he's not going to get 2.5 million a season in bonuses...
appearance fees typically are up to, like, 5-10k a match (for a full 90 min appearance, dropping by 25% for a sub, and dropping another 25% for being on the bench). Probably looking at up to 1.5x the same again for a clean sheet, and probably about that again for a penalty save...
So you're talking probably 40k a week at the most he can earn in add ons...
and also, tbh, this isnt even remotely unusual. we gave zarate an assists bonus last season (10 assists would be like 150k bonus iirc?), rooney had something like a 7k match appearance at everton bonus...
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tbh, the basic idea is something i agree with.
footballers shouldnt earn very much for doing nothing. if they turn up to training every day of the week, that should be max like 100k a year... image rights of course will always be separate to that, so a top footballer even if he doesnt play (injury or whatever) could still make a few million a year. the rest should be bonuses based on that. like 50k for man of the match, 20k for a goal, bla bla bla
as an example, milito would have earned 600k for goals in the treble year, probably like another 750k for man of the matches, and then you'd also give bonuses for team wins, performance in competitions (e.g. winning the CL probably give another million bonus, 750k for the Serie A, 250k for Coppa Italia...)
for the treble season, lets say on a base salary of 100k, that's already 3.5million, before you argue about bonuses for assists, winning games, and other shit.
if you gave everyone a bonus of like 30k for winning a game, then that would have been like another 35-40*30k in the treble year? so another 1.2 million...
call it 5 million all round, thats more than he made just on his regular wages. Probably less if you add in the CL money, but I never claimed this was already set up well
oh, and i fucking guarantee people like maicon or sneijder would never have had their motivation levels drop under this system