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Mo Salah 2025/26 Season

Bonus is based on performance though, as well as other aspects factored presumably like image rights etc (Beamy can confirm !). Not really fair to just include performance based bonus. You wouldn't do that if you were going for a new job would you?

We should get someone else in regardless, we should have got someone 2yrs ago as a deputy, and Salah must be onboard with it. I don't think we need to sell to do this though personally. If we can spend 130m on a croc then we had/have the money, Diomande seems a good shout as any post
Bonuses tend to take up 3 forms:
1. Squad bonus - a share of a squad-wide bonus based on team achievement (league finish, cup wins, CL qualification), split on number of performances. In football terms, it's a small number, but most of us would be more than happy.
2. Performance bonuses. These can take several forms - bonuses for appearances, clean sheets, goals / assists which are awarded match-to-match and paid monthly, or annual bonuses which may be based on hitting a cumulative target (such as 20 goals / assists - as decided by Opta). Usually players will get one or the other - match-to-match bonuses are more common for young / fringe players who may not get a lot of games whereas cumulative bonuses, which will be much bigger amounts, will apply to regular first-choice players to incentivise season-long performance. I'd expect Mo would be on a cumulative bonus, rather than match to match. Bonuses for CL qualification / competition wins can also be in individual contracts and are usually subject to minimum appearance levels (so the player has actually contributed to the success). We did have a scenario once where a player got £500k CL qualification bonus despite being out on loan all season and we learned a hard lesson that day on how to draft the clauses.
3. Loyalty bonuses - basically, when the club pays the player's agent fee (pretty standard to do that), he'll be taxed on it as a benefit and the loyalty bonus is designed to help him pay the tax when it arises. These bonuses are usually subject to him still being employed when they fall due, so they are often timed for after closure of the transfer window.
A separate matter is signing-on fees which are now rare as they need to be paid every year of the contract, including after the player has left the club. They're unconditional and expensive so rarely used.
For tax reasons, image rights payments need to be linked to commercial activities, not to football matters, so we always resisted any bonuses in those agreements, particularly if linked to playing achievements, as that would potentially make them salary payments, negating the tax advantages of the agreements for both the player and the club. It would be OK to have incremental payments for image rights if the duties went beyond the norm - that would be a personal appearance with no linkage to the club (i.e. not in red kit or similar) or if the player did something over and above what was in his normal agreement (e.g. 2-day trip to do an appearance overseas or something like that). Those payments would usually be subject to separate agreements.
 
Bonus is based on performance though, as well as other aspects factored presumably like image rights etc (Beamy can confirm !). Not really fair to just include performance based bonus. You wouldn't do that if you were going for a new job. Always assessed on base salary unless it's the Tax man.

We should get someone else in regardless, we should have got someone 2yrs ago as a deputy, and Salah must be onboard with it. I don't think we need to sell to do this though personally. If we can spend 130m on a croc then we had/have the money, Diomande seems a good shout as any post

We'll still be 500k a week better off next season regardless.

Diomande is the one.
 
And if your name was Mario, you'd be paid £1m quid a season so long as you didn't get sent off more than 3 times for violent conduct. NB this has been widely reported and I can confirm it IS true.
We actually wanted to make his bonus subject to good behaviour off the pitch but the authorities wouldn't have it.
 
We'll still be 500k a week better off next season regardless.

Diomande is the one.
It's like saying 500k but 100k worth of performance based goals and possibly assists. It's not the correct way and a pointless metric. We don't even know if the new lad who comes can hit the road running from the off so not even sure of the net impact. If you are so concerned about the 500k, there is other ways to cut costs without impacting performance. Anyway, the new signing comes in and is going to play for free then? Surely with performance based pay, it will be at least 150k as well as the transfer fee. I doubt there would be any net saving here. Better off selling Isak to save money and cut our loss if that is the pure focus.
 
It's like saying 500k but 100k worth of performance based goals and possibly assists. It's not the correct way and a pointless metric. We don't even know if the new lad who comes can hit the road running from the off so not even sure of the net impact. If you are so concerned about the 500k, there is other ways to cut costs without impacting performance. Anyway, the new signing comes in and is going to play for free then? Surely with performance based pay, it will be at least 150k as well as the transfer fee. I doubt there would be any net saving here. Better off selling Isak to save money and cut our loss if that is the pure focus.

I'm more concerned about improving the team and continuing the rebuild. Salah shouldnt be part of the 26/27 squad going forward.
Get the most money out of the Saudis, reinvest in someone who fits the RW spot and the wages saved will be a good thing as well.
Mostly because Salah doesn't justify his salary.

Selling Isak is a horrendous idea, and one which will never happen.
 
I thought Mo getting so much basic was tied to massively reduced bonuses meaning he had a more guaranteed income.
 
I'm more concerned about improving the team and continuing the rebuild. Salah shouldnt be part of the 26/27 squad going forward.
Get the most money out of the Saudis, reinvest in someone who fits the RW spot and the wages saved will be a good thing as well.
Mostly because Salah doesn't justify his salary.

Selling Isak is a horrendous idea, and one which will never happen.
I wasn't suggesting it but trying to say 500k a cost can be just re-assigned is false especially if you are including performance bonuses. You are being far too simplistic and impractical with the costs represented. Ultimately, the reason we didn't sign a RW isn't related to Salah's wages especially when we brought in 130m Isak with wages+bonus not accounted for. Ofcourse, we shouldn't sell Isak because we would make a massive loss right now
 
I wasn't suggesting it but trying to say 500k a cost can be just re-assigned is false especially if you are including performance bonuses. You are being far too simplistic and impractical with the costs represented. Ultimately, the reason we didn't sign a RW isn't related to Salah's wages especially when we brought in 130m Isak with wages+bonus not accounted for. Ofcourse, we shouldn't sell Isak because we would make a massive loss right now

I'm not sure you understand the argument. I'm not cost cutting. I'm saying Salah doesn't deserve 400-500k a week for his output and contribution. Moving on from him in the summer is the right thing to do. Allocating those resources is a natural consequence of a sale and addition of other, more suitable, and younger players.
 
I think when you take likely transfer fees into account (out and in) there won't be a huge difference in total cost of the replacement player versus Mo, and I suspect that's why we gave him the deal we did in the end. We thought he wouldn't drop off massively, and that's the bit we got wrong. The finances made sense.
 
I think when you take likely transfer fees into account (out and in) there won't be a huge difference in total cost of the replacement player versus Mo, and I suspect that's why we gave him the deal we did in the end. We thought he wouldn't drop off massively, and that's the bit we got wrong. The finances made sense.


The drop off in form is absolutely something that we didn't think would happen so quickly. I think the Saudi bids will be around 50-60 mill +, and Diomande will probably get around 70k per week if we sign him.
 
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