I've read that a number of our recent signings are on 3 year deals. As players are often moved on with a year remaining on their contracts will we get the best out of those we've signed? Just getting jittery as I'm not used to so much transfer activity.
well Brown and O`Shea are 4 year deals, not sure on the rest though. vaughen 3 years Westwood 3 years larsson 3 years Wickham 4 years but from what i notice there, the players we bought we have give a 4 year deal to, the players that were free a 3 year deal.
If any players should have been given 3 year deals, it was Brown and O'Shea by a country mile. They know they're getting on though, and they know that this is their last chance for a long-term contract at good pay, so they probably wouldn't have accepted anything less than 4. It's much in the same reason why Nolan moved for his bumper deal at huge wages.
I have touched on this in another thread, but lets take O`Shea as an example, btw i have no idea how much he is actually on, but this financial fair play rule is probably the reason, and you can pay them more per week on a 4 year deal, than a 3 year deal and loose less money (according to the fair play anyway) 6 million over 3 years = 2 million per year, lets say we give him 25,000 a week. with the fair play its 6 million over 4 years = 1.5 million per year but then you can give the player the extra 500,000 per year, so you can offer the player 35,000 per week yes over the 4 years the club itself will be paying more, but to Uefa who only takes the last 3 years into account, you are paying exactly the same either way. but you have more chance of getting the player with the higher wage.
