To put things in perspective, according to the football leaks Mavropanos is on €30K per week and Balogun for whatever reason already earns €15K without having even made the bench in the first team. Martinez earns £25K. Someone I've never heard of named Tolaji Bola apparently plays for us and earns £20K per week. Martinelli is already on €55K. And you guys seriously think we'll sit down and offer Saka reserve team wages.

That’s without factoring the English talent premium.

That Martinelli salary seems very high relative to what was initially reported at €20,000 / week

Yeah some of those figures just sound make up.

have to tie him down. i'm not as enamoured of him as many of our fans seem to be, but we can't let him walk on the cheap

I think he's a big talent. Sure he's still pretty raw but he has shown well enough to warrant a decent pay raise compared to what he's on now, especially after showing he can make the jump to the first team, even if he'll be inconsistent for a little bit.

Klaus wrote:

To put things in perspective, according to the football leaks Mavropanos is on €30K per week and Balogun for whatever reason already earns €15K without having even made the bench in the first team. Martinez earns £25K. Someone I've never heard of named Tolaji Bola apparently plays for us and earns £20K per week. Martinelli is already on €55K. And you guys seriously think we'll sit down and offer Saka reserve team wages.

Mavropanos is on 30k a week? Couldn't find anything on FL you mind sharing a link?

I'm not saying we shouldn't offer Saka a competitive salary but those figures look way out of order

Martinelli is on about 20k reportedly.

We will offer Saka 30k and he will sign. No doubts about that

Clrnc wrote:

Martinelli is on about 20k reportedly.

We will offer Saka 30k and he will sign. No doubts about that

The non-saga.
Also, he’s a kid in a high growth phase. Serves him well to sign a short deal at 30k (which is a 10x increase), and then look to negotiate again in 2 years on the back of a 3 or 4 year deal.

I thought I read somewhere we were looking at a new structure for wages, where the base wage is kept lower but the incentives are boosted?

Claudius wrote:

A guy plays a dozen top tier games, is still playing junior national team games and folks want to give him the booty. A kiss will do. Next thing we have to give it up to everybody.

What do you think it'd take to sign a prospect like Saka from another club?

Indeed - There will be a lot of booties involved.

hes going to sign, and he'll probably be on 50-60k per week, and then in 2 years he'll re-negotiate and extend his deal and be on 80-90k per week.

our club has a lot of issues, i dont think saka's contract is one. he'll sign and it will be fine

You reckon? Maybe he likes the way Ole's been developing Lingard and Martial into stalwarts. Or maybe under the sheen of Klopps gnashers and the huff of his coffee breath, he could gain a yard of pace for a runout in the last 2 minutes of the 90 🙂.

It’s just when you loves something so much you desperately want to keep them near.

3 months later

Talk of Liverpool making a swoop

What a sorry state of affairs if that transpires

If that happens I won't forgive the club.

I wonder if Liverpool have offered him £30K or £35K.