Spursex - 18/8/2017 13:05
Real Deal - 18/8/2017 12:59
So what would the average be on that? For each first 11 player? 80-100k a week mark?
With Bonus's, possibly more - but of course the bonus pool heavily depends on finishing position in the PL and progress in the CL and less so for domestic cups.
But you're almost certainly about right as of now.
It's worth understanding that their bonus payments for the CL for example could mean that if you look at the structure of the payments for progression through the stages and then add what would likely be our percentage of the marketing pool/TV rights - that if we made it through to the semi-final, we could as a club earn around £80-100 mill in additional revenues, of which most player contracts would be taking a round 20% net of that - so that's another 16-20 mill in payments to the CL squad, obviously with bigger bonus's attached to those who made the most appearances...
What Chelsea, Arsenal, ManC and Manure have done (and even Liverpool up until a couple of years back) would do is 'assume' CL qualification as part of the negotiated salary for players and that accounts for a significant difference in base line player contract payments.
Because of the contracts Liverpool had signed they had to keep those payments up, only recently has FSG changed the basis of how they pay closer to our model.
Just two years out of the CL for Chelsea, Manure and Arsenal would have a huge impact on their ability to pay enhanced contracts...