Interesting point raised here that people often assume when there is a salary dump… and I don’t believe it’s correct.
If player X is contracted to earn $600k at a club and has one year left of that deal on guaranteed money, he’s not going to move to another club and spread the exact same amount of money out over 2 years.
It doesn’t work like that - it has to be substantially more $$ to tempt the player to make a move, but over a longer period.
- saw several people on the main BF board claim the same thing about Jack Bowes when the Cats took on his salary dump. Bowes left the Suns while owed $1.6 million over the next 2 years. That was guaranteed, contracted money for Bowes that someone has to pay him, no matter what, even if he refused to leave and rotted in the suns VFL side for the next 2 seasons. Worst case scenario he is guaranteed that $1.6m of money.
He didn’t just move to the cats and spread the $1.6 over 4 years. If he did that he would effectively be working for free for years 3 and 4 of his new deal. No player or agent is stupid enough to do that. We don’t know exactly of course, but as a minimum I’d guess Bowes and his agent said, fine - I’ll sign a 4 year deal at the cats worth $2m, and that means I’m basically adding an extra $200k per annum in years 3 and 4 to my existing (cast iron guaranteed) contract of $1.6 for the next 2 years.
Thereby spreading the $2m over 4 years he’s getting $500k per year for 4 years instead of $800k for 2 years and then nothing.
The same principle would have applied to Will Brodie but the numbers were smaller. He came across on a 2 year deal and I’d guess he added a second year to his exisiting $600k at maybe $200k or $250k for a total of about $850k for 2022 and 2023 combined.
He definitely didn’t move across and say “you know what, l love freo so much I’ll just play a second year for free, add another year into my current deal there Belly and just spread my guaranteed $600k salary next year across the next 2 years and don’t stress about paying me anything extra in 2023”.
