Player Salaries

[Foxy-Lady]

11 hours ago, tomfmlcfc said:

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.

Seems about right based on what i know but worth highlighting these are probably just BASIC salaries....players earn significant add-ons on from win, appearance and league position bonuses so possible you could add a further 5-10% on to basic salaries for 1st team regulars.

 

The money they are paid is almost beyond comprehension to us mere mortals these days....considering most of us would probably pay for the privilege!!