McCarthy Set for £1m Bonus if Town Stay Up
Wednesday, 31st Oct 2012 08:58

Incoming Blues boss Mick McCarthy is understood to be set to earn £1 million-a-year at Town, plus another £1 million bonus if he keeps the Blues in the Championship this season. The Blues currently sit bottom of the division, five points from safety having failed to win in their last 12 matches.

As reported yesterday, McCarthy, his Wolves assistant Terry Connor and ex-Blues skipper Matt Holland are set to be confirmed as the new Town managerial team before the weekend.

A press conference to unveil the new team appears likely to take place on Thursday, although nothing has yet been officially announced.

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Norwichbeater added 09:03 - Oct 31 Wow. That seems big money for a club that has stopped spending!
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bahri added 09:04 - Oct 31 Give him £1 million to stay away. Be like watching paint dry
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havinit69 added 09:06 - Oct 31 Money well spent! Give him another £1m to get rid of the players that "Don't Care" as well!
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Radlett_blue added 09:07 - Oct 31 If he keeps us up, it will be money well spent.
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Behind_Enemy_Lines added 09:10 - Oct 31 nice work if you can get it !!!!
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DurhamTownFan added 09:10 - Oct 31 Wow, goes to show how far our ambitions have changed in recent seasons! Hope the players are chipping in to pay for this!
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MickMillsTash added 09:13 - Oct 31 Great Negotiation, I was asking myself why he would want to come to Ipswich and now we know- Money
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Urchin added 09:13 - Oct 31 Its fairly simple - and makes sense - if we went down the loss in revuenue to the club would be way more than 1 million
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blueblood66 added 09:15 - Oct 31 Fair play, he has a HUGE job on his hands, total re-build.
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irishtim added 09:16 - Oct 31 Will be worth it in the long term. Now Marcus release funds for janurary also and let the rebuilding begin.
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Plums added 09:17 - Oct 31 I expect there will still be some who say Marcus Evans doesn't care!
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SouperJim added 09:18 - Oct 31 Jesus, surely with that money he could have his wonky conk fixed?
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brittaniaman added 09:19 - Oct 31 Should have been sorted out in the 2wk. international break, instead of Jewellio hanging on, so it now leaves a new manager just 2 days to prepare for 3 very important games in a week 2 of them away !!!! Mind you what a bonus to be able to finish the season with a minimum of 4th bottom !!! or does it mean top six ??????? COYBs !!!!!!
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Premiertown added 09:20 - Oct 31 Being realistic this overhaul will take longer than this season. Relegation may be the price of the previous errors going back 8 years. Joe Royle said give me a million and i will get you promoted. Now its going to be 20 million or more?
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StuartBrett8 added 09:20 - Oct 31 I'm pretty sure that would have been offered to any incoming manager just because of our current position.... Good luck BIG Mick :)
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karls_dad added 09:22 - Oct 31 Utter Madness! we would be better paying Blackpool a million for Ollie without a doubt! I would welcome big Mick but not as much as i would Ollie
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paristractor added 09:24 - Oct 31 Worst Appointmnet ever. would rather spend 500K on getting holloway and 500K on giving him a sign on. Northern monkey
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We_hate_Norwich added 09:26 - Oct 31 Well, that's some incentive!!!
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Legend added 09:33 - Oct 31 We have a new maganger and a fantastic asssitant and people on here are still bitching!! How the hell do people know that Holloway would even come? And how the hell can it be the worst appoitment ever? Jeez some people on here might as well go support the scum up the road with all the moaning they do! COYB!!
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elmswellblue added 09:33 - Oct 31

Said it before and I will say it again, we are bottom of the league and do not have the time for any fancy football at the moment. What I would give for a boring 1-0 win at the moment, does make me wonder if some of these posters have actually seen how bad the team is performing at the moment.

The fans have to do there bit and get behind the team from now onwards

cornishblu added 09:34 - Oct 31

So much for being a club that hasn't got money.....1million for staying up....that sends a great message out to any new players that come in that they can also demand stupidly large bonuses if we stay up.......(personally I think we will find that this is way off beam.....why put a salary cap of 10k on your players then bring a manager in on twice as much as this and on a bonus worth two times a players yearly salary.......great motivational tool NOT..If ME has got his head screwed on this just doesn't happen)....and if true got to also then question why this info gets released....either way its pressure that the club doesn't need.....win at brum on Saturday ...that'll make the job easier and lessen the need for a large bonus!!!! COYB

Legend added 09:34 - Oct 31 Manager even ^
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Mr_Jingles added 09:34 - Oct 31 No wonder He's Smiling.... They should have spiced it up though... He coughs up a million if we go down.
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Norwichbeater added 09:34 - Oct 31 He will sort out the bad apples though and that is badly needed. If you look at the ones that went out on the p**s the day Jewell was sacked i would guess that would contain most of them!!!
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mark1969 added 09:36 - Oct 31

We all want to do well and stay up but 100% of salary as a bonus just for survival ? How does this effect the FFP that Clegg was enforcing 2 years too early . Does that mean player reduction ? More spending reductions ? I bet Clegg is gambling on higher attendances to provide the money .
Mickey Mac is going to have to be a miracle worker , starting by sorting out our big headed tweeters . I wish him and his team the best of luck . COYB.