Bonuses that don't have to be paid. [emoji28]
In all seriousness, would you rather have a higher base wage that allows you to save, spend and invest with certainty over a period of years or a lower base salary that pays bonuses based on performance and the performances of your teammates who you cannot control or directly influence?
Keep in mind that those bonuses might be difficult to achieve and may only take you to parity with the earnings of your outside competitors with more work done to get there.
It's a difficult sale especially as we are not the market leaders. If we were Barcelona, Real Madrid, Emirates Marketing Project etc where the likelihood of the bonuses being paid out was high or the prestige of joining said club was also high it would be an easier sale to make.
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