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Maybe living in London, playing in the Prem, and the extra 15 000 UKP per week?
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Twardek just went from Ireland to Poland so with some luck, first team minutes, and scouting it might be a good or better bet - particularly at CanPL salaries. Plus, it's Ireland. What an adventure.
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Didn't realize The Briar Patch was still kicking. Blast from the past. Good article, although calling Marcus Haber a Can PL star is a bit generous. I think player/union messaging could use some more focus. I don't think the idea of Canadian soccer players in an upstart home-grown league having to get an offseason job or claim offseason EI is going to really rouse the support of the general public, offseason EI is the norm in a number of fields and it all seems the price to pay for living the dream. Ditto hardcore fans, as 40/42 week contracts are the norm in many semi-pro league
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narduch reacted to a post in a topic: Canadians Abroad Feb 19th to 25th
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Surprising to see former Football League team like Barnet losing by such a large margin to a barely semi-pro team that was defunct just ten years ago, but I guess that's why they're second from bottom. Saved by no relegation this year. English football may not always be the most beautiful but what a pyramid they have.
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They fired Tindall for Woodgate? Ouch.
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Depends where he saw his career going. If he thought he was in Mexico for the long-haul, Canada may have made more sense ... exposure to the Portuguese set up and coaches and scouts in Mexico would have been much lower than if playing in Europe.
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Is there really more to this than papers assuming Everton want to foist a Turkish player on one of the big Turkish three, and picking the guy in return with the most goals?
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Players you expect to see in the CPL
The Real Marc replied to lazlo_80's topic in Canadian Premier League
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And that is reinforced by guys like Viti going back for part of the European season. If a player can pull in 30-40k here, with housing and another 30-40k in Europe, depending how much of the season he can squeeze in - that's a more reasonable living.
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It all depends on what fans want out of this league. For a person that just wants to watch some local soccer, or follow from afar ... they don't have much of a stake in the player pay issue - because, ultimately, the level of play and player stability and long-term development is secondary to the emotion of seeing their team play players nominally representing Halifax or Winnipeg or Victoria rather than Flint or Des Moines or Charlotte. Is a fan OK with a Canadianized-USL or PDL experience then the salaries etc don't really matter. For a fan that wants this league to foster talent fo
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That makes sense. I hadn't realized those low-end contracts were truly FT. That's like the old days of Football Manager when you could manage a lower league team and sign guys for peanuts like 175 Euros a week on "full time contracts" - I always thought this was a glitch, I didn't realize this was for real!
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Do bottom-end CanPL contracts actually try to stop players from having other non-soccer jobs? I can't imagine this would be the case. Despite their early rhetoric about building a living-wage FT league that feeds the Nats, yeah that's a nice line but I'm sorta surprised people bought it. The dollars and cents (COVID or not) of a league like this doesn't add up to having too many guys in the 40k-50k range, particularly in the early years of the league - that's what's likely needed to keep players like Carreiro or Gasparotto in the game. Other than the odd guy like Bekker (it'd be interest
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Admittedly I’m late to this but - wrong or not - I don’t get Rollins’s alarm. Who realistically expected the salaries to be any higher? Who thought this league would sustain topped-out players like Carreiro into their mid 20s? I don’t understand the surprise.
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He has a kid, I think he mentioned that on the recent podcast, no?
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Well I guess this wasn’t the be example in the end. I think maybe he jumped on board because I typed this and he came to his senses.