What a link, what a read. Sheesh, the bloke makes Pardew look like Dawn French being kind on kindness day which is every day of the year. Mind you it would've worked had the cheese been vegetarian ;-)
How Parker has changed. Remember when he was banging on curbs door with his hair still wet demanding a move to Chelsea . Straight after the Chelsea game as well, I think!
Haha love how these stories change over the years. It was Murray's door, the Wolves game and his hair wasn't wet, he was covered in mud.
Cheese soaked in alcohol strapped to your thigh. Did he make it up or was this some housewife's strange tip to solve every day common problems? It was something that was not familiar with Fulham's club doctor anyway.
To quote Adrian Durham from TalkSport that is a "Head's Gone".
Cheese soaked in alcohol strapped to your thigh. Did he make it up or was this some housewife's strange tip to solve every day common problems? It was something that was not familiar with Fulham's club doctor anyway.
To quote Adrian Durham from TalkSport that is a "Head's Gone".
Ah, but the old cheese soaked in alcohol never worked properly, because he didn't phone his mother for long enough. He should have been on the phone for the full 3 hours, not just 2.5 hours :-)
Just so we get a bit of informed opinion from one of the key people as I wrote in the trust news August 2013. I interviewed Martin at his home in a relaxed conversation. This is what I wrote..... " Martin was very disapointed about the Scott Parker transfer to Chelsea. I asked him if Scott's contract allowed him to to speak to another club higher than Charlton " No and at the time Charlton were above Chelsea anyway, I had just turned down 10m and told a journalist that Scott would not be leaving...... then Curbs walks in and said' You might want to reconsider that..... he has just walked away from training he doesn't want to to play for us any more' I was stunned...... He was an essential part of the team. A dynamic player who had developed. But Chelsea had offered him more than double his Charlton salary of 19k a week. I found it very hard to swallow, particularly as I had said he was not leaving. It was a pivotal moment for us. We were riding high and then things began to dissolve. Yes, we got a a few million more for him but they only really wanted him because he was a pivotal player for us. I think his career suffered. Erickkson wanted him in the England team, but only if he was playing regular football. It was obvious he was not going to be a starter in that squad and I think it derailed his career until later on" Now that is Martin's story of the event, and although he did not refer to notes, or anything else he seemed precise, and truthful, and without hesitation. I find it hard to think why Martin would want to embelish, the details of the event.
If this conflicts with what people know, I would be surprised and be interested to know there source? Scott Parker may well have a different version of events, along with Curbs, and Richard Murray.
I have only met Curbs( very briefly) and Scott once, and Richard and Martin a few times, for the record.
Could've called his bluff though. What's he going to do refuse to play week in week out and make a fool of himself?
If you were the Charlton chairman you wouldn't see that as so simple
1. How long could we have afforded to pay the little turd 19k a week to do nothing?
2. Nobody else was willing and able to pay that kind of dosh for Parker. The Russian turd was flinging money around that nobody else was able to match at the time. Itws also Chelsea who had previously bid for him and put it in his head that he was already some kind of superstar.
3. The danger was that Parker would have further devalued himself with an extended stand off. They might have ended up having to sell him in summer for only £2-3m because he'd have labelled himself a troublemaker.
We were stuffed. And £10m was a lot for a young midfielder at that time.
Personally I think Parker is a great example of why a potentially great footballer shouldn't jump for the money. He wasted 2 years of his career and ended up as a holding midfielder for Newcastle. Another 2 years as first name on the teamsheet at Charlton, playing in the attacking midfield role which in my view was his best, he'd have cemented his reputation, secured an England spot - perhaps as backup to Scholes initially - and might have found a long-term starting position at one of the very top clubs, earning way more in the long term.
Hope Joe Gomez understands that (although I have a feeling he'll develop into a great footballer anywhere he goes).
Back to topic, it's amazing the hatchet job that's going on with Magath. There is a human being behind all this, even if he is a bit odd in the way he manages a football club. There are, I'm sure, lots of positives about the man alongside the strange stuff. Hate the black-and-white nature of our press.
Cheese soaked in alcohol strapped to your thigh. Did he make it up or was this some housewife's strange tip to solve every day common problems? It was something that was not familiar with Fulham's club doctor anyway.
To quote Adrian Durham from TalkSport that is a "Head's Gone".
I am not making excuses for Magath, but he probably had some good ideas as well, but who is going to tell you. It is like after a war, you only hear what atrocities the defeated country did, you never hear about the victors (sorry if this is a bit heavy, but you know what I mean). Anyone who steps out of line and support him will be a very brave man.
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Sheesh, the bloke makes Pardew look like Dawn French being kind on kindness day which is every day of the year.
Mind you it would've worked had the cheese been vegetarian ;-)
: - )
To quote Adrian Durham from TalkSport that is a "Head's Gone".
" Martin was very disapointed about the Scott Parker transfer to Chelsea. I asked him if Scott's contract allowed him to to speak to another club higher than Charlton " No and at the time Charlton were above Chelsea anyway, I had just turned down 10m and told a journalist that Scott would not be leaving...... then Curbs walks in and said' You might want to reconsider that..... he has just walked away from training he doesn't want to to play for us any more'
I was stunned...... He was an essential part of the team.
A dynamic player who had developed. But Chelsea had offered him more than double his Charlton salary of 19k a week.
I found it very hard to swallow, particularly as I had said he was not leaving. It was a pivotal moment for us. We were riding high and then things began to dissolve. Yes, we got a a few million more for him but they only really wanted him because he was a pivotal player for us. I think his career suffered. Erickkson wanted him in the England team, but only if he was playing regular football. It was obvious he was not going to be a starter in that squad and I think it derailed his career until later on"
Now that is Martin's story of the event, and although he did not refer to notes, or anything else he seemed precise, and truthful, and without hesitation.
I find it hard to think why Martin would want to embelish, the details of the event.
If this conflicts with what people know, I would be surprised and be interested to know there source?
Scott Parker may well have a different version of events, along with Curbs, and Richard Murray.
I have only met Curbs( very briefly) and Scott once, and Richard and Martin a few times, for the record.
1. How long could we have afforded to pay the little turd 19k a week to do nothing?
2. Nobody else was willing and able to pay that kind of dosh for Parker. The Russian turd was flinging money around that nobody else was able to match at the time. Itws also Chelsea who had previously bid for him and put it in his head that he was already some kind of superstar.
3. The danger was that Parker would have further devalued himself with an extended stand off. They might have ended up having to sell him in summer for only £2-3m because he'd have labelled himself a troublemaker.
We were stuffed. And £10m was a lot for a young midfielder at that time.
Hope Joe Gomez understands that (although I have a feeling he'll develop into a great footballer anywhere he goes).
Back to topic, it's amazing the hatchet job that's going on with Magath. There is a human being behind all this, even if he is a bit odd in the way he manages a football club. There are, I'm sure, lots of positives about the man alongside the strange stuff. Hate the black-and-white nature of our press.