Milan Jovanovic

[Mostar]

Jova is only 30 and can easily play at very competitive level in less physical league for next 5,6 years.

If he sits out his entire contract with us he can retire right now as no body except his boyhood Serbian club will take chance and resign him.

Also he still has plans to make a mark on Serbian national team (Euro cup, World cup etc.) and staying with us certainly doesn't do him any good.

Contract or no contract, unless he moves and takes some paycut he can kiss his footballing career good bye.

[warrenpeace]

Possibly, you might try and get a bit more than the 'first offer' as such. But i'd hope, come 1st September, he hasnt just said 'the full pay off or nothing'.

[Craig_H]

Possibly, you might try and get a bit more than the 'first offer' as such. But i'd hope, come 1st September, he hasnt just said 'the full pay off or nothing'.

[warrenpeace]

I'm telling you that if i was in Jovanovic's position, a multi millionaire and wanted to play first team football, i'd walk away from it and go to Belgium.

You can keep thinking you know better than i do about what i would do...but you dont.

Even if that is the case, before you walked away, wouldn't you play a bit of briksmanship and get as much of a payoff as you could before going to Belgium? No one in their right mind would just walk away and forget their multi million pound contract.

[Craig_H]

But it's not either or. He can get a deal that compensates him and at the same time allows him to move on for more regular football. And again, why shouldn't he?

I hear you, but it's not looking much like he can get both though at the moment.

[Fivex]

But it's not either or. He can get a deal that compensates him and at the same time allows him to move on for more regular football. And again, why shouldn't he?

No no no no! The argument is what Craig would do, not Jova!!

But you're correct of course, the two aren't mutually exclusive.

[JHP]

I think i know myself well enough to know what i'd do, but thanks all the same.

You talk of £2m but forget that you'd already have in excess of that stashed away anyway. So yes, i would forego the money if i had a desire to play football - the simple question is what the player values more, playing football or money. In this case, it's clearly money.

And why should he? Well as i said, if he wants to play football, bearing in mind he's 30 next birthday and wont have that many years ahead of him, then that's why he should. If he values sitting on the bench and taking the money like a mercenary, then he should do that. And that's what he looks like he values more, so fine. But in which case, the 'mercenary' accusations hold water.

But it's not either or. He can get a deal that compensates him and at the same time allows him to move on for more regular football. And again, why shouldn't he?

[Craig_H]

Yep and i'm gonna keep sitting on the bench like a useless piece of meat and counting my money.

[Fivex]

Craig's a millionaire footballer?

[Craig_H]

Do you know what i earn Chris, or my financial situation?

[Chris]

It always makes me laugh when the people who earn about £10 - £15 an hour get high and mighty about what they'd do if they were millionaires. "Ooohh i'd give loads to charity", "Ooh I'd let another £2m go by just like that". And the fans of ****ty teams who are like "I'd rather earn 10k a week and play here than 100k a week and play at Man Utd." Yes, of course you would!

All easy to say when you're talking about being a millionaire from a position of having no money in comparison. The reality would be a hell of a lot different.

[Craig_H]

Until you're faced with the situation I think you can't be sure what you'd do.

There are a few people who would do as you say but they are very few and far between. You may be one of them but the vast majority of people would not forego £2m.

And furthermore in this case, stripping away the emotion that supporters feel, why should he?

I think i know myself well enough to know what i'd do, but thanks all the same.

You talk of £2m but forget that you'd already have in excess of that stashed away anyway. So yes, i would forego the money if i had a desire to play football - the simple question is what the player values more, playing football or money. In this case, it's clearly money.

And why should he? Well as i said, if he wants to play football, bearing in mind he's 30 next birthday and wont have that many years ahead of him, then that's why he should. If he values sitting on the bench and taking the money like a mercenary, then he should do that. And that's what he looks like he values more, so fine. But in which case, the 'mercenary' accusations hold water.

[JHP]

I love the way everyone else apparently knows better about what i would personally do, than i do.

It's also easy to say you'd cling on for £2m when you dont have a pot to piss in. As a multi millionaire, it's a different ball game.

Maybe you'd all fight tooth and nail to sit on the bench, hate the fact that you never play, but take the cash. That's fine. I wouldnt.

*awaits the next person implying that i dont know what i would do as well as he does*

Until you're faced with the situation I think you can't be sure what you'd do.

There are a few people who would do as you say but they are very few and far between. You may be one of them but the vast majority of people would not forego £2m.

And furthermore in this case, stripping away the emotion that supporters feel, why should he?

[Craig_H]

I love the way everyone else apparently knows better about what i would personally do, than i do.

It's also easy to say you'd cling on for £2m when you dont have a pot to piss in. As a multi millionaire, it's a different ball game.

Maybe you'd all fight tooth and nail to sit on the bench, hate the fact that you never play, but take the cash. That's fine. I wouldnt.

*awaits the next person implying that i dont know what i would do as well as he does*

[RichC]

easy to say what you'd do in a hyperthetical situation, in real life there will be more to the decision.

We ****ed up, he signed a contract in good faith and he's well within his rights to hold us to it; I might not like it as a fan but I can certainly understand where he's coming from.