Report: Rio Ferdinand at a reported £80K per week?

[QPR Richard]

Love the way the Mail implies that Rio has made a huge sacrifice for reducing his wages from £200,000 a week. I'm guessing that was a reasonably long term contract to cover the period when he was considerably younger and still a regular England international. A footballer who reaches 35 (and is almost 36) is a lot less valuable commodity than one who is 30, and wages should reflect that. I'd be happy with Rio but it has to be at reasonable wages (or linked to number of games played) and it has to be balanced with a number of younger signings. We can't stuff the team full of Harry's tried and trusted old boy's club from back in the day.

Ultimately, the wages aren't really our concern as it's up to the money men at the club to decide what we can and canFerdinand,.

The real issue is, do we sign an ageing player whose best days are long gone with long standing injury problems, or do we go for good players we can further develop?

I'm fed up of us getting has-beens. I want us signing the next Les Ferdinand or Paul Parker, or Macca, or Sinclair etc. We will never do this getting the likes of Rio or Lumpalard. Signing players such as SWP, Young, AJ, Dyer etc has been a disaster.

[stainrodisalegend]

Love the way the Mail implies that Rio has made a huge sacrifice for reducing his wages from £200,000 a week. I'm guessing that was a reasonably long term contract to cover the period when he was considerably younger and still a regular England international. A footballer who reaches 35 (and is almost 36) is a lot less valuable commodity than one who is 30, and wages should reflect that. I'd be happy with Rio but it has to be at reasonable wages (or linked to number of games played) and it has to be balanced with a number of younger signings. We can't stuff the team full of Harry's tried and trusted old boy's club from back in the day.

[rickyranger]

Having given it some thought I'm not convinced by article. Harry does not negotiate deals beard does so cannot see we would cut a deal then decide it's to much. We have never officially been told were in for rio it's only come from press and media so we were either never in for him or nothing has changed

Same guy who is saying deal is off is same guy saying deal was on so fill in the blanks and draw your own conclusions

West, Redknapp did the negotiations with Ferdinand and it was all agreed so if it doesn't happen then I am guessing only Ferdandes could pull the plug at this late stage. If that is the case would suspect it will have bigger impact than just the Ferdinand deal!

[Hitman34]

Yeah, I agree with Richard.
Rio is a fantastic pundit and was a great player. If has won it all.
An amazing Servent for man u. We should reward him with a 5 year contract. Come on tony, you know it makes sense

[Shania]

Imagine that people moaning about rio and we end up with Hangerland instead on similar wages. I know who I would prefer

Although, I long for the day that a Norwegian will wear the famous hoops I will give you right on this one.

[West Acton]

Having given it some thought I'm not convinced by article. Harry does not negotiate deals beard does so cannot see we would cut a deal then decide it's to much. We have never officially been told were in for rio it's only come from press and media so we were either never in for him or nothing has changed

Same guy who is saying deal is off is same guy saying deal was on so fill in the blanks and draw your own conclusions

[rickyranger]

If Fernandes thinks signing the likes of Ferdinand is what got us in a mess before then he really knows very little about football and we really are in trouble. Ferdinand is a good character who will attract others and help develop the younger players we hopefully sign. No Ferdinand then would be very surprised if the likes of Caulker or Lecaslles sign, hangeland, Dunn and Ned doesn't really do it for me.

[Nick]

Pass on both thanks!!

[West Acton]

Hangeland and Descelles it will be then

Ps. Wasn“t Rio a done deal?

Imagine that people moaning about rio and we end up with Hangerland instead on similar wages. I know who I would prefer

[Shania]

Hangeland and Descelles it will be then

Ps. Wasn“t Rio a done deal?

[Chunkyfenwick]

Rio on 80k a week, no thanks, 40-50k maybe.
Let's just go and wrap up a deal for Caulker !

[QPR Richard]

I'm guessing he's been on big money for most of his playing career and probably won't want to drop much below that towards the end.

This is a player who's played at the top for many years and won loads of things. I'm sure he'd like to return to London on big money for a last hurrah.

We've been told by some on here that we should sign him because he's world class, fit as a fiddle and got plenty left in the tank. Oh, and is a good TV pundit!

If he's still all these things, why should money be a problem?

Come on Tony, the case has been made to sign him by a few. Don't let money be an obstacle!

[QPRDave]

I think you're right mate.

I'm not a fan of signing players at the end of their careers but I would have taken Rio and Frank Lampard. That said I'm very happy that Tony has made a stand, I would much rather we invested in younger talent that can be developed!

Yeah it's not like our board are making him work on a strict budget ...seems the money is there for the good quality players...just not ones at the end of careers, which tbf is a good philosophy

[Tarbie]

I'm a big fan of Harry's..(as you may well have guessed)..but if TF is willing to spend big on the likes of Caulker, but not Rio then i have to say i support him.
Not against Rio signing but it would make more sense to spend big on a player that should last longer. Hope this disagreement if true doesn't leave us without Harry as our manager

I think you're right mate.

I'm not a fan of signing players at the end of their careers but I would have taken Rio and Frank Lampard. That said I'm very happy that Tony has made a stand, I would much rather we invested in younger talent that can be developed!

[West Acton]

Think TF should draw line in the sand say you can have maybe two older players for experience but no more and this is the philosophy on signings we want going forwards