player who appeared on the scene in January and has absolutely shone admittedly in a poor side to the point where we believe he is signing for a premiership team. Yet last summer he was known only to those who watch the kids play and registered with the rest if us only cos he is son of Gus! I remember speaking to a confidant of CP's the day of the postponed Barnsley game over the Crimbo holidays who had spoken to Chris the previous week and he had been lamenting the fact that "there is not enough quality in my first team but none of my youngsters are ready to make the step up yet". Not having a particular go at Chris here but how come the entire powers that be (were) at the club just didn't see it and do something about it when presumably he'd have signed a new contract willingly. I just don't get it.
All of that said, he's gone, it was very predictable, move on.
You work to earn money, Football is a Job, and essentially Poyet has taken a promotion, Cant blame him. Give me a choice between 10k and 40k and I'd take 40 everytime. Really cant blame someone for bettering themselves.
It's not the difference between 10k and 40k though - I do wish people would stop comparing the ridiculous head-in-the-clouds-planet-zork world of football with going to the office five days a week, forty eight weeks a year
They guy would have been offered about10k A WEEK. That is an extraordinary amount of money for anyone, let alone a nineteen year old. I really think a lot of you don't actually understand how much that is, and what you can buy with that. Anyone can have a fabulous lifestyle on that, even better when you are getting it for doing your hobby!
I really don't see why folk feel the need to stick up for these greedy young men?
i don't think you understand that he will be in the higher tax bracket earning that and he will be taking home £250k a year, so a 4 year contract is £1m cleared or £4m if he takes the £40k per week
one gets you a brilliant house and no food or car or anything else for the rest of your life and the other gets you a brilliant house , car, grub, school fees for your kids etc
he may earn that for 15 years or just 4 years he may turn shit , he'll prolly live for 50 years after finishing football , it's a no brainer
If he earned 10k a week, even if he was taxed at 45% on all of it (which he wouldn't be, of course) that still leaves £286,000 a year, not £250'000, even on a two year contract, that's a £480'000 house a £40'000 car and £400 a week in your sky to spend all done an dusted at 21. If then goes off to be a postman (because people who have kicked a pigs bladder around for a living are not immune from doing a proper days work) he would still be better off than 95% of the population.
But what knocks all these theories into touch is the fact that Stephens was playing - a player we were saying on here was challenging for player of the year and was considered good enough for a play off team. When Stephens left, Poyet came in! It seemed a logical order.
You work to earn money, Football is a Job, and essentially Poyet has taken a promotion, Cant blame him. Give me a choice between 10k and 40k and I'd take 40 everytime. Really cant blame someone for bettering themselves.
It's not the difference between 10k and 40k though - I do wish people would stop comparing the ridiculous head-in-the-clouds-planet-zork world of football with going to the office five days a week, forty eight weeks a year
They guy would have been offered about10k A WEEK. That is an extraordinary amount of money for anyone, let alone a nineteen year old. I really think a lot of you don't actually understand how much that is, and what you can buy with that. Anyone can have a fabulous lifestyle on that, even better when you are getting it for doing your hobby!
I really don't see why folk feel the need to stick up for these greedy young men?
i don't think you understand that he will be in the higher tax bracket earning that and he will be taking home £250k a year, so a 4 year contract is £1m cleared or £4m if he takes the £40k per week
one gets you a brilliant house and no food or car or anything else for the rest of your life and the other gets you a brilliant house , car, grub, school fees for your kids etc
he may earn that for 15 years or just 4 years he may turn shit , he'll prolly live for 50 years after finishing football , it's a no brainer
If he earned 10k a week, even if he was taxed at 40% on all of it (which he wouldn't be, of course) that still leaves £312,000 a year, not £250'000, even on a two year contract, that's a £480'000 house a £40'000 car and a grand a week in your sky to spend all done an dusted at 21. If then goes off to be a postman (because people who have kicked a pigs bladder around for a living are not immune from doing a proper days work) he would still be better off than 95% of the population.
He remains a greedy little s**t.
He'd be paying 45% tax on most of it...
I know what you're saying Algarve and the socialist in me would love to agree but what would you do? If I was offered even sillier money at a bigger club with a better set up and felt it was my big break, then I'd go too. Ultimately you have to look after number one.
It's a real shame, I genuinely think he has the potential to be a great player, I'm gutted he's gone but don't really blame him for doing so - on top of the fact that he'll probably find himself on more money and at a biggger club, Charlton has been a bit of a basket case of a club over the last couple of years, they're not an easy team to tie yourself to at the moment.
But what knocks all these theories into touch is the fact that Stephens was playing - a player we were saying on here was challenging for player of the year and was considered good enough for a play off team. When Stephens left, Poyet came in! It seemed a logical order.
But what knocks all these theories into touch is the fact that Stephens was playing - a player we were saying on here was challenging for player of the year and was considered good enough for a play off team. When Stephens left, Poyet came in! It seemed a logical order.
but Stephens was only playing because Jiminez played hard ball with Villa and lost, big time.
You work to earn money, Football is a Job, and essentially Poyet has taken a promotion, Cant blame him. Give me a choice between 10k and 40k and I'd take 40 everytime. Really cant blame someone for bettering themselves.
It's not the difference between 10k and 40k though - I do wish people would stop comparing the ridiculous head-in-the-clouds-planet-zork world of football with going to the office five days a week, forty eight weeks a year
They guy would have been offered about10k A WEEK. That is an extraordinary amount of money for anyone, let alone a nineteen year old. I really think a lot of you don't actually understand how much that is, and what you can buy with that. Anyone can have a fabulous lifestyle on that, even better when you are getting it for doing your hobby!
I really don't see why folk feel the need to stick up for these greedy young men?
i don't think you understand that he will be in the higher tax bracket earning that and he will be taking home £250k a year, so a 4 year contract is £1m cleared or £4m if he takes the £40k per week
one gets you a brilliant house and no food or car or anything else for the rest of your life and the other gets you a brilliant house , car, grub, school fees for your kids etc
he may earn that for 15 years or just 4 years he may turn shit , he'll prolly live for 50 years after finishing football , it's a no brainer
If he earned 10k a week, even if he was taxed at 40% on all of it (which he wouldn't be, of course) that still leaves £312,000 a year, not £250'000, even on a two year contract, that's a £480'000 house a £40'000 car and a grand a week in your sky to spend all done an dusted at 21. If then goes off to be a postman (because people who have kicked a pigs bladder around for a living are not immune from doing a proper days work) he would still be better off than 95% of the population.
He remains a greedy little s**t.
He'd be paying 45% tax on most of it...
I know what you're saying Algarve and the socialist in me would love to agree but what would you do? If I was offered even sillier money at a bigger club with a better set up and felt it was my big break, then I'd go too. Ultimately you have to look after number one.
It's a real shame, I genuinely think he has the potential to be a great player, I'm gutted he's gone but don't really blame him for doing so - on top of the fact that he'll probably find himself on more money and at a biggger club, Charlton has been a bit of a basket case of a club over the last couple of years, they're not an easy team to tie yourself to at the moment.
Edited accordingly - thanks for putting me straight.
Get what you mean, but if CAFC had offered him 100k a week I think he would have been able to overlook the situation at the club somehow...
My concern is that CAFC learn from this experience. If as we are led to believe that the Academy and the lads on the fringe of the first team are part of the 'vision' of the new owner, then there has to be a very quick response to recognising talented players when they make the transition. That does not mean throwing around 4-5 year contracts like confetti, but having the most robust contracts that get the fullest payback for the investment in these lads. It seems a difficult job, and I am not sure that whatever contract you drew up would Compensate the investment, but say £3 million would be a lot more acceptable to swallow that a player just walking away. I do hope that the club have someone dedicated to advising the first team manager on a regular basis. Probably needs someone at board level to manage this as part of there duties. Perhaps it does exist?....... I assume this would be 'Steve A' at the Academy........
Can't believe some of the comments on here. The club have nurtured Diego since a young age. When the time was right he was given his chance and he took it. All he had to do was show a little loyalty, we are talking until the next transfer window, to repay the club for putting him on the road to footballing fame and riches. That he chose not to tells you everything you need to know. A chip off the old block.
You work to earn money, Football is a Job, and essentially Poyet has taken a promotion, Cant blame him. Give me a choice between 10k and 40k and I'd take 40 everytime. Really cant blame someone for bettering themselves.
It's not the difference between 10k and 40k though - I do wish people would stop comparing the ridiculous head-in-the-clouds-planet-zork world of football with going to the office five days a week, forty eight weeks a year
They guy would have been offered about10k A WEEK. That is an extraordinary amount of money for anyone, let alone a nineteen year old. I really think a lot of you don't actually understand how much that is, and what you can buy with that. Anyone can have a fabulous lifestyle on that, even better when you are getting it for doing your hobby!
I really don't see why folk feel the need to stick up for these greedy young men?
i don't think you understand that he will be in the higher tax bracket earning that and he will be taking home £250k a year, so a 4 year contract is £1m cleared or £4m if he takes the £40k per week
one gets you a brilliant house and no food or car or anything else for the rest of your life and the other gets you a brilliant house , car, grub, school fees for your kids etc
he may earn that for 15 years or just 4 years he may turn shit , he'll prolly live for 50 years after finishing football , it's a no brainer
If he earned 10k a week, even if he was taxed at 40% on all of it (which he wouldn't be, of course) that still leaves £312,000 a year, not £250'000, even on a two year contract, that's a £480'000 house a £40'000 car and a grand a week in your sky to spend all done an dusted at 21. If then goes off to be a postman (because people who have kicked a pigs bladder around for a living are not immune from doing a proper days work) he would still be better off than 95% of the population.
He remains a greedy little s**t.
He'd be paying 45% tax on most of it...
I know what you're saying Algarve and the socialist in me would love to agree but what would you do? If I was offered even sillier money at a bigger club with a better set up and felt it was my big break, then I'd go too. Ultimately you have to look after number one.
It's a real shame, I genuinely think he has the potential to be a great player, I'm gutted he's gone but don't really blame him for doing so - on top of the fact that he'll probably find himself on more money and at a biggger club, Charlton has been a bit of a basket case of a club over the last couple of years, they're not an easy team to tie yourself to at the moment.
surely your big break is playing first team football for a professional club in the championship, earning £10,000 a week. 10-15 years ago people would have a point, "it's a short career etc" when the top players were earning closer to £40,000-£50,000 a week, but now the average prem footballer earns that amount and championship players earn the same as the likes of Rufus, Kinsella and Brown i'm sure were earning when we were at our zenith.
Because of FFP we needed the money, Poyet, lets face it, doesn't.
You work to earn money, Football is a Job, and essentially Poyet has taken a promotion, Cant blame him. Give me a choice between 10k and 40k and I'd take 40 everytime. Really cant blame someone for bettering themselves.
It's not the difference between 10k and 40k though - I do wish people would stop comparing the ridiculous head-in-the-clouds-planet-zork world of football with going to the office five days a week, forty eight weeks a year
They guy would have been offered about10k A WEEK. That is an extraordinary amount of money for anyone, let alone a nineteen year old. I really think a lot of you don't actually understand how much that is, and what you can buy with that. Anyone can have a fabulous lifestyle on that, even better when you are getting it for doing your hobby!
I really don't see why folk feel the need to stick up for these greedy young men?
i don't think you understand that he will be in the higher tax bracket earning that and he will be taking home £250k a year, so a 4 year contract is £1m cleared or £4m if he takes the £40k per week
one gets you a brilliant house and no food or car or anything else for the rest of your life and the other gets you a brilliant house , car, grub, school fees for your kids etc
he may earn that for 15 years or just 4 years he may turn shit , he'll prolly live for 50 years after finishing football , it's a no brainer
If he earned 10k a week, even if he was taxed at 45% on all of it (which he wouldn't be, of course) that still leaves £286,000 a year, not £250'000, even on a two year contract, that's a £480'000 house a £40'000 car and £400 a week in your sky to spend all done an dusted at 21. If then goes off to be a postman (because people who have kicked a pigs bladder around for a living are not immune from doing a proper days work) he would still be better off than 95% of the population.
He remains a greedy little s**t.
He'll be paying National Insurance as well on that as well and surely he would like the opportunity to earn more dough so he can help his siblings have a better life and his future children , maybe he'd like to donate to charity
Very dodgy. Although as part of the Network, we are in non position to point fingers.
But if it's true, what pisses me off is that he'd be far better off on loan at Standard, playing European football in a passionate atmosphere.
I see his dad all over this. Knob.
That's true, but Abramovich has denied that Chelsea or he owns them. At least Roland is open about (most of) his clubs.
Abramovic denies a lot of things, although in some of them he is encouraged to do so by the obliging government with their ridiculous "no tax for rich non domiciled" status. (poor non-domiciled, such as me, are still liable for UK tax). Just another reason to hate that whole oligarch circus.
Sorry to be a pedant but how can Abrahmovich ever deny anything? He never comments on anything and has never even given an interview.
He has presumably denied to HMRC that he has any significant footprint in the UK, and therefore has no domicile. I suppose he argued that the geezer in the directors box at most Chelsea games is a body double there for security reasons, while he is in fact in a quiet corner of the Vitesse Arnhem stadium.
My question to HMRC would be: if he is not domiciled in the UK , where the **** is he domiciled?
Prague, I usually enjoy your posts as being some of the more reasoned and intelligent on here, however your knowledge of UK tax law is sadly lacking.
Domicile is not a tax concept but a principle of general UK law and has nothing whatsoever to do with where you live or spend most of your time. I think you are thinking of residence/non residence in the UK which does depend on where you actually are on a time basis and in certain circumstances where the main focus of your life is.
Domicile, in so far as it applies to tax at all is more to do with where you come from and what your future intentions are. It is entirely possible for you to be fully UK reident and therefore taxable on your world wide income in the UK but non- UK domiciled. As a non domiciled UK resident you can elect to pay a charge of either £30k or £50k annually and not report your overseas income provided that you do not bring more than £2k of it into this country each year. if you do you will be taxed on the total amount brought into the UK or "remitted" here as well as paying the £30/50k. the only amounts you won't be taxed on here is the foriegn income and gains which you do not bring into the UK.
A you can see this is a complex area of taxation and likely to get even more so as the Government are dedicated to simplifying it! It will also come as a nasty shock to the sweaties should they decide to vote for independence after all.
Sorry if this come across as a rant or a lecture but I thought you would like to know.
The more I hear about DP's behaviour with the contract situation/negotiation the more I dislike it. He had no intention of signing for us, none whatsoever. Very classless not disclosing the intention to leave. No matter if Riga/Powell/Sir Alex was manager or Dervitte etc had stayed, it wasn't gonna happen.
However he is a 19 year old lad, who has been advised by his old man. As I posted earlier I would have advised my 18/19 year old son to leave if a bigger club comes along, but at least have the manners to let the club know.
I still wish him well and thank him for help keeping us up but I won't be following his post CAFC career.
Onwards and upwards, the new season is round the corner. COYRs.
I don't think buyens is a direct replacement.. He looks more like a box to box midfielder who like to get forward more and will stick a few in the net.. more of a cousins then a Poyet!
So better than Poyet then. I'd rather have Cousins if I'm honest. Better player.
Similar situation to Paul and Tom Ince in a way. Pretty obvious Ince got the sack from Blackpool for whoring his son around while managing the club he played for.
Similar situation to Paul and Tom Ince in a way. Pretty obvious Ince got the sack from Blackpool for whoring his son around while managing the club he played for.
He was gone from the second the final whistle blew at Blackpool and I suspect his dad had made the right people in right places aware of this well before the season ended.
All this bollocks about Powell, Riga and the direction of the club is a smokescreen.
He is a good player but is far from a great one. Imo Parker and Bowyer were far better at equivalent times in their Charlton careers. I believe his lack of pace will prevent him really progressing at the highest level.
If he goes to Chelsea he will be miles from the first team and with the wealth of talent they have might struggle to get a regular game in their U21s.
I'd have far more respect for him if he had come out and said he was off straight away as he wanted to play at a higher level. He's basically used the transitional state at the club to make himself look the good guy.
Can't be arsed to throw abuse at him as in all honesty I'm not really that bothered - I wrote him off as soon as the season ended.
Absolutely spot on with your comments in my opinion. I really can't believe after just one/part of a season he just decides to leave for pastures new! I think we are all partly to blame by "hyping" him up after every bloody game. Yes we were "proud"of another academy player breaking into the first team but come on lad you have got a lot more to learn. I don't buy this SO much better coaching by leaving and going to "whoever"! PLAYING will improve him at this stage of his career and not playing in the odd cup game and training with great (sometimes overrated players) in my opinion. But as most people on hear have said let's move on, who knows what he's missing out by staying with us. Thanks DP for your loyalty and good luck! CO YR....:)
Very dodgy. Although as part of the Network, we are in non position to point fingers.
But if it's true, what pisses me off is that he'd be far better off on loan at Standard, playing European football in a passionate atmosphere.
I see his dad all over this. Knob.
That's true, but Abramovich has denied that Chelsea or he owns them. At least Roland is open about (most of) his clubs.
Abramovic denies a lot of things, although in some of them he is encouraged to do so by the obliging government with their ridiculous "no tax for rich non domiciled" status. (poor non-domiciled, such as me, are still liable for UK tax). Just another reason to hate that whole oligarch circus.
Sorry to be a pedant but how can Abrahmovich ever deny anything? He never comments on anything and has never even given an interview.
He has presumably denied to HMRC that he has any significant footprint in the UK, and therefore has no domicile. I suppose he argued that the geezer in the directors box at most Chelsea games is a body double there for security reasons, while he is in fact in a quiet corner of the Vitesse Arnhem stadium.
My question to HMRC would be: if he is not domiciled in the UK , where the **** is he domiciled?
Prague, I usually enjoy your posts as being some of the more reasoned and intelligent on here, however your knowledge of UK tax law is sadly lacking.
Domicile is not a tax concept but a principle of general UK law and has nothing whatsoever to do with where you live or spend most of your time. I think you are thinking of residence/non residence in the UK which does depend on where you actually are on a time basis and in certain circumstances where the main focus of your life is.
Domicile, in so far as it applies to tax at all is more to do with where you come from and what your future intentions are. It is entirely possible for you to be fully UK reident and therefore taxable on your world wide income in the UK but non- UK domiciled. As a non domiciled UK resident you can elect to pay a charge of either £30k or £50k annually and not report your overseas income provided that you do not bring more than £2k of it into this country each year. if you do you will be taxed on the total amount brought into the UK or "remitted" here as well as paying the £30/50k. the only amounts you won't be taxed on here is the foriegn income and gains which you do not bring into the UK.
A you can see this is a complex area of taxation and likely to get even more so as the Government are dedicated to simplifying it! It will also come as a nasty shock to the sweaties should they decide to vote for independence after all.
Sorry if this come across as a rant or a lecture but I thought you would like to know.
If the Sweaties do go an awful lot of HMRC jobs should come back across the Border thus improving the English unemployment figures. It may even be possible to contact an HMRC operative by telephone!
The more I hear about DP's behaviour with the contract situation/negotiation the more I dislike it. He had no intention of signing for us, none whatsoever. Very classless
I'm not so sure. If I'm interviewing for a new job I don't tell my employer until I've got an offer. We shouldn't have got to that position.
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I believe that we should have been tying him down to a new contract last summer. In my opinion this didn't happen because of the dispute between Jiminez and Poyet Snr over the latters investment in Les Bordes. This didn't make Jiminez want to tie Poyet down. Jiminez hasn't ended up suffering as a consequence, we have. Likewise not allowing Powell to select Poyet as doing so would involve a 400% a week pay increase which he was unwilling to do because of financial reasons, and probably because of the above too.
*all allegedly of course.
so when some have been saying that the team has been dictated to CP by the owner they were right, just they were talking about the wrong owner. Why don't we hear more about this, is it because it does not fit the anti RD pro CP agenda?
Don't remember CP's friends talking about this either, maybe it was because the old owners didn't sack him.
I'll say only one more thing on the matter. He's said to the club that they won't see him any more but his contract doesn't run out until the end of the month, so he's not reporting for work (pre-season training), so he's in breach of contract. I'd fine him two weeks wages (is that the maximum?) and use the proceeds to give season ticket holders a free programme/handbook at the first home league game of the season.
However there is another rumour that his existing contract had a clause that significantly increased his salary on making league appearances and that CP did not play poyet for this reason presumably if true at tj and ms instructions
But I can understand how you guys may have missed it during your enforced Charlton Life sabbaticals , great to have you back
Wow. The biggest surprise of the summer. Diego's gone. Whatever next, folk will be telling me that Suarez is a Cnut! Err, no surprise here. Absolutely nailed on that he would go.
For all the talk of disloyalty etc, the bit that rubs me up the wrong way is how we could have got it all so badly wrong last year. We have a player who appeared on the scene in January and has absolutely shone admittedly in a poor side to the point where we believe he is signing for a premiership team. Yet last summer he was known only to those who watch the kids play and registered with the rest if us only cos he is son of Gus! I remember speaking to a confidant of CP's the day of the postponed Barnsley game over the Crimbo holidays who had spoken to Chris the previous week and he had been lamenting the fact that "there is not enough quality in my first team but none of my youngsters are ready to make the step up yet". Not having a particular go at Chris here but how come the entire powers that be (were) at the club just didn't see it and do something about it when presumably he'd have signed a new contract willingly. I just don't get it.
All of that said, he's gone, it was very predictable, move on.
He remains a greedy little s**t.
I know what you're saying Algarve and the socialist in me would love to agree but what would you do? If I was offered even sillier money at a bigger club with a better set up and felt it was my big break, then I'd go too. Ultimately you have to look after number one.
It's a real shame, I genuinely think he has the potential to be a great player, I'm gutted he's gone but don't really blame him for doing so - on top of the fact that he'll probably find himself on more money and at a biggger club, Charlton has been a bit of a basket case of a club over the last couple of years, they're not an easy team to tie yourself to at the moment.
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Get what you mean, but if CAFC had offered him 100k a week I think he would have been able to overlook the situation at the club somehow...
The club have nurtured Diego since a young age. When the time was right he was given his chance and he took it. All he had to do was show a little loyalty, we are talking until the next transfer window, to repay the club for putting him on the road to footballing fame and riches.
That he chose not to tells you everything you need to know.
A chip off the old block.
Because of FFP we needed the money, Poyet, lets face it, doesn't.
and surely he would like the opportunity to earn more dough so he can help his siblings have a better life and his future children , maybe he'd like to donate to charity
Domicile is not a tax concept but a principle of general UK law and has nothing whatsoever to do with where you live or spend most of your time. I think you are thinking of residence/non residence in the UK which does depend on where you actually are on a time basis and in certain circumstances where the main focus of your life is.
Domicile, in so far as it applies to tax at all is more to do with where you come from and what your future intentions are. It is entirely possible for you to be fully UK reident and therefore taxable on your world wide income in the UK but non- UK domiciled. As a non domiciled UK resident you can elect to pay a charge of either £30k or £50k annually and not report your overseas income provided that you do not bring more than £2k of it into this country each year. if you do you will be taxed on the total amount brought into the UK or "remitted" here as well as paying the £30/50k. the only amounts you won't be taxed on here is the foriegn income and gains which you do not bring into the UK.
A you can see this is a complex area of taxation and likely to get even more so as the Government are dedicated to simplifying it! It will also come as a nasty shock to the sweaties should they decide to vote for independence after all.
Sorry if this come across as a rant or a lecture but I thought you would like to know.
He had no intention of signing for us, none whatsoever. Very classless not disclosing the intention to leave. No matter if Riga/Powell/Sir Alex was manager or Dervitte etc had stayed, it wasn't gonna happen.
However he is a 19 year old lad, who has been advised by his old man. As I posted earlier I would have advised my 18/19 year old son to leave if a bigger club comes along, but at least have the manners to let the club know.
I still wish him well and thank him for help keeping us up but I won't be following his post CAFC career.
Onwards and upwards, the new season is round the corner. COYRs.
I really can't believe after just one/part of a season he just decides to leave for pastures new! I think we are all partly to blame by "hyping" him up after every bloody game. Yes we were "proud"of another academy player breaking into the first team but come on lad you have got a lot more to learn. I don't buy this SO much better coaching by leaving and going to "whoever"!
PLAYING will improve him at this stage of his career and not playing in the odd cup game and training with great (sometimes overrated players) in my opinion.
But as most people on hear have said let's move on, who knows what he's missing out by staying with us.
Thanks DP for your loyalty and good luck!
CO YR....:)
If the Sweaties do go an awful lot of HMRC jobs should come back across the Border thus improving the English unemployment figures. It may even be possible to contact an HMRC operative by telephone!
Or not.