Cameron has extended his contract with Stoke City by two years, so that it lasts to the end of the 2019-2020 season. http://www.stokecityfc.com//news/article/2016-17/cameron-extends-stay-3725403.aspx?site=desktop He turns 35 at the end of the 2020 season.
Fair to say he may retire there? Will have more PL appearances for a Yank not named Howard or Friedel.
I meant xchange - if he stays in Britain no prob, but lb has dropped pretty badly past 24+ months. I think it was as high as .6 to the dollar, has been pushing .8 lately... cuts both your income and more importantly your savings if you weren't good about converting to $$ regularly. Really, anyone making non-USD money recently has seen their salary drop if they are bringing it back to states. Makes me wonder if US players in Canada tend to get US$ contracts. Those guys would have been hit hard too over past 3 years.
What? The Euro was artificially low because of the French elections. Smart money was buying Euros with Dollars all day long. Euro is up ~10% since Macron victory. Expect it to go up. If given the choice, I would always get K's in Euros. No one ever went poor betting the Germans hate inflation.
(Somehow listed as Ireland) STOKE CITY PLAYER SALARIES PER WEEK 2016-17 (FULL SQUAD CONTRACTS) Players Name Position Country Weekly Wage Lee Grant Goalkeeper England £5,000 Glen Johnson Defender England £18,000 Ryan Shawcross Defender England £32,000 Bruno Martins Indi Defender Netherlands £22,000 Eric Pieters Defender Netherlands £22,000 Geoff Cameron Midfielder Ireland £14,000 Xherdan Shaqiri Midfielder Switzerland £36,000 Marko Arnautovic Midfielder Austria £36,000 Joe Allen Midfielder Wales £29,000 Peter Crouch Forward England £36,000 Mame Diouf Forward Cameroon £18,000 Jon Walters Forward Ireland £25,000 Charlie Adam Midfielder Scotland £20,000 Wilfried Bony Forward Ivory Coast £36,000 Ibrahim Afellay Forward Netherlands £25,000 As you can see, the wages are fairly average for a Premier League team with a couple of big earners. They will look to bring in better players this summer, perhaps on higher wages, as they look to continually sustain their PL status.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Stoke is in England. That funny L in front of the 14 above stands for Pounds Sterling. I am guessing Geoff will return and begin some second career in the US. In July, 2012 when Geoff signed with Stoke the 1 LB was worth 1.56 USD, meaning if he changed his money on Day 1 and sent it home he was making $21,840.00 On June 17, 2014, while Cameron was at Stoke the exchange for lbs to $$ was 1.7 $ to the LB. So if Geoff were making pounds and exchanging it to USD to send home, then he was making ~ $23,800.00 US D Yesterday, it was 1.28 USD to the LB. So if he was changing his salary yesterday he was sending 17920 home, a "salary cut" of nearly $6000 USD. That's fairly substantial. If he saved and invested all his money in England and was contemplating bringing it home with him (to say, buy a house or start a business?) the value of his savings would have dropped the same since the high. Hopefully, he had been sending money home at a regular pace. Or plans to be buried next to the Trent.
That could be a typo and they could be referring to Glenn Whelan, who iirc is an Irish international. I have seen varying numbers on how much he gets paid form £35k a week to the lowest I have seen listed above. No idea what I one is correcr.
Almost certainly. Single entity and all that. Plus, the CA-to-US $ exchange rate has been, if not exactly volatile, then at least pretty variable over the years. I find it hard to imagine that players wouldn't want protections in their contracts. In any case, while the journeymen have little leverage, does anyone seriously imagine that Jozy, Bradley, Giovinco, Montero, etc. have their contracts in any other currency than USD?
Which would have worked out for most players, since TO was founded in 2006, when the $$ was already pushing par. I do, however, know a few folks who got USD contracts in the early 2000's when the CA$ was .65 and watched as rose to almost par in 5 years. It hurt their living expenses a bit. But the USD is the safer hedge, for the most part. I don't know enough about MLS biz model. Is there a profit-sharing arangement at all? If that's in USD, it helps clubs like TO hedge any USD salary commitments.
From what ive heard from Duanne Rollins and Kevin Laramee, contracts are paid out from NY office so USD. There is a long talk those two have had about Canadians as domestics that tangentally refer to this topic and they mentioned the above.