United Wage Structure - the actual cultural reset

[Lentwood]

It isn't as pronounced as this in real life workplaces, but new starters often earn more than longer term servers, as companies simply have to pay market rates to attract new staff. And they're not dumb, they're not going to suddenly up everyone else's money because of it.

As you say it's not as pronounced, it might be 20% more, for example. Plus, normal folks don't have agents who's job is literally to get them the best package possible....

 

[Gordon S]

I can understand that the wages got high for Casemiro, he was a big name and an experienced top tier player.
Sancho as well, he was very highly rated at Dortmund.
Rashford has been the posterboy for United for some time now and also shown that his highest level is up there with the very best, i can sort of understand why he is on big wages.

But what in the name of Satan has Mason Mount done to warrant 250k?
Are we laundering money through Mason somehow or were our former top dogs just THAT clueless?

 

[OverratedOpinion]

But what in the name of Satan has Mason Mount done to warrant 250k?

I imagine his are quite heavily performance/objective based. No player at the club will be on 250k per week flat.

I'd imagine Casemiro is the highest flat wage at Utd based on what you already described.

 

[Isotope]

Heaton at 45k/wk is stealing a living. He's averaging 1 game per season. Or getting paid 2 million per game.

 

[Paul778]

I can understand that the wages got high for Casemiro, he was a big name and an experienced top tier player.
Sancho as well, he was very highly rated at Dortmund.
Rashford has been the posterboy for United for some time now and also shown that his highest level is up there with the very best, i can sort of understand why he is on big wages.

But what in the name of Satan has Mason Mount done to warrant 250k?
Are we laundering money through Mason somehow or were our former top dogs just THAT clueless?

This x 100. It's not cluelessness - it's inertia.

We keep complaining about our wage bill and each year we say we are learning but then do exactly the same again and again.

It's very difficult to fix this since it's very hard to adopt a sensible wage structure and reset this. Any players agent will be like "I understand this is a new project/cultural reset but you're telling me that Mount/Rashford/Sancho deserve twice what you're offering us?"

 

[Sandikan]

I can understand that the wages got high for Casemiro, he was a big name and an experienced top tier player.
Sancho as well, he was very highly rated at Dortmund.
Rashford has been the posterboy for United for some time now and also shown that his highest level is up there with the very best, i can sort of understand why he is on big wages.

But what in the name of Satan has Mason Mount done to warrant 250k?
Are we laundering money through Mason somehow or were our former top dogs just THAT clueless?

You could understand it if the fee had been a bargain or he was out of contract.
But 50m and 250k takes some beating against even our last decade of madness.

 

[Sandikan]

Heaton at 45k/wk is stealing a living. He's averaging 1 game per season. Or getting paid 2 million per game.

For some reason big clubs have an obsession with having a properly experienced 3rd choice keeper.
No real idea why we don't just reserve the 3rd choice keeper role for some promising kid on 10-20k a week max.

Last year United messed my other club Wycombe around over Nathan Bishop. Had agreed the loan but insanely insisted on keeping him around instead even though he had zero chance of getting near even the bench.
We've got him on loan this season though!

 

[wolvored]

Sancho wasn't just some random kid, though.

He was widely regarded as one of the best U21 players and best talents in the world. His United tenure has obviously been a massive failure so far, but the general consensus was wildly different at the time of his signing. It could be argued at the time that we got him for cheap at 73 million, as he was considered a 100 million talent. I think every other interested team was going to pay the 250k/week for him as well.

Who else was interested?

 

[Rojofiam]

Who else was interested?

I'm not sure I can remember accurately, and I'm too lazy to go back 3-5 years and look it up, but I'm pretty sure many teams were monitoring him at the very least, even if the interest wasn't that advanced, especially as we were getting closer to signing him...however I think Madrid, Chelsea and Liverpool were all looking at him.

 

[Isotope]

For some reason big clubs have an obsession with having a properly experienced 3rd choice keeper.
No real idea why we don't just reserve the 3rd choice keeper role for some promising kid on 10-20k a week max.

Last year United messed my other club Wycombe around over Nathan Bishop. Had agreed the loan but insanely insisted on keeping him around instead even though he had zero chance of getting near even the bench.
We've got him on loan this season though!

True. It's not like that promising kid can't play at reserve or other levels. Get one kid for half season as 3rd choice, then loan him on the later half season. Then have another kid for that later half season as 3rd choice.

 

[Anthony133]

The money saved by united laying off office staff in the past couple of months pays mason mounts wages for 8 months.
Great fiscal strategy.