City Player Salaries

[Wonderwall]

Zabaleta ahould have his salary doubled immediately.

It is appalling that Jovetic, Garcia and Nastasic are on more than him!

I think they are all on obscene money, they should not give zaba a rise, the other sick-notes and work-shy players should donate a % of their salaries to Zaba to make up his money.

If those are correct figures, then whoever is negotiating the salaries needs to be publicly flogged

[Dameerto]

A lot of those are inherited though. And you can't negotiate selective wage drops or they'll just laugh at you, so the alternative is to sell or release over several seasons the ones which are giving the club the worst value (which isn't automatically the ones which are being paid the most). When you look at it this way, it explains some of the recent player movements and rumoured future movements.

[Hutch's Shoulder]

I'm a bit suspicious of those figures without knowing how they are calculated; most contracts have add-ins, image rights etc.

[nottsblue]

I think they are all on obscene money, they should not give zaba a rise, the other sick-notes and work-shy players should donate a % of their salaries to Zaba to make up his money.

If those are correct figures, then whoever is negotiating the salaries needs to be publicly flogged

Hear hear. Where will it be a 5 years? £1m a week for the top players? Fuckin obscene imo.

[BlueinBosnia]

I'm a bit suspicious of those figures without knowing how they are calculated; most contracts have add-ins, image rights etc.

I think those are bare minimum take-homes; i.e. what a player earns if they don't feature in a single game, don't appear in any adverts, and we don't pay out a single trophy/league position bonus.

[Lee_R]

Eye watering that figure next to Sinclair.

[Jorgobot]

I think they are all on obscene money, they should not give zaba a rise, the other sick-notes and work-shy players should donate a % of their salaries to Zaba to make up his money.

If those are correct figures, then whoever is negotiating the salaries needs to be publicly flogged

Public execution? In addition to demichaelis?

[patrickblue]

I think they are all on obscene money, they should not give zaba a rise, the other sick-notes and work-shy players should donate a % of their salaries to Zaba to make up his money.

If those are correct figures, then whoever is negotiating the salaries needs to be publicly flogged

Hear hear. Where will it be a 5 years? £1m a week for the top players? Fuckin obscene imo.

Of course it's obscene, but that's a whole different discussion. Part of the world we live in.

[Saul Goodman]

According to ESPN, City have the third highest team payroll of any professional sports team.

1. Los Angeles Dodgers ($241.1 million)
2. New York Yankees ($209.8 million)
3. Manchester City FC ($202.74 million)
4. FC Barcelona ($193.6 million)
5. Real Madrid ($189.66 million)