Villa Accounts vs Transfers Threads Mash Up!

[Dante Lavelli]

Get your calculators out... Having just read the "Villa Accounts" thread and having always enjoyed the transfer thread I was intrigued to see what the results of the accounts mean in playing terms i.e. what would be a sustainable mix of squad (wages equals 60% of turnover).

Obviously this is highly hypothetical and I'd appreciate the correct numbers where/if you have them, but I estimate that villa have approximately £1m per week for player's wages (gross include image rights etc etc). This was calculated (on a scrap of paper) as follows:

60% of the current published turnover of £91m is £54.5m say £54m.
To keep it easy I have assumed that the additional sponsorship is cost neutral to any management/interest payments.

From the target £54m we need to deduct "other wages" so...
1. Management and coaching (say Houllier 2m, other coaches £1m = £3m)
2. Administration and contingency (say £1m and £1m)

This leaves roughly £49m per year for player wages. Again, nicely rounded off to say £1m per week (pretend it's a leap year or something).

What do you guys think of this assessmen so far? Have I missed something obvious?

[not3bad]

For a 25 man squad that works out as £37,692.30 per player per week.

[Dante Lavelli]

Given a target of £1m per week how would you build your squad?

I think something like the following should see us competing for Europe each year with the chance of the odd pot thrown in.

Group A) £100k per week player x 1 = 100k
B) 75k x 2 = 150k
C) 50k x 5 = 250k
D) 30k x 10 = 300k
E) 10k x 10 = 100k
F) youth/yts = 50k
Leaving 50k for the Christmas party fund.

Group A = "Milner" type player
B = Young / Bent type players.
C = Downing / Dunne / Petrov / Gabby / JMII
D = Collins / Warnock / Young / NRC / Bradley etc
E = Albrighton / Bannan / Fonz / Guzan etc
F = Hogg / Herd etc

As we already know we are currently paying the actual players above too much based on this model however with a decent scouting network and a manager who optimises the resources available I think we should be able to find players of the required stature, quality and experience to compete at the highest level.

As an aside, for every additional million in turnover we could have another £30k player per week.

[andyh]

£3m per year for management and coaching  !!!!!
I'll bet you need to double it and add a bit.

[Dante Lavelli]

You may be right. I thought MON was on 4m and was something like the 4th highest paid. I figured that Houllier may have been on less than MON but it was a complete guess.
Does it reveal such details in the accounts.