Time to get Gayle

Just seen West Brom won't be signing Gayle again, so time for us to get in there, no messing, 25 goals guaranteed next season, is there any reason why we wouldn't?

 

Yes his wages

 

I new someone would say that, but once we have got rid of the 7 players that have not got a hope in hell of playing for us again, the wages wouldn't be a problem.

 

Morning all. There would be a problem if he was getting a lot more money than the rest of the team.

 

Anyone wondered by the Baggies aren't picking him up again if he's that good?

What's been going on behind the scenes?

Could he have caused unrest in the dressing room?

I have no idea, but I really do wonder why you wouldn't want to re-sign such a valuable asset when you've got first dibs.

 

As far as i can gather they have turned down the chance to sign him permanently.

 

WBA received £40M parachute payment last season - that goes down to £15M this season and Gayle is on £85K per week!!!

 

This raises a related situation for me. Most contracts are supposed to have relegation clauses in players contracts where they get paid a lot less. Now if a PL player is loaned to a Championship club, does his wage drop to the 'relegated' level because he's plying his trade there, or does his 'owning' club's status determine that he should stay on PL wages?

General curiosity, btw, not specifically related to Gayle.

 

WJ - a player's wage entitlement in whichever division he actually plays is that negotiated in the contact with his parent club. Unless there is a contractual reduction in the wages as a result of relegation, the parent club's status would rule.

There are no specific blanket rules regarding the apportioning of the make up of his contractual payment should he be loaned out, but the parent club would be responsible for paying the whole of his wages.

The loaning club would pay the parent club for his services either in full, or in part as per the loan agreement. This often takes the form of an upfront fee for the period of the loan and then a proportion of his contract wages - those payements would have to be made to the parent club and not the loaned player himself.

On another level, I understand that Real Madrid offered Bale back to Spurs for a single season for a fee of £10M and £250,000 per week of his contracted £450,000 wage entitlement - those sort of figures leave me cold (and angry!)

 

Suspected as much, but good to have it confirmed. The question had never occurred to me before.

 

Escalator contracts were brought in years ago and are used in most championship clubs and also at least half of the Premier League. You go up the escalator with promotion by an agreed % and down the escalator with relegation by an agreed %. Not rocket science so there should not be a need for parachute payments which reward failure and basically cheating.