Darren Randolph- money over matches played?

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Nosmo-King

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Each to their own I guess. From a professional pint of view if I was him I would rather play more. However his move back to West Ham will have set him up for life.

I can see how attractive that option is - but surely you would want to play more.
I guess a modern day conundrum
 
If the rumours are true in regards to the abuse etc then I think it was more to do with that than anything else. The fact he will of probably got a wage increase helped aswell
 
I think it depends. If you are young and have a future ahead of you then it is important to be playing games for both experience and exposure. At Randolph's age what can he achieve? He's already the international keeper and he's now at a PL club. Playing for us wouldn't have given him a better chance of winning something or being paid more so it makes sense for him to get paid more, and probably to live in London instead of Teesside while doing it.
 
I would want to be at a Premiership club at his age, but he may have to go out on loan if he ends up just playing in league cup ties and Ireland matches. He is at WHU as insurance for the club in case their main keeper is injured.

We had to sell to get the wage bill down and raise some cash, to avoid financial difficulties and keep within Financial Fair Play regulations.
 
To be honest many keepers make a career out of being 2nd or even 3rd choice.

It's not even like he expected to challange. Fabianski has been west hams player of the year for the past 2 seasons.

I doubt we would be in the position we are in had he stayed. He's the best keeper we've had in nearly 10 years and almost single handily won us games under pulis (as usually 0-0 or 1-0 when he produced a worldie).
 
Basically his ex partner, on Insta as brazilyoga, posted photos of herself all bruised up, pictures of the club basically telling her to get out of her accommodation at rockliff after he dumped her, pics of herself in hospital and a load of other info and allegations and details of the letters randolph's solicitor sent her. true or false, the club didnt cover itself in glory from the email exchanges she posted

Everyone takes the moral stance that you'd rather play more than be paid more, sorry but I just dont buy it. it's like when people say they will still go to work if they won the lottery. A tiny percentage do, but majority do it for a week until someone says something they dont like and then they walk out, or they realise they could die at any minute and they're wasting time at work.

You will never again in your lifetime have anywhere even remotely like the earning potential you have now, and will only have a few years left. but his lifestyle isn't going to change when his income dries up and money for coaching etc is peanuts in comparison. People will have houses to maintain, cars to run/replace, kids to take through education, partners to keep happy - many sportspeople go broke within a couple of years because they cant handle that cliff edge of income dropping. It's easy to say in their position you'd rather not be getting a bigger wedge and play more games, but in reality every penny you earn is going to have to last you the rest of your life, and I cant imagine many working 60 year olds being given the option of a larger pension or spending more time at work taking the latter option.

Yes he will hardly be pauper class, but why would he take playing more sport over a less secure financial future? Would make no sense at all. He's reached the top of his game internationally and he is at a team in the premier league, so he is professionally happy and secure. Three out of five premier league footballers go bankrupt after retirement, 33% of them get divorced within a year of retirement. I'd be wanting every penny I can get.
 
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