Brown Nose
Well-Known Member
I've been looking at this website which details the contracts/salaries of players: https://www.spotrac.com/epl/ I'm sure that it is not 100% accurate but it does seem to be a decent guide.
The main job this summer has to be getting unwanted players off the payroll. The following examples illustrate how much of our salary budget is being wasted - none of these players have kicked a ball for us this season: Silva £80k p/w, Slimani £80k p/w, James £32k p/w, Kapustka £30k p/w, Amartey £21k p/w, Ghezzal £45k p/w, Diabate £15k p/w. Hopefully, some of the loaned out players salaries are being offset but all these are under contract next season - it is a combined £15.75 million a year just being wasted.
We've got King (£40k p/w) off the books, and Mendy departing seems imminent (£50k p/w) but Lee Congerton/Jon Rudkin will need to do some serious graft to get shot of the above players.
There are decisions to be made on Gray and Evans who are both entering the final year of their contracts. We're in talks with Evans but it is a tricky one. He turns 33 in January so we probably don't want to be adding more than one more year to his deal. I guess he'll be after an extra year though and I expect that he'll get it. With Gray, I think it's another obvious one that we need to sell this summer whilst we can get something for him.
Hopefully, we negotiated reduced terms for the new contracts for Morgan, Fuchs and Jakupovic given their likely minimal involvement next season. Their current deals are worth £133k a week combined.
The top paid player is of course Vardy on £140k p/w. This seems entirely justified to me. However, our other big earner is Schmeichel and I do question what we're paying him. He's on £130k p.w, This makes him the third highest paid keeper in the PL after De Gea and Kepa. For comparison, Ederson is on £65k p/w and Allison £90k p/w. Pope is on £35k p/w.
Vardy and Schmiechel are also the top paid players from non-big six clubs (Zaha is on £130k p/w too though).
The main job this summer has to be getting unwanted players off the payroll. The following examples illustrate how much of our salary budget is being wasted - none of these players have kicked a ball for us this season: Silva £80k p/w, Slimani £80k p/w, James £32k p/w, Kapustka £30k p/w, Amartey £21k p/w, Ghezzal £45k p/w, Diabate £15k p/w. Hopefully, some of the loaned out players salaries are being offset but all these are under contract next season - it is a combined £15.75 million a year just being wasted.
We've got King (£40k p/w) off the books, and Mendy departing seems imminent (£50k p/w) but Lee Congerton/Jon Rudkin will need to do some serious graft to get shot of the above players.
There are decisions to be made on Gray and Evans who are both entering the final year of their contracts. We're in talks with Evans but it is a tricky one. He turns 33 in January so we probably don't want to be adding more than one more year to his deal. I guess he'll be after an extra year though and I expect that he'll get it. With Gray, I think it's another obvious one that we need to sell this summer whilst we can get something for him.
Hopefully, we negotiated reduced terms for the new contracts for Morgan, Fuchs and Jakupovic given their likely minimal involvement next season. Their current deals are worth £133k a week combined.
The top paid player is of course Vardy on £140k p/w. This seems entirely justified to me. However, our other big earner is Schmeichel and I do question what we're paying him. He's on £130k p.w, This makes him the third highest paid keeper in the PL after De Gea and Kepa. For comparison, Ederson is on £65k p/w and Allison £90k p/w. Pope is on £35k p/w.
Vardy and Schmiechel are also the top paid players from non-big six clubs (Zaha is on £130k p/w too though).
