James McCarthy

Lupis · May 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM

Taz said: ↑

According to transfermarkt, he played 801 min in total across 27 appearances, 0 goals & 1 assist.

Obviously, it's an unfair statistic to just say any footballer is only worth what minutes they play though, otherwise all those hours spent in training and gym etc are not taken into consideration, such as attendance (incl lateness, and not just regarding games and training, but club functions and official public obligations etc), behavioural (not bringing the club into disrepute etc), media (photo shoots, interviews etc), dietary (what to eat and when etc) and any other misc requirements included in their contracts.

It's not McCarthy's fault the Club offered him the terms. The powers that be would have been aware of his previous injury issues etc (it's not like they were a secret) and these contributed to why he was a free agent at the time. No doubt JM would have preferred to have made more of an impression at Celtic in line with what he did down south in the EPL etc, but that's how the cookie crumbled. But so long as he met every requirement of those terms offered by the Club, he was entitled to whatever numeration the contract stipulated.
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Oh I don't blame him for the contract, it's absolutely on those that sanctioned it. I said back when we signed him I didn't think we would see much of him due to his injuries, if I could see that then you'd think they would be able to see the risk of a long term contract probably wasn't worth it. That being said less than 9 games worth of minutes over 4 years is worse than even I was expecting!

James McCarthy

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