by Cypry »
03 Oct 2011 16:58
Rev Algenon Stickleback H papereyes The only thing I'd question is if the £4 million deficit is a yearly thing, then why?
That's what deficits are, aren't they?
deficit - annual loss
debt - total accumulated loss
if we're running at a deficit of several million, then
every year we need to find an additional several million to break even.
Thank you captain obvious. You've saved the world yet again.
What I mean is that our wage bill in the premier wasn't meant to be much over £20 million.
After shipping out virtually all of our big earners, it seems rather odd that our wage bill is still at at least half of our premier league levels.
5 years ago the average salary in this division was supposed to be £4000 a week. Could it really have doubled or more since then?
If, on the other hand, the average wage bill is really is £15 milllion or so, that just seems mental. It makes you wonder what other clubs lose every year.
In 2009 our wage bill was £27.7M - in 2010 it had dropped to £20.1M....I'd be amazed if last year it was much below £16M...
.....and how are you creating an average from just 30 players?
We've got 40+ players with squad numbers / contracts, then you've got the Manager, physios, fitness coaches, team at Hogwood, caterers, stadium management team, shop staff, stewards, marketing team, media team (need I go on?)......
You simply cannot take a random figure plucked out of the air, divide it by a (wrong) number of players, then start shouting the odds about our wage structure.
We're paying competitive salaries to the players in order to try to be as competitive on the pitch as possible - where we might have a issue is with the sheer size of the squad - with the number of players we've got with squad numbers we could almost field four teams, but I guess that's an upshot of the academy and trying to move players from that environment on to full professional careers....
I just do not get why some people cannot see this, and will base arguments basically disputing anything and everything which comes out of the club on this matter, on made up and very obviously incorrect information....at least what the clubs says has some credibility....