2020/21 Alex Iwobi

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He would take £53,400 after tax then :eek:

Surely he wont be on that kind of money having been a bit part player at Arsenal.

The jets are a bit of a give away i suppose.

With Iwobi if we can take £15mil then give him £2.5mil to leave we should do it.

Surely hed love to live in Italy too, save on jet hire.
 
He would take £53,400 after tax then :eek:

Surely he wont be on that kind of money having been a bit part player at Arsenal.

The jets are a bit of a give away i suppose.

With Iwobi if we can take £15mil then give him £2.5mil to leave we should do it.

Surely hed love to live in Italy too, save on jet hire.

He's our fourth highest ever transfer fee paid - of course we're paying him in line with the top earners at the club.

It's a shocking transfer, always was, always will be. Right up there with Icelandic Voldemort as the worst ever unless something dramatically changes.
 
He's our fourth highest ever transfer fee paid - of course we're paying him in line with the top earners at the club.

It's a shocking transfer, always was, always will be. Right up there with Icelandic Voldemort as the worst ever unless something dramatically changes.

Still doesnt make sense that he will have gone from say £30k a week at Arsenal to £100k with us...

Also Kean is on £50k a week and was signed in the 20's.

This seems to be a major problem, giving players enormous pay increases to join.
 

Still doesnt make sense that he will have gone from say £30k a week at Arsenal to £100k with us...

Also Kean is on £50k a week and was signed in the 20's.

This seems to be a major problem, giving players enormous pay increases to join.

£70k a week at Arsenal.


I understand your confusion because of just how terrible he is, to the point these figures are scarcely believable, but yeah... Alex Iwobi, despite all evidence suggesting he can barely play football at all, earns this type of money.
 
Still doesnt make sense that he will have gone from say £30k a week at Arsenal to £100k with us...

Also Kean is on £50k a week and was signed in the 20's.

This seems to be a major problem, giving players enormous pay increases to join.

Right, because when you pay above market wages two things happen:

- they refuse to leave for playing time, ultimately leave on a free and turn the investment in a transfer fee into a fully realized loss
- you get a mercenary looking for a paycheck rather than play time, leading to the above

The "pay over market wages to attract players" policy predates Brands. It just doesn't work, unless you get them on a free.
 
He’s on 50k, as all reports state. He’s actually one of our lowest earners and like Kean, the wage was probably one of the reasons we were happy to pay the over inflated fee due to it being off set by the lower wages.

All transfers do get calculated by clubs as wages + initial fee = total cost.

There’s plenty of things to have a go at the Iwobi deal for but his salary isn’t one of them.
 
The only way we’re getting rid of this fella is if he desperately wants away enough to take a pay cut.

Same as Delph, Tosun, Sigurdssen, Kean, Keane. Safe to say our recruitment has crippled us.
 
The only way we’re getting rid of this fella is if he desperately wants away enough to take a pay cut.

Same as Delph, Tosun, Sigurdssen, Kean, Keane. Safe to say our recruitment has crippled us.
We have been floating in midtable mediocrity but this season all these crap signings are finally going to catch up with us. I fear.
 

He’s on 50k, as all reports state. He’s actually one of our lowest earners and like Kean, the wage was probably one of the reasons we were happy to pay the over inflated fee due to it being off set by the lower wages.

All transfers do get calculated by clubs as wages + initial fee = total cost.

There’s plenty of things to have a go at the Iwobi deal for but his salary isn’t one of them.

If he was on £5 a month we'd be over paying him.
Just to make it absolutely clear that there is NO justification of happy ever being linked in the same sentence of iwobi and Everton. EVER.
 
This seems to be a major problem, giving players enormous pay increases to join.
That's exactly our problem. I have no issue with paying good wages for those who deserve it, but I suspect our median wage bill isn't anywhere near it should be.

We've aligned ourselves with a model where we use wages to attract players who typically wouldn't get those wages at most, if not all, other clubs.

Look at Delph for example: we've paid him ridiculous wages for a player of his calibre because he was overpaid at City and wanted to attract him.

Whatever we're paying Iwobi, you just know that it'll be too much and will mean it's difficult to offload like Delph will be and Bolasie et al. before them.
 

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