At least he's trying..

[Wycombe Royal]

I don't believe for one second that Mooney is on £12k per week.

[Focher]

a jolly good at anybody who thinks they know how much any of our players are on a week

[Royalee]

I don't believe for one second that Mooney is on £12k per week.

Look at how ridiculously high our wages were in the figures released by the club recently. Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

[CMRoyal]

Who the hell negotiated for Mooney to be on £12k a week???? Whoever it is, assuming it's true, needs shooting. Mooney was never even a regular first team player.

Doubt it. At least not on his lonesome anyway. Isn't Hammond the man who put(s) the wage structure in place? Mooney will have been signed as a first-team squad member and thus fitted into was was at the time an over-inflated salary-band.

Exactly, a first team squad member wanted by Coppell.

The original question was "who negotiated [the salary]?" I'm not that daft as to be diverted onto yet another argument about our greatest ever manager.

[Wycombe Royal]

I don't believe for one second that Mooney is on £12k per week.

Look at how ridiculously high our wages were in the figures released by the club recently. Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

But that was based on on the 08/09 when still had a lot of players on Premiership contracts....... It only takes a handful to be on £15k to £20k per week (or more in the case of Hunt and Doyle) and there you have the high wages they reported.

It does not mean players like Mooney have high wages.

[Royalee]

I agree that we had one or two on huge wages, but I still reckon we'll be paying Mooney a lot - after all the likes of Duberry were on big wages!

[andrew1957]

I wouldn't be suprised to see MArek leave in Jan.

He's the highest earner now by some way.

Apparently Mooney is on £12k a week... Charlton are covering £3k.

If we are paying Mooney £12K a week then Sir John and NH should be dragged straight to the funny farm for testing. Bearing in mind he was considered a high risk punt and we only paid about £200,000 I fail to believe we agreed to pay £624,000 per annum in wages. If we did then we deserve to be in financial difficulty.

[Wycombe Royal]

I agree that we had one or two on huge wages, but I still reckon we'll be paying Mooney a lot - after all the likes of Duberry were on big wages!

Duberry was a highish earner before he joined us and had played in the top flight.

Mooney came from the Irish and is on his first pro contract in English football. I know you dislike Duberry but you can surely come up with something better than that.......

[Royalee]

If I'm being honest, I don't think there has to be a reason why his wages should be high for the club to pay him ridiculous amounts. Nobody other than Hull came in for Hunt in the end, yet we upped his pay to £25k a week when he'd barely held a first team place down for a year. We go on about what a well-run club we are, but that seems to be less and less the case, which is why it really wouldn't surprise me if Mooney was on the money being touted. I can't really add anything more because frankly there is no argument that Mooney should be paid anything like £11k! I just think we could be (or certainly overpaying him based on what I've seen him do on a football pitch), hence he keeps being pushed out on loan so that another club shoulders some of his wages.

[Wycombe Royal]

If I'm being honest, I don't think there has to be a reason why his wages should be high for the club to pay him ridiculous amounts. Nobody other than Hull came in for Hunt in the end, yet we upped his pay to £25k a week when he'd barely held a first team place down for a year.

Initially Hunt got an increase to ward off the attentions of Sunderland and then he got an increase when we negotiated a change to his release clause thus keeping him a the club for longer. Was that second new contract the correct decision? Probably not, but at the time it underlined the ambition of Madejski to get us back to the Prem at the first attempt. When it failed he had no choice but to ditch the high earners.

[Focher]

id be very interested to see what Shane Long is on a week, for some reason i reckon its pretty high

[Ian Royal]

So where did the money set aside for the Tommy Smith deal go?

I'm worried the answer is Shaun Cummings....

And Howard.

[loyalroyal4life]

I don't believe for one second that Mooney is on £12k per week.

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

The average Championship wage if around 3k to 4k a week.

If Mooney is on that much I'll eat my own willy.

[Royalwaster]

The average Championship wage if around 3k to 4k a week.

If Mooney is on that much I'll eat my own willy.

No way - average?! What, including Newcastle and Middlesbro? No, way. That would mean several players are on 1k a week or less.

[DOYLERSAROYALER]

The average Championship wage if around 3k to 4k a week.

If Mooney is on that much I'll eat my own willy.

No way - average?! What, including Newcastle and Middlesbro? No, way. That would mean several players are on 1k a week or less.

Hard to know but fact is that Nicky Forster is on £1200 a week at Brighton ...so its credible that 3-4k a week is the state of the nation in Championship these days

[Ian Royal]

I agree that we had one or two on huge wages, but I still reckon we'll be paying Mooney a lot - after all the likes of Duberry were on big wages!

Is that Michael "premier league and european experience, signed whilst we were top half of the top flight" Duberry.

I'm truely shocked if he was on big money.



We still have a few players we could probably get some cash for, some even quite a lot. We could certainly afford to flog one of Gunnarsson, Cisse or Tabb. Matejovsky, Davies or Howard could go, Mooney could go, Armstrong could go. Andersen or Hamer could go....

We could conceiveably get £50k bare minimum for almost all those players IMO, some a lot more.

[paultheroyal]

Matejovsky = 22k a week.

HTH

[Ian Royal]

Matejovsky = 22k a week.

HTH

In the Prem maybe...

[andrew1957]

Matejovsky = 22k a week.

HTH

This may be true but if we agreed to pay £22K per week for an unproven (admittedly international) second division Czech player we deserve to be in a lot of financial trouble and there is no way RFC could ever again claim to be a well run club.