Prize pot of £10m for promotion

The Mail Online are claiming that Vincent Tan has allocated £10m to the squad as a prize pot if they go up automatically, and £8m if they are promoted via the play-offs:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...promotion.html

Cardiff’s players are in line to share a potential prize pot of £10million should they gain promotion to the Premier League, Sportsmail can reveal.

In one of the Championship’s most generous bonus schemes, the squad will split the eight-figure sum for going up automatically.

If Neil Warnock’s side manage to reach the Premier League via the play-offs the total money pool reduces to £8m, which is still high for the division.

Before each season all clubs agree bonus schemes with their players to incentivise certain targets but the amounts vary. Cardiff’s £10m total is regarded as at the top end by rivals.

For example, Burnley’s players shared £8.5m for Premier League survival last season. Leicester’s squad were handed £6.5m for winning the Premier League title in 2015-16, having only planned for finishing above 12th.

The substantial numbers indicate Cardiff’s aspirations at the start of the campaign and underline the fine work being done by Warnock, as well as a group of players performing at peak levels.

The club’s 1-0 win at Ipswich on Wednesday night trimmed the gap to leaders Wolves to nine points and left third-place Aston Villa four behind with 13 games left. After a difficult Christmas period Cardiff have won five and drawn two of the past seven Championship matches.

Having finished 12th last season, promotion was seen as a highly challenging objective seven months ago but owner Vincent Tan would happily hand over the reward should Cardiff complete the job and seal a lucrative return to the top flight after a four-year absence.

It is understood Cardiff’s money would be shared equally per match by each member of Warnock’s 18-man squad, regardless of whether individuals actually played or not.

Should Cardiff go up automatically it would translate as approximately £215,000 allocated for each fixture and mean £12,000 per player.

Those who feature in all 46 games would receive north of £550,000. The glory of reaching the Premier League is indisputably the driving factor in Cardiff’s performances, however.

Warnock, who took over in October 2016 with the team second from bottom, would also be rewarded with a handsome bonus should he achieve a record eighth promotion of his managerial career.

If they manage to get promoted they'll all have earned every penny, and I'd imagine VT would be delighted to pay it...

Sorry Jon, I took too long trying to copy + paste with this silly laptop :hehe:

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To be fair, their sport department is actually quite good