"Midfielder Luka Modric is reportedly ready to give up his dream of joining Chelsea or Manchester United, and sign a lucrative new £100,000-a-week contract with Tottenham." Okay, okay, okay! When I tell you that this is being reported in The Metro, then I'm probably going to be harassed by howls of derisive laughter, and I would fully understand the point being made. However, this would be a massive move forward for the club, not only as a signal of our intent that our days as a selling-club are well and truly over, and that we are going to keep all of our big stars, but also because it will significantly raise the ceiling on our wage cap. Do you guys feel this is a good thing? Are you content to sacrifice player stability for the club's financial stability? Or do you think this is a move that has to be made if we are to move forward?
If Levy gives it the go ahead, then I can only assume that we can afford it. Redknapp has repeatedly indicated that this is going to happen, so it's not all speculation, though the figures might be.
One club in North London seems to be moving forward with its transfer policy, and the other appears to be running backwards
IF there's any substance to this: Well, as PNP said, There's no way we can't afford it if Levy gives it the go-ahead. I'd just hope that, for a massive pay-rise like that, we'd also get something in the re-negotiation. Not sure what, though (longer deal means a longer commitment to a big wage - not necessarily a good idea).
If we are truly shot of Keane's, Bentley's and Jenas's wages, we can probably afford it comfortably. Another advantage of a smaller squad.
We can afford his and Adebayors full whack too, easily imo, Levy knows he has to pay it to keep these kind of players.
I dare say Bale, Defoe, Sandro, Parker, Lennon, Benny, Dawson and Kaboul are all sat outside Harry's office wanting to know where their pay rise is, as we speak? Although if Pav is there he'll be laughed at
We're certainly going to have to increase the wages of Bale, if we aim to keep him at the club. Any player who could be poached from us for twice what we pay them will have to be given a pay rise. To be fair, we don't have many players who fall into that category.
If it's true, then Spurs' wage bill is going to go through the roof, with other players likely to want an increase too. Otherwise they might agitate for a move too. Do you think Luka has really changed his mind about wanting to play Champions League football? I don't think this purely about wages.
Same in regular jobs i think. Stay and do a good job and get, say, 5%. Jump ship to a new job and get 10%, and typically spend ages getting up to speed. I've always thought that was crackers
Not with our current squad. As I said above, who (in reality) is going to offer the likes of, say, Dawson, twice what we pay him? Players will only demand silly money if they know they can get it elsewhere and be guaranteed playing time. We don't pay high wages, but we pay better than most EPL clubs, so it's only going to be a handful of clubs that have the ability to unsettle our players. And, sticking with Dawson as our example, all of the teams above us have options at least as good as Dawson in defence, so why would they want to pay him silly wages? See, it simply won't happen. Players, like Dawson, will know that the club has to pay big bucks to the likes of Bale and Luka, because otherwise they'd simply leave and play elsewhere. That's life. Most of us work in businesses where there are people earning more than us. What will be a problem, is that any players we bring in will immediately negotiate for the highest wage with every expectation that they'll get it. That will make it harder to negotiate personal terms. But, having said that, how likely are we to get the decent players, anyway, if we don't offer a competitive package?
Last time I checked he is already on a long term contract! I think our new stadium is key to us changing our wage structure If this is true then I am sure Levy has done all the necessary calculations - it is up to him to look after the financial state of the club. I think CL qualification this season will determine whether we keep players like Modric and not how much they are earning.
I think they will offer Luka a contract based on if we get into CL. A top four club should be able to afford these types of wages and i can see the likes of Bale,VDV and Defoe demanding the same. Alot of this will also be based on the new stadium with the extra revenue coming in we will be able to afford these types of wages. The future is bright for spurs fans i am for one looking forward to it hopefully might be able to get myself a season ticket!
LDL: No - Bale is on nowhere near £100k a week. None of our players are. He signed an extension last summer which roughly doubled his money to £45k a week according to the papers. Until recently our top earner was Keane on about £60k a week, so the theories go. Modric's new deal last summer was reported as being worth £60k a week when the papers wanted to show how much it was and only £45k a week when those same papers wanted to show how low it was this summer. You realise that Man Utd's wage bill is about double Spurs'? Not many teams in the entire world have £100k a week players. And on whether money will be enough for a footballer or whether what they really want is CL football: ummm, errrr...it's money. (I just do not believe for one moment that playing in the CL compares to the draw of tripling your wages).
Money and CL do go together however. With the latter, comes the former. Lot's of comments of the offer being made, are there any suggestions he will accept it. If he does, then I'll relax during the Jan window.
Yeah - maybe. But it's the former they're interested in. If they could get the money and have every mid-week off cos they play for a team not even in the Europa then I bet there's plenty of players that would bite your hand off. I'm just sure it's at least part of the marketing hype for the Chaaaampiooons League that clubs and players talk of what a draw it is for players to play in it. When, quite frankly, most of the games are not as hard as Stoke away or even most mid-table EPL teams. Don't often hear about players taking pay cuts to fulfill their ambitions of CL football, do you?
The main concern is that, should Luka get his wages raised to this level, can we then afford to do likewise for the inevitibility of VDV and Bale requesting similar pay increases?
