Darren Bent, whats he worth a week??

[chinaman]

Think DG is probably right.

 

[paul_1979yid]

At the mo if he is being paid 20k a week then its too much!

 

[guiltyparty]

I imagine the 'E' stands for earnings, not euros. Even with the euro conversion, it makes him on £75K, which is still cobblers.

 

[sloth]

Right you lot, here's the answer...

DB's on a six year contract if you mutiply the €495,000/month figure by 12 and then 6 you get €35.64m or (at today's exchange rate) £27.38m approx. Still with me?

OK subtract the £16.5m fee he signed from that £27.38m and you get £11.38m remaining. Divide that by 6 and then again by 52 and you come up with a figure of £36,474 p/w for his salary. Which is pretty much bang on the £38,000 he reportedly signed for. Add in the fluctuating exchange rate and i'd say you'd be on the money.

What those dramatic headline figures disguise is the sell on value of a young player on a long contract versus old players on massive wages and medium length contracts.

It's the difference between buying a house and paying a mortgage and renting a penthouse at extortionate rent. One is an investment as well as a place to live, the other is merely a bottomless pit as far as your cash is concerned although admitedly at the same time a very nice pad.

 

[paul_1979yid]

Right you lot, here's the answer...

DB's on a six year contract if you mutiply the €495,000/month figure by 12 and then 6 you get €35.64m or (at today's exchange rate) £27.38m approx. Still with me?

OK subtract the £16.5m fee he signed from that £27.38m and you get £11.38m remaining. Divide that by 6 and then again by 52 and you come up with a figure of £36,474 p/w for his salary. Which is pretty much bang on the £38,000 he reportedly signed for. Add in the fluctuating exchange rate and i'd say you'd be on the money.

What those dramatic headline figures disguise is the sell on value of a young player on a long contract versus old players on massive wages and medium length contracts.

It's the difference between buying a house and paying a mortgage and renting a penthouse at extortionate rent. One is an investment as well as a place to live, the other is merely a bottomless pit as far as your cash is concerned although admitedly at the same time a very nice pad.

Well done old boy! I think you have cracked it!!!:clap:

38k a week though?? Still too much, based on this season IMO

 

[TopSpurMan]

when you hear stories like bent is paid 95k per week - you need to think which club you support and if it is Spurs then you need to to think is it likely then we would pay anyone 95k per week? Then you decide nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[SpurSince57]

Well done old boy! I think you have cracked it!!!:clap:

38k a week though?? Still too much, based on this season IMO

Well, we signed him to score goals, and in the equivalent of just under nine games he's managed four—pro rata, only marginally worse than Berbatov and Keane. Given a couple of injuries and fragmented appearances, I don't think you can complain about that. Far less, I'd suggest, than Barcodes fans can complain about Owen, or Scousers about Kuyt—or Barca fans about Henry, for that matter.

To add to Sloth's figuring, we're only paying Charlton £15.5m—the other million will be an add-on. Subtract the £4m or thereabouts profit we made on Mido and Defoe and that fee becomes a much more realistic £11.5m—and if Defoe had gone in the summer, as he was supposed to, we'd have got a couple of million more for him, bringing Bent's fee under the £10m mark. That would also have meant we wouldn't have had to accommodate Defoe, and Bent would have had far more opportunity to make an impact.

 

[paul_1979yid]

Well, we signed him to score goals, and in the equivalent of just under nine games he's managed four—pro rata, only marginally worse than Berbatov and Keane. Given a couple of injuries and fragmented appearances, I don't think you can complain about that. Far less, I'd suggest, than Barcodes fans can complain about Owen, or Scousers about Kuyt—or Barca fans about Henry, for that matter.

To add to Sloth's figuring, we're only paying Charlton £15.5m—the other million will be an add-on. Subtract the £4m or thereabouts profit we made on Mido and Defoe and that fee becomes a much more realistic £11.5m—and if Defoe had gone in the summer, as he was supposed to, we'd have got a couple of million more for him, bringing Bent's fee under the £10m mark. That would also have meant we wouldn't have had to accommodate Defoe, and Bent would have had far more opportunity to make an impact.

I know why we signed him, but we signed Robbo to stop goals??
oh and those 3 palyers....Owen, Kuyt and Henry....Would take all 3 of them over Bent. EVEN greedy Mr Owen!!

 

[bogosian]

Worth every penny

now we found out what he's dealing with off the pitch. gifting love to a lucky selection of spurs supporters. :shrug:

 

[tottenham4life]

Bent is on 45 grand a week with a bonus of 50 grand every goal.

 

[spursyido1]

anyone else noticed the lack of scum players on that list? also, would have thought that more liverpool players, ie carragher would have madeit. i also very much doubt kewell is on that money!!