Eddie pays 1m players wages to stop them leaving for free

luckyPeterpiper wrote:

wanderlust wrote:

luckyPeterpiper wrote:Lusty, in answer to your question about the staff preferences I would ask what's the point in having a job if you don't get paid for it and get left skint at Christmas? Personally I think this shows Eddie's true character to a T. He paid the players in order to protect an asset that might bring him money back. The much lower paid staff who needed the money a lot more don't have a commercial value so he didn't give a damn about them, they can go skint at Christmas and it won't bother him for a moment.

Conversely if you've been paid for the last 11 months and have the choice between receiving one more months pay and then being laid off or being paid late and having a job to go to in the future I'd have thought most folk would prefer to wait and keep their jobs. 

As to your insight into EDs mind, I've absolutely no idea if it bothered him or not and neither have you, so why speculate?

If it bothered him he would have paid them. Simple stuff really. As Breadman points out he had the money to pay the players who are on far higher wages than people like office staff so it was a choice brought on by commercial self-interest. I don't think it's a wild speculation to say that's Eddie's motivation under the circumstances.

luckyPeterpiper wrote:Thank you Barb. I wonder what caused them to report Eddie had paid the players in the first place?

Barb Dwyer wrote:

luckyPeterpiper wrote:Thank you Barb. I wonder what caused them to report Eddie had paid the players in the first place?

It was  the Sun that reported they had been paid. Enough said.

Bollotom2014 wrote:

Barb Dwyer wrote:

luckyPeterpiper wrote:Thank you Barb. I wonder what caused them to report Eddie had paid the players in the first place?

It was  the Sun that reported they had been paid. Enough said.

And they could quite simply have got the truth by hacking his phone. Bloody amateurs!

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