General Premier League Thread 2023-24 Mod Note in op 27/6/23 And 21/05/24

Billionaires doing billionaire things works in the general employment market because there are huge numbers of potential employees willing to put up with **** to get stuff on their cv or to earn relatively big bucks.

Not wanting to start WW3 but are Utd fans that deluded that they think talented in demand footballers will accept bonus related, earn if you play / win contracts just because they always wanted to play for Utd? Seriously? They will turn down a guaranteed income elsewhere in the hope that the Utd shitshow will be able to compete with City? Do you really think their Mr 20% will recommend that?

Brace yourselves lads for the “morale is shot”, “atmosphere of fear” headlines coming soon. Billionaires thinking they know how to run things is a disaster for a football club. Take a look at Chelsea and don’t quote me City. They appointed the right people (eventually!) and stood back.

Erm, yes. Because even implementing that and reducing wages would still see us paying WAY more than most clubs, more than any other not insane club.

United could substantially reduce wages, and the base pay would still be higher than other clubs.

Martial was on 250k a week. WHY? No one was EVER offering him a salary competing with that. not even close.

Brandon Williams was on 60k per week. as a just broke into the team, maybe, young rotational fullback, on his first contract. That would make him a top earner at half the pl and most of europe!

No one else was in for Antony. He was on 20k a week at Ajax, and we offer 200k? WHY? Bruno came in on 80k at first, why was that model not followed? A substantial wage increase for him, but not an elite level wage in general. Room for movement.

I do think we would need to offer over the top for 'elite' players, in lieu of bonus' but the probably at United is EVERYONE is paid more than they should be, and that is most damaging when it is squad players and not star players, as it becomes very difficult to move squad players on when they are on big wages.

Unless your argument is united need to accept they have to pay 30+% more than anyone else just to get any players to sign, which I don't agree with.

In fact, I would say the united wage structure as it is, is completely out of step with everyone else. Whether that is Liverpool or Spurs or Villa or Palace. United simply pay way too much, and we didn't use getting rid of DDG and Sanchez to reset it, we set the bar at 340k with Casemiro and Varane.

You don't.

But you do solve your issues quite a bit by not giving kids 60k contracts after 1 appearance. Or average squad players 150k a week. Or Phil Jo es a new 150k contract that he makes like 10 appearances in.

And then when you get rid of high earners not earning their contracts you look to reset the scales rather than replace with another older player on north of 300k.

I'd say he's more like Jennifer Zamperelli, nobody knows how they've survived this long and most are delighted to see them gone

With Kompany, it’s like clubs are trying to get the next Arteta. Arteta had no track record of success before he got the Arsenal job. So BM are thinking that Kompany can be another Pep disciple.

I reckon they also are quite happy(ish) for it to not work out as they probably have their eye on Pep, Klopp and Alonso for 'Bayern Munich Manager search 2025'. Much like their attempt to keep Tuchel was for the coming season, I reckon they only really plan on him being there for the year.

Kompany probably comfortable with that too cause the chance to raise his profile in the coming season is much greater at Bayern than Burnley.

yeah, absolutely agree with that. Clubs like Bayern operate like that. Wouldn’t surprise me if Kompany was doing reasonably well and they still sacked him because someone like Klopp, Alonso became available.

I thought Rashford was one of the highest paid players, second only to Casemiro.