Salaries in T&T Professional League!!

[pardners]

Fellas we might think that some of the players getting small money, but think about the money the club and the sponsers have to put out EVERY month with very little returns.

You have player salaries..say 30 men on roster (could be more) and an average salary of $3000 per man...
30 x 3000 = 90000
90000 x 12mths = 1,080,000
Then you have the coach, trainer, equipment manager salaries too...leh we jus say 100,000 per yr split between the three of dem.
total = $1,180,000

We eh check rental for grounds, facilities, equipment, meals, transport, medical (doctor bills when man injured).  Ah think dey does share the bill for EHS services on match days.  The ball boys does get a bread and cheese too, sometimes football.  You also have players insurance...not sure bout NIS and thing.

Dat is plenty money to put out....could more than 2 million a year, not including the 1/2 million to register the team.

How much is the first prize....$100,000 ?
Gate receipts....200 people (ah being generous here) at $20 a man...$4000.  Even if they charge $50 a man that is only $10000 a game

$10000 * 50 games =500,000  (not sure how many games the avg team will play a year, including friendlies and practice matches with a cover charge.

The only way the club making back money is by selling players (to foreign teams).  How much players good enough to make the grade ?

That is why sponsorship so hard to come by in TT.  All in all is big big risk for the club and sponsers in TT.  Sponsors really have to love the game and be real patriotic to put dey money in the PFL.  Sponsors whose business is food and drinks could franchise they products at the match venues, but if you is a building contractor, how much business deals you could cut at a football match.

The players themselves doh even have the sense of mind to support they own sponsors...KFC sponsoring and man eating Royal Castle.  Clico sponsering and when game done, man put on a jersey and cap advertising Chicago Bulls, Knicks, ManU, etc. Carib sponsoring...man saying dem only drinking black bottle and Red Bull.  That is a hard pill to swallow !

So all things considered, them fellas dam lucky to be getting $4000 a month.

[kingman]

Pal, yuh make real real sense...me aint lying. But the point wah we was trying to make, although it did not come across in a proper way, is that the money in trinidad football is nil.

Secondly, why they have to be paying the brazilians 2000US ah month but giving d Trini Youte and them 3000TT? Yuh see wah ah coming from? Is just ah matter of principle because them Trini youte playing nice ball too.

But we aint lying pal, yuh make real real real sense. I have to admit!
 

[fishs]

I believe before a team becomes eligible for the PFL the owners have to prove the ability to fund the the team for a  year minimum, the PFL also requires them to state the players salary structure and they even have to provide a bond that the PFL can use if the club goes bust during the season.
Presumably this bond is used to pay off creditors etc. I do not know if there is a salary cap and a mininum because it has never been published, but what I do know is all the players have to sign contracts where they have to be paid for their services.
Maybe we should get somebody to talk to Dexter Skeene.

[Ponnoxx]

The PFL is not ten years old guys..It is still in a growing phase...Things could get better after the World Cup or it doesn't have to change...We will have to see....In Trinidad and Tobago professional football is not looked at as a good career path....There are alot of things that need to be implemented but I believe that it will come eventually...Rome was not built in a day

[Bally]

This Pro league will grow and as far as the Brazilians salary come on can you look at all the leagues in the world and there will be one player that get more pay than the rest it have nothing to do about being from Trinidad it’s a business if W-Connection wants Brazilian players so be it they also have a lot of young players that will learn from the foreign players on the team and in the league
    Just saying  the youth form Trinidad should make the same pay just because he from Trinidad is an ignorant statement and a form of tribalism.     

[Baygo Boy]

The biggest mistake the pro club owners made was to start paying such high salaries in the beginning knowing fully well that corporate T&T would not have supported in the manner we see elsewhere. How did they expect to support their clubs and players when the average attendence is around 1000 per game. I believe that the pro league was created so that our players will have a greater appeal to foreign clubs, without any care for the consequence. We saw great football and attendence in T&T prior to the pro-league, players played for the love of the game. I am not against the creation of the pro league, I question their intial motives.

They have set themselves up, that is why Warner had to bankroll Caledonia, and Brian Williams side could only afford to pay good players $1,000.00TT per month, and Tobago United can't secure our better players. The only reason Jabloteh and Connection doing well is because they have the $$$. Anybody who know anything bout T&T football  know that a San Juan side can't beat a South side, but the table turn when yuh put $$$$ on it.

[kingman]

Baygo Boy, you real cracking me up breds

That is a very bold and ignorant statement

[capodetutticapi]

Just anyone know what d top players in the professional league make per match. I was reading back in 2003 that fellas like Dwarika was making $7500TT a match...Does anyone have a list?

If that kinda money was being paid... I woulda play PFL

ponnox yuh salary is determined by skill and ability.i feel you woulda pay dem.lol.ah kicksin bredda.

[Ponnoxx]

 The PFL is in the beginning stages...I honestly do not think there are players that make 7500 a month...Anything is a possiblity but I do not think so.....There are players making less than 3000 dollars but still playing and training...They probably should have continued with the semi-pro a little longer...But I hope they get more sponsorship soon and those salaries raise....Go T&T

[kingman]

The PFL is in the beginning stages...I honestly do not think there are players that make 7500 a month...Anything is a possiblity but I do not think so.....There are players making less than 3000 dollars but still playing and training...They probably should have continued with the semi-pro a little longer...But I hope they get more sponsorship soon and those salaries raise....Go T&T

Ponnoxx, keep yuh lil backside shut nah
I telling you that them Brazilians with W-Connection are getting $2000US ah moth boy. Some men in that PFL getting a nice piece of paper.

And for players making less than $3000, that real sad. I really hope them youths have a back up yuh know ras because when they get fedup of making that small money yuh know wah they will be tempted to do? OK...ENOUGH SAID!!

Ponnoxx, who yuh backin for the world cup?

[Ponnoxx]

 T&T of course...and Brazil

[kingman]

T&T of course...and Brazil

Ah know yuh woulda say Brazil...but they not winning this year. It belongs to the Germans