Player Contracts

[Denny Crane]

FFS has he failed another drugs test?.

[cloggypop]

Whats kolo toure on?

Slimming pills.

[KevieG]

Giving Kolo a contract and low balling Skrtel.

 

Do it the other way round stupid.

[Section_31]

Giving Kolo a contract and low balling Skrtel.

 

Do it the other way round stupid.

 

Paddy Crerand couldn't have done a batter job if you'd made him LFC CEO. 

[Dr Nowt]

Paddy Crerand couldn't have done a batter job if you'd made him LFC CEO.

Not least because he'd be blind drunk on paint thinner and accusing Skrtel of overcharging him for building his extension in 1968.

[Jairzinho]

Paddy Crerand couldn't have done a batter job if you'd made him LFC CEO. 

 

We're being sabotaged. I'm sure of it. This is Gary Neville playing FM as Liverpool.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Things would make more sense if we were all figments of Phil Neville's imagination.

[Trumo]

We're being sabotaged. I'm sure of it. This is Gary Neville playing FM as Liverpool.

 

Some of the things the club is going really makes you wonder because we seem to make a point of doing the exact opposite of what works and what is rational.

[Cardie]

Some of the things the club is going really makes you wonder because we seem to make a point of doing the exact opposite of what works and what is rational.

What's rational about giving players fully guaranteed contracts (irrespective of whether they are available) with additional bonuses on top for turning up or winning games (presumably what all that guaranteed money was supposed to be for)?

 

 

[Moo]

What's rational about giving players fully guaranteed contracts (irrespective of whether they are available) with additional bonuses on top for turning up or winning games (presumably what all that guaranteed money was supposed to be for)?

Nothing is rational in professional football, especially Premier League football, but that's the market we operate in.

Do you think suddenly all other clubs will follow suit and we'll be seen as pioneers?

[Cardie]

Nothing is rational in professional football, especially Premier League football, but that's the market we operate in.

Do you think suddenly all other clubs will follow suit and we'll be seen as pioneers?

The poster I quoted suggested it was rational hence the response.

 

 

[smokinstu]

Counter piece from Dave Prentice. And i dont disagree with what he says, but it feels like the standard contract model is flat pay, if liverpool want players to sign for them on an incentived contract they need to be offering a player who can get £100k a week anywhere else £130k with the incentives, and we're arent doing that so its not really an incentive. 

 

Why Liverpool FC are right to give Martin Skrtel an incentive to play:

 

artin Skrtel believes his new, heavily incentivised, contract offer from Liverpool is “unacceptable” and makes him “uneasy.” Two strong words. There’s a two word response the Reds could deliver. Joe Cole. Actually there’s another two: Fabio Borini. And how about two more? Milan Jovanovic.

 

All three are examples of Liverpool’s previously flawed contract policy. All three were players who signed lucrative long-term deals at Anfield, not dependent on games played. And all three were players who spent long spells draining club coffers whilst making a minimal contribution to the club’s playing fortunes.

 

Liverpool have tried hard to end that damaging model. Clearly exceptions are being made for sought after young talents like Raheem Sterling, but Liverpool are trying to reshape their policy so that players actually earn their money now.

 

“Elements of performance in contracts is key; getting value is key,” said chief executive Ian Ayre in a recent interview. “Like any incentive it has to be achievable. There is no point setting goals that are just unrealistic. We pay good pay for our players; we pay fair pay. But we also like to give them the appetite to earn more which we know footballers like to do. As we all do.

 

“That’s a far cry from deals where it is sort of nailed on and then it doesn’t matter whether they perform or do not perform.”

 

All perfectly reasonable. Which begs the question, what is Martin Skrtel worried about?

 

Since 2009/10, when a broken foot ended his season in late February, the Slovak has boasted a remarkable record of consistency. Last season he made 52 appearances for club and country, he played 42 the previous season, 38 the season before that, 48 the campaign before and 53 in 2010/11 when he achieved the unusual feat of playing every minute of every Premier League match.

 

But he is now 30-years-old, so perhaps he fears the likelihood of more frequent injuries. It is understood that Skrtel has to play possibly as many as 80 per cent of Liverpool fixtures to qualify for his full salary – but that is something he hasn’t failed to do for almost five years.

 

He has also been offered three years with the option of a further 12-months – fair for for a player of his age. Perhaps Skrtel should look at the example of Liverpool’s most recent recruit.

 

James Milner has just turned down a greater contract offer from Manchester City to sign for Liverpool, because he fancies his chances of playing more football at Anfield than the Etihad. That’s the kind of hungry player you want in your squad.

 

If Martin Skrtel has worries that he may not play in 80 per cent of Liverpool’s matches next season, Liverpool are absolutely right not to offer him 100 per cent of his salary up front.

[Tony Moanero]

*farts*