Quote Originally Posted by Syn View Post
The 'out of your hand' incidents, I don't see a problem with that. There are external factors in most high paying jobs too; you're often dependent on other members of the team performing well. As I said, you can be 'unlucky' but that's life; everyone faces that and footballers should be no different. If RVP you lose out on a team bonus because your teammates play shit, again, tough luck. You win together and you lose together. But as I've said you can still hold on to your star players by offering greater individual incentives. I accept it's harder to find player-specific performance proxies for a Modric, say, but there are ways of balancing it to achieve the optimal outcome. e.g. the back four get x for a clean sheet, the midfield get y for a cleansheet and the strikers get z for a clean sheet. If you weight it properly, you ensure that everyone finds it worthwhile to put a shift in.

We're obviously not talking about a world of exclusively performance-related pay. Players will always get a base wage regardless of performance and even regardless of whether they play. That should be fair enough for them.
other high paying roles do mean you have to manage the team correctly in order to get the results that will benefit you, that is a stipulation of the job role, not something that players on the field are asked to do - obviously it is the mangers job to do that.

team sports players would suffer under the hand of 'bad luck' far more than corporate roles for example, as injuries etc come under that too, let alone the events out of their control on a football field.

players already have this system in place that is supposed to incentivise them. i'm pretty sure it was always in place, some time before wages went through the roof, yet the performance levels would still be as unequal as they are now in the main, because of human nature. in an office, you are usually dealing and talking about figures quite a lot so the money carrot is never far from the mind but on a football pitch, i'm not sure you would correlate your performance with what it would bring either before or after a ball is kicked.