What I Was Really Earning – My Watford Premier League Contract!
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What did Ben earn during his Watford Premier League contract?
We know that the contract ones are the best ones. Money, finances, figures, everybody loves it, don't they? We had just moved into a new sort of rented place, a new rented house. It's like a massive dangling carrot. Massive to say, if you break into this first team, we'll reward you. I said, I don't want to have a in my contract. And it was the big sticking point for a while. It literally took weeks and weeks. You know, would Ben be interested in signing for us? I think we even spoke to Spurs at the time.
So let's get stuck into it. So actual figures. Actual figures. This is the good stuff. Per Premier League point.
How is a Premier League contract structured?
Yes. you were getting... Not bad, though. How often are bonuses spoken about amongst the playing squad?
They'll have a little calculator or a little note where they've got all the bonuses written down for what we've earned this season. You played with Troy at Watford.
Is that Troy being tricky or is that him almost responding to the way that the club treat players? Can somebody just keep putting loads of money in my bank account every month, please? This is lovely. And then the big one, the big reveal, basic wage.
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What types of bonuses are included in football contracts?
Their favourite types of episodes... Contracts. Contract episodes. Can you do more contract episodes, they say to me. How many contracts you had? I've still got a few to do, to be fair. I have. I've still got a few to do, and I've got a very good one for you today. It is my Watford contract, my second contract that I signed When I was at Watford, now to put it into perspective a little bit, we were in the Premier League at the time. It was my second season at Watford. When I originally joined the club, I signed a two-year deal. And then I signed a further two-year extension when I was coming to the end of that original contract. Now I signed this contract, when lockdown happened. We were in the middle of lockdown.
How do relegation clauses affect player contracts?
The football world had just finished. We were, what, 29 games in, I think we were at the time. 28 games. You'd just finished. You'd beat Liverpool 3-0 at the Vic. Yeah, we beat Liverpool 3-0 at the Vic. Troy scored a couple, I think, in that game. And then the following game, we lost against Crystal Palace and then that was it. Boom. COVID happened. The world locked down. We rode our bikes loads. We rode our bikes loads. And then a few, what, six weeks later, I signed a new two-year deal. And we're going to talk about that today.
What are the pettiest contract clauses in football?
What I earned, any bonuses, everything, basically.
Just quickly, when you were off...
How did you stay in shape other than riding your bike? Yeah, we did an awful lot of riding the bike. And I've got to say lockdown, I really enjoyed it. I did. And I know it was different for absolutely everybody. And there's some people who had an awful time. Me personally, we had just moved into a new sort of rented place, a new rented house.
What were you saving for a deposit or something?
Well, no, we'd moved into it like, I don't know, a year earlier. It's because we'd bought somewhere and we had to kind of renovate it, knock it down. So we moved into this new place, but it was perfect. Like a farm, wasn't it? It was right in the middle of a farm.
How do bonuses impact team dynamics among players?
We had fields everywhere. We could just go and walk and explore and do stuff. And it was absolutely fantastic. So to keep fit, when I was riding my bike, I started running again. I was doing all my gym work.
Did you do any goalkeeping work?
a little bit yeah a little bit my son and actually my daughter as well we were out in the garden most of the time I went and bought one of those you know ball launchers yeah yeah I remember they use them in a lot of YouTube videos where you put the ball into it and it's like a spinning wheel and it spits the ball out at whatever speed you want it to go to I bought one of them and I had my son just sort of feeding it balls balls into my hands and stuff like that it was class it was like
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What did Ben earn during his Watford Premier League contract?
0:04–0:38
2
How is a Premier League contract structured?
0:38–1:28
3
What types of bonuses are included in football contracts?
1:28–2:06
4
How do relegation clauses affect player contracts?
2:06–2:35
5
What are the pettiest contract clauses in football?
2:35–3:14
6
How do bonuses impact team dynamics among players?
3:14–4:03
7
What happens when a footballer's contract expires?
4:03–4:53
8
How does a player's performance influence contract negotiations?
4:53–44:59
Speakers
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