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Interesting piece by Andy Turner in the CET (http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/co...ng-farewell-mark-whatshisname-92746-32808095/) in which he says:
"Not even possessing a company car at City, Robins is understood to have been on an extremely modest wage which, no doubt, Huddersfield will treble or quadruple at the John Smith’s Stadium."
Now maybe I'm adding 2 & 2 together and getting 5, but think also about the confusion over the five-figure/six-figure sum that could spring Robins from his contract. I'm not sure anyone has definitively said it was a release clause. If Robins was on a 3-year contract paying, say, £37,000 a year, it would take £111,000 to buy that contract out. But Robins, of course, has worked five months of that, so that six-figure sum would drop to about £95,500 - a five-figure sum.
It's all guess work of course, but if we were to pay our managers such a salary - one which would surely be less than many of the first team players get - then we might have to resign ourselves to the thought that future managers we get may be either a) not very good, or b) going to be easy pickings for other clubs if they are doing well.
"Not even possessing a company car at City, Robins is understood to have been on an extremely modest wage which, no doubt, Huddersfield will treble or quadruple at the John Smith’s Stadium."
Now maybe I'm adding 2 & 2 together and getting 5, but think also about the confusion over the five-figure/six-figure sum that could spring Robins from his contract. I'm not sure anyone has definitively said it was a release clause. If Robins was on a 3-year contract paying, say, £37,000 a year, it would take £111,000 to buy that contract out. But Robins, of course, has worked five months of that, so that six-figure sum would drop to about £95,500 - a five-figure sum.
It's all guess work of course, but if we were to pay our managers such a salary - one which would surely be less than many of the first team players get - then we might have to resign ourselves to the thought that future managers we get may be either a) not very good, or b) going to be easy pickings for other clubs if they are doing well.