Originally posted by Topcat
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1. Sure buddy, we will let you go negotiate and get yourself that $12M+ deal you think you should get. Unfortunately, we regret that we cannot afford that price tag.
2. Hey, you’re back. Oh, you didn’t find one, thats a bummer. No hard feelings, please come on in and let’s see what we can do.
3. tell ya what - since we are a kind generous group, we’ll add performance incentive clauses to your final contract year. We recognized you have had a couple great years and if you perform like that again, you’ll get an additional $1.75M bonus. Not too shabby, eh? Hey - did you know that more than 30 of your teammates makes less than just your $1.75M added bonus option, never mind your base salary.
4. Oh, and don’t forget we also gave you a signing bonus 4 years ago. That signing bonus was to reward you for the 4 years of anticipated service, so $1.25M of that $5M bonus applies to this year and is counted against the team cap. And you know, that cap, darnit it, its a hard cap thing, we have to abide. Maybe we paid you so long ago, you forgot about it. So $6.25 + 1.75 + 1.25 = $9.25M for this year if you play as well as you say you will. Thats a great amount of money in recognition of your contributions and we will be delighted if we have to pay the entire bonus amount to you.
So, you know, thank you, Eke. Rock on?
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