Hello and welcome to the price of football the show that looks at the money

behind the beautiful game with me Kevin Day

and of the universe is Kiran McGuire Kiran

it's Questions Day and the big question is I can see where you are but where are you?

I'm currently in Stuttgart Airport after I think it was for I can't even count myself now three or four days in Berlin

which is an incredible city culminating we're going to watch the final last night and

because flights are crazy prices I'm going the scenic route back to Brighton and I've just remembered that I've got graduation on Tuesday so I need to get from Brighton to

Liverpool as well. Well you might as well go from Brighton to Liverpool via

Stockhart Kieren is setting roundabout way. Stuckhart is quite some way

from Berlin, Kieren but we haven't got time really to discuss

how you end up in Stuttgart, because your plane could be called at any moment.

So let's start the pod, Kiran.

I could start with another question, is why it took 45 minutes to realize

that Harry Kane shouldn't be playing for England, but this is not a football pod

curing. So what can you do? Very wise. I would ask you if you had a nice time

here, but quite clearly you probably have the same sort of time as I had which involved

ripping wall charts of the furniture and

glaring at the cat. Mark Collins has our first question

Kiran. It's a simple one, but it's an interesting one.

Mark Collins says with players seemingly signing longer and longer contracts,

do they ever include inflation-linked pay increases?

I have seen quite a few contracts and they will often involve step-ups in years two, three and four. Now those step-ups will be set in advance,

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