United to introduce a wage structure capped at 200k per week
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It might sound good on paper but we already have a few above that threshold, even after the 25% drop in wages due to no Champions League football.
I don't think we actually need a hard and fast rule like that. If we get new owners and have more spending power, £200k a week isn't actually that much in the grand scheme. You just have to make sure you aren't handing out stupid contracts like we have with Alexis Sanchez, de Gea and Ronaldo in recent years. It shouldn't be that difficult.
I don't think we actually need a hard and fast rule like that. If we get new owners and have more spending power, £200k a week isn't actually that much in the grand scheme. You just have to make sure you aren't handing out stupid contracts like we have with Alexis Sanchez, de Gea and Ronaldo in recent years. It shouldn't be that difficult.
So what does this all matter if we are up for sale? You think this even comes into play once new owners are on board? This just seems like more tightening of the belt before a sale, rather than an actual attempt at smart business.
Nice idea but how is this going to work in practicality? Isn't Rashford already on more than this? So on the back of a very good season he'd have to accept a wage cut to stay?
Even if you shift to performance related pay not all factors will be equal across the squad. In other words it's just shifting the inequality. it's not happening.
Everyone talking about Mbappe, like ... come on. Even if he did become available we're hardly going to be first choice on his list 
Neville genuinely doesn't want the club to diverge from the path it's currently on.
Players will instead get a new condo or a yacht in Dubai.
Conflicted about this. If true, in theory I like it - great for harmony and other reasons people have stated already in here.
but.. it does rule us out from the best talent out there and what happens when our players are offered £350k elsewhere - would they really stay at £200k?
Good in theory but not sure how practical this is.
but.. it does rule us out from the best talent out there and what happens when our players are offered £350k elsewhere - would they really stay at £200k?
Good in theory but not sure how practical this is.
For reference City pay KdB 400k, Haaland 375k, Grealish 300k, Cancelo 250k.
Sterling 325k, Koulibaly 300k, Kante 295k, James 250k.
Salah 350k, VVD 220k, Thiago 200k, TAA 180k.
Rashford is on 200k and Shaw 180k.
Some of our older deals like De Gea and Sancho are too much but it is something we are getting a grip of.
I suspect where we have struggled is giving too much cumulatively to ‘lesser’ players. Our top end is less than our rivals but the middling area is messy.
There’s no chance we are top now though. Especially when you take 500k from Ronaldo off.
It seems stupid at first to introduce such a cap when most other top / rich clubs simply will not, so those might seem more lucrative.
However, I'm sure there's far more to it. Bonuses for playing well and significantly better media and sponsorship opportunities come to mind. Players can probably make more from those than their base salary these days...
However, I'm sure there's far more to it. Bonuses for playing well and significantly better media and sponsorship opportunities come to mind. Players can probably make more from those than their base salary these days...
Hmmm i'm not sure. The idea is right but it makes us less able to compete at a time when we really need to be able to.
If true, as it is told, I really like it. We need to stop this nonsens about giving people money they don’t deserve. I would even go down more. Great job by those in charge.
This is obviously bollocks
Shit source. And No way is Casemiro on 200k or lower
Shit source. And No way is Casemiro on 200k or lower
Those Gary Neville tweets on the matter are laughable. He can be a right numpty.
Probably 180k net.
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Exactly so Rashford in current form isn't going to sign for £200k a week again.
It seems pretty simple to me, just pay players what they could get elsewhere at the most. Too many of our squad players are on ridiculous contracts hence our issues with selling for reasonable fees.
This doesn’t mean much really because whoever takes over the club can choose to pay players whatever wages they like. Good idea in principle but the way the games headed £200k a week simply doesn’t cut it these days when I comes to acquiring the real world class talents out there, and unless we want to lose out on them all to rival clubs then exceptions have to be made.
Yeah he needs a new agent if he's on less than Varane or Sancho.
Our wage related issues have always been that we pay our players at the bottom of the heap too much and then cannot shift them because despite being the worst player at our club they would be the highest paid player at most other PL clubs and this is going to do nothing to fix that.
De Gea, Sancho, Varane & Casemiro are all on £300k+
https://www.spotrac.com/epl/manchester-united-fc/payroll/
https://www.capology.com/club/manchester-united/salaries/
Maguire referred to as a senior figure makes me sad. He’s now a bench warmer and 4th choice? Can’t wait to get rid.
Neville needs to calm down. This is only for the good of club and football in general
And he doesn’t exactly make himself a case when he talks about one average player and one talent. This is why such thing should be done. To stop giving money to players that don’t deserve that much.
Varane and Casemiro are heavily incentivised though. To get that pay we need to hit our objectives as a team.
I do kinda understand this. Imagine if it was your job and some old legend came into your company on more than double your pay and underperformed massively, you'd have the right to be frustrated at your management.
200K a week is a ton of money and with performance related bonuses could easily become 300K plus.
The only real worry is that this is a Glazer incentive as they can't find a buyer for the price they want so are already cutting costs.
200K a week is a ton of money and with performance related bonuses could easily become 300K plus.
The only real worry is that this is a Glazer incentive as they can't find a buyer for the price they want so are already cutting costs.
If they’re going to recruit better players and keep our wage bill manageable that’s great. Crack on and do it. I don’t see how announcing a self imposed wage cap is anything other than damaging to the club.
It will be heavily incentivised I imagine to bump it up
How so?
Agreed. Given that we already have several players earning more than this (De Gea, Varane, Casemiro, Sancho, Martial, Fernandes) and that our most in form player will be negotiating a new deal expecting a large increase from a level similar to this, it can't be anything but nonsense.
Ultimately our mess of a wage structure isn't due to paying Casemiro or Varane £300k a week, as proven world class players that could get this salary at a number of clubs.
It's paying players far in excess of what anyone else would pay. It's unneccesarily doubling Maguire's salary when we were the only team close to matching Leicester's valuation. It's doing the same with Sancho. It's quintupling Antony's salary under the same circumstances. It's tripling Martial's salary to that of a world class forward when he'd shown the inconsistency you'd expect of a 23 year old. It's the panicked De Gea contract paying him double that of a very good goalkeeper. It's paying Wan Bissaka, Lindelof, Jones, Fred, Henderson, Telles, Bailly etc £2m a year more than they'd get elsewhere.
Hopefully the message is that of better fiscal judgment in paying market rates rather than a strict cap on salaries. I think we'd all agree that missing out on Varane and Casemiro; or failing to renew Rashford's deal, due to a cap on salaries would do far more harm than good.
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So then there isn’t a 200k wage cap. So what’s the point of telling the press there’ll be one?
Yeah it has already moved that way.
This is probably a better way to go - not necessarily have a cap, but incentivised contracts depending on performance.
Like, who is this announcement aimed at? Who will be impressed? The players definitely won’t be. Nor will any player considering signing for us. Just a very odd decision to make this public. Maybe they’re trying to fool potential buyers into thinking that running the club isn’t as expensive as it really is?
It’s how they have interpreted it I imagine . It’s old news really. It was widely reported that players lost up to 25% for failing to get CL football last season.
United have been moving towards lower base rates and higher incentives since the changes behind the scenes.
It’s not really a big deal and didn’t stop the likes of Casemiro and Martinez coming in the summer
The alleged salary we’re paying our most recent signings wouldn’t support that idea.
That would be because there was no talk of a wage cap in the summer. This is the first time anyone heard of it. Plus I seriously doubt we’re paying Casemiro less than 200k/week.