REPUBLIC OF IRELAND international Harry Arter has finally left Nottingham Forest, three-and-a-half years after his last first-team appearance for the club.
Arter joined Forest from Bournemouth in the summer of 2020, signing a contract worth a reported £40,000 per week. He quickly fell out of favour at the club, however, and was told he could leave by the end of the 2020/21 season.
Although he had loan spells with Charlton for the first half of the 2021/22 and then Notts County for the final two months of the season, Arter did not leave Forest on a permanent basis, and was instead determined to see out his contract to the end of this season, reportedly rejecting Forest’s attempts to terminate his deal ahead of schedule.
Digging in, Arter remained at the club and on their payroll without being involved with the first team.
Forest have today confirmed Arter has left the club following the expiration of his contract, having last played for the club in an FA Cup tie on 9 January, 2021. He made 14 appearances in all, none of which came in the Premier League.
Wayne Hennessey, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Loïc Mbe Soh, Scott McKenna and Felipe have all left the club with Arter.
Arter has made 19 senior appearances for Ireland, the last of which came in a 4-0 friendly win over Qatar in October 2021.
Several Premier League clubs today submitted squad lists to the league confirming which players have been released at the end of their contracts.
Tottenham have allowed Ryan Sessegnon, Eric Dier, Japhet Tanganga and Ivan Perisic to leave the club following the expiration of their respective deals.
Manchester United hope to retain experienced duo Jonny Evans and Tom Heaton: both are in discussions regarding a new contract, while defender Brandon Williams is leaving, following Anthony Martial and Raphael Varane in exiting the club.
Liverpool have offered a new deal to veteran goalkeeper Adrian.
My god 40k per week for such an average run of the mill footballer. 40k per year would be too much.
@Ray Ridge: But is it his fault he was being paid that money? What would you have done?
Not that you are being paid 40000 per week so it’s a hypothetical question.
@Bert Carolan: Absolutely not his fault, it’s the whole system that’s corrupt. I don’t believe any footballer should get paid more than 10k per week, regardless of how good they are. Then we might see more loyalty to clubs and a fairer competition all round.
@Ray Ridge: Corrupt system?. Interesting.
If you don’t know about maximum wage you should look it up.
You’ll remember the bosman ruling.
These milestones led towards money going to players rather than owners/ clubs.
You mentioned loyalty to clubs, the clubs show zero loyalty to players when it suits.
10,000 per week ceiling. Nice Idea but a bit like wanting to go back to pre decimal currency. Not realistic. Mind you I would love to see a salary ceiling cap but to ensure that the money filters down to lower leagues.
That won’t happen.
@Ray Ridge: You’re living in cloud cuckoo land if you think there’s any chance of a cap on players wages. That is never going to happen. It’s a free market and clubs are fully entitled to offer whatever money they want to players. I agree some of the money in sport is obscene (LIV golf for example) but it’s hard to stop.
@Joseph Fitzgibbon: Absolutely, it’s too late now. Should never have been let get out of control too such extremes. As I said, it’s business now not sport, and big business at that.
@Ray Ridge: and what do big business men and women earn???
Big money good on them I say .
Short career earn as much as you can.
Fairly straightforward.
@colin coady: Ah stop, there’s a big difference between a businessman/ Woman who employs 100s or 1000s of employees and a lad kicking a football around for 250k per week ffs.
@Ray Ridge: Yes, potentially a huge difference.
The business person might have inherited the position , got it through kissing the right ass or just dumb luck. Check out our own banks in the past for example. Whereas the lad kicking the football can do what millions of others cannot.
If a maximum wage is ever imposed on the major European league clubs then Saudi Arabia is going to end up with the best league in the world with the best players rather that attracting those players on their career wind downs looking to top up their pensions.
God, I thought he’d retired years ago, I had forgotten totally about him! Getting my boots out of storage now, anyone got Forest’s phone number !!!
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: Get out your boots and get the number and if, if you’re good enough you’ll get the money. No question, no debate. IF you’re good enough you’ll get the money.
But you might not be good enough???
@Bert Carolan: You need a bit of luck too, like anything in life. . There plenty lads as good and better but they never get that break. There’s a good living to be made down in the divisions like 6 or 7k per week, but too late for me now unfortunately!!
@Ray Ridge: Ah more than the break or luck you need commitment and if you don’t have that you’re not as good as the guy that makes it. How many times has a top player been told that he’s not good enough? Refuses to accept that.
Luck with injuries for sure.
@Bert Carolan: Well obviously you need a bit of talent and commitment etc. But you need to be in the right place at the right time also.
@Bert Carolan: In my own mind I was!!!
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: I was more realistic maybe. Nobody ever paid me a penny to play football and for a very good reason.
But Christ I loved it.
Money for old rope. Wish i could get a gig like that.
Waster.
That’s ambition there.
Roy Keane loved him on Ireland duty :)
Did John o Shea just say Hungary are among the favourites for the Euros. I think they are 80/1.
@Michael Carroll: He got a bit carried away there alright. Mind you after Greece winning that time nothing would surprise me about the Euros.
I hear he has a wee window cleaning business on the side!.
Doin a winston bogarde on it.
Another spoofer full stop!