Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Rumour on Twitter

https://twitter.com/TheCantonEnd/status/1526257647565119490

"Joe Ralls was supposedly offered a 12k per week contract, his agent then asked for 14k per week which the club did offer.

The club proposed a 3 year deal and Ralls failed to sign the contract."

[2b2bdoo]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

I feel like it’s one of those where I’d like him to stay but we can’t just keep paying big wages. It is what it is and if he moves on so be it.

[Rjk]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

he's probably got a better offer from elsewhere

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

Rumour on Twitter

https://twitter.com/TheCantonEnd/status/1526257647565119490

"Joe Ralls was supposedly offered a 12k per week contract, his agent then asked for 14k per week which the club did offer.

The club proposed a 3 year deal and Ralls failed to sign the contract."

He's probably leaving, let's be honest but this is a rumour, on a rumour mill twitter fan page, off a reddit page. It's hardly categorical evidence.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

I feel like it’s one of those where I’d like him to stay but we can’t just keep paying big wages. It is what it is and if he moves on so be it.

If he has been offered 12k a week, that isn't big wages by Championship standards at all! There will be League One players on more money. The average Championship wage is 29k a week.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

If he has been offered 12k a week, that isn't big wages by Championship standards at all! There will be League One players on more money. The average Championship wage is 29k a week.

That average wage will plummet over the next few seasons.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

That average wage will plummet over the next few seasons.

Potentially but 12k a week will not be "big money" for the the top earner in a Championship squad, especially one that Morison says is top 5 in the division.

[jon1959]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

If he has been offered 12k a week, that isn't big wages by Championship standards at all! There will be League One players on more money. The average Championship wage is 29k a week.

That figure for average Championship wage surprised me. I didn’t think it was that high - and it will drop in coming years. When I did a few searches I came up with average wage figures ranging from £7k to £35k. No idea on the real number although there will clearly be a range from Academy graduates to established ‘stars’.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

He's probably leaving, let's be honest but this is a rumour, on a rumour mill twitter fan page, off a reddit page. It's hardly categorical evidence.

Indeed, why my first three words were "Rumour on Twitter".

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

That figure for average Championship wage surprised me. I didn’t think it was that high - and it will drop in coming years. When I did a few searches I came up with average wage figures ranging from £7k to £35k. No idea on the real number although there will clearly be a range from Academy graduates to established ‘stars’.

I think it'll be interesting to see how many clubs use more of their own young talent over the next few seasons. We could end up seeing record numbers of good players starting next season without clubs as they refuse contracts worth quite a bit less than they've been used to. There will be the hope that clubs then start panicking and find ways of paying a few grand more than they intended, but there won't be many and some players will be forced into substantially reducing their income.

[WJ99mobile]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

That average wage will plummet over the next few seasons.

There'll be a 2 tier wage structure in football before long

Elite players will be on £1m a week and the championship players will be back on beer tokens.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

There'll be a 2 tier wage structure in football before long

Elite players will be on £1m a week and the championship players will be back on beer tokens.

That was the way before George Best started playing and Man Utd thought it would be cheaper to pay him money.

[LeningradCowboy]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

If he has been offered 12k a week, that isn't big wages by Championship standards at all! There will be League One players on more money. The average Championship wage is 29k a week.

Is that the mean or the median? I very much doubt that half the players in the Championship are being paid over £29k per week.

[EastbourneBlue]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

Potentially but 12k a week will not be "big money" for the the top earner in a Championship squad, especially one that Morison says is top 5 in the division.

If we can’t afford it, we can’t afford it

[2b2bdoo]

Re: Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

If he has been offered 12k a week, that isn't big wages by Championship standards at all! There will be League One players on more money. The average Championship wage is 29k a week.

No 14k isn’t big wages but I’m guesses he wants bigger wages. We need to cut back so if he can get more elsewhere which I think he will then so be it. His injury record does concern me for someone being one of our bigger earners.