Fans always get so hung up on "x player earns £££s at this club, why would he take less at another"?
There's plenty of reasons players can/will/do take pay-cuts. Just because a player is on £170 at spurs, that doesnt mean theyll NEVER play for less anywhere else.
Injury, age, more game time, sentiment. There are many reasons why a player would take a pay-cut. Why would Rashford agree to reduce his wage of £315k a week at Utd to £190k a week at Barca? No reason AT ALL, yet he has.
Paddy Bamford was on £70k a week at Leeds, but the fact he was ready to sign for us (not a chance were we offering 50% of that) suggested he was happy to take a huge pay-cut to play football.
Jack Greilish will likely NEVER get a pay deal like Man City pay him. So when he leaves them, does he take or pay-cut? Nah, might aswell give up playing football altogether rather than take a huge pay-cut.
*edit, this isnt me saying we're gonna sign Maddison, just that a player taking a pay-cut isnt that crazy an idea!
Bamford wasn't on £70k pw at Leeds when he was ready to sign with us, he was a free agent. There is a bit of a difference between someone who's contract has ended and a player who is in contract. A player in contract is almost certainly not going to accept a deal that would see him earn less than what he would get from his current contract. Either his current team is going to have to cover the difference (which suggests it's a player they really want to get rid of) or we're going to have to start offering 10+ year 40k per week contracts.
And even with out of contract players it's down to market forces. If they're good enough for us chances are other teams will also be chasing them and if another team is willing to pay a player £100k a week then that's what that player will be looking for. They have no allegiance to us. Even a player like Maddison, who would likely prefer to join us over other teams, is very unlikely to accept 40k a week if another team if offering double that (which would still only be half of what he's getting now).
Fans always get so hung up on "x player earns £££s at this club, why would he take less at another"?
There's plenty of reasons players can/will/do take pay-cuts. Just because a player is on £170 at spurs, that doesnt mean theyll NEVER play for less anywhere else.
Injury, age, more game time, sentiment. There are many reasons why a player would take a pay-cut. Why would Rashford agree to reduce his wage of £315k a week at Utd to £190k a week at Barca? No reason AT ALL, yet he has.
Paddy Bamford was on £70k a week at Leeds, but the fact he was ready to sign for us (not a chance were we offering 50% of that) suggested he was happy to take a huge pay-cut to play football.
Jack Greilish will likely NEVER get a pay deal like Man City pay him. So when he leaves them, does he take or pay-cut? Nah, might aswell give up playing football altogether rather than take a huge pay-cut.
*edit, this isnt me saying we're gonna sign Maddison, just that a player taking a pay-cut isnt that crazy an idea!
Of course players take pay cuts… the point is Maddison still has 2 years left on his contract. Signing for us would just be leaving money on the table.
Bamford was out of contract, Grealish only has one year left. Rashford is joining a better team with more chance of winning trophies and was frozen out at United.
The idea that Maddison would throw away £7m+ and join a relegation threatened club out of sentimentality is silly.