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View kevlee's Profile kevlee Flag born Wandsworth emigrated to Lanc... 03 Mar 19 10.58pm Send a Private Message to kevlee Add kevlee as a friend

I was looking at Michy's wages at Chelsea to see how that would fit into our budget if we made a move for him. He is on £90k a week, which is doable.
I then noticed that Luka is on a mere £55k a week and a free agent at the end of next season 19/20.
AWB is on £15k a week until 2022.
The Luka situation is quite worrying.A season goes pretty quick and as a free agent he would be able to command a huge wage package - at least double, probably more.
AWB is obviously a longer term contract, but the boy needs a rise and a new deal to tie him in for a good 5 years so we protect our investment.

 


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ChrisGC Flag Wantage 03 Mar 19 11.21pm

Originally posted by kevlee

I was looking at Michy's wages at Chelsea to see how that would fit into our budget if we made a move for him. He is on £90k a week, which is doable.
I then noticed that Luka is on a mere £55k a week and a free agent at the end of next season 19/20.
AWB is on £15k a week until 2022.
The Luka situation is quite worrying.A season goes pretty quick and as a free agent he would be able to command a huge wage package - at least double, probably more.
AWB is obviously a longer term contract, but the boy needs a rise and a new deal to tie him in for a good 5 years so we protect our investment.

I think both those wage packets are pretty fair. AWB is absolutely magic, but he is young and hasn't actually played that many games, nor is he an international yet.

Luka's on fair to good money, who would pay better? His contract is up when he's nearly 30 so we should see the best of him as things stand.

Other than the obvious CF we need to be looking at CB for natural decline/turn over. Sakho has had another knee injury, Dann had a serious lay off and is the wrong side of 30, Tommo is around that age too, maybe 29? Maybe bringing in a young CB from the lower leagues or youth team would be an idea for the summer, get a serious understudy in.

 

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View DutchEagleJohan's Profile DutchEagleJohan Flag Vlissingen, Netherlands 04 Mar 19 1.15am Send a Private Message to DutchEagleJohan Add DutchEagleJohan as a friend

Don't you think AWB now deserves to be on at least the same as Ward and Riedewald? I personally would say he should be on at least double that.
Or is it fair that he is on about 15percent of CB's wages?

Originally posted by ChrisGC

I think both those wage packets are pretty fair. AWB is absolutely magic, but he is young and hasn't actually played that many games, nor is he an international yet.

Luka's on fair to good money, who would pay better? His contract is up when he's nearly 30 so we should see the best of him as things stand.

Other than the obvious CF we need to be looking at CB for natural decline/turn over. Sakho has had another knee injury, Dann had a serious lay off and is the wrong side of 30, Tommo is around that age too, maybe 29? Maybe bringing in a young CB from the lower leagues or youth team would be an idea for the summer, get a serious understudy in.

 

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View The Dolphin's Profile The Dolphin Flag 04 Mar 19 6.27am Send a Private Message to The Dolphin Add The Dolphin as a friend

If is were the Chairman I would be resigning Luka right now on a lot more than that and AWB I would move to five times that wage.
We need these guys to stay!

 

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View Ginger Pubic Wig's Profile Ginger Pubic Wig Flag Wickham de L'Ouest 04 Mar 19 6.33am Send a Private Message to Ginger Pubic Wig Add Ginger Pubic Wig as a friend

Who knows these guys' contractual terms? Remember when we were worried about McArthur, only for it to transpire he'd signed a new contract that hasn't been reported?

 


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View crvenaeagle's Profile crvenaeagle Flag 04 Mar 19 6.45am Send a Private Message to crvenaeagle Add crvenaeagle as a friend

f***ing hell £15,000 every single week. Imagine that!

 

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ChrisGC Flag Wantage 04 Mar 19 6.59am

Originally posted by DutchEagleJohan

Don't you think AWB now deserves to be on at least the same as Ward and Riedewald? I personally would say he should be on at least double that.
Or is it fair that he is on about 15percent of CB's wages?

No, I don't. Nobody else's wage is relevant to what you earn in your life.

Undoubtedly at this moment in time he is our best player. He's 19 and played 30 odd professional games. We've got a fantastic apprentice at work, should I put him on the same wage as a made up colleague with 10 years experience?

This is how teams end up with large wage bills that can't be sustained.

It would be more logical to look at Reidelwild and CB and say: this kid is on a tenth of what you earn so we're knocking down your wages to reflect that.

 

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ChrisGC Flag Wantage 04 Mar 19 7.06am

Originally posted by The Dolphin

If is were the Chairman I would be resigning Luka right now on a lot more than that and AWB I would move to five times that wage.
We need these guys to stay!

Yes, we've been down this road before and have the highest wage to turnover ration in the league and just spent a transfer window jettisoning the dead wood as a result.
It's a panic move. You're suggesting increasing wages by millions based on a handful of games when we've not even improved on last year's league position yet!

 

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Originally posted by ChrisGC

Yes, we've been down this road before and have the highest wage to turnover ration in the league and just spent a transfer window jettisoning the dead wood as a result.
It's a panic move. You're suggesting increasing wages by millions based on a handful of games when we've not even improved on last year's league position yet!

Excellent post Chris

 


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View southnorwoodhill's Profile southnorwoodhill Flag 04 Mar 19 7.51am Send a Private Message to southnorwoodhill Add southnorwoodhill as a friend

Need to offload Benteke and Wickham first.

 

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View ARGILE OLD GEEZER's Profile ARGILE OLD GEEZER Flag PORTIMAO 04 Mar 19 8.09am Send a Private Message to ARGILE OLD GEEZER Add ARGILE OLD GEEZER as a friend

Originally posted by southnorwoodhill

Need to offload Benteke and Wickham first.


That's the key, don't know about Wickmam, but Benteke would free up a huge amount in wages .

 

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Originally posted by ChrisGC

Yes, we've been down this road before and have the highest wage to turnover ration in the league and just spent a transfer window jettisoning the dead wood as a result.
It's a panic move. You're suggesting increasing wages by millions based on a handful of games when we've not even improved on last year's league position yet!

If we have to treat current players as new signings and dive into that budget then so be it.

Wan-Bissaka will get absolute minimum of 60k as soon as Chelsea/United/Tottenham come sniffing and he would be first choice right back for all those teams. We should tie him down to a top player salary.

Luka should get a good rise, just to show we appreciate him. He will likely stay but we shouldn't be making him look a fool for trying hard whilst Benteke sits on the bench doing nothing for more money.

 

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