{"id":583,"date":"2008-08-27T22:08:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T21:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2008-08-27T22:08:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T21:08:28","slug":"footballing-business-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Footballing business sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve followed the professional soccer world at all in the last decade, you&#8217;ll be fully aware that some of them are on outrageous money. <a href=\"http:\/\/football365.com\/john_nicholson\/0,17033,8746_4051563,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Nicholson<\/a> advocates a move away from huge set wages to a performance-related scheme, and the man speaks the truth:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"intelliTXT\">A player&#8217;s agent will be quick to ask for more money for his player after one good season &#8211; but if he has a bad season will not expect his wages to drop.<\/p>\n<p>The time has come to change this.<\/p>\n<p>We need a large element of their wages to be performance-related and on top of that if you&#8217;re injured, your money must be cut radically. Players can easily insure their income to cover themselves for periods of lay-off &#8211; it should not be a burden the club has to bear. Players expect win bonuses but not loss reductions. Why not? That&#8217;s just having your cake and cramming it in your gob, son. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve followed the professional soccer world at all in the last decade, you&#8217;ll be fully aware that some of them are on outrageous money. John Nicholson advocates a move away from huge set wages to a performance-related scheme, and the man speaks the truth: A player&#8217;s agent will be quick to ask for more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}