Abramovich: More Money Than Sense?
It wasn’t all that long ago when Chelsea players were winning the Coca Cola cup and it felt like a win on the pools. These days though a win on the pools would pale into insignificance considering the vast salaries they take home. But as if the ridiculous sums of money they command each year isn’t out of hand enough, they’re now being offered bonuses to do what they’re paid to do anyway.
Whilst on the one hand, we’re hearing Roman isn’t prepared to keep shelling out hand over fist, we’re now being informed he’s prepared to pay out obscene amounts in ‘special treats’. Personally, I’d have thought that winning a Premier League title would be pretty rewarding in itself seeing as that’s what players should be working towards every year anyway. However, moneybags obviously thinks that’s not much of a pay-off so he’s prepared to splash out a little bonus of £2.6 million for the squad to share should they manage it. Having said that, anything less than a complete disaster for Utd on the final day means that’s £2.6 million he’s saved himself.
The Champions League, on the other hand, has cost him plenty already seeing as the bonus scheme works pro-rata and they’ve been earning all the way to the final. As for the final itself, a win could see the squad share out another £3 million (with around £6 million having been paid out already on the way there). The first Champions League final in the club’s history and he thinks the players need an incentive to try and win it? The phrase ‘more money than sense’ has never applied more fittingly in the history of it’s use.
Is it any wonder there’s so many mercenaries in the game these days with men like Abramovich turning football from a sport played with passion into a treasure hunt taken part in for greed?
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You know this information to be true ….how? Because you read it in the tabloid press. Please grow up and get a mind of your own.
By the way on the general subject of performance related pay you clearly don’t work in, know anyone that does or have heard about City mega bonuses paid to Bankers who do um….oh yes banking!
So assuming you have a job, you would turn down any bonus pay you were offered for perfoming well on the grounds you are already paid to do you job?
Please!!!!!
I think our focus now is to win atleast a league dis season and not Rijkaard.lets leave Grant 2 do the job.he’s got luck.up chelsea!for life.
Rijkaard is d most uninteresting manager have ever.what we need now is determination,focus.so let Abramovich not distabilize the team with Rijkaard or Rijkaard issue,let Grant continue.for more advice:23408063217438
Rijkaard is d most uninteresting manager have ever seen.after his woeful outing with Barca.what we need now is determination.so let Abramovich not distabilize the team with Rijkaard or Rijkaard issue,let Grant continue.for more advice:234080632174385
Paul, for starters the NHS don’t do performance related pay - the fact that footballers get it when they already earn obscene amounts is bad enough, but Roman takes it to extremes. I don’t know about anyone else but I’d rather have players at Chelsea who care about something other than the money.