Cool your jets. Nobody is calling him a martyr. He gets paid well. But much less than he’s worth in the league. And with half a dozen Liverpool players ahead of him. The club has negotiated with him what they could afford. There’s always this belief from fans that if someone tests the clubs wage structure then they are against the club and the club therefore needs to be defended. But there doesn’t need to be a good party and a bad party. The club has done its best. Sadio has said that’s not good enough and he will look elsewhere. There doesn’t need to be conflict on those points.
Yes, our contracts are heavily incentivised. If we are going by what is regularly reported, Virg 's contract is much higher than the £200-220k if he hits certain performance targets (some of the clean sheets targets would be very difficult to achieve). Salah’s blows out to something over £300-400k if he hits goals and assists. Sadio likely has goal and assists targets, but if its the same 35 g+a target that Salah has, Sadio would be yet to achieve that target at the club (34 his closest). It’s fair to say, the figures we see quoted for our players are for achievable targets (games played, major game milestones etc). So you would need to apply the same for Sadio Mané. Even though it’s unlikely given Sadio negotiated his 2018 contact after both Bobby and Salah, Sadio’s base salary could be the oft-quoted £100k and performance based is what brings it up to £150k. I am not sure I believe he would negotiate such a low wage compared to the others but who knows? Certainly not you or I.
The point really is that it’s anyone’s guess what the actual performance targets are. But if you are seeing 100-150k for Sadio, 200-220k for Virg, 200-225k for Salah, you can bet that they are all either with or without performance bonuses. I don’t believe Sadio is on less than Ox, Keita and Hendo, but it does appear he’s behind Ali, Thiago, TAA, Bobby, Fab, Virg and Mo.