Sunderland Football Blog

It seems to me that the minimum requirement from a professional football player is that player actually plays football, yet record breaking Carlos Tevez this week felt that this was not a compulsory part of his £250,000 a-week contract. This compounded the last 15 years of growing player power within the game that could not be seen in any other profession in the world. This is not a complaint against player salaries. Footballers get paid what they are worth.  Within the free market if they were not earning their respective clubs …