[Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

...wouldnt that be nice :(


I would love to earn £25m for failing, why cant we all be as lucky as Sven :(

Eriksson earned a reported £25m during his five years in charge

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

i read the thread title and thought it was about beckham :p

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

tbh the England job shouldnt have a salary attached to it, and if there is to be one only a small one; its an honour to manage a country and I'd do it for minimum wage.

Would save the FA a few bob too

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

Noone beats Winston Bogarde at earning without doing anything.

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

dutch wordjoke (there was a commercial about this):

Winston?

Ton winst!

:p

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

With your media most sane people wouldn't want to take that job, even for 50m.

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

Hello faggot.

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

Unfortunatly you can't feed your family with honour, the supermarkets only accept money.

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

he performed poorly with shit material. i hate the guy personally, but i wouldn't call this failure.

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

bollocks

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

the fact is when we had stagnated horribly and didn't look like getting anywhere, the FA gave him a big fat new contract, which was bizarre.

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

no i think the problem was he had good players but no clue how to use them , i also believe he got caught up in the beckham hype

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

we also built some ships and ruled the world for a while. :/

there is nothing wrong with clogs btw. i often wear them when i have to bring garbage to the street or do things in the garden etc.

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

actually it was Britain, France and Spain, but meh. :(

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

I guess that joke didn't make it through the Randstad comedy commision.

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

i googled a bit and found this article:

"One salient fact about my compatriots is how hardnosed, even ruthless, they can be in business, and how naive they often are in international affairs. This is the result, I suppose, of having been a mercantile nation for more than 300 years. The last Dutch military victories - apart from crushing the odd native rebellion in the East Indies - were against the English in the 17th century. Holland was spent as a military power when the British took over the seas. After that, business was all.

Like true merchants, the Dutch have often assumed that they could stay out of trouble, as long as they kept their heads down when the big boys went to war. A policy of neutrality kept them out of the first world war, and like true naifs, they thought they could get away with it again when Hitler started to help himself to chunks of Europe. Alas, virtually all the Dutch had to put up against the Nazi Heinkels and Messerschmitts were a handful of Fokker biplanes."

:p







(we're going a bit offtopic now, aren't we?)

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

http://www.ad.nl/fun/strips/?strip=d...tum=2006-08-29

the red baron often had cunning plans horn. :p

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

England using 25mill quid on a footie coach, getting no results.

But the tabloids got something out of it... I kinda doubt McClaren will be shagging so many and so publicly as Sven did.

Re: [Football]Earn £25m as a failure...
 

The FA was fairly rich, so a large amount of money being spent on a coach is no surprise.

In addition, the reason he had such an enormous contract, which is still technically going on - he's still being paid by the FA - was the tabloids. They demanded that he sign a large extension, which of course had to come with a pay hike, after they said that he was moving to Chelsea.

I'm pretty sure Sven would have left earlier if it hadn't been for the tabloid intervention, but either way it would have been much less costly.