Samba on £100K a week

Bloody hell. Redknapp ruining another club?

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-hughes-considered-too-expensive-8474251.html

Queens Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp is shattering his club’s wage structure in a desperate quest for Premier League survival, pressing ahead for central defender Chris Samba six months after his predecessor Mark Hughes decided that the size of investment was far too high.

Samba’s release clause at Anzhi Makhachkala is £12.5m and with the Russian club also paying the player a huge six-figure weekly salary, after bonuses, Rangers were also being asked to pay out around £65-70,000-a-week, this summer, to bring the player to Loftus Road. Hughes desperately needed central defensive reinforcements at the time but he rejected the cost of Samba as bad and unsustainable piece of business for a 28-year-old with minimal resale value - and one that did not fit into the club’s wage structure. Yet Redknapp is ready to spend, with the wage cost of bringing Samba back to Britain from Russia now understood to have increased to a figure closer to £100,000-a-week.

Redknapp has also pursued Fulham’s Brede Hangeland – another player whose wage demands were deemed too high this summer by Hughes, who went into the season with Anton Ferdinand and Ryan Nelsen after considering the wages demands of Stoke City ’s Ryan Shawcross and Tottenham Hotspur’s Michael Dawson unrealistic for Rangers. Rangers are likely to have a sell clause for Samba if they are relegated, but finding a new club for a player who cost 312m and is earning £100,000 a week would be challenging in the extreme.

Hughes has been characterised as a profligate manager by his successor. But after signing 26-year-old Loic Remy from Marseilles on a deal of £80,000-a-week for a club record fee of £8m, Redknapp clearly feels that he needs to spend more. He has sent Ferdinand on loan to Bursaspor and Nelson will become head coach of Toronto FC. That has left the manager also pursuing the £7.5m-rated Porto central defender, Rolando, though sources in Portugal suggest the 27-year-old prefers a six-month loan move to Napoli.

Redknapp said last month that “a lot of agents” had made “an awful lot of money” out of Rangers under Hughes. “I’ve got to be honest with you. I don’t want to see the owners have their pants taken down like they have in the past,” he said.

Samba left Anzhi's winter training camp in Marbella on Tuesday and the club's manager, Guus Hiddink, yesterday confirmed his departure for London . "It's not a very good situation," Hiddink told the Russian Sport Express newspaper. "Unfortunately we didn't even have a chance to say goodbye to him. Everything has developed very quickly." The Congolese defender cost Anzhi £12.3m when he moved from Blackburn in February 2012.

Hughes’ outlay on wages for free transfer goalkeepers Rob Green and Julio Cesar this summer was the equivalent to the combined £80,000-a-week and £4.5/5m the club was being quoted for West Bromwich Albion’s Ben Foster and Julio Cesar at the time.

Ricardo Carvalho would have moved from Real Madrid on a free transfer if Rangers had been willing taken over his salary of £130,000 a week. Hughes was sacked in November after Rangers had failed to manage one win.

 

Heard on 5 live earlier, the cost of just Samba and Remy is 62 million. Nevermind the other silly contracts they have (Barton still on 65k isn't he and a few others?)

I hope they come down, so they can be an example for other ****ish owners who know nothing about football and inflate the prices for everyone else.

Bye bye QPR

 

Just insane money for sure.

 

Out of interest what do the best sportsmen/ women in the US get?

And how does this compare to the more mediocre sportsmen in say American Football/ Basketball/ Baseball/ Ice Hockey?

Can't believe a bloke playing for a team a the bottom of the league is getting that much.

 

I hope they go down, and I hope they die.

I hope Villa go down too, and Southampton.

I would like to see Newcastle sink too, but obviously that would require 4 to drop. What a shame the relegation zone is only 3, so many clubs that I want to suffer.

 

And he slagged off Hughes cos Bosingwa, on 65k, was on more than any Spurs player. Redknapp is a grade A twat.

Although id feel for the fans I almost want them to go down just to see how ****ed they get. Why do football owners still never learn even after Pompey?

 

I believe NFL players actually get paid more than footballers, crazy I know.

In fact I read a thing awhile ago, I think the highest paid sportsmen are f1 drivers top, golfers 2nd, NFL 3rd.

 

Blimey - 'Arry doesn't half know how to spend someone elses money - Fernandes has been well and truly shafted by the Redknapp spiel..just hope the club has some sort of relegation clause in these mega deals otherwise they will be down the same toilet as Pompey...

 

Talking of F1, i saw Tamara Eccleston, daughter of Bernie, was out and about in London the other week and blew £30K on a night out.

Imagine having £30K as a disposable cash.

 

I'm glad I didn't imagine hearing this earlier, or am I glad, to be imaging things or football being ****ed, tuff choice

 

NFL players on average make less than most of our other sports in the US.

Average salary

1. NBA - $5.15 million
2. MLB - $3.31 million
3. NHL - $2.4 million
4. NFL - $1.9 million

Of course if you are looking at the top paid players in each league it changes.

Below is a list of the worlds top paid athletes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes'_list_of_world's_highest-paid_athletes

Lebron is the top paid regular sports athlete in the us when you count endorsements. Regular pay it is an NFL player, Haloti Ngata made 37.1 million in just salary pay. He is also the highest paid athlete in the world when you only count his salary if you exclude boxers.

 

Im just imagining blowing my wad on her....

 

Saw this in the paper, apparently she was trying to upstage some tyo guy or something, proper twatish behaviour

 

I'm sorry but there's no way Rossi earned more than Schumacher.

 

He didnt. You need to look at how it is broken up by salary which includes winnings and the separate column for endorsements. It also says they both made 30 million total.

 

From a week or so ago that I posted.

http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/191296-OT-15-worst-contracts?highlight=Worst contracts

 

footballers are poorly paid in comparison

Would be interesting to compare vs music / tv / film industry too

 

Our 'Arry's a smooth operator.
He probably struck a deal with the Taxman...let me off lightly, and when I get my next job I'll recruit a few players on ridiculous salaries, which you'll get a **** load of income tax from, so you'll be far better off than nailing me.....