United to introduce a wage structure capped at 200k per week

[Steve Bruce]

Surely we should take this with a pinch of salt?

New owners coming in a new strategy will be set and who knows what it'll be. We haven't got a buyer yet so any new strategy within the club is short term.

 

[Freak]

Good move. Have a consistent base salary within the team with bonuses rewarding on how you perform on the pitch is a good way to encourage players to perform better to make more money.

 

[AlPistacho]

Interesting. I like this within the current squad. But will this play impact on attracting players in the future? Perhaps losing out because another team pays more?

Varane and Casemiro are in that bracket. So if players want to come it won’t be an issue. Can always bump up the pay with £50k appearance fee, £50k clean sheet etc and other bonuses.

 

[AlPistacho]

Surely we should take this with a pinch of salt?

New owners coming in a new strategy will be set and who knows what it'll be. We haven't got a buyer yet so any new strategy within the club is short term.

The new owners will see how ETH has done and I doubt they’ll want to get rid of something he’s suggested.

 

[hobbers]

Lets hope we dont go and immediately rip it to shreds and offer Rashford £400k a week then.

 

[Cal?]

Terrible move, are they serious they won’t pay 500k/week if Mbappe is willing to come at that wage?

Just because things didn’t work out with a 36yo Ronaldo, doesn’t mean we should not try to sign a 25yo Ronaldo if such a player becomes available.

 

[Karel Podolsky]

Great idea, The Glazers would happily approve it.

 

[yumtum]

I am comparing myself to the proposed "cap". I am far from Ronaldo. It is depressing. He probably makes more per hour than I make per year.

Shows how far the game has gone when you compare a footballers wage with a "normie" - imagine earning minimum wage from 18-68(retirement) and you realise it would take Rashford less than a month to out earn that person's career earnings.

 

[Pronewbie]

We'll still be paying top dollar. I hope people don't think that this reported £200K will be max wage at United.

Indeed. We just won't be paying over the odds to turn a player's head. And there will be times we are outbid. Which is fine by me.

 

[Pexbo]

Great, that’s the Wout Weghorst deal off then.

 

[NICanRed]

Can we offer Mbappe (or whoever) a choice a) 500/wk flat or b) 200/wk + bonuses - like everybody else - with the possibility of going to go to 600 or over depending on your performance?

 

[TsuWave]

Indeed. We just won't be paying over the odds to turn a player's head. And there will be times we are outbid. Which is fine by me.

£200K is most likely just basic wage and we'll make up the difference through bonuses etc. United committing to a hard £200K cap would signal the end of it competing at the highest level, and most likely becoming/taking an Ajax "develop and sell" approach.

 

[Castia]

Doesn’t really work at big clubs.

The best players are always wanted by multiple teams they aren’t coming here for 200k when they can sign for Barce or Chelsea etc on 350k+.

Also if the club is willing to spend a big fee on a player they need to be paid accordingly, you can’t pay 100m+ for Bellingham then offer him a wage at 50% what others are offering it makes no sense.

Im all for bringing the overall bill down and players like De Gea on 300k is a joke but capping wages isn’t smart.

 

[Tarrou]

Not sure why everyone thinks this is a good idea

It’s a terrible idea obviously

Doubt it’s true to be honest

 

[devilish]

How on earth is this going to be implemented? We don't even know who our next owners are let alone if they agree with it.

 

[MC89]

That’ll be them have to find a 2nd job to support themselves, the poor souls, imagine your boss telling you if you if you want a new contract it’ll be no more than 200k a week, strike strike strike.

 

[LARulz]

Don't think it's great, I get it sounds nice and all but player wages are now mental and that's the market. If we want to be competing with Madrid, City etc. for players then that will have to be broken

 

[Sunny Jim]

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Good move on paper but my only worr is…
Will it not discourage Vincent Aboubakar from joining?

 

[dabronxolivera]

Sancho clearly needed the time off to process.

No wonder. I would need time off too if my employer cut almost half of my wage. Seriously though, we must stop giving this mega contracts except for a proven world class player (ex: mbappe, haaland). Our wage bill is absurd, player playing for multiple time PL winners (City) are paid less than us. I read somewhere that De Gea wage is higher than Alisson, Ederson and Lloris wage combined.

 

[AnotherLondonManc]

Jealousy?! I don't care what industry it is, if you're making just 75k per week (double the average ANNUAL salary), you have no one to be jealous of. Absolute madness, the money in football.

That said, introducing an arbitrary wage cap seems pointless to me. We would have never signed Varane or Casemiro with this policy in place. We'll never be so strapped for cash that we can't afford these big contracts. Just have to be more careful who we give them out to.

This story seems like BS to me

 

[NoPace]

Surprised nobody is worried this means PSG will be able to turn Rashford's head, though I sort of can't imagine him leaving when he's in a great spot here for the first time really with a good manager in Ten Hag who likes goalscoring wide players, and a local fella and his whole thing (both his actual humanity and his ugh "brand") are wrapped up in not being Ayn Rand.

 

[RedBanker]

So no Mbappe then.

 

[dinostar77]

Good move, we had a pay ceiling under fergie, and that didnt harm us.

 

[frostbite]

In other news, we are still interested in getting Frenkie de Jong. Will he be happy with 150k per week? Why not, I'd be very happy!

 

[Adisa]

£200k without bonuses and others attached is very fair.

 

[Jippy]

I'd be surprised if this is true, but someone needs to get a handle on our wage bill because it's a joke.
DDG is on crazy money and I'll never understand why we're paying Sancho £350k, if true, given no other serious bidders appeared to be in for him.

I've also never understood why we seemingly pay middling players £50k or more a week than they get elsewhere, contributing to them never having much sell on value.

 

[El Presidente]

Means feck all. These guys are already clearing up their offices. Whatever changes are introduced may likely be scrapped in a few months.

 

[Bebestation]

This is a way to tell martial, sancho, de gea , maguire & others to agree or to feel free finding new clubs

 

[dove]

It just makes no sense. The idea is to have more players paid at £200k and “to avoid a culture of dressing-room jealousy” at the same time. However if the dross like Maguire is being paid the same as Casemiro, good luck negotiating a contract extension for the latter. It’s not some office job where everyone is contributing close to each other in similar position. Crazy we even need this “rule”, how hard is it to just not offer mental salaries?

 

[duffer]

Is this source even reliable?

The Daily Mail? Of course not.

Sounds good though so people will ignore that.

 

[Yakuza_devils]

We should never have wage structure of max 200k. This will put us right in the level of Arsenal and Spurs. Barca, Real, BM, City, Chelsea, PSG, Newcastle will not bother with this silly structure if it's not implemented across the board in their league.

Our wage structure was not the problem, it was the incompetent board that keep giving mega wages to mediocre players. In addition, higher chances that Arnold and Murtough will be gone when the new owners come in. They were part of the incompetent board under Glazers. Stop with all these silly changes and let the new owners make the call.

And for those who said it's a great idea paying 200k and the rest must be performance related. The problem is other clubs are willing to pay 400k-500k and on top of this also with performance related bonuses.

 

[Escobar]

Pay structure will likely be heavily reliant on bonuses moving forward, which is fine

And how it should be. Humans need incentives

 

[Escobar]

Jealousy?! I don't care what industry it is, if you're making just 75k per week (double the average ANNUAL salary), you have no one to be jealous of. Absolute madness, the money in football.

That said, introducing an arbitrary wage cap seems pointless to me. We would have never signed Varane or Casemiro with this policy in place. We'll never be so strapped for cash that we can't afford these big contracts. Just have to be more careful who we give them out to.

This story seems like BS to me

Thats not how it works. Human nature is different and you get used to your environment and peer group. And to money

 

[Andersonson]

Does this mean Jones next contract will be 200k pw?

 

[RedRonaldo]

So we are not signing Mbappé this summer

 

[roonster09]

The Daily Mail? Of course not.

Sounds good though so people will ignore that.

It's either a journalist is reliable or not,. Not the paper/site.

 

[TsuWave]

And how it should be. Humans need incentives

This is one of them things that sounds cool, but monetary motivation loses a lot of its stimulus at the top. There are academic articles that say workplace culture often becomes more important than monetary incentives, which is one of the things cited for this change, and also leads me to believe said bonuses will likely be relatively easily achievable - otherwise United wouldn’t be able to retain/attract the talent necessary to compete.

I think shifting to a bonuses structure is not the revolutionary measure that a lot of people think it is. If I’m not mistaken Liverpool has this approach already - and City likely too.

 

[Escobar]

This is one of them things that sounds cool, but monetary motivation loses a lot of its stimulus at the top. Also, said bonuses will likely be relatively easily achievable - otherwise United wouldn’t be able to retain/attract the talent necessary to compete.

I think shifting to a bonuses structure is not the revolutionary measure that a lot of people think it is. If I’m not mistaken Liverpool has this approach already - and City likely too.

Actually it does, much more so than no variable components. That is as long as it is transparent.

 

[roonster09]

This is one of them things that sounds cool, but monetary motivation loses a lot of its stimulus at the top. Also, said bonuses will likely be relatively easily achievable - otherwise United wouldn’t be able to retain/attract the talent necessary to compete.

I think shifting to a bonuses structure is not the revolutionary measure that a lot of people think it is. If I’m not mistaken Liverpool has this approach already - and City likely too.

Bonus structure was in place from long time, even before all these papers started publishing about Liverpool and City.

I remember having discussion on pros and cons of goal or assist bonus 10 years ago

 

[awop]

Apart from DDG, you only have Varane, Casemiro, Sancho that are above that right ? Having arrived fairly recently and let's not kid ourselves, in part because of the money offered, there is no way they are getting affected by this.
For the future though, there is clearly going to be clever accounting which begs the question, why bother leaking this if it's true ? Should be done quietly behind the scenes and probably cap it at 250/275 if you still want the best players.