ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Fri Mar 13, 2015 4:44 pm wrote:If I was FSG I'd give Brendan a Pardew style 10 year contract, I think he's the best young manager in the game and I'd be moving heaven and earth to make sure clubs like City or Chelsea don't turn his head.
BR's position is a conundrum. He's a Top 5 manager, he's the youngest of those 5 and he's the most successful young manager. Regardless of whether you like him, he's in a strong negotiating position.
If you google EPL top paid managers, you see BR is paid 3.5 million pound, Pellirini 3.5, Wenger 7, Van Gaal 7 and Maureen 8.7 million. Yes I was surprised by Pellegrini. The point is 3 of those clubs are in the market for a long term replacement: Arsenal, City and possibly Ure.
If one of those clubs offered Brendan a 2 million pay rise..... to what would still 'only' be 5.5 million a year, would he go? And if he went could you blame him?
The downside is if we lost him now, it would set our revival plans back another 3 years. In truth after recent traumas within the club, I don't know whether the energy exists to pick it up yet again and start over. We can't afford to lose BR at this critical stage.
In short, and I hate to say it, but BR isn't paid enough and I expect this will be addressed at the end of the season if we want him to commit 10+ years (via one contract or 3, that 's what we need him to do).
We all knew that we were linked with this striker, that stiker, Cavani etc and the longer the summer went on the more worried I was getting - I imagine you were too?? Then we got Balo in - he was worth a gamble at £16 mill, we had nothing to lose. Then we lost Sturridge. Bang - that was 50 goals plus gone at a stroke. Nearly any club would struggle after that. But it was the fact we did not buy that 20+ striker in the first place that was a double whammy for us.
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