johnmc said:
Right ok. Listen. There is no way Aguero would sign a contract for £140k a week. A basic salary has nothing to do with anything. a basic means nothing if the bonus package is nigh on guaranteed. If you type it into Google his salary comes up at $18.3m on Forbes (your source) and that's before commercial earnings. That's quite a bit above £200k per week. I could work for a basic of £10 a week but if my bonus just means turning up for work then my basic doesn't count for much does it. Look at bankers salaries would you. Them bank can make a loss but a million still goes their way in bonuses. Honestly it's been all over the press.
I won't patronise you with full stops or anything but to say Aguero is on £140k a week is severely naive.
I'll say this once because I really can't be bothered with this conversation past that. A newspaper claimed that Sterling's weekly wage would be £150k per week. That's his weekly basic. Bonuses are not paid by the week outside of commission based jobs. They didn't claim he'd be earning a salary of £7.8m a year, they said 150k per week. That's basic. Whatever way you try to twist what I've been saying to suit your own argument, I've made it clear every step of the way I was only referring to basic weekly wage. I then stated that, to the best of my knowledge, from info released by the club and Ferran Soriano's preferred method of structuring staff costs, we preferred to pay a lower basic wage with higher bonuses and that David Silva and Sergio Aguero were on £140k a week before bonuses. Are you with me so far? So Raheem Sterling would not get paid £150k per week basic. Again, basic. I'm not getting into what their bonuses are, because they're fucking varied. I don't even know what my own fucking bonuses will be at the end of the year. But that £150k a week figure is bullshit planted by the pro Liverpool cunts in the media in their little phony war with Sterling at the moment. Because that's not how we pay our staff. We could sit here and argue exact figures all night, but neither of us know what they are. What is public knowledge however, is our preferred employee benefit structure. That is the point I'm making. If you want to try and twist words to suit your argument, kindly fuck off and find a politician, because I don't have the time.
