Adelakun Trial Game

[ForsolongaRover]

He signed on a one year deal as well.

I think this is very significant. I cannot believe that Rovers would be offering anything less than 2 years and Salford would not offer just a year if there was any real competition from another club. This looks like the best he could get, and as we all think, he let his agent back himself into a corner. You also wonder how well he played in the trial games - possibly not very impressively - more like he did v Crewe in the second leg perhaps.

[PDX_Rover]

He had a purple patch with us. Will be interesting to see if he can repeat it. I think not.

[Draytonian III]

Most lower league players will still get a good 6 to 10 years of a very good wage. Even the poorer players have to be paid 425 a week basic. Add appearance fee clean sheet,goal and assist bonus and they probably earn 600 at the very least. A good percentage will be on a thousand plus a week. Them in league one will be 2 to 2.5 plus bonus. If they can't save a good nest egg up earning 100k for 7 years to 15 years I'd be surprised. There alot better off than most of us.

Apparently the average League 2 wage is £1k-£3k per week

Even on the lowest figure the players should be able to save £20,000 a year

Someone earning £52k a year will only save £20k if they live with their parents.

They will be able to £20,000 a year, because who is going to spend on average over £600 a week, every week.

[BobG]

It's not that hard. Don't forget that most of these lads don't have the experience, and often the foresight, to plan for the future. Mortgage, poll tax, car loan, petrol, food, clothes, tv and satellite subscriptions,  mobile phone could easily eat up that much a week for the unwary. A rough grossing up suggests that would be about £43K pa gross being spent. If they earned the posited £52K pa they wouldn't be broke so they could believe they were doing alright.

BobG

[Chris Black come back]

If you are earning £52,000 gross, then your take home is around £40,000 net. If you are then saving £20,000 annually, you are living on £385 per week or around £1500 a month. That’s assuming you make zero (£0) pension contributions whatsoever.

[BobG]

Ok CB. I'll take your number. Mine was purely a rough guesstimate. So it would therefore be impossible, without borrowing, to spend 600 quid a week.

BobG

[jmt23]

He was a gun for hire, and to the highest bidder. Grant had to do what he did and give him an offer but also a deadline, for the good of DRFC. There can be no doubt Grant, and we all wanted him to sign.

Great for Salford, be interesting to see if he can perform for someone other than Grant. He is too good for this level, he has something that I’ve never seen at this level. All the best to him apart from one game.

[GazLaz]

Most lower league players will still get a good 6 to 10 years of a very good wage. Even the poorer players have to be paid 425 a week basic. Add appearance fee clean sheet,goal and assist bonus and they probably earn 600 at the very least. A good percentage will be on a thousand plus a week. Them in league one will be 2 to 2.5 plus bonus. If they can't save a good nest egg up earning 100k for 7 years to 15 years I'd be surprised. There alot better off than most of us.

Apparently the average League 2 wage is £1k-£3k per week

Even on the lowest figure the players should be able to save £20,000 a year

Someone earning £52k a year will only save £20k if they live with their parents.

They will be able to £20,000 a year, because who is going to spend on average over £600 a week, every week.

I spend double that a week if you take into account my mortgage etc. Probably spend a third that £600 you say you can’t spend on food alone. Child care is a fortune. It’s not the 80s any more mate!

[DonnyOsmond]

Most lower league players will still get a good 6 to 10 years of a very good wage. Even the poorer players have to be paid 425 a week basic. Add appearance fee clean sheet,goal and assist bonus and they probably earn 600 at the very least. A good percentage will be on a thousand plus a week. Them in league one will be 2 to 2.5 plus bonus. If they can't save a good nest egg up earning 100k for 7 years to 15 years I'd be surprised. There alot better off than most of us.

Apparently the average League 2 wage is £1k-£3k per week

Even on the lowest figure the players should be able to save £20,000 a year

Someone earning £52k a year will only save £20k if they live with their parents.

They will be able to £20,000 a year, because who is going to spend on average over £600 a week, every week.

I spend double that a week if you take into account my mortgage etc. Probably spend a third that £600 you say you can’t spend on food alone. Child care is a fortune. It’s not the 80s any more mate!

Potentially car on finance too. Then knowing your career ends at 35 you'll potentially want to make mortgage overpayments. Also depending on where you live your house price is going to vary dramatically if I play for Leyton Orient compared to Doncaster.

[Draytonian III]

Most lower league players will still get a good 6 to 10 years of a very good wage. Even the poorer players have to be paid 425 a week basic. Add appearance fee clean sheet,goal and assist bonus and they probably earn 600 at the very least. A good percentage will be on a thousand plus a week. Them in league one will be 2 to 2.5 plus bonus. If they can't save a good nest egg up earning 100k for 7 years to 15 years I'd be surprised. There alot better off than most of us.

Apparently the average League 2 wage is £1k-£3k per week

Even on the lowest figure the players should be able to save £20,000 a year

Someone earning £52k a year will only save £20k if they live with their parents.

They will be able to £20,000 a year, because who is going to spend on average over £600 a week, every week.

I spend double that a week if you take into account my mortgage etc. Probably spend a third that £600 you say you can’t spend on food alone. Child care is a fortune. It’s not the 80s any more mate!

If you can afford to spend double that good luck to you, you must have a well paid job and good luck to you on that and must have worked hard to get that far.

[DonnyOsmond]

Most lower league players will still get a good 6 to 10 years of a very good wage. Even the poorer players have to be paid 425 a week basic. Add appearance fee clean sheet,goal and assist bonus and they probably earn 600 at the very least. A good percentage will be on a thousand plus a week. Them in league one will be 2 to 2.5 plus bonus. If they can't save a good nest egg up earning 100k for 7 years to 15 years I'd be surprised. There alot better off than most of us.

Apparently the average League 2 wage is £1k-£3k per week

Even on the lowest figure the players should be able to save £20,000 a year

Someone earning £52k a year will only save £20k if they live with their parents.

They will be able to £20,000 a year, because who is going to spend on average over £600 a week, every week.

I spend double that a week if you take into account my mortgage etc. Probably spend a third that £600 you say you can’t spend on food alone. Child care is a fortune. It’s not the 80s any more mate!

If you can afford to spend double that good luck to you, you must have a well paid job and good luck to you on that and must have worked hard to get that far.

But the footballers on £50K will have well paid jobs so may have similar spending habits.

[sedwardsdrfc]

Just spotted he’d go Salford. Poor move daft lad.

1k a Wk pre tax isn’t big money now abd anyone wanting to own a house a car and have a life ain’t saving 20k a year!!!

Middle management jobs earn more than L2 players and a lot of them you get a company car. That said you have to stare at a computer and not have a kick about with your mates everyday so it’s not all that

[nightporter]

Salford on Sky now, Adelakun on the bench.

[rover-n-out]

Yeah,I'm watching the Salford game waiting to see if he gets any game time. Not a very inspiring game, nothing I can see from either team to concern us if we play to our strength's. Nice bit of skill from the Everton loanee Salford have got, but the defender should have dealt with him and not let him do a 1, 2 and skip by him.

[rover-n-out]

Adelakun just come on for Salford. Still 1-0.

[RoversInSpain]

Hope he doesnt score, Just to smile at the many  know it alls….
A kind of a reverse Alfie May thread
Haks was so good for us but ….’I knew he was rubbish…glad we got rid’ . 

[Donnybax]

He’s playing up front

[StocksArmy]

Let’s hope Williamson keeps his job until after they play us. These are poor.

[drfchound]

If we beat them he will probably get sacked for losing to the likes of Doncaster.

[colincramb]

Most lower league players will still get a good 6 to 10 years of a very good wage. Even the poorer players have to be paid 425 a week basic. Add appearance fee clean sheet,goal and assist bonus and they probably earn 600 at the very least. A good percentage will be on a thousand plus a week. Them in league one will be 2 to 2.5 plus bonus. If they can't save a good nest egg up earning 100k for 7 years to 15 years I'd be surprised. There alot better off than most of us.

Apparently the average League 2 wage is £1k-£3k per week

Even on the lowest figure the players should be able to save £20,000 a year

Someone earning £52k a year will only save £20k if they live with their parents.

They will be able to £20,000 a year, because who is going to spend on average over £600 a week, every week.

I spend double that a week if you take into account my mortgage etc. Probably spend a third that £600 you say you can’t spend on food alone. Child care is a fortune. It’s not the 80s any more mate!

If you can afford to spend double that good luck to you, you must have a well paid job and good luck to you on that and must have worked hard to get that far.

But the footballers on £50K will have well paid jobs so may have similar spending habits.

50k a year isn’t a lot of money these days. It really isn’t.

[Chris Black come back]

Absolutely diabolical start for well known thieves MK ‘Dons’. Were among favourites for promotion. Terrible run of form so far this season.

[rover-n-out]

Salford went two up front when Hak's came on, he was running about like a headless chicken chasing shadows, he did latch on to a through ball after shrugging off a defender and was through on goal but fired directly at the goalie.
Another chance he had down the right he pushed the ball past their defender and then  managed to put the ball out of play over the by-line with too heavy a touch, when his strike partner was on his own in the box.
If he'd have managed to play the ball across to him it would have been an easy tap in for 2-0.
I suppose he's got to get used to how Salford want to play, but he didn't pull any trees up for me when he came on.

[IDM]

Probably has had a crap pre season training alone, so hardly going to be “match sharp” yet..

[rover-n-out]

Yeah, true IDM!

[ncRover]

Salford looked good. They will be up there

[RobTheRover]

Awful game. 2 poor sides.

MK had a bright opening 15 mins and then Salford just took the game from them just enough to render them impotent. Glad I don't have to watch either of them too regularly.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Salford looked good. They will be up there

I was thinking the same with their recent additions. More likely than PV or MK I'm guessing.

[ncRover]

Just scored his first Salford goal - 3 minutes after coming off the bench against Cheltenham

[Padge_DRFC]

Accrington game I thought we'd upgraded in Gibson. Amazing what seeing 7 games in total does to your thoughts.....

[ChrisBx]

A second for Adelakun.