07-10-2019, 01:55 AM
When handing out salaries, we have to be careful not to overpay. We always wonder why we can't sell players, and many times it's not because there aren't buyers to pay the transfer fee.....rather it's the fact that there is no buyers willing to keep paying these guys 2/3+ mil net. Bennacer was apparently getting paid 400k at Empoli. The other interested team was Fiorentina and they were only offering 1mil. We were offering 1.2 and raised that to 1.5+bonuses that can take it up to 2mil. At this point, I don't see why we should keep going up, because if Bennacer doesn't work out, which mid-table team will pay him 2mil net salary? We'll be stuck with him. Bennacer still has a lot to prove. If he does well, I'm sure it won't be an issue to renew and raise that salary to 2.5-3mil or whatever. But the point is, although it would suck to lose out on a good player for 1mil a year, we have to be disciplined. Yes, I know, it sucks that Antonio Donnarumma is getting paid 1mil to sit on the bench as a 3rd GK. I know Bertolacci was getting paid 2.5mil for nothing. I know many many players have inflated salaries. But that's just the problem. We have to fix this and be smart about it. The mistakes form the past should not be repeated and hopefully we can slowly get rid of them.