The Virtual Terrace • Super League Relegation Poll
The Ghost of '99 wrote:
The way Hetherington has managed the salary cap for years though has been on a promise of better contracts down the line, when players move through the ranks and become senior team members. They are relatively underpaid at the start and overpaid a bit towards the end, by Leeds standards at least. So if you looked at Leeds salary list now it wouldn't make great reading without the context of history and the loyalty both sides have shown each other. When the music finally stops that's a bit tricky but 15 years of success shows it has been effective.
It is a lot of money given hardly anyone pays transfer fees nowadays. Parcell cost £65k, Ferres £150k. How they perform is a bit irrelevant, it shows signs of being willing to spend that people are saying Leeds haven't been doing.
Yes.
Fair enough, I’ll agree to disagree.
WRT to the spending and the £600k figure over 8 years. GH is a man who spent £350k for one single player back in 1997 so really highlights the difference.
I know Leeds reward the players who have been their a long time but looking at todays squad how many is that really? Not that many especially compared to 4/5/6 years ago.
Statistics: Posted by ThePrinter — Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:18 pm — Replies 128 — Views 6053