In past years, the cliché image of bonus season was of a flush banker walking into a Maserati dealership and driving out in his new toy.
Steve Bruce's intended unveiling as Wigan Athletic's manager turned into a fiasco yesterday over £225,000 of an image-rights bonus he was ordered to return to Birmingham City.
But in the last six years, Wal-Mart has tried to recast its image — tying bonuses of corporate officers to minority hiring and mentoring, putting employees through diversity training and using suppliers owned by minorities and women.
Birmingham, for their part, will not terminate Bruce's contract until the image-rights bonus has been returned and, should the impasse continue, the caretaker manager Frank Barlow will remain in charge for the daunting visit to Arsenal on Saturday.
"Super-sized rats," reported The Express, with a bonus image of a rat photoshopped into a field of sheep.
Campbell, now at Arsenal, has issued a writ through his lawyers for £1.7m he says he is owed in image rights and bonus payments.
Now, £3m is not an insignificant amount, but it offsets less than 20% of what Ibrahimovic will likely cost the club this season (wages, agent fee, signing bonus, image rights deal).
Factoring in image rights, loyalty bonuses and other incentives, the true cost could be £200m.
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