Should we pay our players more ?

A lot has been said in the past by Levy about having a wage cap which looks like it's 100k per week.
Do you think we should increase this now after qualifying for champs league again or wait till after the stadium is built ?
I get a lot of my mates saying I would love Kane , Alli etc at my club ...my typical response is "why would they leave to go to a shitter club" and their typical response is "money talks, we would pay them double " and go on to say how all footballers are greedy (like the average joe isnt)
Should we be paying our players more to stop them getting tempted by other clubs paying them more ?
I think we have a fantastic team assembled at the moment and to think that some could be tempted away coz we don't pay comparable wages as other clubs around us is worrying.
Some might say rightly we aren't as rich as the likes of city , Chelsea or united ...but hasn't the time come to ask our owners to look at their investment and think it's time they increased the wage cap for the benefit of the clubs future ?
Maybe an idea would be to have bonuses related to qualifying for the champs league so their weekly wage would be higher as long as we qualify for champs league ...
I tried to search if there was a topic like this but couldn't find it ... apologies if there is one already

I think we should pay our players what we can afford, which I'm sure the people who have access to all our finances are doing.

I think we should pay our players the least amount possible which makes them

1) Stay
2) Content

Which is what Levy is already doing.

only if we want to keep them

t79boy said:

Maybe an idea would be to have bonuses related to qualifying for the champs league so their weekly wage would be higher as long as we qualify for champs league ...

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Also I'd pretty much guarantee these are already included.

tiger666 said:

I think we should pay our players what we can afford, which I'm sure the people who have access to all our finances are doing.

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In all businesses there is margin ... do you honestly think we can't afford to pay more ?

crokey said:

I think we should pay our players the least amount possible which makes them

1) Stay
2) Content

Which is what Levy is already doing.

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crokey said:

I think we should pay our players the least amount possible which makes them

1) Stay
2) Content

Which is what Levy is already doing.

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True, until the best players we have bugger off to make more money. Berbatov, Modric, Bale etc.

Also, with our wage structure we can't attract the biggest names in football however well we play.

TorontoYid said:

True, until the best players we have bugger off to make more money. Berbatov, Modric, Bale etc.

Also, with our wage structure we can't attract the biggest names in football however well we play.

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We have just spent 30 million on one of the top talents at the last Euros.

t79boy said:

In all businesses there is margin ... do you honestly think we can't afford to pay more ?

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Yes, look at our annual revenues. We're closer to Watford than we are Liverpool. Simple maths tells you why are currently at our upper limits in wage expenditure - and that's before you factor in paying for the new stadium.

Kirito said:

We have just spent 30 million on one of the top talents at the last Euros.

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Shelling out a lump sum is different to weekly wages

We've already increased the wage bill twice this season with Kane and Lloris (both reportedly on £120k a week after bonuses), Toby will be next then Dele Alli...point is that if these guys weren't happy then they wouldn't be signing up in the first place.

If Levy gave them all a fiver a week pay rise I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

We should pay them more for......................................




















Winning something...









Anything, shiny and that looks like one of these:

I think they indirectly are being paid more now that they are a part of a CL team two seasons in a row (clauses, bonues, WTFs).
I also think that there has been a huge raise in pay lately for the squad through contract extensions for all senior players.

When was the last time a player left us for money?

I voted yes but in reality they are paid enough. What's really happening is players at other clubs being paid too much. But until we get a salary cap (which I think should but will never happen) things won't change but just go even further up.

Once in the new stadium, although not as important for paying salaries as the to deal, Levy will have one less excuse to give the players for not paying them more.

spursfan77 said:

I voted yes but in reality they are paid enough. What's really happening is players at other clubs being paid too much. But until we get a salary cap (which I think should but will never happen) things won't change but just go even further up.

Once in the new stadium, although not as important for paying salaries as the to deal, Levy will have one less excuse to give the players for not paying them more.

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Agree. A wage cap will never be installed because UEFA/SKY etc want to keep the status quo, heaven forbid that a club outside the cabal (Spurs?) should have the audacity to challenge the said status quo!!!!

t79boy said:

Maybe an idea would be to have bonuses related to qualifying for the champs league so their weekly wage would be higher as long as we qualify for champs league ...

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We apparently already do this. Our players are reportedly heavily bonused, for pretty much everything. We pay relatively low basic but with lots of performance-related stuff thrown in, as it should be. Still less than the big boys but still

I think the reality for us, in a business sense (and I do dislike how everything now has to be a conversation about money, but it sometimes does), is we are upping wages across the board incrementally, regularly, so it always feels like progress, staying just ahead of most of the clubs outside the moneyed 5, while tying the players in for longer to keep conserving sale price and team continuity.

That's the best we can really do. Throwing a load of money at one player is going to destabilise that. And also, even if we did throw a load of money, other teams can still easily beat us at that game.

Eg: Say Kane is on 120k. Even if we gave him 160k, or even 200k, Utd could still give him 300k if they wanted to (not saying he's going, just a random example). So giving him a massive pay rise may keep him happy temporarily, but would then aggravate lots of other players who want more money, and we could still lose him anyway if money is the only factor. And we can't afford to give everyone a huge pay rise, especially at a time of great change.

Players who we don't want to leave usually leave to go to bigger clubs and to win things – money is a byproduct of that, for sure, but it's rarely been the only motivating factor. In the last 10 years, we've sold 4 players that we didn't want to go: two players to Real, one to Utd and one to 'boyhood club' Liverpool. Yet despite paying much bigger wages, over the same period of time, Liverpool and Arsenal have sold more players that they didn't want to – Arsenal almost double ours.

Now, this is obviously because they've had a better team, and more in-demand players. You could argue our team this year is like the Arsenal one that was decimated by City and Barca before it won anything, and we need to make that not us.

But while people love focusing on the money, the things those players all have in common – bar Keane, not that we'd sell to Liverpool these days – is they left and won things.

It's going to be an exciting but tough few years for Spurs.

Wages is a race we can never win. If clubs raise their wages to compete then the billionaire clubs will just up theirs even further. Do we even want to try to compete with clubs that have bottomless pits of money?