Contracts and Wages

[JJ-AV]

On the back of the Sidwell and Ireland talk, it got me thinking about some of the ridiculous wages our squad are earning.

If media reports are to be believed, the weekly earnings of some of our staff are as follows:

Luke Young -  £5.5m outlay. 40k a week until he's 32.
Habib Beye - £1.5m outlay. 40k a week until he's 35.
Stephen Warnock - £6.5m outlay. 40k a week until he's 31.
Richard Dunne - £5m outlay. 60k a week until he's 33.
Steve Sidwell - £5m outlay. £50k a week. Being sold next month for circa £1m.
Emile Heskey - £2.5m outlay. £60k a week until he's 34.

I wonder how much: Hutton, Assou-Ekotto, Kaboul, Bassong, Huddlestone, Pavlyuchenko are on per week.

O'Neill totally fucked us over, even considering the profit on Milner and potential profit on Ashley.

[villa1]

I still despair at Habib Beye on £40k a week.

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On the back of the Sidwell and Ireland talk, it got me thinking about some of the ridiculous wages our squad are earning.

If media reports are to be believed, the weekly earnings of some of our staff are as follows:

Luke Young -  £5.5m outlay. 40k a week until he's 32.
Habib Beye - £1.5m outlay. 40k a week until he's 35.
Stephen Warnock - £6.5m outlay. 40k a week until he's 31.
Richard Dunne - £5m outlay. 60k a week until he's 33.
Steve Sidwell - £5m outlay. £50k a week. Being sold next month for circa £1m.
Emile Heskey - £2.5m outlay. £60k a week until he's 34.

I wonder how much: Hutton, Assou-Ekotto, Kaboul, Bassong, Huddlestone, Pavlyuchenko are on per week.

O'Neill totally fucked us over, even considering the profit on Milner and potential profit on Ashley.

Scary isn't it. What was O'Neill thinking although the board should not have been so naive though also.

[Shrek]

Spurs have the right idea, a better and BIGGER squad with a smaller wage bill.

They signed Modric for 16mill and he was on 25k a week until he signed his new deal last season.

We signed Heskey at 30 and made him a top earner, he should have took a pay cutt to come to a bigger club. Our board need bollocking.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Agents certainly took the piss, they knew we had a rich owner and bumped the wage demands up accordingly.

No good just blaming MON, i'm afraid the board, who sanctioned it all, have to carry the can too.

[PaulTheVillan]

I'll look on Football Manager. They are usually quite accurate with contract information.

Alan Hutton £33k
Assou-Ekotto £44k
Bassong £40k
Huddlestone £20k
Pav £50k

[TheSandman]

Agents certainly took the piss, they knew we had a rich owner and bumped the wage demands up accordingly.

No good just blaming MON, i'm afraid the board, who sanctioned it all, have to carry the can too.

Agree. They all have to shoulder some of the blame. He was allowed far too much control.

[JJ-AV]

I'll look on Football Manager. They are usually quite accurate with contract information.

Alan Hutton £33k
Assou-Ekotto £44k
Bassong £40k
Huddlestone £20k
Pav £50k

Pretty damning when you look at it like that. Assou-Ekotto was on a much smaller wage until lately. Got a new deal when he became a Champions League footballer.

Van Der Vaart and Ireland both cost £8million.

I'd love to see the contracts they were given.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Agents certainly took the piss, they knew we had a rich owner and bumped the wage demands up accordingly.

No good just blaming MON, i'm afraid the board, who sanctioned it all, have to carry the can too.

Sure but on reflection I think it was his way to buy their loyalty.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

The board had been telling ONeill for ages to do something about players on big contracts who were barely figuring, he did nothing. 

[KevinGage]

He was the football expert.

And -in fairness- he was operating from a position of strength in 2008 and soon after,   when the worst of those deals got done. If he gave them the instruction to do whatever it takes to get those players on board it says more about his judgement than anything else.

This summer, when they did actually query his plans they get accused of Machiavellian plots to drive him out and all sorts of other bobbins.

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

[Linus]

I would imagine the Spurs players named are on contracts around the same value. Like it or not, 40k seems to be the going rate for an experienced Premiership player these days.

[JJ-AV]

I would imagine the Spurs players named are on contracts around the same value. Like it or not, 40k seems to be the going rate for an experienced Premiership player these days.

The thing is they're better and younger.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

No player is worth 40k a week, but Habib fucking Beye?

That is the reason why we pay a fortune to go and watch football.

[Shrek]

Huddlestone has signed a new deal so will be on more.

But the point is, spurs had a squad on a reasonable wage when they were in our position, now they are in CL they have increased the better players contracts.

We seem to be paying the type of wages expected if we were in the CL.

But Randy and co have probably learned alot since they arrived. One being this amount of money cannot be paid in wages and to not allow the manager so much freedom.