It only works out that if all add ons are meet. So without any context of those makes the 480k firgure absolutely pointless. It could be like a Barcelona transfer add on win league, win champions league score 30 goals is 400k nobody knows.
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And if he results in winning the league, CL etc, itās going to look like money well spent.
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And Mancunian rejects somehow end up at Evertonā¦
Pretty sure he does not want to have anything to do with Saudi Arabia if he can avoid it. Imagine him trying to wear pink and/or put up a Christmas tree on Instagram there?
The uproar is bad enough now, imagine what happens if heās somewhere people can/would actually assault him or his family for that.
I hate this lazy Muslim = will move to Saudi Arabia shite.
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When I was in grad school I had 3 lads doing one of my studies who became friendly in the process - 2 Turks and 1 Indian muslim. They had all spent time in their teenage years in Saudi and joked about how awful their time was. Theyād speak about the enforcement of the call to prayer the way the hyenas in Lion King talk about Mufasa
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Iām not overly bothered by the wages. To my mind it has long been obscene. Salah is clearly at the top of the earnings at Liverpool, and his record and tenure is such that he justifies that.
The actual number is then on Hughes, and the others, to manage within the overall budget.
Whatever analysis we can give to that is superficial, in relation to what they know about the budget and the other plans we have.
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Not your best moment to be honest
Well I imagine that isnāt simply minutes on the pitch and they include winning the biggest trophies (and perhaps scoring/assisting in large numbers).
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Can confirm, unless you live in an Aramco compound, which isnāt really even Saudi Arabia.
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Everyone spent months moaning about Hughes and FSG being tight arses for not getting these contracts done. Now theyāre done we complain about the wage?
I donāt think it will affect future negotiations. Salah is close to the top 3 players ever to play for the club. Could be the second top scorer. I think others can recognise his last wage here will be a different level.
Heās also a good human being and great with the young players as an added bonus
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I was never in the āGive him whatever he wantsā camp and if anything, Iām certain that everyone that clamoured for FSG to meet his wage demands, will be on Salahās back the minute he visibly starts dropping off. Fact of the matter is that committing so much money for an older player, legend or not, is a risk that I am not sure itās worth taking anymore.
As for future negotiations, they will be affected, there is no getting around it. It will push up every wage demand.
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You seem to be getting terribly irrate over a figure which we arenāt sure is actually true or how its proportioned.
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I am happy that we kept him. How happy I should be, considering the contract, I donāt know.
I just hope that his current amazing form will continue for the next two years.
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Iād say we have until Sunday to celebrate this news, then from next week we can start the complaints that he only has 2 years left on his contract and that itās dangerous grounds to let a player wind his contract down that far as his sell on value starts to take a hit.
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Fixed for typical TAN meltdown
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Try worried instead. Even his base salary is the largest awarded in LFCās history.
Itās fine to rejoice, just donāt expect everyone to share your enthusiasm.
What are you worried about exactly. Who says his base salary is that.
You seem fully desperate to paint it in some negative light I just canāt see why.
You are upset at things you donāt know are true.
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Anyway, was fully aware that Salah at this stage of career, still performing at a high level, certainly wasnāt going to cost less than he did. Regardless of the length of contract. So for me it doesnāt come as a shock, an increase was expected.
We saw it at Barca with their previous golden generation (they got old together which was a problem, here our mix and average squad age is still good). They donāt become cheaper, let alone players who actually maintain a high level like Mo does.
How that ācakeā is spread out, yeah, that is impossible for us to know. He certainly has individual bonuses, some of which will be easy for him to accomplish and team bonuses. Ceiling of that surely means winning the league or CL.
How on earth do we even know that?
Itās a lot of getting worked up over plain speculation.
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