Would it really be a pay rise from Ligue 1? I have no idea what they pay but we won't be paying anywhere near Premier League wages now. Given that we couldn't even agree a new contract with Mariappa, I'm guessing we're firmly in the low balling camp with our offers these days.
According to the ever reliable internet, websites claim he is on £9k a week. If true, I’m sure we could probably offer him between £12-15k a week if it’s a permanent move. If it’s a loan with option to buy, then no reason why we can’t pay his salary of £9k p/w. Edit: on another note, when googling his salary, the watford players salaries come up as about the 7th option. More concrete than the man at the Esso garage that he’s on his way here.
This taken from an article describing how players had agreed to defer 50% of their wages last season as a response to convid and season cancellation.
Yeah these figures sound about right to me and as @Chumlax points out the players agreed last year to a wage deferral. That combined with the economic uncertainty in Ligue 1 with the broadcaster defaulting on the TV rights deal equates to a lot of uncertainty for players’ livelihoods. So probably not just better pay but a higher likelihood of full pay here with us.
...and where do you think they get their info ? I could say more but don’t want to compromise the man at ESSO.
I've always found it weird that there's this general assumption that because people have played together they are like brothers in arms
So big of them to defer half their wages, not donate it to charities or help out people losing their livelihood. How Neymay is coping on £1.75mill a week is beyond me, he must really have to tighten his belt. Footballers wages are actually disgusting.
Absolutely agree. Capoue didn't want to be here and was quite clear about that. Also it is no coincidence that team unity and a feel good factor seems more prominent since he has left. I'd have been gutted had we lost Hughes, we look much better with him playing.
As well as improved pay, he might actually get some games here; he hardly gets any minutes at all with Rennes.
Get what you mean but in this case the league's tv deal had just collapsed, so it was an effort to stop it essentially literally folding. Plus, to be honest, I don't think you'd be asking private citizens (as such) on €94,000/£83,000 a year to just stop and give half of that to charity.
Discussions are currently blocked between Watford and Rennes for Léa-Siliki. In question, the unpaid draft by the Hornets (about 8 million euros) in the context of the transfer of Isma*la Sarr. [@lequipe]
So they are suggesting we owe them money for Sarr? Or they want us to stump up a payment early in order to let Siliki go? Either way, ain’t happening.
The article seems a little less downcast on our chances of bringing in Siliki than that summary that some Watford Twitter accounts have tweeted out. Here's the relevant section: "As it stands, discussions are blocked. Rennes president Nicolas Holveck does not wish to enter into any negotiations until the London club settles his draft - of some € 8m - due in connection with the transfer of Ismaila Sarr in August 2019 (€ 30m plus bonus). Watford has stepped up initiatives in this matter in recent days and has not lost hope of renewing the link with Rennes. By paying the amount due by the end of the season. Enough to convince the Breton club? To see from here this weekend. For a few hours, Rennes has also known that at least one Spanish club (as part of a dry loan) has positioned itself to welcome "JLS". (https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Transferts-ca-bouge-pour-james-lea-siliki-rennes/1217227) Would be a loan with option to buy for 4m Euros.
Some rumours linking former Watford loanee Mbaye Niang who is now at Rennes to Udinese. I wonder if that would offer some means to clear this blockage re Siliki and our Sarr transfer debt.
He’s been linked with Genoa too, yes. But there does seem to be interest from Udinese too: https://m.tuttoudinese.it/calciomer...unta-anche-quello-di-un-vecchio-pallino-80381 and, puzzlingly, he just shared pictures of both Udine and Genoa on his Instagram story this evening: https://m.tuttoudinese.it/calciomer...u-instagram-una-storia-che-ritrae-udine-80392 I do remember him being quite mercurial. There was some controversy that he’d jumped off a roof and videoed it a little before he joined us.
We need much, much more of this sort of thing. With Penaranda binned off behind the iron curtain, and Success dedicating himself to football, our squad is sorely lacking the kind of unifying quality such behavior encourages. Equally, as fans starved of entertainment by our plodding, cumbersome squad, we also need it.
Who says it’s trouble? There’s no way we’d have paid the whole Sarr fee up front. I’m sure it would have been spread out in instalments.
To be fair, a couple of the reports I’ve read trying to source this story say that we don’t owe them this instalment and the Rennes owner wants it paid early to grease the wheels of any deal and to alleviate their financial issues. I think if we withheld a payment of €8m for a player (certainly one that’s been in the public eye in transfer windows like Sarr has), it would have been widely reported by now. Pretty confident this is just Rennes bargaining if true, even if I am normally critical of how we do business.
