by Snowflake Royal »
28 Mar 2022 17:29
YorkshireRoyal99 Snowflake Royal Hound Oh yeah, for us it’s definitely dropped way off. Weren’t we capped to 21m this season? Suspect we’ll be about that but that’s mainly due to picking up a lot of freebies and loans on small money
Believe the last accounts, not for last season, still showed us over £30m despite people saying every summer fir the last 5 years we've knock a big chunk of the wage bill this time. And that includes a year where big earners went.
This season do think the deal was low 20s to comply with the FL.
In which case you'd still have to knock off Baldock's, Aluko's, Rafael's and Puscas's wages just to name some who likely take up £75k a week of our wage bill.
But that's only about £4m over the year and we needed to take off about £10m.
This is the thing. Every year we have x y and z have gone that takes loads off the wage bill. But we replace them (hopefully cheaper) and it never has a big effect.
Iirc, in the 5/6 years to 2020 we've consistently had a wage bill in the low to mid £30 millions. If we've not managed to reduce it by a lot shifting the likes of Pog, Drenthe, McCleary, Gunter, Mannone, Bacuna, Barrow, Ilori, Blackett, Obita, McShane etc etc.
How are we going to have taken £10m off the bill by losing Cabral, Aluko, Baldock, half of Puscas etc. In one season?
£5m from Puscas, Moore, Swift is to target.. but the first two there's no guarantee they go at all anyway.
Anyway, I'll shut up because this has gotten ridiculously off topic now.