Barton Contract

[maccatwo]

If and I say if we paying £60K per week for 5 years I am happy because to buy Barton as player under contact who was not free you be looking at 12 mill IMO and then wages even at say 30k it would end up total of 19.8mill. This deal works out at 15.6mill so good deal.

[80sCasual]

Just to clarify I'm not ITK if there is such a thing.

I've been looking at tweets and Geordie forums today

The offer mentioned by some Geordies is 5 years at 60 k a week let's face it the offer must be massive to attract a player like Barton.

Ironically this option is probably much cheap than buying Parker

I think they or you are getting your wires crossed that is the contract and wages he was on up there, we are apparently offering more than he is on though to entice him.

[maverick69]

I'd be very surprised if he is on more than say, £40k per week. I think it'll be the signing on fee that will be the major carrot.

[MattyRangers]

I'd be very surprised if he is on more than say, £40k per week. I think it'll be the signing on fee that will be the major carrot.

The fact we dont have to pay a transfer fee for him free's up alot of cash for us. For example, I cant see us being interested in parker aswell, and thats 5/6/7mill we were prepared to spend that we now dont need to. Taking the lowest figure there, 5mill, we could afford to give Joey a £750,000 lump sum signing on fee plus up his current wages to 60k a week which would cost approx £10mill in wages spread over 3 years (including his signing on fee), equating to the same expenditure as if we had bought Parker for 5mill and he had only been earning 28k a week (which he would obviously have been earning alot more than!) and without a signing on fee included.

Obviously these figure are all based upon guesswork/assumptions, but just used to show that the fact he is on a free transfer does mean we can afford to offer him financial insentives that we could not otherwise offer.