Let's talk about the wage bill

[Adam456]

I have said in a couple of other threads for a while that Levy should have given first XIV a guaranteed 30% rise for the remainder of their contracts if they were still at the club by Xmas in the first season in the new stadium. That would have been when our revenue streams could cope and the players would hardly argue with it. Anybody pleading poverty after that would look even more silly

As an aside, there is an article on sky sports about the number if players each club has with only 1 year left on their contracts. It is quite telling

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...-league-stars-are-out-of-contract-next-summer

The rest of the division have half a dozen each or more and we have one (Vorm). I think that says a lot about wages. We are happy to keep players on long contracts because their wages are both reasonable for us and will not put off buyers if need be.

Whereas nearly everywhere else clubs are twitchy about extending deals if they don't think a player is vital or what they want long term, in decline etc.

 

[gilzeantheking]

I put this in the Danny Rose Thread but it is probably more pertinent here

Nick Harris‏Verified account@sportingintel
Do Spurs pay badly? In a word: no.

 

[Good Doctor M]

I put this in the Danny Rose Thread but it is probably more pertinent here

Nick Harris‏Verified account@sportingintel
Do Spurs pay badly? In a word: no.

That's some serious perspective.

We pay better than both Milan clubs, Athletico Madrid and Dortmund.

Remember everyone complained that "foreigners" were ruining the English game. Turns out the English game is just plain ruining football.

 

[John48]

When it was quoted that Lingard got 100K per week from MU clubs like ours were always going to have a problem, because it says to players like Rose, if we're prepared to pay him that guess what we're prepared to pay you. Does our wage structure need sorting out? It does for me if we want to keep our best players & keep challenging for trophies. Not silly money, but closer to the norm of those clubs we're competing with for our better players.

 

[Gb160]

Not silly money, but closer to the norm of those clubs we're competing with for our better players.

That is silly money John...we're competing against some clubs with effectively limitless finances, even if we matched what they pay, they'd just offer more.
It's the unfortunate reality that we're up against.

 

[Tottenham_God]

I put this in the Danny Rose Thread but it is probably more pertinent here

Nick Harris‏Verified account@sportingintel
Do Spurs pay badly? In a word: no.

11 clubs in the world? I'm sure some Chinese or Qatar based sides would ..

 

[Lilbaz]

11 clubs in the world? I'm sure some Chinese or Qatar based sides would ..

Pay 1 or 2 players massive wages and the rest shit.

 

[knilly]

The narrative in the media is that Spurs refuse to pay the going rate for players, it used to be that we didn't have Champions League football. How dare we gatecrash the top 4 at the expense of established powerhouse or financially doped teams.

Reading this thread shows exactly what we are up against. We have committed to £950m of investment with the training ground and stadium. We pay the wages for where we are in the financial pecking order.

Our problem, if you could call it that, is our quality and wages are spread throughout the team, without the wide gulf between super stars and squad players at other teams.

Going forward we have more income so the wage pot will rise accordingly.