I can see where your coming from TET, my personal view is that we have to be careful with money incase European football isn't achieved. I'm basically trying to run a profitable business without paying bonus money to chairman if they get Celtic a profit.
The club would be set up that success on the field would be the only way to reward chairmain, players and staff. This would hopefully enable us to keep our better players longer. For me selling Dembele, Van Diyk, Tierney, Wanyama etc isn't actaully profitable as we've actually lowered our chances of making money via football success.
It's a bit like the moral of the goose that laid golden eggs. Our board are unwilling to work to maintain the European success that has been a profitable venture for the club. Instead, the club wants to have things without earning them (selling our best players). We are currently too careful and too caught up in protecting what we have that we have miss out on what we could have.
To answer you questions:
1. The bonus payments would come out of any profit made in the champions League Group stage. Basically it's paid to those associated with the club (players, staffs etc). So it would be divided up after the years accounts. No point paying bonus payments if those bonus payments are going to take the club into debt.
2-3. Not sure, there probably is already as we can't compete with Sky funded TV clubs.
4. With bonus payments made on real success in the Champions League we might be able to keep players who could demand bigger wages else where. The bonus payments rather than higher wages would not put the club at risk if no Champions League Football was achieved.
OK
I can see why you would want all these things
And believe it or not I would love us to e able to hold onto our best players.
Some premises I assume you think are not already in place are we dont already strive as club to do what you want (and thats because the reality is clouded in poor communications and poor transparency of the current layout)
Now lets assume the board want what you want too.
why would they want to keep poor transparency?
1 it could be they dont want competition copying their model and hence destroying their system of success.
2 they are scammers and just want money from fans and competitions for themselves and screw on field objectives.
3 there are probably thousands of hypothetical reasons
Problems associated with retaining champions league players
the big clubs in big leagues all get minimum 100 million from tv deals, some get in excess of 250 million every season just from tv
They get bigger prizes from their FA for high placings
They get bigger prizes for winning cups
Celtic in a treble winning invincible domestic season plus champions league earned around 105 million tops including prizes player sales and revenues from all streams
thats actually very high for a non luxury tv subsidised side
reality they can treble our wage structure even if we had champions league every season
another reality
if we dont win league, no cups our revenue is probably less than 40 million
that 40 million is the maximum wage threshold before losses and before bonus payments for winning stuff
so winning stuff makes revenues higher but its mostly chewy up with paying bonuses for getting the prizes
no bonuses less incentive to be winners
so getting to cl with some big player sales in season we won treble and achieved cl
we made around 13 million profit after everything
but that was invincible season and cl group
the season after where we made ko of europa we made 3 million but big player sales and revenues of only around 80 million
so in bigger picture our financial numbers with success are small fry compared with bottom of league in top tier leagues
West Ham revenues at same time as our success were closer to 200 million winning jack and less fans
thats coz of sky bundles mostly
it is my understanding your bonus system is pretty much what club has already
but I dont know?
its not transparent enough
on a different point
in any walk of life to grow you need to add value
if you cant add value to something then you are better selling it if you are offered more than it generates into future
adding value on pitch is coaches jobs
off pitch its boards
there lies the problem
in a world where your competition gets 100 millions every season at least more than you before you kick a ball
you cant compete for wages with them
therefore you cant retain your best players unless you are gonna run at massive loss
And retaining dembele at 120k per week is non starter
nor Tierney at 75 k per week both before bonuses
So the problems celtic face are MSM funding some teams then goading non funded teams into making financially rash calls through emotional attachment
Anyway hope that above book I wrote is useful to someone anyone
I want better players
I want to have a team that can win big cups
but finance of player wages without monster tv deals is impossible imo