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Suarez gets himself a payrise

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Liverpool's Luis Suárez has pay rise to more than £100,000 a week

• Suárez's success triggers incentive-based increase
• Daniel Sturridge set to resume Suárez partnership​
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Liverpool's Luis Suarez has scored 21 league goals this season to trigger a lucrative raise in his weekly wage. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images
Luis Suárez is understood to have received a substantial pay rise which takes his wage to more than £100,000 a week under the terms of his incentive-based contract at Liverpool. The striker is the first notable beneficiary of a system put in place by the owners, Fenway Sports Group, which rewards players for reaching certain targets.
Suárez was believed to be earning £80,000 a week under the terms of the contract extension he signed last summer but the Uruguayan's impressive form, which includes 21 league goals this season, has triggered the improved wage.
FSG introduced the policy in an attempt to incentivise players and avoid paying over the odds to members of the squad who are not performing as expected.
Suárez looks set to be joined in attack at home to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday by Daniel Sturridge, who has not played since he scored in the 5-0 victory over Swansea, on 17 February, due to ineligibility in the Europa League and a thigh injury.
Sturridge, a January signing from Chelsea, returned to training this week. The Liverpool winger Stewart Downing has described the partnership as a "nightmare for defenders". Staff and PA​
 
I realise this is more money we're forking out, but in this instance I have absolutely no objection.

If our problem is finding more money to pay the players who've vastly overachieved then that's a good problem to have. Incentive-based-pay seems like a far more natural fit than to handing out $100K to Joe Cole cos he did something 4 years earlier at a different club.

If only we had this problem more often.
 
Of course he fully deserves it. One of the finest players I've seen in a Liverpool shirt.
 
studsup said:
Someone probably screwed up the incentives in Skrtel's and Agger's new contracts.
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Aye, depends on what 'overachieving' really means doesn't it?

Downing for example could rightly argue he's due more money cos our last manager claimed "he's been a better player than we thought".
 
This is how a contract should be structured. FSG get a lot of stick but this is positive.
 
I doubt it, but it would be excellent news if such a system included a drop in wages to a pre determined core salary following a poor season.
 
Tal said:
I doubt it, but it would be excellent news if such a system included a drop in wages to a pre determined core salary following a poor season.
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Plus incremental paying back of a percentage of their transfer fee. That should teach them to not suck after a big move.
 
He should be the best paid player in the club, by a long way, if this incentive based pay was as clever as people say it is, it does not sound to me that he is at all.

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how do you do this for midfielders

Lucas gets pay rise for more saving tackles?
 
Great idea. Do you think it will just last until the end of the season and then start again at £80k? Or will it stay at £100k and then be triggered to be even higher if he hits 20 league goals again next season?

I think team incentives e.g. 5% increase if the club has a certain amount of points by a certain date etc.
 
When he scores 50 league goals next season we will be forking out half a million a week.

Not to mention the bonuses he will get for winning the league, FA Cup & Champions League (for which we will qualify based on finishing fifth this season and Utd getting banned for the soon to be revealed match fixing scandal over the last 25 years)
 
He's worth every single penny he's earning.
Not only has he been scoring and creating goals, he's also been working as hard as anybody around and his hate-to-lose attitude has been an example for every player at the club.
 
He could potentially bankrupt the club with his goals. SELL!
 
Gerry_A_Trick said:
Would he have played so well if he didn't have this clause? Has he only improved as he's greedy?
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I doubt it. Even last year when he wasn't scoring he was one of the hardest working players in the team. I think he is a winner, pure and simple.
 
Ha!

Every time he scores from now on I'm mentally going to hear a "Kerr-Ching" sound 🙂
 
Gerry_A_Trick said:
A winner that scores more when there's an monetary incentive?
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I suppose you can't rule it out without knowing the man. But I think his on the field indiscretions indicate that he wants to win at any cost.
 
To be honest, I'm only having a laugh. I'm not against performance related bonuses, and am happy Suarez that has justified one.
 
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