All Hail Two Genuine American Heroes
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Matt Damon
Player Valuation: £60m
As he runs away with the other £5,904,000 to the bank.....
He's a FSW
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Columbia6
Player Valuation: £8m
Agree, but it's still a week's wages, he didn't have to give them anything, and he made the donation on the down-low - he didn't gather the world's media, make a speech and hand over a giant cheque. £96,000 to 96 families.
None of us like Rafael but we can't be so small-minded as to automatically write off everything he does, unless we strive to live up to the "bitters" tag those know-nothing neanderthals have attributed to us.
None of us like Rafael but we can't be so small-minded as to automatically write off everything he does, unless we strive to live up to the "bitters" tag those know-nothing neanderthals have attributed to us.
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davek
Player Valuation: £150m
He didn't need to do it, no. But it isn't a massive deal either. I'm not being churlish here, but that's pretty small change for a man pulling in £4M pa. And why not £100,000? Settling on £96,000 is a way of grandstanding to the fans.
As for him not seeking publicity out of it - he could have sent a cheque with a note saying he didn't want the publicity. He knew it'd get out there doing it the way he did it.
The feller's a politician first and foremost. Always looking to put himself in the best light.
Matt Damon
Player Valuation: £60m
They offered him 3million to do one. He doubled that.... to £6million and then did one!
Then HE paid out of that 1.5% of that severance pay as he scuttled off to Inter (a £4million a year contract)...
having spent £250million himself on [Poor language removed] in 5 years......
And those fcking clowns are THANKING him for it!!!!
You really couldn't write it
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davek
Player Valuation: £150m
They offered him 3million to do one. He doubled that.... to £6million and then did one!
Then HE paid out of that 1.5% of that severance pay as he scuttled off to Inter (a £4million a year contract)...
having spent £250million himself on [Poor language removed] in 5 years......
And those fcking clowns are THANKING him for it!!!!
You really couldn't write it
Matt - frighteningly enough - I'm with you on this one.
You can call him all you like for his association with The Dark Side but to make this gesture he should be applauded, whether by doing in publicly (which he didn't), quietly (which he has) or anonymously (which he hasn't). I might not think much of him as a manager or for his persona but you can't hold this against him - even those who have suggested (in the report) that it's small change to him. Small change it might be but he didn't have to do it and I can think of many with similar pay-offs who haven't been so generous.
I recall Lee Carsley gave (perhaps £10K) to The EPFP (or perhaps the Everton Foundation) when he left Everton. He negotiated a free-transfer (thereby receiving the 'transfer fee'). Doubtless £10K to him wasn't a big deal but he didn't have to do it either.
I recall Lee Carsley gave (perhaps £10K) to The EPFP (or perhaps the Everton Foundation) when he left Everton. He negotiated a free-transfer (thereby receiving the 'transfer fee'). Doubtless £10K to him wasn't a big deal but he didn't have to do it either.
Fair play to him it has to be said, i wonder where the six million came from though, a loan perhaps by Hicks and Gillet to their club with a massive amount of intrest.
You cant make up - a leaveraged buy out - heaping what is in all probability 300 million of debt on their club - then let thier club borrow from themselves at a massive intrest rate.
You cant make up - a leaveraged buy out - heaping what is in all probability 300 million of debt on their club - then let thier club borrow from themselves at a massive intrest rate.
Nice touch on the donation there, its to be respected.
Matt Damon
Player Valuation: £60m
The words PLOY and CYNICAL apply to it more like.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
This.
Matt Damon
Player Valuation: £60m
It would have been FAR more impressive if he'd donated 15% of his £6million severance pay...
i.e. £960,000 rather than a paltry £96,000 (1.5%).
Because fact of the matter is - the RS are broke, and he helped brake them.
He's run off now to a £4million a year job elsewhere...
Whereas that lot are bankrupt (pretty much).
i.e. £960,000 rather than a paltry £96,000 (1.5%).
Because fact of the matter is - the RS are broke, and he helped brake them.
He's run off now to a £4million a year job elsewhere...
Whereas that lot are bankrupt (pretty much).
Gwladys Nights
Player Valuation: £15m
It's great that a charity got a large amount of money. He doesn't deserve condemnation for it. But it's a drop in the ocean to him, at this time of all times (a week after a £6m severance pay and likely a few days before a considerable signing-on fee from Inter Milan) and the figure of £96,000 seems as though it's designed to grab headlines - there's a distasteful element of self-promotion to it. Ergo he doesn't deserve to be lauded for it either.
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