CLASSIC CLIPS | What’s In a Premier League Striker’s Contact? Crouchy On The REALITY Of Goal Bonuses

0:00Schedule 2, clause 3B. Do you remember it? Yeah. Actually, I do know. This is a clause that you do know about. Right. So, during the terms of this contract, the player will be paid a goal bonus. And each season, he scores 10 or more Premier League goals. Such payment will be payable on the 28th of June. Following the end of season, the player qualifies for the bonus. A club like Stoke, you know, like that. Anyone in double figures, really, like the way we played, it's a decent season. you know, we're seeing stupid numbers now, you know, like people banging in goals for fun. But at Stoke at that time, listen, there was so many top teams and we finished in the top half.

0:37That is a successful season. If you're leading goal scorer against double figures, he's done well. As soon as you've signed that contract and this clause goes in, are you straight away training ground showing the gaffer that you can take penalties? Yeah, but that's what I, you know, that was never really my, there are players obviously 100 % did that, you know, I didn't really, I signed this and I thought you know I'll get to 10 I'll back myself but I never it was never really at the detriment I was never greedy it never crossed my mind once when I was playing I know that there are players out there players that I played with that did think about that 100 % but I can't say I can't hand on heart I can genuinely say that I didn't and I didn't take a lot of penalties you know so I could have maybe sneaked in there a couple times more but it wasn't it's not something I never thought about my contract or how much money I was earning at any point on a football pitch ever 9 goals last game of the season Stoker in 13th place if they win they go to 12 which we'll look at in a minute you have a teammate square of you this is a tap-in and Altovic is waiting for the tap-in you going for goal?

1:41what a scenario I am going to go for goal yeah but not not for any other reason not for any other reason than I want to score on the last day of the season and and yeah I'm selfish in front of goal. I think you have to be. I'd take my chances on me scoring. So you bag the goal, 10th of the season, Stoker in 12th, everyone's dead happy in the squad. Apart from Marco. Apart from Marco's teaming because he finishes on nine goals in the season. He is livid with you. He didn't spoke to you in two months. Yeah, it wouldn't cross my mind that that had happened. Honestly. You must rack up the numbers in your head.

2:22I know what numbers I'm on, definitely. And I'm thinking probably, yeah, I want to get to double figures. but it's not for financial gain. It's for the fact I want to be in double figures and that financial gain at the end of the season is like, oh, that's nice. It's not like, it's not something that I play for or ever have played for and that's the truth, honestly. Yeah, but Crouch, you need a new slide for the pool, you know, you want to buy abs, a nice tree, you know. Slides and trees aren't cheap, are they? They're not cheap. They're not and you're thinking to yourself just one more goal here and I'm getting a significant amount more money.

2:52I'm not going to say to you, I'm not going to sit and say to you, It's not nice to receive a bonus. Someone says, shoot, there's your bonus. But I think all the people that do get bonuses, you know, if you're a banker or whatever you do, you're doing it and you're just doing it. And then the benefits come when you've done your job properly. So if you think about them even more, you're motivated by them. I don't think they're even calm as readily. You know what I mean? I think you dedicate yourself to your profession and doing the job properly and rewards will come. That's why I always look to my career, hand on heart, always.

3:23Do you think modern players are different now? Maybe. Would they be motivated by that? Maybe, yeah. I mean, the sums of money now are life-changing, aren't they? So, you know, if you sign a four... You know, that... Like Harlan's deal now, right? He won't have to work again ever. He'll never have to do anything ever again. The same with, you know, Bape, for instance, once he signs that deal, you know, like that. I mean, you're talking about some of the bonuses there are like astronomical, aren't they? I mean, it's... Yeah, it's slightly... I mean, this is still life-changing money, but... probably different now and there probably is a more of a financial motivation.

3:58Yeah, I'd say so. Let's talk about goal bonuses then because obviously it's favourable for a striker. Should defenders be given goal bonuses? My theory on this is it's encouraging them to not do their job. So you think a defender should get a goal bonus? No, I don't think they should. No, no, they don't. But then they're getting a raw deal in these sort of situations. Yeah, but then even then I think that's slightly reductive to the role of most defenders. Just saying it's your bonus for a clean sheet. It's way easier for you to get your goal bonus. Well, it's just like in all honesty, like that is an individual act, isn't it?

4:36Like a clean sheet is a collective thing. There needs to be, but yeah, exactly that. And then I think you can't give a defender really a goal bonus because you're encouraging them to be rewarded in a way which might not be like, they shouldn't always be flying forward. Not every defender. So it doesn't really work that way. No, you couldn't get a goal bonus as a defender. As a clean sheet, again. But they're lucky to be on the pitch. They're less technical than anyone else. This is the thing. I think defenders, you know, speaking as a left back... Chris, they're lucky to be there. They're lucky to be on...

5:13They're not as technical. They're stoppers. They're spoiling an amazing sport. But for their contract, they should be rewarded for doing so. What is the bonus for a defender? Being there. No, that's not. It's not in their contract. You should just be lucky to be here. To be there, yeah. What, under their bonus, section two, clause three, three, clause three, three, bonuses. You're lucky to be there.

5:44Okay, so defenders are done. What about defensive midfielders? No, no, no. I don't think they're done. I don't think they're done, mate. What I want to know is what triggers for bonuses can there be for defenders? And do they exist in the contract? As a left back, I think an assist, you know, I think Robertson or Trent. Why has it got to be helping the attack? Why can't you be judged on... Yeah, but why can't your bonuses be judged on the key thing of being a defender, which is defending? One-on-one take-ons or something like that, like not getting beat. Last man challenges. Because that would encourage you to always fucking peg it back.

6:17Yeah, but also, that also encourages, is you know you to push out the whole defense and then you hang back for the last ditch yeah also it encourages you to let let a striker through i mean and then trust your pace to be able to get back as i'm saying if you're financially motivated like that then you know imagine you were letting them through and then last ditching them for a grand

6:43Dave give me a defensive stat that can be used to trigger a bonus the same way a goal bonus can and who would be getting them I think you've got to break it down on on what the role is right as we spoke about previously if you play for Man City and you're just doing last-ditch tackles you get Carl Walker you get you know you get 200 grand for doing three last-ditch tackles it doesn't quite work out because he's got to play with the ball he's got to pass progressively he has to get some expected assist knocked up his challenge win rate needs to be high yeah because Pep would be like what the fuck are you doing man like Kyle's basically standing aside letting a strike go through and then his unbelievable pace is just click we don't know that's not what's happening really do we actually he does make a lot of last ditch tackles it is a bit suspicious that keep your eyes peeled next season do we think that's the bonus is he on a last ditch tackle bonus I think he might be I think he's motivated the wrong way But if you look at, for example, right, so that's a City fullback.

7:39A Burnley fullback, like a Charlie Taylor, completely different. He's going to get money for putting the ball into the channel. He's going to get money for tackling, crossing from deep. This is what I'm saying. You're opening a can of worms here. You can't start giving all these kinds of bonuses. Everyone knows the striker scores a goal, he gets a bonus. That's the way football's always been. But that's the thing. It's only ever been thought about like that. The game is more granular in how it's analysed. there should be a crossing from deep bonus in first manning first manning bonus charging bonus imagine at the end of it it's like a lottery as to which bonus you've got it's like surely we've hit one of them the problem is the secretary she won't be able to cope in the stands you know it's like oh my god yeah charging bonus three grand the accountant in the background the uh what's The draft excluder bonus.

8:34Oh, he's gone full frontal as well. That's double. Full frontal double. This day and age, people are earning good money, certainly in Premier League. Do away with bonuses and just clause 3B, be happy to be there.

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