Player Salaries

[ourla]

Anyone know if this is in vaguely accurate?

 

https://www.spotrac.com/epl/leicester-city/

 

Assuming it is, quite fascinating...

[BWRL]

Not a chance, Fofana wouldn't be on so little following his big transfer, nor Barnes after signing a 5 year deal a couple years back just to name a few!

[ourla]

2 minutes ago, BWRL said:

Not a chance, Fofana wouldn't be on so little following his big transfer, nor Barnes after signing a 5 year deal a couple years back just to name a few!

Is there a more accurate source do you know?

[pleatout]

Believe it or not, Football Manager is used by the media.  That's the basis of Vardy 150k per week & Schmeichel on £140k etc.

 

[Facecloth]

Also there is no way Maddison is a new born baby.

Edited 19 May 2021 by Facecloth

[Xen]

£33k/w for our club-record signing £40m Youri Tielemans?

 

Doubt it...

[Fox92]

I hope Maddison isn't our third highest paid player and, with that, 110k a week.

[tomfmlcfc]

As @pleatout rightly says, much of the figures used on sites like Spotrac are actually lifted straight from Football Manager among other sources - those figures are at best estimates, and at worst good guesses.

 

I've been setting our wage figures in FM for the last 3 years - there was no media source that claimed Schmeichel and Vardy were on 140k/week, that was a stab in the dark by me, and only me!

 

There are some that do have grounding in good sources - foreign press are much better at reporting wages - Wesley Fofana is in fact on around £55kpw because he admitted as such in his interview to L'Equipe just before signing, for example.

 

To be fair, though, our figures as a whole are fairly accurate - we were about £6k/week off from the total first team squad value published in the Global Sports Salaries Survey last year.

 

I can publish our current estimates for the entire first team squad here, if that would be of use to anyone - Spotrac's numbers there are mostly outdated now.

[ourla]

2 minutes ago, tomfmlcfc said:

I can publish our current estimates for the entire first team squad here, if that would be of use to anyone.

Well, I'd like to see it.

 

Maybe your list could include a measure of accuracy, maybe 1 to 5 as based on what you say some are total guesses, some are virtually fact. Just a thought.

 

I am interested in salaries on the basis of thinking about someone's relative contribution and/or what improvements we could make as a squad.

[Guest Col city fan]

I have tried to tell people on here that Under is commanding a ridiculous salary. 
The part I got wrong was I was told he was our highest earner.

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

Just now, Col city fan said:

I have tried to tell people on here that Under is commanding a ridiculous salary. 
The part I got wrong was I was told he was our highest earner.

80k a week or something.

[Tom12345]

9 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

I hope Maddison isn't our third highest paid player and, with that, 110k a week.

He is ...

[tomfmlcfc]

Just now, ourla said:

Well, I'd like to see it.

 

Maybe your list could include a measure of accuracy, maybe 1 to 5 as based on what you say some are total guesses, some are virtually fact. Just a thought.

 

I am interested in salaries on the basis of thinking about someone's relative contribution and/or what improvements we could make as a squad.

I'm always a bit wary - there is a lot of focus among supporters on a player's base wages, when in actual fact you see contracts have varying degrees of performance-based incentives - if you've got a player with a poor injury record you are far more likely to see a lower 'basic wage' and greater bonuses in terms of appearances or other things. Contract clauses don't even have to be that simple, there are dozens of crazy things written into player contracts that we'll never hear of. 

 

Here is what we have at the moment for the 25 first team players at the club, anyway:

£160kpw - Vardy
£130kpw - Schmeichel
£120kpw - Tielemans
£110kpw - Maddison
£100kpw - Evans
£90kpw - Iheanacho
£80kpw - Ndidi, Perez
£75kpw - Praet, Under
£70kpw - Ricardo, Albrighton, Castagne
£60kpw - Choudhury, Barnes
£55kpw - Amartey, Fofana
£50kpw - Mendy, Morgan
£45kpw - Fuchs, Soyuncu
£35kpw - Ward
£25kpw - Justin, Jakupovic, Thomas

 

Some of them will look off because they haven't signed contracts recently (Soyuncu and Justin the most obvious two examples), but again there are likely to be clauses to increase wages after certain numbers of appearances or even a year-on-year increase well above inflation. It is largely guesswork and that is why I choose to not place much focus on it - the main focus as a supporter for me should always be how long the player has left - a wage is now pretty irrelevant even in terms of commanding a transfer fee these days.

[bfox]

Perez 80k 

[filbertway]

Man...I hope Vardy's salary is reducing for the last 2 seasons

 

I don't want to live in a world where Amartey and Choudary earns more than James Justin and the same as Fofana.

 

Also Barnes and Choudary cannot be on the same salary

 

[tomfmlcfc]

1 minute ago, filbertway said:

Man...I hope Vardy's salary is reducing for the last 2 seasons

 

I don't want to live in a world where Amartey and Choudary earns more than James Justin and the same as Fofana.

 

Also Barnes and Choudary cannot be on the same salary

 

But it's never that simple that 'X player is better than Y player, so X player earns more'. You are offered a contract at a certain stage, whether you have just broken into the team or are nearing the end of your current deal. Amartey signed one at the same time as we gave some big renewals out to Ndidi, Schmeichel, Vardy, Chilwell, Maguire and Albrighton - that was at the time when Puel clearly rated him and expected him back in the first team. Fofana was 19 and had played 30 odd senior matches of football. It's never as clear cut as it seems.

[ourla]

Vardy has earnt that through loyalty, leadership, effort and performance. He can't go on forever.
Next 4 - no issues really
Nacho - we are seeing the best of him now and so no issue
Under is off I assume, Perez is certainly questionable
£70k and £60k's no issues
I presume the youngsters like Fofana, Cags, Justin and Thomas will be getting uplifts
Morgan and Fuchs are off I presume
Amartey questionable
 

As said there are other factors and seems nothing massively out of kilter anyway.

[MPH]

5 minutes ago, tomfmlcfc said:

But it's never that simple that 'X player is better than Y player, so X player earns more'. You are offered a contract at a certain stage, whether you have just broken into the team or are nearing the end of your current deal. Amartey signed one at the same time as we gave some big renewals out to Ndidi, Schmeichel, Vardy, Chilwell, Maguire and Albrighton - that was at the time when Puel clearly rated him and expected him back in the first team. Fofana was 19 and had played 30 odd senior matches of football. It's never as clear cut as it seems.

 

I’m expecting fofana to sign a new deal end of season

[Le Renard]

I still think it is crazy that any footballer should earn over 100k a week!  Fofana's & Barnes look quite low, but it could be that younger players have something similar to the old pros who are nearing the end, and have quite a bit extra added for appearances?

[SemperEadem]

I know they are all well paid but christ when you see it written down it does have a turn off effect. Uncomfortable amount of money.

[Dan]

52 minutes ago, tomfmlcfc said:

As @pleatout rightly says, much of the figures used on sites like Spotrac are actually lifted straight from Football Manager among other sources - those figures are at best estimates, and at worst good guesses.

 

I've been setting our wage figures in FM for the last 3 years - there was no media source that claimed Schmeichel and Vardy were on 140k/week, that was a stab in the dark by me, and only me!

 

There are some that do have grounding in good sources - foreign press are much better at reporting wages - Wesley Fofana is in fact on around £55kpw because he admitted as such in his interview to L'Equipe just before signing, for example.

 

To be fair, though, our figures as a whole are fairly accurate - we were about £6k/week off from the total first team squad value published in the Global Sports Salaries Survey last year.

 

I can publish our current estimates for the entire first team squad here, if that would be of use to anyone - Spotrac's numbers there are mostly outdated now.

Might be how much I play the game creating a bias towards it but most of the figures seem about right to me.

[filbertway]

36 minutes ago, tomfmlcfc said:

But it's never that simple that 'X player is better than Y player, so X player earns more'. You are offered a contract at a certain stage, whether you have just broken into the team or are nearing the end of your current deal. Amartey signed one at the same time as we gave some big renewals out to Ndidi, Schmeichel, Vardy, Chilwell, Maguire and Albrighton - that was at the time when Puel clearly rated him and expected him back in the first team. Fofana was 19 and had played 30 odd senior matches of football. It's never as clear cut as it seems.

I just can't believe anyone has looked at Choudhary and gone "you deserve 3 million pounds of year for the standard of player you are". There's better players in league one earning about a 20th of what he's on

 

It just shows how broken football is when wages are nuts for unproven players

[Rusko187]

1 hour ago, tomfmlcfc said:

As @pleatout rightly says, much of the figures used on sites like Spotrac are actually lifted straight from Football Manager among other sources - those figures are at best estimates, and at worst good guesses.

 

I've been setting our wage figures in FM for the last 3 years - there was no media source that claimed Schmeichel and Vardy were on 140k/week, that was a stab in the dark by me, and only me!

 

There are some that do have grounding in good sources - foreign press are much better at reporting wages - Wesley Fofana is in fact on around £55kpw because he admitted as such in his interview to L'Equipe just before signing, for example.

 

To be fair, though, our figures as a whole are fairly accurate - we were about £6k/week off from the total first team squad value published in the Global Sports Salaries Survey last year.

 

I can publish our current estimates for the entire first team squad here, if that would be of use to anyone - Spotrac's numbers there are mostly outdated now.

Do us a favour, set all Leicesters players wages at £1k

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

Youri massively underpaid if true 

[HybridFox]

Would love to be Jakupovic. Modern day Conrad Logan