Steven Gerrard’s fines at Aston Villa… 💰

[@impressly_snipes1673]

Highest paid at Villa is on £150k per week, lowest paid is a 19 year old on 10k per week. Extortionate is a little bit of a strong word!

[@TheDeadlyTikka]

Just don't do stupid shit and almost costs you nothing

[@lankymario7189]

just means 19year old should be more considerate. if the fine actually hurt your pocket, maybe they will actually stop doing it

[@Cooverdamn]

It should be % based. Then the highest paid would be hurt just as much as lower.

[@dillonwalkingshaw3021]

Use are delusional 10k a week is still an incredibly high amount and plus the young guys should be putting in more effort anyway to prove themselves

[@twplustwoisthree]

These are all things most people adhere to as basic manners & work behaviours

[@omgblastbeatslol]

Extortionate? Those fines are still pennies compared to what these bozos make every week.

[@callum8505]

Not all of them, it'd be quite heavy for some of the younger lads

[@omgblastbeatslol]

@@callum8505 Great point actually, I had not considered that. I guess it would be a logistical nightmare to adjust the fines relative to each players' wage too. I guess Stevie was taking the piss a bit.

[@nick22091]

@@omgblastbeatslolit wouldn’t be that difficult, you would just have the fine be a % of of their wages rather than a fixed number. That was the fine would be fair across the board.

[@omgblastbeatslol]

@@nick22091 I had thought about that, but every ex-player that I've heard talk about fines has said that they are paid in cash and recorded by the team captain, with the money going into a kitty to pay for the xmas night out or something similar. I just figured that might create tension in the dressing room if the fallout is the players' individual wages becoming something that isn't private anymore. And I'm not sure if switching to bank transfers is any better. The clubs are probably on thin ice as it is from a legal standpoint concerning cash fines but if they start getting logged in black and white like their pay I wonder if they might start challenging the practice altogether.

[@THEOBOTS]

So you wouldn’t want to make tens of thousands a week kid😬😚

[@chilli-soup]

Clubs should put the fine amounts as percentages against wages instead.

[@AridDessert]

Agree that

[@davidmarchant9386]

The idea is for them being humiliated into paying from their credit card infront of the team. Which goes into a pot what funds the Christmas party and end of season party

[@alexchapman3906]

£200 late for physio appointment is straight up respect for the staff. After that ManU story about signing the charity balls and shirts I’d add “Not signing charity items £1000 and an appearance for charity event within 4 weeks”. It’s so important to club image in the local community.

[@NNC93]

I don’t think the amounts are going to hurt players on 10s of thounds a week tbf

[@terrysadlier8456]

Lol £500 a minute for being late😂 turn up ½ hour late is 15k bro🤣

[@NNC93]

@@terrysadlier8456 don’t turn up late… or turn up late 3 times and get sacked would in any other job .. always hard done by most of them apparently even tho they are getting millions playing the sport they love.

[@jjfw96]

Late for training was straight £500...not per minute ​@@terrysadlier8456

[@shaun5755]

The 500 one wasnt per minute either, thw 200s were ​@terrysadlier8456

[@davidmee1822]

My heart bleeds for them 😢

[@gavinlisk2292]

Average wage Villa players are on is around £100,000 per week, the fines are pennies compared to this!

[@benjamincompton9767]

Dont they understand the public think this is fine?

[@splinteredmind88]

Google the chelsea fines. They eclipse these

[@Zkkr429]

Shocking….. until you realize the average salary is £77,000 a week.

[@hashtag_thisguy]

Guess the players don't look at their pay cheque and go "wow, the amount of money...."

[@crewtc1987]

All they have to do is follow a simple set of standards/rules and they can’t even do that. The more you find out about pro footballers the more embarrassing and immature they sound.

[@benfield6343]

Yeah spoiled Prima Donnas. No basic manners, think they're God's gift.

[@AridDessert]

Couldn't agree more with these. Privileged position. Standard behaviour for everyone else. Turn up late a few times and you could be out.

[@phoeberowland7372]

Extortionate, a couple of hundred for someone on £100k plus a week? Leave it out, Steve, try getting a ulez or dart charge fine of that amount on £35k a year.

[@jameshunt6414]

Good Stevie, taking no BS.

[@hegzneptune7327]

No wonder the players didn't want to play for him...look what emery did with the same group.

[@jackbolland-tw6mi]

I think that is mostly because Emery is a far better tactician as well

[@danid8405]

Yeah that's not extortion that is what you call a good boss who wants his players to be on time and wearing the right gear and being professional

[@familydinner1]

The red card one is the only stupid one. Some players are at their best when they play on the edge.

[@matthewmarsh9760]

Premiership football can easy afford it and crouch saying big is crazy Should make a 1000 per violation then maybe there wouldn’t be any vio

[@dapperdavemcf]

Ooooh that's nice

[@kevlowdon8822]

The amounts are big haha there small if anything...just don't be late and follow the rules at work easy

[@jintsfan]

No wonder he failed as a manager, he was too busy making up a fines list and counting money !😂

[@davidmarchant9386]

Every club does this and have for decades

[@joeking7707]

Soldiers have entered chat.

[@michaelcarney6280]

What's wrong with the prices?

[@jefffelix9965]

You man can afford them times allow it I cry if i get a 50 fine 😅

[@EMPERORSPROTECTION-TERRA4LIFE]

100 quid is a lot to us but not when your on 100 grand a week. 😂

[@callumray7760]

Extortion is a bit far they thousands every week this won't hurt them

[@jakescriven9705]

Hilarious that this is being spoken about.. I know 6 years with more personal responsibility all things considered cus it’s not having to be written down for them lmfao that just reiterates that without exact direction over them they will take the absolute piss and be inconsiderate as fuck lol

[@bhavyamankad479]

This is why elite players become bad managers. Too strict for others.

[@jamieL61]

Nothing worse than lateness. A lack of respect for everyones time! Imagine moaning about paying a fine for not being able to get to your job on time, a very fcuking well paid job that you most likely enjoy, no less.

[@surferrosa7285]

If you make 100k a week, you're not all that worried about a couple of grand of a fine are you. Make it less and it literally means nothing to them

[@davidwalsh9571]

Stevie G sent off 7 times

[@graham13clark]

Extortionate? Bro doesn't know what players are earning!

[@sharokrokni5317]

Corporate, sports and corrupt, greedy owners and players

[@LeeHenderson-z4h]

Be great if money went to charity

[@Rivelino824]

Falling over and losing the league title priceless.

[@rob1984garside]

All club fines should have to go to grass roots clubs in need

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Well it worked... Of hang on

[@anthonyd975]

Extortionate in there era..pennies to players now..hopefully goes to charity

[@cjf96]

Im on minimum wage and get 15 mins taken off for been 2 minutes late, who actually gives a fuck about these multi multi millionaires getting fined 200 quid a minute for been late?

[@TheFourSatoshis]

Worst manager we’ve had at villa since RDM in the champ

[@darth6466]

Nah, Di Matteo was terrible but Remi Garde's tenure was pure trauma for my 13 year old brain.

[@Emerys3pointcollectors]

@@darth6466 I don't like seeing Micah Richards ON SKY gives me PTSD.

[@LFC_fan7]

I can’t help but think he was the first step of this Villa rebuild. I mean before him you had Dean Smith. Gerrard was influential in bringing in Coutinho, who at the time was an insane signing, for Villa. Obviously it didn’t go to plan but it was just positives from that point onwards.

[@bryanwarren7843]

No wonder he didn't last

[@MickeyBlue-eyes]

Extortionate? Much like your overpaid wages.

[@robsilvester3068]

Where does all that fine money go ?

[@tvgcmma9215]

Use to he for nights out for players/Xmas party think nowadays with most clubs goes to charity

[@jamiewalker8003]

How is this a lot of money to people who earn like 60k a week? It’s peanuts

[@jackknight4020]

And where does this money go towards? Christmas function? Damn that’s alot of booze 😂

[@sebastianwolosz8999]

How about win football matches

[@benitotommassi5820]

That's the equivalent of me turning up for match day in a skirt, cowboy boots and wearing a Birmingham home shirt, and getting fined £2.50

[@619ck154]

For everyone saying the amounts won’t hurt players. The average salary in the prem is now 60k a week. They lose half of that on tax.

[@DdotRay86]

Are you saying a few hundred quid in avoidable fines will hurt people earning £1.5m after tax?

[@619ck154]

@@DdotRay86 I’m saying that fines build up and if they ended up getting fine 3k a week. That’s 10% of their salary. We’d all notice losing 10%

[@themog4911]

So that means they'd only have £30, 000 to last them a week? How do they manage? ...