How much do LOI players get paid?

[marinobohs]

anyone have reliable figures for the weekly wage bills of our leading clubs. Bohs I think were paying a number of their staff over 1000e a week a couple of years ago which is amazing when one thinks of the ability of those who received those wages.

Bohs players weekly wage bill (in total) is equal to that rumoured to be earned by one Shams player. If true what does that tell us ? pretty much nothing. drawing direct comparisons (even when full disclosure is available) is a mugs game, a decent striker may well be the 'missing link' at one club wheras a decent keeper could be the target of another and salary offers will mirror this.

No doubt that higher wages wiill attract a wider selection of players to a League (subject to other factors mentuoned by posters) but that does not always translate into higher standards (and impossible to measure link)

[horton]

Or in short Shams, like ourselves, are overpaying players for substandard performances.

[Keen2win]

http://foot.ie/threads/9941-Who-are-...yers-in-the-el

Interesting.

[marinobohs]

http://foot.ie/threads/9941-Who-are-...yers-in-the-el

Interesting.

Ah #SIGH# those were the days

- when Bohs were still paying big wages, and
people still believed Shels had a viable business model (and that Ollie was loaded)

[Longfordian]

"Ollie Byrne is loaded". Jesus I didn't remember anyone ever thinking that, whatever else was said about him.

[A face]

"Ollie Byrne is loaded". Jesus I didn't remember anyone ever thinking that, whatever else was said about him.

There really was an awful lot said about him, are you sure that wasn't one of the things

[Lim till i die]

Just on the "debate" about wages and their link to standards -

The breakaway top four in the Premier contains the three teams with the highest wage budgets. Drogheda have been reciving so much (justifiable) praise this year precisely because they have over achieved relative to their wage spend.

The breakaway top three in the First Division are the three clubs with the highest wage bill. (In Limericks case their wage bill is 26 times the wage bill of all the other clubs in the division combined.)

Wages are the number one factor in team performance over a length of time.

There's a whole chapter on it in Simon Kupers latest book. (Ya, I know he's a windbag but so am I and you just read this post)

[Mr A]

I think that's spot on, but would just add that while this makes sense within the league, it doesn't necessarily on the overall level. What I mean is that if every club in the league increased their spending by 50% or 100% tomorrow there would be no commensurate increase in quality- a few decent imports might come in but that would be the height of it. Similarly when wages in the league overall dropped I don't think there was that big a drop in standards.

[Colbert Report]

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...player?cc=5901

NEW YORK -- Australian midfielder Tim Cahill was guaranteed $3.6 million by the New York Red Bulls, the fourth highest salary in the league.

The MLS Players Union released updated salaries Thursday and Cahill is listed as having a base salary of $3.5 million and total compensation of $3,625,000. He joined Thierry Henry ($5.6 million total compensation) and Rafa Marquez ($4.6 million) on the high spending Red Bulls, who replaced general manager Erik Soler with Jerome de Bontin on Tuesday.

The only other players in MLS making seven figures in compensation are the Los Angeles Galaxy trio of David Beckham ($4 million), Robbie Keane ($3.4 million) and Landon Donovan ($2.4 million), Montreal forward Marco Di Vaio ($1.9 million), Portland forward Kris Boyd ($1.5 million), Toronto's Torsten Frings ($2.4 million) and Danny Koevermans ($1.6 million), Dallas midfielder Julian DeGuzman ($1.9 million) and Vancouver's Kenny Miller ($1.2 million).

For other newly signed players, total compensation is $293,750 for Houston midfielder Ricardo Clark, $60,000 for Seattle goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann and $324,000 for Columbus forward-midfielder Federico Higuain, the brother of Real Madrid's Gonzolo Higuain.

[Charlie Darwin]

Say what you like about the League of Ireland, but I'm proud to say that none of our clubs have ever deemed Kenny Miller or Kris Boyd worthy of million-dollar contracts.

[Colbert Report]

Say what you like about the League of Ireland, but I'm proud to say that none of our clubs have ever deemed Kenny Miller or Kris Boyd worthy of million-dollar contracts.

No kidding! Aside from these star players though, the average MLS guy seems to make a whole lot more than the average LOI player. Are they just that much better? Caleb Folan got a visa no problem to play there. Is it tougher for most LOI players?

[Dodge]

No kidding! Aside from these star players though, the average MLS guy seems to make a whole lot more than the average LOI player. Are they just that much better? Caleb Folan got a visa no problem to play there. Is it tougher for most LOI players?

As I posted earlier Ryan Guy is earning less in the MLS than he did in the LOI. The top LOI players would earn more than $44,000 per year (thats about €34,000)

MLS clubs are limited to the amount of foreigners they can bring in. They're not going to 'waste' one of those spots on a player from the LOI. Not while they can sign quality like Kris Boyd

[ltfc_2004]

Seems strange that Marcus Hahnemann would only be on 60k, a good keeper and surely could of got a backup spot for another season in Premiership


After using the power of Google I see he is from Seattle and previously played for the Sounders but you still think he could of gotten a bigger wage than that.

[Spudulika]

Just a little aside on the BATE Borisov wage budget (which includes all employees and bonuses) is 20million euros and the last time out they had 10 locals in the line up (one a Brazilian born boy). By comparison the Zenit wage budget (players and coaching staff) is 234million euros.

[marinobohs]

As I posted earlier Ryan Guy is earning less in the MLS than he did in the LOI. The top LOI players would earn more than $44,000 per year (thats about €34,000)

MLS clubs are limited to the amount of foreigners they can bring in. They're not going to 'waste' one of those spots on a player from the LOI. Not while they can sign quality like Kris Boyd

Didnt MLS have a salary cap which was then 'relaxed' for clubs to hire 1 or 2 marquee players to generate interest in the League ? (and encourage inward investment from the likes of Red Bull). I seem to recall reading an article about this when Becham signed for LA Galaxy. Obviously if a club is limited to 1 or 2 'superstars' they will be looking for well known players as much as good players (so high salary linked as much to profile as ability).