You sure? I've seen numerous sources citing his salary as €60k which, given the ****e exchange rate, is now close to £55k.
FM has it down as £28k, and they tend to be pretty accurate, and Bavarian Football Works is claiming similar. The real question, though, is how Kimmich is on €10k a week. That's less than Bayern's second-choice keeper, FFS!
Bayern have always managed to maitain a relatively low wage bill considering the size of the club and their expectations. Even their top earners (Lewandowski, Lahm, Ribery and Robben) are only on €160k, which is much less than equivalent top earners in the PL and Spain. The fact that Marko Arnautovic now earns the same as Xabi Alonso is laughable on so many levels, and highlights just how insane the PL has become. Word at the time was that this was one of the main reasons KH Rummikub had enough of 'miracle worker' Pep Guardiola, as the latter managed to increase the annual wage bill from €150m to €180m in the space of a single summer, without then winning any additional trophies to justify that increase. With Robben and Ribery both out of contract at the end of the season and cuts being made elsewhere, I find it bizarre that our wage bill next season will probably be closer to Bayern Munich's than it will be to Liverpool's. It's a mad old world, the PL.
Or Bayern are being completely dishonest about their wage bill, just as Barca and Real have been. If it doesn't appear to make sense, then there's a good chance that it actually doesn't make any.
The Bundesliga, with its greater supporter ownership and lower priced seats etc, I doubt could tolerate or hide the state-sponsored nastiness that Barca and Madrid can do.
Having just looked it up, I've realised that it's not actually that low. Slightly lower than Arsenal's. They're getting away with it because of their success, in my opinion, but they also pay their squad players reasonably. Some clubs vastly overpay average players and they don't appear to do that. Some of their big names could earn more elsewhere. Lewandowski was in a very powerful position to negotiate, so I'm not sure why he's not on more. Still a lot of money, of course, but he could've milked it massively. Maybe he wanted to stay in Germany?
There is definitely a degree of murkiness to the whole thing as some sources have them as lower than Liverpool while others have them shelling out more than Arsenal with an apparent margin of error of over £60m per year, which is ridiculously opaque. Either way, the ROI they get from their wage bill is phenomenal and serves to highlight how badly United, Arsenal and Liverpool have underperformed in recent years. What Bayern have managed to a greater extent than any of the big guns in England, Spain or Italy is that they've essentially turned the entire Bundesliga into their personal academy. I hadn't realised the extent of the problem until we had that Leverkusen supporting bellend camped on here for a while last season. The way he was going on about Julian Brandt being a 'future Bayern star' made me realise that as much as the average German fan hates Bayern for their monopoly of success and resources, the league has been out-maneuvered in such a way that seeing your player hoovered up by the big red machine is taken as a source of pride. Like a Sunday league coach who sees one of his boys scouted by a major side. They all seem completely star-struck by the honour, as if having a player deemed good enough by Bayern is a sign that you've 'made it'. This complacency has allowed Bayern to cultivate an aura of 'it's a privilege to play for us. We're doing you the favour so don't be daft and ask for silly wages'.
The way that they acquire these players is also extremely dubious. Players run down their contracts with the express intention of being picked up by Bayern and the clubs don't react to it. Leon Goretzka's supposed to be next on the list, though he's aggressively denied it in the last couple of days. Nobody in Germany can compete with them, either financially or on the pitch, so they're in a very privileged position. They still had the gall to warn clubs from other countries about tapping up Lewandowski, despite blatantly doing it themselves. It's only alright if it's them doing it, apparently.
Lewandowski was the most obvious example of this peculiar masochism that blights the Bundesliga. One of the world's hottest strikers moving on a Bosman was absurd. Even more obscene was the farewell bash Dortmund arranged for him after his final game! Flowers, framed pictures, tributes, speeches! The whole thing was a study in self-harm. The equivalent would be us throwing a party for Berbatov ahead of his move to United. Your star player is moving on a free to your closest rival, and you all stand there clapping?! Madness! Kimmich, Ulreich, Madzukic and Dante were all players brought in from rival clubs for peanuts. Your second paragraph is why I'm thoroughly enjoying the uproar in the Camp Nou over the Neymar to PSG rumours. Oh how wonderful it is to watch them panicking now that the boot is on the other foot for a change. I'm half surprised the Spanish government hasn't declared war on France on their behalf.
Them moaning about PSG spending too much on Neymar is hilarious. How much did you spend again, Barca? £49m, was it? Oh wait, it was £100m and you hid it, wasn't it? Cheated some investors out of a bunch of cash, then got involved in tax evasion, too. Classy! Speaking of tax evasion, I wonder how Ronaldo's getting on? Really badly? Oh, that's a shame...
FRENCH WINGER WATCH Caen right winger (and occasional striker) Yann Karamoh has been linked ...which reminds me, what happened with Nice winger Vincent Marcel? He was supposed to be our first summer signing two months ago!! A decade or so ago a similar attitude existed in the Premier League, with the media acting as if clubs should be honoured to have the likes of Saha or Carrick tapped-up (or, in the case of Berbatov, kidnapped) while their fans had an obnoxious sense of entitlement about other clubs' players best exemplified by their hounding Alan Shearer for a decade after he turned them down in favour of Newcastle.
I don't think the media worship of certain clubs has ended at all. I don't know if it's improved over those 10 years though. We still have the pundits falling over themselves to congratulate the richest clubs in buying the best players, and giving no credit to us for being competitive on a fraction of the budget - in fact viewing us as some kind of upstarts getting in the way of the crowning of those clubs obviously entitled to win the league. And it's this sense of entitlement that really gets to me, regardless of how those clubs perform, there is nowhere near enough criticism for the constant failures of the "best mangers in the world" to get the best out of the most expensive players in the world. Because compared to their salaries and player spending, their performances have been disastrous.
Confirmed : the true identity of Powerspurs https://talksport.com/football/its-...ms-first-xi-damien-comolli-defends-spurs-lack
BULLSHIT STORY of the DAY The Mail are linking us with Leverkusen fullback Benjamin Henrichs. Henrichs signed a five-year contract extension in May. No f'n chance. If anything it's been diluted. Fifteen years ago the media's outlook could best be described as "Man Utd über alles" but that's changed with Chelsea and Man City gatecrashing the party, even though that fluctuates based on their respective managers, as there's been a noticible surge in love-in since Guardiola arrived at City to demonstrate his money spending skills, just as there was a surge during Moronho's stints at Chelsea. The real difference, though, is the media admitting football exists outside this country. Twenty years ago they tried to pretend Serie A wasn't the top league in Europe and, frankly, looked silly when publishing their annual Batistuta to Man Utd stories - these days they admit that Barca and Los Ladrones exist, again diluting the Man Utd-centric worship, and also recognise PSG has money...because our media have yet to understand that having a ****load of money, is not a good reason to automatically respect somebody, as ably demonstrated by Paris Hilton and her ilk.
I have actually enjoyed the hack angst since 2010. Especially among the Mousers. When Spurs usurped the Poool in 2010, they were certain the Sky 4 script would not have to be rewritten. Even after Citeh won the lottery they were initially reluctant to admit things had changed. Even now, with the post SAF rebuild of Man Utd, and Spurs showing some serious PL consistency, they are struggling to rewrite the script.
Kelechi Iheanacho is due for his Leicester medical today ahead of a £25m move. So I guess thats another rumour we can put to bed, too.
£25m for a bloke that's third choice and only played about 500 minutes of footy last season. Kid's talented don't get me wrong but that's just ****ing mental money.
I wouldn't think that it's a bad deal, but apparently City have a buy-back option. That's just stupid. If it doesn't work out, then you've paid a fair amount for a player that you'll take a hit on. If it does work out, then City take him back and either use him or sell him on. No win.
I think it's just us Spurs fans that think that nowadays, due to our financial constraints. But in fairness, £25m is completely normal now.
