32,000 bums, 23 games, £20 a pop, near £15million. It's not too shabby if all it had to go towards wages. And at this level, it does show that playing in front of a full house can make a sizeable financial difference.
Won't that be countered with boxes, corporate etc though? An 8 seater box in Witton Lane Stand is £1000-1700 a game.
Quote from: PeterWithesShin on June 04, 2018, 08:03:30 PMWon't that be countered with boxes, corporate etc though? An 8 seater box in Witton Lane Stand is £1000-1700 a game. I'm not sure if that doesn't count as commercial rather than matchday.
Based on the 16/17 accounts (our first season in the Championship):Gate receipts = £10.7mCommercial revenue = £12.3mWages costs = £61.5m (of which £8m was NIC and pension costs)401 full time employees - 175 players and coaches; 168 commercial, 58 maintenance & adminIn the Summer following the above figures we signed:TerrySnodgrassWhelanElmohamadyplus others who will all have added to the wage bill.We got rid of a few too but not high earners (ie Veretout, Baker, Sanchez, Amavi, Bacuna, Kozak, De Laet, Gardner, Elphick, Tshibola, McCormack, Sissoko).I would estimate that for the season just finished the wage bill will have got worse rather than better - Terry alone (if £60k a week is to be believed) represented more than 1/20th of our entire club's wage bill!!
Here we go.....https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/06/04/steve-bruces-aston-villa-future-uncertain-against-backdrop-financial/
I read a few articles about Championship wages. From what I can glean, average player wages in the league 2 seasons ago were about £8k a week but included some examples such as Jonjo Shelvey at Newcastle on £80,000 a week.This is before any NI and pensions costs which probably add 20-25% to thatI tried to work out what all the non-playing and youth team costs would be, allowing for some expensive execs and decided an average of £40k per year, including NI and pensions should be enough, then times 450 non first team staff makes £18 million. Then you've got the costs of keeping the ground and training ground up and running, rates, the leccy bill, IT etc etc probably take that up to £25 million.So that's £25 million before any first team wages. Which is most of the gate and commercial money.So the TV and parachute payments have to cover the rest. By the way, I read parachute payments last 4 years.