Kieron Dyer signs one-year contract extension with QPR

[TRon]

I see that other headless chicken N'Zogbia is doing really badly with his pace, power, movement and shooting prowess at Wigan. Not good enough to earn a first team slot for us mind.

wasn't it due to his performances when he was here ?

 

 

also wasn't titus wigans player of the year last year ?

 

If they are so bad why are they playing in the premier while we aren't?

goes for stephen carr aswell then.....you were sorry to see him go ?

 

No because he was fat and unfit. See the difference?

 

 

he was at the end of his time here, not throughout. n'zogbia performances in his last 18month here didn't warrant him a first team place. it's funny how milner was given grief by many when playing better than charles and has gone on to be a better player.

 

Both are doing well and are long gone from this club. We are left with Nicky Butt and Kevin Nolan which should be a clue to which were the better players.

[madras]

I see that other headless chicken N'Zogbia is doing really badly with his pace, power, movement and shooting prowess at Wigan. Not good enough to earn a first team slot for us mind.

wasn't it due to his performances when he was here ?

 

 

also wasn't titus wigans player of the year last year ?

 

If they are so bad why are they playing in the premier while we aren't?

goes for stephen carr aswell then.....you were sorry to see him go ?

 

No because he was fat and unfit. See the difference?

 

 

he was at the end of his time here, not throughout. n'zogbia performances in his last 18month here didn't warrant him a first team place. it's funny how milner was given grief by many when playing better than charles and has gone on to be a better player.

 

Both are doing well and are long gone from this club. We are left with Nicky Butt and Kevin Nolan which should be a clue to which were the better players.

i agree to a point but just because someone is playing in the prem doesn't mean they are better than a player in the fizzy pop. enrique for example,steven taylor also and i'll bet if carroll moves it'll be to a prem club.

[TRon]

I see that other headless chicken N'Zogbia is doing really badly with his pace, power, movement and shooting prowess at Wigan. Not good enough to earn a first team slot for us mind.

wasn't it due to his performances when he was here ?

 

 

also wasn't titus wigans player of the year last year ?

 

If they are so bad why are they playing in the premier while we aren't?

goes for stephen carr aswell then.....you were sorry to see him go ?

 

No because he was fat and unfit. See the difference?

 

 

he was at the end of his time here, not throughout. n'zogbia performances in his last 18month here didn't warrant him a first team place. it's funny how milner was given grief by many when playing better than charles and has gone on to be a better player.

 

Both are doing well and are long gone from this club. We are left with Nicky Butt and Kevin Nolan which should be a clue to which were the better players.

i agree to a point but just because someone is playing in the prem doesn't mean they are better than a player in the fizzy pop. enrique for example,steven taylor also and i'll bet if carroll moves it'll be to a prem club.

 

because they aren't fat or unfit. Which is basically my point really.

 

 

[madras]

I see that other headless chicken N'Zogbia is doing really badly with his pace, power, movement and shooting prowess at Wigan. Not good enough to earn a first team slot for us mind.

wasn't it due to his performances when he was here ?

 

 

also wasn't titus wigans player of the year last year ?

 

If they are so bad why are they playing in the premier while we aren't?

goes for stephen carr aswell then.....you were sorry to see him go ?

 

No because he was fat and unfit. See the difference?

 

 

he was at the end of his time here, not throughout. n'zogbia performances in his last 18month here didn't warrant him a first team place. it's funny how milner was given grief by many when playing better than charles and has gone on to be a better player.

 

Both are doing well and are long gone from this club. We are left with Nicky Butt and Kevin Nolan which should be a clue to which were the better players.

i agree to a point but just because someone is playing in the prem doesn't mean they are better than a player in the fizzy pop. enrique for example,steven taylor also and i'll bet if carroll moves it'll be to a prem club.

 

because they aren't fat or unfit. Which is basically my point really.

 

 

and as i said he was only like that near the end of his time here due to the crap medical team/management rushing people back too quick after injury.

[Toon_Crazy]

Used to really like him, always gave me the feeling that he could do something to change the game or create a goal.

 

While i do feel sorry for him, I force myself not to care too much. Yes he's had a horrible time with injuries but he throughout these injuries has always picked up big pay cheques and lived the life. There's many people in this world that when they no longer work, they are let go and never hired again.

 

 

[LoveItIfWeBeatU]

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/football/exposed/712269/DYERS-GET-FIT-OR-GET-OUT-STUNNER.html

 

DYER'S GET FIT OR GET OUT STUNNER

Hammers chiefs get tough on midfielder

By Rob Shepherd, 30/01/2010

WEST HAM'S Kieron Dyer has been given a month to prove his fitness or face being forced into retirement.

 

Hammers new owners David Sullivan and David Gold have embarked on a severe cost-cutting regime.

 

The main focus has been on reducing club debts but they are also viewing player excesses.

 

It is felt that the time has come for Dyer to prove he can still perform or face being offered a severance package.

 

Midfielder Dyer, 31, has made just 18 appearances since a £6million move from Newcastle 2½-years ago.

 

The former England player is on £60,000 a week and each outing has effectively cost the club around £460,000.

 

Dyer has 18 months of his contract to run but a verdict on his future is expected in three weeks.

 

This season every time Dyer has returned to action he has rapidly broken down again.

 

If the player was paid up until the end of the season then an insurance package could save the club £2m.

 

Only two months ago striker Dean Ashton was forced to accept a retirement deal after losing a two-year battle against crippling injury.

 

West Ham's owners have already revealed a tough streak by suspending £20,000-a-week defender Calum Davenport's wages.

 

Although the player is back in training after a stabbing incident, he faces assault charges.

 

The PFA and Premier League are currently investigating if West Ham are in the right to have stopped paying the player prior to a court case.

 

Behind the scenes the cost cutting continues with the departure of chief executive Scott Duxbury last week.

 

Technical director Gianluca Nani is set to follow out of the door next week.

 

Meanwhile, West Ham continue to chase at least one more striker before tomorrow's transfer deadline having set up the signing of Benni McCarthy from Blackburn last week.

 

Stoke's Dave Kitson and James Beattie are now on their radar as well as former Spurs striker Mido but they still hope to beat Sunderland for the services of Manchester City's Benjani.

[gray]

 

Midfielder Dyer, 31, has made just 18 appearances since a £6million move from Newcastle 2½-years ago.

 

 

[macca888]

He is finished now anyway. Regardless of injuries, at 31, age has caught up with him and injuries have taken toll on his onmly real asset......Pace.

 

He is gone

[Karjala]

 

 

Midfielder Dyer, 31, has made just 18 appearances since a £6million move from Newcastle 2½-years ago.

 

The former England player is on £60,000 a week and each outing has effectively cost the club around £460,000.

[Guest Howaythetoon]

At the time, I think most of us wanted to upgrade Dyer to a fitter player with good end product, and a perfect attitude. We always want better than what we've got, so with those few easy to find limitations, Dyer was an easy scapegoat for people looking to progress the team further than we were at that stage.

 

However the top team we had was dismantled and not suffciently replaced and we were worse when he wasn't in the team, yet people forgot the relative success he bought to the club.

 

Without a doubt the best attacking midfielder we had in the last decade.

 

You should have stuck to your guns on that one. It's true even though people won't like you saying it.

 

Gary Speed created and scored more goals so I'd personally place him as the best attacking midfielder we've had in the last decade.

[wyn davies]

is he fit enough to play? if so, could he do a job for us on a per per match basis along with paying his own medical bills also.

[Thespence]

is he fit enough to play? if so, could he do a job for us on a per per match basis along with paying his own medical bills also.

 

Maybe in 80's some players would of done that but a guy with millions in the bank is not going to sign up for that sort of deal.

[binnsy]

Wonder if he'll do a Steven Carr, pack in but after a year of rest and not working on "gettting fit" end up making a comeback.  Perhaps doing nothing may just help his dodgy hamstring.  I think alot of his problems have happened from rushing back from his injuries.

[JH]

is he fit enough to play? if so, could he do a job for us on a per per match basis along with paying his own medical bills also.

 

Who would ever agree to that?

[Guest Stephen927]

Especially with his medical bills, there aren't many men out there who can afford to pay for them off their own back.

[S.S.R.]

Saw David Gold in a nightclub, lighting cigars with Kieron's contract.

 

[LoveItIfWeBeatU]

4/Feb/10 

 

£60,000-a-week Kieron Dyer should retire, says West Ham chairman David Sullivan - West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan has said Kieron Dyer should consider retiring from football - Jason Burt, The Telegraph

The 31 year-old midfielder has been plagued with injuries throughout his career, and particularly since he moved to West Ham United, who he joined in the summer of 2007 for £6 million.

His latest setback is a persistent hamstring injury which means that the former England international has played just 18 times for West Ham, who have struggled with a crippling wage bill, having also broken his leg soon after moving to the club.

 

West Ham have been sympathetic but there is a growing frustration at the club that Dyer is earning £60,000-a-week and they have had little return for their investment.

 

 

There was an inquiry from Ipswich Town, Dyer's first club, which was encouraged by West Ham but it's understood the player has been demanding a £1 million pay-off. Even then it's unclear whether he could pass a medical.

 

 

Sullivan, who took control of West Ham earlier this month with business partner David Gold, has now suggested that Dyer should retire as part of a series of drastic cost-cutting measures being undertaken at the Premier League club.

 

 

Sullivan, who has spoken out about the inflated contracts awarded at West Ham by the former chairman Eggert Magnusson, did not name Dyer. He said: "There is one player who hardly plays at all who might have to accept retirement."

 

 

Sullivan went on to add that the player earned "£60-70,000 a week".

 

 

Unquestionably he was referring to Dyer while he went on to talk about the recent retirement of Dean Ashton who was forced out of the game by his chronic ankle problems. "There is one player who has accepted retirement but we have to give him one year's money," Sullivan said.

 

 

It's understood that West Ham's vice-chairman, Karren Brady, is carrying out swingeing cuts at the club which is set to include the departure or technical director Gianluca Nani who was not involved in any of the transfer dealings that took place during January. Instead Sullivan helped negotiate the deals while using agents Barry Silkman and Willie McKay.

 

 

"We have to cut some overheads, staff who are on the administration side and support staff for the team and work down the contracts we have inherited which are terrible," Sullivan said.

 

 

Club doctors, technical staff and even West Ham's football in the community officer are under threat. Of the playing contracts, he said: "We cannot rip them up under football league rules, you are stuck with these contracts. We have to let them run down or do deals with players."

 

 

Two players whose futures at West Ham are in doubt are Robert Green and Matthew Upson. Both have less than 18 months left on their contracts and have stalled on talks over extensions to their deals.

 

 

It appears that both are likely to leave in the summer with Green, apparently, keen to try and find an overseas club while Upson is determined to play in the Champions League, if possible.

[Ishmael]

Haha.

 

Basically, "you're costing me too much money so fuck off!"

 

He took up the responsibility of Dyer's contract when he took the Chairman role.  KD has every right to sit it out and try and get fit again.

[Guest Stephen927]

I would say jog on Sullivan, I'm honouring my deal.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I would tell Sullivan to fuck off, that's ludicrous.

 

Although obviously when his contract runs out he's done for.

[NG32]

If I were Dyer I would buy two solid gold legs with the cash i get from staying on and seeing my contract out.

 

and say to sullivan "break d'em bitch!"

[Elbel1]

Or he could hire a billboard opposite the chairmans office and put a massive copy of his payslip on it.

 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

On a serious note though, it's part and parcel of the game that injuries occur to players and during that time they still get paid.

 

If they had doubts about Dyer's fitness (which they should have) and/or they couldn't afford him, they shouldn't have offered him such a big contract in the first place.

 

Would be interesting if footballers had to claim statutory sick pay after a certain number of months out like normal people!

[Guest Geordiesned]

Just found this by chance doing a search for something else. It's from May so may be elsewhere on here already but I've never seen it.

 

£83,000 a week for that waster!!! Is it any wonder why West Ham had financial problems?

 

Kieron Dyer revealed as West Ham's top earner on £83,000-a-week

 

Kieron Dyer revealed as West Ham's top earner on £83,000-a-week

 

Kieron Dyer is paid an astonishing £83,000 a week by West Ham United, according to figures obtained by Telegraph Sport.

 

The midfielder has one year left on his deal — which includes £424,000-a-season for image rights and £100,000 in loyalty fees — and is the troubled club’s highest earner by far.

 

Dyer’s injury problems are well documented and he has made just 22 appearances — 11 of them this season, during which he has yet to complete a full game – since arriving for £6 million in 2007 in a deal brokered the former chairman Eggert Magnusson.

 

Dyer has often been replaced in the team by Junior Stanislas, who, the figures show, earns a basic £1,000-a-week, although this is supplemented by appearance money. James Tomkins, Jack Collison and Zavon Hines, who have all been first-team regulars, also earn significantly less than £10,000 a week.

 

The figures reveal that the next highest earner at West Ham is Scott Parker, who is paid £60,000 a week and who, like Dyer, joined from Newcastle United when Magnusson went on his spending spree.

 

Matthew Upson, another of the Icelander’s recruits, earns £50,000-a-week and, it is understood, with one year left on his contract has been offered a similar sum to keep him at the club for longer.

 

The fourth-highest earner is striker Benni McCarthy, who arrived in January and has failed to make an impact. The other players earning more than £30,000-a-week are Julien Faubert, Herita Ilunga, Luis Boa Morte – who is out of contract this summer – and England international Carlton Cole. Brazilian Striker Ilan is thought to earn around £20,000 although this would rise dramatically, to £60,000-a-week, should West Ham sign him permanently, which now appears unlikely.

 

Despite the high figures involved, West Ham’s player wage bill — at around £37 million — is less than 50 per cent of the club’s £80 million-plus turnover and is not among the highest in the division. It has also been reduced significantly in the past two years. The £1.9 million-a-year salary of manager Gianfranco Zola and the £900,000-a-year earned by his assistant Steve Clarke also have to be factored in, but the club have drastically reduced their liabilities since Magnusson’s disastrous tenure.

 

At that time, for example, West Ham were paying Freddie Ljungberg £85,000-a-week, while Craig Bellamy was earning a similarly high salary. Both have since left the club.

 

Telegraph Sport set out to establish the accurate figures on the club’s wages after reports circulated yesterday on the club’s spending levels.

 

However, co-chairman David Sullivan disputed the list last night. He said: “It’s not accurate, there are many mistakes in it. Though, it’s more accurate than the [Daily] Star figures.”

 

Indeed Sullivan appeared to suggest the real figures were higher. “Obviously, in addition a lot of players get sign-on fees, appearance money [up to £10,000-a-game], image rights, loyalty payments, and we pay 12.98 per cent National Insurance.”

 

 

[Skeletor]

Hey those medical bills, bentleys and bling don't pay for themselves.