Friday, November 09, 2007
PSMS money crisis
There seems no end to PSMS's woes at the moment. A local paper yesterday detailed the players' annal salaries and while they wouldn't keep John Terry in after shave every month they do tell a tale of profligacy that should be addressed.
The highest earner at the club was Frank Seator who was reported to be earning 2000 USD a week. The same Seator who has singularly unimpressed at Persija and Sriwijaya in 2006, the same Seator who moved to Solo in the middle of this season and the same Seator who has been linked with a move to Malaysia.
Far be it for me to bemoan a players chance to earn what he can but this is taking the piss. In the last two seasons Seator, except for a current purple patch with Persis, has probably scored less than 10 goals in competitive games. What the hell are clubs doing continuing to pay him daft money when he has not been doing what he has been very well paid for?
The other high earners at the club also happen to be the foreign contingent! Meanwhile Markus Horison, international keeper, gets by on less than half of what Seator does. At the lower end of the scale there are some players, local of course, who earn 330 USD a week.
Throwing good money down the drain with no accountability is of course the purpose of local governments who fund/subsidise the game here. I don't know, maybe they get to bask in the reflected glory of all that money being burnt in the bonfires of vanity.
Persija Jakarta signed Gustavo Ortiz at the start of this season which had many fans scratching their heads. A one dimensional player who thinks he has the array of passes that make Riquelme stand out, Ortiz last season would sit on the left side of midfield and ping the ball long for de Porras last season at PSIS, rarely finding the target. He had no Plan B. Run Manu, here comes the ball.
This is who Persija signed, on a higher salary than Seator I might add. He would sit in midfield, ping the ball for Bambang and Aliyudin and roll round on the floor alot. Three times in the first half hour at home to Persita. Each time he would be carried off on a stretcher to a chorus of boos. Each time he would run sprightly back on the pitch as if nothing had happened, greeted by apathy.
Fans ain't stupid. They know when someone is trying it on. Mid season fans filled out a survey asking their opinions of how the season was progressing, who was working, who was shirking. As one they voted Ortiz out.
Time and time again the same old players go from club to club, earning more than locals and giving little in return. Good luck to them but in this, as in so many other areas, the Indonesians need to wake up. They are being bled dry while local talent stagnates. Kept in reserve by overpaid nonentities..
In the Under 16's recently Alan Martha scored four goals for Indonesia against Vietnam. I hope when his time comes he is given the opportunity to play and not consigned to the bench while some journeyman takes his place on the pitch.
The highest earner at the club was Frank Seator who was reported to be earning 2000 USD a week. The same Seator who has singularly unimpressed at Persija and Sriwijaya in 2006, the same Seator who moved to Solo in the middle of this season and the same Seator who has been linked with a move to Malaysia.
Far be it for me to bemoan a players chance to earn what he can but this is taking the piss. In the last two seasons Seator, except for a current purple patch with Persis, has probably scored less than 10 goals in competitive games. What the hell are clubs doing continuing to pay him daft money when he has not been doing what he has been very well paid for?
The other high earners at the club also happen to be the foreign contingent! Meanwhile Markus Horison, international keeper, gets by on less than half of what Seator does. At the lower end of the scale there are some players, local of course, who earn 330 USD a week.
Throwing good money down the drain with no accountability is of course the purpose of local governments who fund/subsidise the game here. I don't know, maybe they get to bask in the reflected glory of all that money being burnt in the bonfires of vanity.
Persija Jakarta signed Gustavo Ortiz at the start of this season which had many fans scratching their heads. A one dimensional player who thinks he has the array of passes that make Riquelme stand out, Ortiz last season would sit on the left side of midfield and ping the ball long for de Porras last season at PSIS, rarely finding the target. He had no Plan B. Run Manu, here comes the ball.
This is who Persija signed, on a higher salary than Seator I might add. He would sit in midfield, ping the ball for Bambang and Aliyudin and roll round on the floor alot. Three times in the first half hour at home to Persita. Each time he would be carried off on a stretcher to a chorus of boos. Each time he would run sprightly back on the pitch as if nothing had happened, greeted by apathy.
Fans ain't stupid. They know when someone is trying it on. Mid season fans filled out a survey asking their opinions of how the season was progressing, who was working, who was shirking. As one they voted Ortiz out.
Time and time again the same old players go from club to club, earning more than locals and giving little in return. Good luck to them but in this, as in so many other areas, the Indonesians need to wake up. They are being bled dry while local talent stagnates. Kept in reserve by overpaid nonentities..
In the Under 16's recently Alan Martha scored four goals for Indonesia against Vietnam. I hope when his time comes he is given the opportunity to play and not consigned to the bench while some journeyman takes his place on the pitch.
# posted by Me @ 10:30 AM 
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If you suck at football come to Indonesia and you'll be a millionaire (or almost). Clubs need to stop overpaying foreign players and wasting more money by terminating their contracts, heck even ex Arsenal Christopher Wreh was terminated after a few months in Perseman.
Many players were not 'legally' terminated, but they were transferred to another club (eg: Ebi Sukore, Anthony Jommah Balah). Personally I know that clubs like Persebaya did pay remaining of Pablo Rojas' wages when he was released on free transfer (he was injured for 5 months). I guess if your clubs are Persija, Persebaya, PKT, Sriwijaya then you'll get your money. If your clubs are Persegi (poor Oscar Aravena and 72 years old coach Henk Wullems) or Persiraja Aceh, then I doubt it.
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