Mickstar wrote:
kezza wrote:
If you believe reports in the paper we have a very tight salary cap.
HUN mentions the contract sizes of several players and says we may struggle to fit Walsh in for the contract he deserves.
I hope this is not true as we had so much space only a couple of years ago.
Terrifying thought hey Kezz...............struggling to pay Walsh ?
Have a look at the numbers he's spruiked in his rubbisg article in the trash paper.
He doesn't say Carlton HAVE a problem.
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The other issue for Carlton over the next two seasons is an extremely tight salary cap that is going to have to find room for emerging superstar’s Sam Walsh new deal as he comes out of contract at the end of 2022.
Issue?
Extremely tight salary cap?
Find room?....well he hasn't said we haven't got room. He's playing on emotions of the reader. An overreaction by the reader, and his comment becomes fact. Rubbish.
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Patrick Cripps, Adam Saad, Zac Williams, Harry McKay, Mitch McGovern and Jack Martin are all in the $750,000 and over bracket which could see someone like Jack Silvagni offered far less than his 2021 form deserves.
He has no idea what the front ended payments are.
He doesn't know Cripps salary.
Jack's 2 year deal will be made public. No issues there.
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It might even mean Walsh is paid under market value.
He didn't state that Walsh will reject an offer, and did state Walsh will be paid.
Cripps' contract aside because its brand new, lets put that aside.
Martin reported $700K per season. $1M front loaded.
Saad reported Essendon** matched the $650K Carlton offered. ie not overpaid
Williams reported to be $50K more than the final offer from GWS which was $700K ie not overpaid.
We had room to get another trade done last year but couldn't get contracted players over the line, hence the balance of the 105% front loaded Williams, or whoever.
The club has stated we have room for another 2 stars end of this year. There must be plenty of room for Walsh and cripps and Cripps stated he took unders to allow us to target more stars as we build a Premiership team.
I'm not worried one bit, because of the source of this article. After all its Jon Anderson and The Herald Sun. How can anyone trust either? Naive would.
They don't let the truth get in the way of a good story that sells papers. Money is their purpose in life, not reporting the truth.