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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 491198" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Two points: First restructuring allows the team to acquire and/or retain other players improving the player’s chances of winning a championship and second, restructuring helps the player out financially. It pays him money he would have received in the future in the present and turns non-guaranteed money into guaranteed money. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">It’s similar to if you were in a job with shaky job security and the boss came to you in March and said he wanted to pay you your year-end bonus now. You would be helping out the company by accepting money in the company’s fiscal year ending in March, but you certainly aren’t making a sacrifice. Making analogies from pro sports compensation to “real” life is tough so this one isn’t great but I think it conveys the basic idea. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">In my Brees example above do you think the Saints would have to say ‘pretty please’ if they approach Brees’ agent with a deal to replace two years of salary at $38.5M with $40M+ in guarantees? <em>‘Please can we pay you more money and guarantee it?’</em> And how do you think Brees’ agent would react? </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 491198, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#141414][FONT=Georgia] [/FONT][/COLOR]Two points: First restructuring allows the team to acquire and/or retain other players improving the player’s chances of winning a championship and second, restructuring helps the player out financially. It pays him money he would have received in the future in the present and turns non-guaranteed money into guaranteed money. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Arial]It’s similar to if you were in a job with shaky job security and the boss came to you in March and said he wanted to pay you your year-end bonus now. You would be helping out the company by accepting money in the company’s fiscal year ending in March, but you certainly aren’t making a sacrifice. Making analogies from pro sports compensation to “real” life is tough so this one isn’t great but I think it conveys the basic idea. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Arial]In my Brees example above do you think the Saints would have to say ‘pretty please’ if they approach Brees’ agent with a deal to replace two years of salary at $38.5M with $40M+ in guarantees? [I]‘Please can we pay you more money and guarantee it?’[/I] And how do you think Brees’ agent would react? [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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