I think people need to get realistic on who we can sell really. There's not a hope in hell we can sell the likes of richards. He's on massive wages and even if it made sense to pay up the final year of his contract, we may not have the cash flow to do it. Not a fucking hope in hell of finding a club that can afford themMcCormackHoganTaylorLansbury
Yep.End of the day our wage bill is currently between 35-45m a year if you believe the most pessimistic papers. I reckon its probably about 37m so you have so say either a)Tony has been using the wages bill to siphon off money to a chinese bank account or b) we have 1 or 2 players on 200,000 a week or more likely c) the average is around the 25,000 a week mark. Now the problem we have is if you're a lansbury on 30k a week (i really hope the fuckwits aren't paying him more than that) then if a club comes in and offers 23k a week to him then over the length of his remaining contact he's losing a cool million to leave. At 27 if i was lansbury, i'd think twice about leaving.
Quote from: sickbeggar on June 10, 2018, 01:21:08 PMYep.End of the day our wage bill is currently between 35-45m a year if you believe the most pessimistic papers. I reckon its probably about 37m so you have so say either a)Tony has been using the wages bill to siphon off money to a chinese bank account or b) we have 1 or 2 players on 200,000 a week or more likely c) the average is around the 25,000 a week mark. Now the problem we have is if you're a lansbury on 30k a week (i really hope the fuckwits aren't paying him more than that) then if a club comes in and offers 23k a week to him then over the length of his remaining contact he's losing a cool million to leave. At 27 if i was lansbury, i'd think twice about leaving.The season 16/17, the club wage bill totalled near as damn it £62m. I don't know why anyone imagines that it would've been a fat lot less for 17/18.
Quote from: Lastfootstamper on June 10, 2018, 01:38:16 PMQuote from: sickbeggar on June 10, 2018, 01:21:08 PMYep.End of the day our wage bill is currently between 35-45m a year if you believe the most pessimistic papers. I reckon its probably about 37m so you have so say either a)Tony has been using the wages bill to siphon off money to a chinese bank account or b) we have 1 or 2 players on 200,000 a week or more likely c) the average is around the 25,000 a week mark. Now the problem we have is if you're a lansbury on 30k a week (i really hope the fuckwits aren't paying him more than that) then if a club comes in and offers 23k a week to him then over the length of his remaining contact he's losing a cool million to leave. At 27 if i was lansbury, i'd think twice about leaving.The season 16/17, the club wage bill totalled near as damn it £62m. I don't know why anyone imagines that it would've been a fat lot less for 17/18.that was including the tax i think. It included all our signings apart from elmo and Whelan and the loans and the likes of Terry and Samba, so there was obviously people we paid with that sum that had left by the time the accounts ended like Baker. Looking at this summer we've lost Terry, Gollini, Gabby, Hutton, Samba, Bunn, Grabban, Snodgrass, Johnstone, Tuenzebe, onamah. On 20k a week on average i make that 10m recovered plus tax. plus i guess gill and some of the other garde signings if they've left as well.
Who did Garde sign?
Quote from: ChicagoLion on June 10, 2018, 02:41:46 PMWho did Garde sign?Literally no one ..we tied to get a keeper in but his permit got rejected other than that the Board seeing that relegation was inevitable gave up
I wouldn’t point to Samba as a profligate signing. It was very much bolstering the squad a bit and I imagine he wasn’t paid an awful lot relatively.