While United must conclude any incoming business by Thursday afternoon, they must also submit their player
bonus schedule to the Premier League before the new season starts on Friday.
An unsigned
bonus schedule - which has been an ever-present theme at United under Ashley and was unsigned in the first weeks of last season - is another factor frustrating the playing staff.
Any such offer would contravene Premier League rules which state that every team must lodge their
bonus schedule before the start of a season.
"If you have a solid practice at a wirehouse, you can count on getting 100% to 150% up front with a back-end
bonus schedule to get you anywhere from 200% to over 300% -- if you increase your assets by 50%." That works out to total packages that could go into the low 300% range, he clarifies.
And the
bonus schedule included in the contract was just as lucrative.
"A former employer set up a very aggressive
bonus schedule to help relieve our oldest balances.
It was played out with no resolution to the
bonus schedule row which Rafa Benitez admitted affected the player's focus out in Portugal.
It was played out with no resolution to the
bonus schedule row which Rafa Benitez admitted affected the player's focus out in Portugal and with the manager now admitting that any late progress in the transfer window will be nothing more than a salvage job when what he'd wanted was for the club to follow through on meticulous plans he had laid to get Newcastle challenging for the top eight and a trophy.
A whopping 89.84% said that McClaren must play his strongest team in both cups, with 7.45% saying that rule should only apply to the FA Cup, which is likely to be the only competition prioritised in the players' new
bonus schedule.
"And what frustrates me more are veiled suggestions that our
bonus schedule at Cardiff City is in any way substandard compared to similar clubs of our level.
City's 250 million pound super-squad studied the small print in their
bonus schedule after beating Arsenal 3-0 in the quarter-final.
