30 Sep 2023 07:33:43
When are those idiotic idiots who manage the entire football realm ever going to take notice that footballers are simply playing way too much football.

The ridiculous schedule could be argued as modern day slavery, for those in the power simply just making more money day in and day out.

I love this sport, and want the best players playing week in and week out so we get to see the best of the best.

We call players injury prone without looking at the schedules they have to go through.

The amount of games being played really needs a looking at.

1.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 07:58:29
Modern day slavery? ?
Maybe have a read up about slavery before you compare it to how professional footballers are treated, JLCBM.

2.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 08:06:49
Hilarious.

3.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 08:20:59
The pure idiocy of the idiotic idiots.

There are worse ways to make a living than playing football.

{Ed001's Note - and if they were in 'modern day slavery' they wouldn't be able to choose to do it, they would be forced to do it for nothing. They can walk away at any time and they are extremely well renumerated for what they do. Slavery my arse. This is just managers complaining because they haven't won every game. It is deflection. Salah manages to play all these games without injury problems because he takes care of himself and is a consummate professional. If more put in the extra effort needed, then there would be less injuries. The problem is they want to be able to go clubbing every night and piss their money up against the wall, then whine that they are not able to cope with the workload. Just laziness and entitlement. They forget how lucky they actually are.}

4.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 08:29:27
Ah, yes, modern day slavery, I concur.

As described in the Modern English Dictionary, 'Starved workers, whose rights are stripped from them, passports kept from them illegally, and forced to kick a round football around a much too big pitch to the enjoyment of millions, while earning millions themselves for doing so. '

My hearts bleed for them.

{Ed001's Note - you have more than one heart? Wow.}

5.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 09:22:39
Slavery is rubbish these days. Just imagine being able to retire in absolute luxury by your early 30s. Those hundreds of World Cup construction workers who perished don't know how easy they had it.

6.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 09:25:20
Strange discussion. I work with an organisation rescuing girls from the sex trade in Cambodia.
I don't recognise what's being described here.

{Ed001's Note - I think a few of these pampered whiny brat footballers should be shown exactly what is going on there Burkey. By the way, great name!}

7.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 09:28:25
Whoa, OP! I was with you until the "slavery" stuff. The only thing you can compare to slavery, is slavery itself and NOTHING more. The fact that you think that people who are free to move around, make as much money as they can and kick a ball around without being forced to do so, is the same as any form of slavery is the stuff of absolute lunacy and weapon's grade tone deafness. Managers are only sore cos they lost a game and the players are crying cos they are used to being cuddled like babies and given whatever they want. So miss me with all that crapola, mate.

I propose you slow down, take a deep breathe and educate yourself about what slavery was actually like esp. in the States before you mouth off with useless and reprehensible comparisons. Patetic!

8.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 09:31:46
Sign me up for this slavery please!

9.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 09:40:47
Indeed, Gmil. If this was what slavery was like then someone definitely forgot to tell all those people who were enslaved and whose lives were absolutely destroyed for generations on end. Again, most pathetic take ever.

10.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 10:25:04
I worked for a Government agency in Oz and part of what we were doing was breaking down financial transactions and identifying the trail of the cash flow related to children being sold into the sex trade. Kids younger than 10 being sold into slavery.

Seven Hag has found another excuse (although he’s not the first to play the card) for wasting yet more money on the sinking ship at United. Footballers live a pampered life, basically they get paid an obscene amount of money (at the elite level) for kicking a ball about. As Ed01 says, if they find it too racing they can always pack it in and get a regular job,

11.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 11:00:18
If professional football is modern slavery then someone tell me where to sign up. Sigh.

Another example of the media serving up sensationalist cr*p for clicks, that gets read, believed, and then regurgitated. Same applies to the managers and players as they sit and ponder over their miseries in their mansions and Rolls Royces.

12.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 11:20:43
Well said Ed001, I couldn't agree more.

OP should remember the people who make the most money from all of these extra games are the poor slaves you speak of.

Clubs need all the money they can to keep up with the financial demands of the players. They only ever ask for more, therefore more needs to be made.

They can't have all of the pro's of being a professional footballer, without accepting some of the cons. It all has to be paid for.

{Ed001's Note - exactly mate, the biggest outgoing of a football club is now the wage bill. So if they don't want to play all these games, they could simply all get together and accept less money.}

13.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 12:51:49
And have a quiet word with the parasites who act as their agents.

14.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 13:27:06
ED01, are you saying pamperd little brats should put their money (pun intended, btw) where their mouths are and show accountability? Surely, you're on that some of that "good" stuff John W Henry said Arsenal was smoking when they made that disgraceful 40m + 1 pound bid for Suarez years ago.

{Ed001's Note - I know, crazy thought huh?}

15.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 14:11:16
If we want better attitudes from the players then it starts with the fans.

Imagine having to go to work every week and having 50000 people moaning at you and critiquing you.

Wouldn't matter if I was on a million a week. I wouldn't enjoy that. That's a part of the game that needs to go.

Deliberate all week. Assess. Anaylaze. Formulate opinion. Predict line ups and results. However, on match day. Do the one job you're meant to do at the ground and support them for 90 minutes.

End of the day they have done their job in the week. trained. Ate well. Sacrificed much. Worked hard.

Start treated match days like celebrations of the hard work we all do each week because we are doing the same things. Just in different sectors.

For 90 minutes we are free. Free from it all but noone just wants to be moaned at. If you have the luxury and blessing of going the match. Just sing, shout and cheer.

Treat them how you would want your own son treated. Some of these players are still boys. It's a daunting experience taking a shot in the park infront of your mates.

Imagine missing an open goal on national television. If we aren't nervous then they won't be.

Watch what they produce. There's a reason liverpool are liverpool and its our belief in them that they're the best.

Imagine if Adele just got booed at concerts. All other events are spectacles and football use to be the biggest one there was in this great country.

Enjoy it.

16.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 14:11:50
This might be the worst post ever put on here of all time.
At a time when there's actually more slaves in the world than ever before I feel that it's completely wrong to class footballers as slaves.
The club's have teams of people working out the fitness of the players and when to substitute.
When they're working 14 hours a day for minimum wage I might feel sorry for them.

17.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 14:14:39
The people going to work to pay over £100 a month for sky and £39 for bt are more akin to slaves than these men earning hundreds a thousand a week.

Can I have some of what the op has been smoking please.

18.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 15:10:43
Humblekop the snowflakes have somehow wormed their way onto here, try having ten big Irish men screaming at you to dig faster for buttons an slapping you round the head down a manhole in Liverpool docks

If the players can't handle the heat then unlucky go get a job like everyone else no sympathy from me.

People need to realise the world is a cruel place I swear some of you have never been in the real world.

19.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 15:54:50
He shall forever be known as "The Slave Idiot. "

20.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 16:10:44
If someone offered me £250k a week and said you e got to play three times a week I’d have said “where do I sign”.

21.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 17:04:14
@JLCBM

Surely this is a wind up. Mention "modern slavery" then sit back and watch the melt down. The alternative reading indicates you have some personal development issues.

My two penn'orth.

Matches are 90+ mins with likely only 60 mins open play. If a professional athlete cannot run around a pitch for an hour twice a week there's a major problem. Five subs, squad rotation, academy opportunities and utterly pampered off field.

Happy to lose some of the international fixtures and cup extra time but overall club-wise I don't see a problem. Players and coaches take self accountability. Live a healthy lifestyle, be a model professional and manage team selection based on health science.

Sadly injuries are part of the game but can be mitigated.

22.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 18:07:46
@Humble - I think the best thing I can say is that everyone is entitled to an opinion.

23.) 30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023 20:47:54
Maybe my knowledge of history is weak (and it isn't) but a vital aspect of slavery was the concept of ownership. A slave was actually a living "object" that was owned by his/ her master. Does "modern slavery" dispose of that? No it doesn't, not even in 2023.

To, therefore, apply this concept to professional footballers in the EPL is just pure stupidity and ignorance. (Sorry for the strong words, but boundaries of decency have to be respected) .