Soccer Football - Scottish League Cup Final - Livingston v St Johnstone - Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - February 28, 2021 Livingston manager David Martindale Pool via REUTERS/Andrew Milligan
David Martindale has claimed that there is a Celtic player who earns the same amount of money as his entire Livingston squad.
The Livi gaffer seems to revel in the media spotlight- and is unable to draw a line when it comes to issues outside of his own club.
General comments on Scottish football are fair game but it is virtually unheard of for one manager to go into detail about the salary of an opponent. If Ange Postecoglou or Micky Beale did it they would create instant back page headlines.
The Sun reports Martindale saying:
What’s their budget? We are £1.3m. I know one player at Celtic who is on the same as our collective weekly wage. That’s where you are and you’d be foolish to go toe to toe with them.
It would be like racing a Ferrari with a Renault Clio. You are going to lose so you need to find a way to win the race.
The figure Martindale quotes works out at a top-line of £25,000 per week. Other than a couple of agents, who are very likely to respect confidences, no one is fully aware of pay structures within clubs.
Celtic players will be on bonuses for winning trophies, qualifying for the Champions League, winning individual matches while some players could have negotiated bonus payments for goals and assists.
Loyalty payments can also be made to entice players to stick to their contracts.
Fukin wee JUNKIE Dik Hun Bastard.. Fuk Off!!
He’s not the “JUNKIE”, He’s the Agent. The Convicted, now rehabilitated Manager. A fit and proper whatever the SFA deems fit and proper. FFS Dave the GLIB was fit and proper. Beggars belief.
This little bollix is completey obsessed with us. Answer him and his bluenose buddies on the park tomorrow night.
A daft wee man with a daft wee voice barking around on telly just so people can witness his nuggets of wisdom.
I know the tv companies need to show some parity in terms of manager interview times etc, but what’s the point when you get stuck with 2 minutes of rambling incoherent pish out the breathing mouth of a deranged elderly ned?
Frankly, I couldn’t care less about him, his past, or his meths hallucination opinions. Livingston have gone backwards under his Mourinho-esque stewardship. He’s irrelevant, if a bit noisy.
Martindale has a dodgy past. Why should we tale note of anything he says.
He is not exactly an intellectual and has double standards. He doesn’t complain about the money his heroes at Anger FC are on. He comes from the same dark and shady world as his friends at that klub. Livingstone need to invest in a better individual if they want to progress. This guy is a loser.
Take NOT tale.
Martindale is a scumbag dealer who has ruined countless lives for his own profit.
The amount of cocaine he dealt probably came to more than the value of his entire squad.
We take no lectures from this piece of shit.
A think he’s been using sum o his stash instead o selling it, nob head
Silly nonsense. One might also say one Livi player wages = Pollok FC wages.
Must of fell into that pile on his table. The man beggars belief with the unhinged krap he come out with.
Nurse….nurse Marty is out his room again
Is that the same “Manager” who earned?????????£££$$$$$€€€ Through alternative kinds of, “Transfers”.
Sorry Davie, at least our ‘excessive’ money is HONEST.
I thought money did not give a club a ‘sporting advantage’. Remember the corrupt judger that was in the same secret society as Murray and the guys at the Bank of Scotland that covered Rangers debt, sinking it into the black hole that was Murray International Metals, not once but 2 or 3 times to the tune of about 140 million.
Remember, the succulent lamb mob sitting at Murray’s feet (sorry!) as he told them about floating pitches and Ronaldo and a team for the cups, a team for the league and a team for Europe. Remember tenners for fivers? As they dodged paying tehri taxes causing the deaths of hundreds of their boys as they illegally terrorised peoples across the globe.
I never heard anyone mention money. Now Celtic are one of the e best run clubs in world football. have done everything right for decades and the jealous hate filled bigots are implying that it is ‘no fair’. Are they serious? No Lanarkshire billionaires to bail them out, helping them cheat some more? No glib and shameless liar with fraudulently obtained cash to give them.
They may need to play by the rules and that has never suited them. What a joke?
Wit the fck is wee hauf dig Davy rattling on aboot. His stash is probably worth more than Livi.
Why not mention sevco players in this some of them are on the same wages,the guys been snorting to much of his own supply.
Imagine the people showing up to carry out some drug tests on his players,yiu can just see the PANIC button getting pressed just now.
if we have the money then we get the best players we have the best team in Scotland and the ones that play in blue can never catch up