Age of footballers: How old is too old?

[Balham]

Where's McCall?

Joined in 2002 so misses the 20 year cut off. Craig Short arguably shouldn't be in there for the same reason.

 

[Toronto Blade]

I was quite surprised to read in the Philip Billing post in the rumour section several comments stating that at aged 29 he is too old and not worth the potential fee we would be paying.

It depends on the players, but many more are becoming better conditioned and can have an impact into their mid thirties, and we have had a decent track record with older players including McGoldrick, Speed, McGrath to name a handful (whilst recognizing that some like Rush didn't work out).

We need experience in our squad so I can understand why we are looking at Ings and Redmond (though will leave the question whether they are the right answers for what we need for elsewhere).

Obviously we don't want to pay out £40k a week for a has-been crock and I get we need to think about resale of players, which has been our strategy for several years, but has this attitude gone too far?

It is not so much their age but when their legs go, it is time.

 

[derfblade.3]

Who was the Man U centre half with dodgy knees. He was knocking on a bit.

 

[derfblade.3]

Just remembered....Paul MaGrath