Half Time Leicester 0 Spurs 2

[Zooropa]

You leave the country for 5 minutes and.........

[Zooropa]

I think I preferred the score at half time!

[John Landon]

6:1 ! Total Annihilation.. Did Leicester actually turn up for the match ? ......

[Zooropa]

6:1 ! Total Annihilation.. Did Leicester actually turn up for the match ? ......

Lol!

I could make excuses like our central defensive partnership were out injured and our best midfielder was also out injured but I wont.

Unacceptable performance.

[newcastle]

I confess to having zero knowledge of, or interest in, football.

Do you think "performance-related" remuneration would have any benefit?

Premier league footballers seem to earn a fair crack even when underperforming.

[Zooropa]

I confess to having zero knowledge of, or interest in, football.

Do you thing "performance-related" remuneration would have any benefit?

Premier league footballers seem to earn a fair crack even when underperforming.

There is way, way, too much money in football, salaries are off the scale but unless there are blanket rules things like performance related pay wont work because players simply wont join clubs with such a policy in place.

Ironically, there is already performance related pay in terms of the bonuses players can earn, these vary from club to club and player contract to player contract, things like extra money for wins, clean sheets, targets achieved etc.

We all have a bad day at the office and I cant really complain about my team after the last couple of years.

We need to buy a lot more wisely in this closed season window - I predict a top 6 finish and European football qualification next season.

[newcastle]

I don't expect a limit on wages would work...unless it was universal.

I'd prefer the Gov't to apply a high tax rate to obscene levels of income...and not just in football.

[Zooropa]

But we do get into grey areas when it comes to assessing "obscene" pay.

Ive always believed that a person's pay should reflect their value to the company and their performance versus other employees doing the same job.

When David Beckham moved to Spain there was uproar over his pay.

But the revenue to his new club easily justified his pay, sales of the club's shirts more than made up for his pay alone.

There is a lot of talk over same job same pay, but we have all worked at places and witnessed people clearly working harder and getting better results than others in the same job.

A company is then faced with a difficult decision.

If you pay the worker doing a worse job the same then you are not offering any incentive for improvement and at the same time handing the better worker a big disincentive to continue to excel.

Why should a worker going the extra mile be on the same as the worker dragging their feet?

[newcastle]

I agree with what you say.

But, in my view, some levels of remuneration are "obscene" and it's nothing to do with the arguments about respective pay of different individuals , their perceived worth or the value they add to the organisation which employs them.

If you are going to pay someone, say $1,000,000 plus a year then I think it's entirely reasonable that the state should require them to tender a good proportion of the excess over $1 million...not just 40% (and much less in some jurisdictions)....by way of tax.

From each according to his ability....

One of the few - perhaps the only - tenets of Marx I have any time for

[Zooropa]

I agree with what you say.

But, in my view, some levels of remuneration are "obscene" and it's nothing to do with the arguments about respective pay of different individuals , their perceived worth or the value they add to the organisation which employs them.

If you are going to pay someone, say $1,000,000 plus a year then I think it's entirely reasonable that the state should require them to tender a good proportion of the excess over $1 million...not just 40% (and much less in some jurisdictions)....by way of tax.

From each according to his ability....

One of the few - perhaps the only - tenets of Marx I have any time for

That's one more tenet than me!

[Zooropa]

I don't disagree that some levels of pay are, I'm only saying that not all levels of pay that at first look appear obscene actually are.