Well, despite the GRcade Pirates being sat at the top of the table, Blackpool boss Ian Holloway has had his say on the striker crisis at Booty Cove this season, believing that the rumoured contract dispute between the club and star striker Roonmastor is to blame. It has been rumoured that Roonmastor threatened to go on strike and leave the club on a free if Coach Cutty did not sell Preezy and bring in reinforcements in the summer. The crisis was seemingly sorted by the club in private, but Holloway has still had his say on the matter... Ian Holloway wrote:I've got big problems with the people who are running football. I know the reasons I think the game is in trouble and you cannot have a Bosman ruling they've got at the moment. GRcade Pirates have helped Roonmastor's career massively on and off the field. The manager, the club itself has invested in him. They bought him for massive amounts of money as a young man and they're helping him blossom into the player that he is. He's one of the best centre-forwards in the world. And if he sees his contract out he's going to be able to walk out of there for nothing. That's the people at the very top of the game's fault. Our rules were brilliant. If he was offered the same amount of money again, they could hold his registration and someone would have to pay the fair amount of money for him. Just because you're 24, what on earth has that got to do with it? It's just ludicrous. They have the power to change this straight away.
What if he sits there for 18 months? Throws tantrums, don't try, don't play. And someone's already to said to him "we'll take you, and we'll pay you some of that money that we should've paid GRcade because you can walk out on a free". What are we actually saying, as human beings? Is that right? Do you want to sign a player like that? Do you want to play for a club that says that to you? How do we know it hasn't happened?
And the game is spoiling that. The game is wrong, the people in charge of the game are wrong. And I'm not calling them names, I'm just telling them they're wrong. They are so wrong this is frightening. If Coach Cutty is being bullied by a player and his agent or whatever how you wanna call it, how wrong is the game?! Yeah, and when are you gonna listen, to the people who are involved in the game? Do you understand?
And they say about "oh it's not fair on the player", rubbish! The player's had his wages, every week....guaranteed come rain or shine whether he's injured or not. They bought him, they work with him , he belongs to them. Y'know? You buy a house, you own the deeds, it's paid for if you're lucky enough to do that, it's yours. What, if it's 24 years you had it for, and then it can just toddle off and do what it likes? It's not right is it? It's so obvious. It is so obvious it is so wrong.
And you can't change, the world should change if it's wrong. And football should look at itself, it's wrong.
FIFA, UEFA, whoever you are, YOU'RE WRONG!
We had it right. Ask us how we were doing it and that's what you should have copied with the Bosman rule. Mr Bosman was held back, his contract ran out, they offered him half the money yet they still asked more money than another club was gonna pay for him. In our country he'd have walked out for nothing. That's what they should have copied.
Some complete person who isn't in the real world, in our realm, said "if you're 24" oh yeah 24, "you can go and be what you like, do what you like"
WHO IS THIS PERSON?! HOW WRONG IS THAT?! SORT YOUR LIFE OUT.
That's all I'm saying, it might be a rant it might be quite funny to watch it but I feel passionately about this. I'm looking at Coach Cutty, I'm looking at him thinking "What a magnificent manager, how can he handle this?" How he feels about the GRcade Pirates, how proud he is of the GRcade Pirates, yet Mr. Roonmastor can now...or his agent can now manufacture a situation like this, that's what they're doing.
Managers fall out with player. If you don't want to play for that manager, don't sign a 4 year contract, a 2 year contract, a 3, don't. Don't do it that's your choice but that's the commitment.
GRcade Pirates paid 30 million quid for Roonmastor, absolute nonsense.