Our management team's basic high salary, one of the highest in Europe, is for failing to qualify. For doing their job and qualifying, they are contracted to receive a huge bonus on top of that basic salary and no doubt more bonuses on top of that should they pick up up a few points at those Finals.
Possibly there are some beleaguered African countries which have such a (20x to 30x) discrepancy between their local league manager's salary and international manager's salary. For us, living in the relatively affluent part of europe, the fact that the huge inequality exists, reflect a serious dysfunction existing in irish football.
The dysfunction is not just with the local game but also with the biased focus on the senior intl team.
The FAI is there to represent and administer all that is about Irish football.
The intl job is part time and what it takes to be the manager of our team is not that much different than being the manager of Wales, or Scotland for that matter.
The main justification for exercising such a discrepancy of favour of distribution of available resources by the association which runs Irish football, is if income earned can be fed into the local game. That has not come to pass. Other mentioned possible beneficial justifications, in reality have had minimal benefit to the local game
Does our team need Roy Keane? hasn't O'Neill more than enough support with his other mates? This is just an international team, it is not farcical for a medium level association to have an assistant manager earning Eur700k p/a?
If you take Croatia as an example, their domestic league is poorly supported, not that much different from the LOI, yet there's not much danger of their FA paying a fortune for an international manager. The Croatian players are better than ours. Are they born with that talent and somehow by some quirk of the stork, being born in Ireland means you are not born with the talent? I doubt it. The Croatian clubs manage to hold onto their star players and reap the benefit of some lotto level transfer fees and are able to fund their their club structure and academies. The Croation FA don't need to pay their intl team manager a fortune to make a silk purse out of the available players, the players are already at a very decent standard.
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1. The manager is paid very well compared to league managers, plus he gets the chance to make large sums of money by capping players.
2. Croatian clubs make very little from sales of players, the majority of whom have already moved outside the coutnry at a young age. A clear example is the paltry 250,000eur (before tax) that arrived in Dinamo Zagreb's bank account after the sale of Eduardo. In addition the majority of players who are sold outside the country are owned by 3rd parties (usually local politicians or businessmen).
3. The standard of the Croatian league is okay, but the large number of sub-standard players (who would't get a kick of a ball in the LOI) goes down to "favourite" contracts. The pay for play at youth level translates somewhat at senior level, some clubs try to rescue it but the big 2 clubs hoover up all the talent very quickly.
Salary and bonuses of International managers is not as important as results and what it means to the economy and view of the country. Additionally in Croatia all resources are poured into football, with drops into basketball, volleyball and handball. In Ireland we have the GAA and Rugby getting the lion's share, so football needs whatever it takes to get headlines, especially with the sky leagues next door.
According to the Sun, Roy Keane showed up at Tom Cleverley's door suspecting him of having leaked stories to the press over his departure from Villa: http://balls.ie/football/roy-keane-vs-tom-cleverley/
Originally Posted by Balls.ie
Obviously Massively taking into the Account the article comes from The SUN .....so one wud propably can assume the journalist who wrote it , exaggerated the story to sell the papers or that the story itself is complete b*llox!
But eitherway ..... i do worry about how Roy is been portrayed in media...whether its his fault/not...what do the Ireland players think when they read these stories about there Assitant manager.
Cant be a good thing!
I don't know how accurate the Sun's portrayal of this alleged incident might be, but Roy can't stop them exaggerating. Everyone involved in our set-up from the top down is well aware of Roy's media profile/reputation and I'm sure our players are also well aware of how the media can spin things and sensationalise events. In what way would you see it affecting them?
The rag enough said.
Lets talk about six baby
Lambert says things were blown out of proportion: http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/engli...verly-at-home/
Originally Posted by RTÉ.ie
"He's a good man. I wasn't there long but I enjoyed it. He was very demanding and tried hard to motivate the players. He demanded the maximum - always. We did boxes in training every day, and he was passionate about them; we couldn't lose the ball. His handshake was very firm and if he had a problem he looked you straight in the eye and talked to you."
Villarreal's Giovani Dos Santos on Roy Keane.
"I'd waited long enough. I fu*king hit the doorbell hard. The door was there (I think). Take that you cu*t!"
Last edited by The Fly; 19/12/2014 at 2:05 AM.
This New Statesman article about the striving for "authenticity" in contemporary society popped up on my Facebook feed earlier after a friend had 'liked' it, so I gave it a read: http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyl...forget-be-real
The last thing I was expecting to see in it was a brief analysis of the authenticity of the image Roy Keane portrays for himself.
Originally Posted by Ed Smith
Last edited by DannyInvincible; 19/12/2014 at 9:31 PM.
Another article seeming to suggest Roy lives in an alternate reality.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...oothless-tiger
The other side of Roy Keane.
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/footb...ed-Aston-Villa
Fancy a look at Roys house?
https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs...154212810.html
Would not mind living there myself!
Put in an offer.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/poli...-30951365.html
Police are investigating an alleged road rage incident involving Roy Keane.
The 43-year-old former Manchester United captain is said to have got into an altercation with a taxi driver in Altrincham town centre, which led to police being called.
A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: "At 11.30am, police were called to Ashley Road, Altrincham, to a report that a man had behaved aggressively towards another man.
"An investigation is under way to establish the exact circumstances surrounding the incident."
Keane, who has previously managed Sunderland and Ipswich and is currently Republic of Ireland assistant manager, lives in nearby Hale.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....e-road-8550472
Police are investigating an alleged road rage bust-up between Roy Keane and a taxi driver.
The former Manchester United captain is accused of launching a foul-mouthed tirade after climbing out of his black Range Rover to berate the driver at traffic lights in Altrincham.
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Unconfirmed reports say the taxi driver is a fair haired Norwegian with a pronounced limp.
You'll never guess who I had in my cab the other night.
The guy was refusing to put Justin Bieber on the radio oddly.
It seems the "road-rage" incident arose after a request by the taxi man for Roy to smile didn't go down too well. Marian Finucane had Paddy Mulchrone from the Mirror on her show earlier discussing how he had door-stepped Roy (after hours of waiting) in the pursuit of some further information on the police investigation. Roy didn't disclose much; Paddy was told to "**** off".
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