St. Pats for sale?

**max power** · 21/07/2004, 1:11 PM

no worries here then, cause we never get the grants promisied

**MariborKev** · 21/07/2004, 4:44 PM

I know we are spending circa �45k sterling per year on our youth academy

rerun · 22/07/2004, 8:09 AM

Originally Posted by Macy

Average players have clubs over a barrell - wage cap is the only way to go, although you'd have to set it for the club over all players rather than the �500 a man Pats are doing. Let the good players earn the better money they deserve, and pay the average players an average wage.

Maybe this is a rediculous idea, but what about performance related pay ? On top of a basic wage players earn by how well they perform. A better statistical system like Opta would be really useful for clubs to reward their better players, i.e. bonuses for percentage passes completed. At a basic level, give your keeper a bonus for keeping a clean sheet (�100???), same with your back four. Bigger keeper bonus for a penalty save. Bonuses for goals (�50 per goal ???). Loss of bonuses for yellow/red cards, giving away penalties etc.
Starting to sound a bit rediculous now that I've written it down, but at least the players who perform get rewarded, better than paying a big wage to a centre forward who isn't doing the business.

**pete** · 22/07/2004, 9:36 AM

Originally Posted by rerun

Maybe this is a rediculous idea, but what about performance related pay ?

Pats are near bottom of table so unlikely players getting much from binuses this year.

**onceahoop** · 25/07/2004, 9:21 AM

[QUOTE=Macy]It wouldn't surprise me at all if it was Longford, however to compare us to full time Drogs is a bit off the mark. We have the second smallest playing budget in the premier for starters. As a Shels fan, you should be looking closer to home for short term thinking...

Is it true one of the Longford players is on around a �700 a week part time contract and he accepted this after he was offered less to go full time at Shels.