Calderon offers €120,000 to win next five !

redout

Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon has reportedly offered €120,000 bonus to each player if they are to win the next five games against:

Recreativo
BATE Borisov
Getafe
Sevilla
Zenit st Petersburg

The players also got €30,000 bonus last season for beating Barcelona at the Nou Camp.

Is this unheard of in league football ? I heard of it in cup competitions obviously but league games ! All I can think is that this is a desperate motivational effort on of the part of the Real Madrid president.

http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/futbol/1a_division/real_madrid/es/desarrollo/1186279.html

eZe^

Hahahah, that is all.

therecklessone

redout wrote: »

All I can think is that this is a desperate motivational effort on of the part of the Real Madrid president.

http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/futbol/1a_division/real_madrid/es/desarrollo/1186279.html

Hoping to take pressure off himself I imagine.

redout

If it applies to the first team squad then we are talking about €28,800,000 which is a considerable chunk of change. How in the name of god could they justify that and better still where would they get it ! It's not as if they have an extra €30 million floating about. It also states they will get even more if they beat Barca is december.

I suppose a smart man would tell you that they wont win the next five league games in the first place going on current form. All the same how about they offered to drop players if they did not win the next five games instead of offering a financial incentive. It would probably garner better results !

eZe^

How they wished they just took the hit and met Robinho's salary demands now... Hindsight really is a beautiful thing. It'll be grand though, they'll sign Huntelaar, Aguero, Villa, Benzema and Tevez in the transfer window... :pac::pac:

bohsman

redout wrote: »

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Is this unheard of in league football ? I heard of it in cup competitions obviously but league games !#

Seems normal enough in Spain, itd be fairly usual for say Real to offer whoever Barca are playing a win bonus towards the end of the season.

redout

bohsman wrote: »

Seems normal enough in Spain, itd be fairly usual for say Real to offer whoever Barca are playing a win bonus towards the end of the season.

Yes now you mention it I have heard of that, but only a third the way through the season ! WTF

An Citeog

redout wrote: »

If it applies to the first team squad then we are talking about €28,800,000 which is a considerable chunk of change. How in the name of god could they justify that and better still where would they get it ! It's not as if they have an extra €30 million floating about. It also states they will get even more if they beat Barca is december.

I suppose a smart man would tell you that they wont win the next five league games in the first place going on current form. All the same how about they offered to drop players if they did not win the next five games instead of offering a financial incentive. It would probably garner better results !

Unless they've got 240 players in their first team squad, your figures are way off!:D It's €2.8m and Calderon is desperate at the moment, so he'll do anything.

redout

Oops ! misread the calculator. Still, €3.5 million (add Barca bonus) in a recession (which Spain is in) is just nuts ! THESE GUYS ARE VERY WELL PAID AS IT IS. Still think my suggestion above would garner better results.

PHB

Such an hilarious club.

weemcd

actions of a desperate man, i'd take this with a pinch of salt, and i cant see them winning those games tbh.

redout

RTE now covering it also.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2008/1122/realmadrid.html

Guy:Incognito

God forbid players try their best to win anyway being on around €100,000 a week.

redout

One down Four to go.

Recreativo 1 - 0 Sneijder (deflection)
BATE Borisov
Getafe
Sevilla
Zenit st Petersburg

redout

Getafe 3 - 1 Real Madrid

Just arrived back from the game. Poor sods could not even reach halfway. Ah well, Ramon can tuck away his €2.8 million to add to his Ronaldo war chest.

Great to see the best player in the world bagged a brace in the other game.
Barça! Barça! Baaarça!

Jazzy

redout wrote: »

Getafe 3 - 1 Real Madrid

Just arrived back from the game. Poor sods could not even reach halfway. Ah well, Ramon can tuck away his €2.8 million to add to his Ronaldo war chest.

Great to see the best player in the world bagged a brace in the other game.
Barça! Barça! Baaarça!

tastes like.......... lemon

gimmick

@ redout. It looked like there was no one at the game. Loads of empty seats. Whats the story there? Tickets too dear or what?

Great nights results