So what do you think of Gravenberch being on 280k per week?
That is the reference!
Take any reports on what a player earns with an enormous pinch of salt.
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I realize that the numbers must be taken with prudence, but everything you can read on internet points to the fact that Jonesâ salary was around the ones of Elliot, Leoni, Bajcetic, Endo. The likes of Bradley or Tsimikas seem to earn more than him already, whereas the highest earners at the club (VVD, Isak, Grav, Dom, Gakpo) seem to earn more than five times as much as him.
Also, it seems that Jonesâ new salary at Inter will be around ÂŁ115k / week. Thatâs around what Frimpong earns. Could the club have matched that, and would the player then have stayed? Weâll probably never know.
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I donât think the salary is what it is about, and I donât think they would have struggled to put him on 115k.
He wants to be the main man.
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Really? Has he told you that? As others said, Iâd be mightily pissed off too if I was him, and Gakpo was proposed five times my wage while refusing to offer me an long overdue improvement. I too would look to leave, especially after having been quite badly treated by Slot last season.
As @Sportbilly1966 wrote above, heâs probably broken after last season, and hasnât his heart set on us anymore. But thatâs mainly the clubâs fault I think. You donât disrespect a valuable player like that over two years without feeling the consequences.
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I really donât get why this is the Clubâs fault. Seems almost a default position these days whenever thereâs something someone doesnât agree with, âitâs the Clubâs faultâ. I fail to see how the Club has disrespected Jones nor can I fathom that his contract was not renegotiated over the years. The fact is from the some quarters on the outside Jones was viewed as more valuable to the Club than the Club viewed him as but thatâs no slight on the Club in my opinion. Leave last season aside as that was the worst season in the career of perhaps all our players bar Szoboszlai, heâs not done anything extraordinary over the course of his career to suggest he was worth the salaries being suggested or that he should be viewed as the main man. So why is that the Clubs fault?
So you donât think that heâd have deserved at least the equivalent of what Frimpong earns? Thatâs what he will roughly get at Inter now. I donât think that such a salary would have been outrageous for a player of his status.
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Regardless of how we rate the on-field performances of Curtis or Gravenberch, there is clearly something wrong with our playersâ pay structure. There are simply too many unjustifiedâand, to me, unfairâdisparities in salary that I personally dislike. I also didnât like the situation last season, where there appeared to be âsecond-classâ squad players who were treated as if they didnât belong. I just hope that has changed by now, or will change soon.
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We donât know enough about the clubâs payroll to make such a determination. The figures are never made public; all we have are estimates that could be miles apart from the actual pay.
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Itâs not that. The player has an agent and there is an evaluation process by the Club Iâm sure. If Jonesâ pay structure wasnât negotiated over the years then I canât get my head around that being the Clubâs fault
Where did you get that from?
I think we are going to need a lot of salt, nâest pas @Limiescouse 
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My ire towards you is croissanting
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Canât see anything good in this deal.
For years it was said that Diaz earned something like ÂŁ20k. It was miles off the truth.
The interesting thing with Jones is that (unless Iâm wrong) there has never been any talk of a new contract. Konate and Trent were both offered new terms. For a homegrown lad that is quite telling.
Nah, thereâs been plenty of âIf you hate Curtis, you hate the very fabric of this club and city!â over the years.
Ya fucking wool.
Curtis Jones, you know, an ongoing situation. I talked to him on the first or second training, and I valued him a lot, he loves this club and that was clear. But I understood the outcome would be what it is in the end.
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One of the things in Armband gate was he could clearly be seen mouthing (paraphrasing) something like Im done with this club, I cant be here no more.
I have liked and defended Jones a lot but its clear there is a disconnect between how the club valued him and the stature he thought he had earned at the club to a degree that he wanted out. Its a shame, but good luck to him.
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All the best Curtis Jones.
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