Knibbsworth":3f1sp8yo said:ealinggreen":3f1sp8yo said:Trouble is players like him at Huddersfield are on 15 to 20 grand per week. I cannot imagine a 34yr old like him coming to Plymouth for 3 grand.
The thing is players aren't worth £60k, £40k, £20k a week all of their careers. With the modern emphasis on youth, players in their 30s seem to be less desirable than they used to be. Argyle's strikers are 21 - 23 - with the potential for a big money move if they perform well. The journeyman striker aged 32 having scored 200+ football league goals is not as sought after as in times gone by.
The fact Huddersfield are releasing a player, when they are barely above the relegation zone themselves, suggests that such players are overpaid and possibly not even Championship quality.
If no-one else in the Championship is in the mood to offer a player £20,000 a week then he needs to find an employer that will pay him the most he can get.
He may get £5k - £15k in League One, but if not then he is falling into Argyle's radar. No doubt a few years ago whilst at Charlton, Ben Reeves earned a fair bit more than he does now - and he has just been released for the second time in 12 months by struggling League One clubs.
You had Wes Hoolahan at Cambridge, relatively shortly after playing Premier League football with Norwich.
Such career depreciations do happen.
Charlie Daniels at Portsmouth, Cameron Jerome and Andrew Surman at MK Dons are also good examples. Only difference is Pritchard is only 28, the others are well into their 30's.
Huddersfield paid £11m for Pritchard and are releasing him for free. Shows what happens when Championship teams get to the PL/get relegated from the PL and have money to spend that they aren't used to spending.