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It’s not Conn’s survey, of course: Majority of players 'will go broke', survey claims Bellamy sounds like a depressingly typical case.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/nov/19/more-than-500-footballers-may-have-lost-up-to-1bn-due-to-bad-advice

Well there are studies that suggest it’s something like 40-60% of Premier League players. Sounds high to me, and I don’t know what the actual numbers are. But I think it’s fairly clear that if you make millions worth of investments while you’re still playing and don’t leave yourself the...

Well yeah, that sounds like quite an atypical lifestyle to me! Wonder what he invested in.

I imagine his salary has gone off a cliff since he stopped playing - if you don’t manage to blag some kind of lucrative media career or dramatically scale back your lifestyle after you retire then I can see why you could quickly run out of money.

All hell breaks loose on these forums if someone doesn’t hold a consistent opinion on Ben Sheaf ffs, I don’t hold out much hope for politicians trying to be flexible on the BBC’s flagship current affairs show

I think he’s appeared on Legends Day at least twice now.

Feels like we’re on the express train to Bradford 2001 with rhetoric like this.

Not a great day for the Southgate heirs apparent.

Chaplin and then later in the season, McCallum

By my count we signed 14 first team players, including loans that season. But as you say, I think it’s a lot more doable to rebuild the squad in L1 than it is in this league. And it only happened that year because we saw a lot more transfer money come in than go out.

It’s not doable, which is why I imagine we’ll extend the contracts of players who we’d ideally be graduating past by now (Dabo, Rose)

Where are the parents?

Yeah I’m not sure how you can rank him as our best player when you gave ten other players a higher mark!

Lol at you instantly being able to identify yourself in that meme

May as well just forfeit the season then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Four points away with seven games left - mental thing to say, however crap we’ve been today.

Original Pirate Material, you’re listening to The Streets, lock down your aerial