My only worry is, With a player such as Osvaldo coming in to the squad on what seems, such a bigger wage.., Could annoy our other players.
That's why I'm trying to work out if it's normal or not. I mean, we hear Carroll is on £80k a week for West Ham - if that's not after tax, then we're no different from all the other sides who get lambasted for overpaying.
Considering the Premier League has recently become even richer than it was before, I suppose that's actually not an absurd amount. We can definitely afford it, though I like the idea of everyone being on a similar wage. Equality is good for squad harmony, and it appeases my socialist side.
I honestly don't think our players are the type to get bent out of shape by something like that. Don't forget that a lot of our players are living the dream in terms of pay rises over the last couple of years.
That's true, and I agree that our squad harmony is very good atm. But if osvalda is disruptive.. god hope he isn't! then the wage could really piss the other players off who are trying so hard to achieve a lot here. But I will wait and see
I do not get why people get worried about how much players will be on? that's Nicola's job to deal with that. We should just trust him. He is a good businessman he knows what he is doing! Just enjoy the ride...
Meanwhile let's just trust that David Cameron's doing the right thing and not bother ourselves with it. He's the expert, after all.
That's a big jump in our maximum wage (£55k a week after tax is just over £100k a week before tax) but I never for a second thought we'd qualify for Europe and pay a £15m-plus transfer fee without having to pay higher wages as well so I'm not too bothered.
Has he made up his ****ing mind yet? This reminds me when I pestered Juicy Lucy at College to go out with me. Oh how she played hard to get, oh how she teased, oh how she sent her brothers round to warn me off, oh how she put a restraining order on me.
Well, as Le Tissier's Laces pointed out, it's more likely to be only 20% in tax because we'll have proper accountants, which makes it about 68k. But then I'm still not sure what the standard is, because nobody else seems to know either - is Andy Carroll's 80k a week reported fee before or after tax, etc.
I don't think "proper accountants" would be able to do much about this. Footballers are PAYE employees, there's not really much scope for abusing tax loopholes. Usually wages reported in this country are gross, i.e. before tax, and wages reported in Italy are net, i.e. after tax, so it's not really clear which convention is being used. His salary at Roma is reportedly €3.6m (gross) so the supposed £3m a year, gross, would be about the same and, if net, would practically double his salary at Roma. That would work out to £115k/week, and I'd be surprised if we were offering quite that much.
Yeah, you can probably dick around with tax on some things but not basic pay. Again though, given our stated ambitions paying that sort of wage isn't too surprising.
It's morally indefensible to pay any human being that amount per week, either before or after tax. Of course, this is football in the 21st Century and perhaps we should put our disgust to one side. But it isn't right.
How to spot the diff between Britain's Prime Minister and Southampton's Chairman; One is a slimy dipstick who is completely out of his depth. The other isn't.
