Wolves aiming high with huge bonus incentives

Nuno Espirito Santo's side are facing the prospect of receving a handsome post season bonus, if they can manage to finish in the top ten, as a club bonus scheme revealed this week. 

'SportsMail' report that talks between squad representatives and club chiefs made it clear that survival will only muster a meager reward.  Instead, the hierarchy proposed a hugely beneficial rewards scheme that gets more fruitful the higher the team finishes in the standings. 

The scheme even encompasses rewards for the eventuality that Wolves finish in the European places, even though it is their first season back in the top flight since 2011-12. 

According to the report, Wolves players would share a pot of £3million for finishing 17th, which means £150,000 for each player, depending on matchday involvement. This is approximately five weeks wages for the average player in Wolves' squad. 

While a 10th place finish would earn them nearly triple that amount; £10m. A Europa League place would see the pot rise to £12m; which is worth a whopping  £650,000 each.

Granted, it is a highly unusual rewards system for a team newly promoted to the Premier League, but is a clear illustration of the intent of their owner Fosun, who want to make the club a top flight force.

The owners were keen to incentivise higher aspirations within the squad and the club as a whole, and they feel that a huge bonus would do exactly that.

In contrast, their promotion counterparts Cardiff City are offering their players a flat £10m pot for avoiding relegation, with no additional bonuses planned for a higher finish.

 

August 5, 2016

When the club won an historic Premier League title in 2016, Leicester City famously forgot to include any increases in the bonus scheme above a 12th place finish which was worth only £6.5m to the team. Of course, their owner did makes amends by gifting each player a BMW i8 supercar. 

Wolves have made a solid start to the current campaign, they sit in 11th place in the table, after 4 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats in 12 matches played so far.