Chelsea's contract strategy

acolyte said:
The Athletic reporting he's on £97,000 a week, not sure about bonuses. https://theathletic.com/4093504/2023/01/18/inside-mudryk-deal-chelsea-arsenal/

I genuinely don't understand this from his side. If he lives up to the transfer fee (like he no doubt will back himself to) he's going to be making far less than players who aren't as good as him. He'd just end up disgruntled in 3-4 years looking for a renewal or transfer anyway.

The only way I can make sense of handing out such long contracts at low-ish wages is as a strategy by Chelsea to protect themselves from other clubs poaching their players, while the player himself gets verbal reassurances of a big pay rise in a few years if certain targets are met.
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Errrrm. It’s a guaranteed £42m for the player.

I don’t really think that Chelsea’s strategy is all that smart, but if I’m a player, give me a guarantee of £42m, I’m taking it. Life is long and careers don’t always pan out how we think.

I don’t see how it really stops him forcing a move either. If he wants to leave in 3 years and Chelsea don’t want him to, no way do they keep him and pay salaries for 5 years. Especially if they have five players ready to down tools to force a move.

Adopting the American system feels a little silly.
 
Giggsyking said:


How is this even feasible
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Not sure why there’s flames. Ludacris will be gone, Pulisic gone, Ziyech gone. Fofana will go on loan in the summer. Felix is on loan. Sterling and Havertz are shite and Broja is injured long term. The other 2 are complete unknowns to me but one for sure is not match fit.
 
Watching Potter in his pre-match presser is hilarious. Making out as if he doesn't want to discuss the attributes of his new player when in reality he probably hasn't got a fecking clue. It's pretty clear that the managers will have zero or minimal input into recruitment if players are being signed up for 7 or 8 years. Imagine things going pear-shaped in a couple of years and those players will still have 5 years left! That's mental.
 
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