Leadership Group 2018

[mateinone]

That "he hasn't taken one it was given to him" is rubbish I am sorry.
He demanded a certain pay and as such knew the expectations and knew he would be judged by those expectations and so he should.

I use to hire a lot of people and the top people I was hiring were people whose salary topped 250k range. I would also hire people starting down in the 60-65k range so much like a football team, there was an really large discrepancy between my highest and lowest paid employees. Now it was my job to ensure that I was able to differentiate between what the people in the top bracket could do and what the people on the lower scale (and all those in between) could do.

If I made an error, I would have had to answer to those above me, but I can also tell you this.. If someone was hired on a top end salary they were told in absolutely clear terms the expectations that came with that salary and those expectations were (quite rightly) much higher than others, considering they were earning 4 times the salary, that is a simple reality and unfortunately there was an occasion in one of the teams I managed where a person (actually hired by my predecessor) represented they could do a much higher quality job than they were capable of doing and I had to unfortunately I had to terminate them. IF they had of been on 35-40% of their salary, they would have been on an appropriate wage for what they could deliver, but they weren't and so they had to go. The TEAM needed a very senior person they could rely on with top level skills to deliver in critical situations and that was what I was paying that sort of money for and I certainly did not have a budget that allowed me to just add another person at those sorts of wages. I was lucky, I was able to replace them with someone far more suitably skilled, something not easily done when you sign someone to a 4-5 year contract.

Now these salaries are high by normal standards, but not by footballers standards... but the point I am making is not about the actual figures (it could be the lower end staff on 30k and top end on 120k) as the relevance is that you have a situation where you have people in the same team earning 2/3/4x the salary of others (and in football clubs that can be 10-15x) they have to be judged on that, it is pure and simple and they absolutely know that when they sign the contract. You cannot possibly believe that Daisy did not understand the level of expectation that came with earning x% most of his colleague.

This has turned into a Daisy discussion, which I was hoping it wouldn't, but I can't let that sort of comment just go and say, well he is a good bloke, he works hard and his teammates like him. Or.. well SOS has kept him, so therefore his recruitment is justified..

The transfer of Daisy (again off the original topic of overall leadership) is one that cannot ever be justified in my opinion. We got it spectacularly wrong & should never have brought him to the club. His continued presence on the list isn't as big an issue to me now, because his reduced salary means the impact to our ability to attract and retain players is far less and is more at the level of other players.
If Daisy had come to the club on his 2018 salary, I agree this wouldn't be a discussion, but then he would have performed closer to the expectations of him at that wage.