North Somerset Royal Yes but that is the current situation including the highest paid players who the club intends to sell. After that we will be middle range at best.
You would be surprised at how little some Championship clubs pay.
by Wycombe Royal » 22 May 2008 11:03
North Somerset Royal Yes but that is the current situation including the highest paid players who the club intends to sell. After that we will be middle range at best.
by I was there at Elm Park » 22 May 2008 11:05
Wycombe RoyalNorth Somerset Royal Yes but that is the current situation including the highest paid players who the club intends to sell. After that we will be middle range at best.
You would be surprised at how little some Championship clubs pay.
by Wycombe Royal » 22 May 2008 11:16
I was there at Elm ParkWycombe RoyalNorth Somerset Royal Yes but that is the current situation including the highest paid players who the club intends to sell. After that we will be middle range at best.
You would be surprised at how little some Championship clubs pay.
You say that but I read that Barnsley are paying Luke Steele £5000 a week. To me that seems a hell of a lot of money for a small club like Barnsley.
by brendywendy » 22 May 2008 11:17
North Somerset Royalbrendywendy not sure it made any difference when newcastle, west ham and the like are all talking top nickys agent about him wanting a move anyway-his contract is up, so its either another year of perhaps substandardperformances, and lose him for free, or get around 5 million quid for the 3/4 best left back in the country
id be upset if we didnt sell him to be fair
and from now on can people just stop with the where has the money gone stuff
its not even that hard, just need to engage the old brain
and as for blaming mr mad? for what? for running us as a business ? for ensuring that no matter what happens we will be financially viable.
and yes we were low payers in the prem, but in case no one had noticed we have just been relegated to the championship where we will now be one of the higher payers
Not according to our Chairman.............................Even though we get the £11million parachute, we have still got very highly paid players – even with the reduction in wages, so I think we will have to budget for a small loss.
“Salaries have to be at the middle range and some in the upper range for the Championship.”
http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/footb ... ut_selling
by Smoking Kills Dancing Doe » 22 May 2008 11:18
by FiNeRaIn » 22 May 2008 11:19
by brendywendy » 22 May 2008 11:20
by Vision » 22 May 2008 11:23
PlatypussVisionArch There's a lot of dead wood floating around our club and some of it handsomely paid. What the hell were we doing with twelve players out on loan this Spring. That suggests too much squad inflation. I think the policy is run a tighter ship, smaller more unified squad, use some of our talented youngsters more readily for back-up, and then we can afford to pay competetive wages for the kinds of players we need. To be honest, I can't see how anyone can argue with that.
Thank f*ck for that. 4 lines to explain what i couldn't in 4 paragraphs.
I'm not convinced at the wisdom of Howe's public firesale outburst mind, but the reality is that we need to significantly cut the size of the playing squad and the responsibility for who goes and stays still appears to be with Coppell.
Surtely the reason the squad got so large (for no real benefit) was because of the salary structure? While money has always been avaible for transfer fees, the apparent cap on individuals' wages means that we could recruit oodles of mediocre palyters on "average" wages, but not offer enough to recruit the few quality individuals that would have made a genuine difference. That is why SC cannot take sole blame for last season's relagation.
Never has the quality >>> quantity adage been more amply demonstrated than Reading FC 07/08.
I hope we have truly learned the lesson.
by Skyline » 22 May 2008 11:31
rhroyal As for Shorey, we've said we want a decent price and by the sounds of things there will be a few bidding for him. If you've ever player Football Manager you'll know that when a few parties are involved you can continuously stall bids and negotiate until you get the price you want, and with JM being a businessman he'll be a pro at this.
by Hoop Blah » 22 May 2008 11:32
by Hoop Blah » 22 May 2008 11:37
Wycombe RoyalNorth Somerset Royal Yes but that is the current situation including the highest paid players who the club intends to sell. After that we will be middle range at best.
You would be surprised at how little some Championship clubs pay.
by North Somerset Royal » 22 May 2008 11:41
Brendy Wendy wrote...so in response to me saying we are now one of the higher payers in the championship-youve posted a quote saying we have some in the middle, and some in the higher range?
doesnt that make us one of the highest payers in the championship?
by Royal Rother » 22 May 2008 11:53
North Somerset Royal Yes but that is the current situation including the highest paid players who the club intends to sell. After that we will be middle range at best.
by brendywendy » 22 May 2008 11:57
by rhroyal » 22 May 2008 12:00
Skylinerhroyal As for Shorey, we've said we want a decent price and by the sounds of things there will be a few bidding for him. If you've ever player Football Manager you'll know that when a few parties are involved you can continuously stall bids and negotiate until you get the price you want, and with JM being a businessman he'll be a pro at this.
This has got to be the HNA? equivalent of Godwin's Law, surely? Invoking FM or CM to prove a point is just, well, pointless.
by Ian Royal » 22 May 2008 12:50
Hoop BlahWycombe RoyalNorth Somerset Royal Yes but that is the current situation including the highest paid players who the club intends to sell. After that we will be middle range at best.
You would be surprised at how little some Championship clubs pay.
These are some 2006 wage bills from the figures I have access to (for the same year our wage bill was £12.5m):
Coventry - 7.1
Leeds - 15.7
PNE - 6.7
Sheff U - 15.2
Ipswich - 9.9
Norwich - 15.4
Cardiff - 8.1
Palace - 18.1
Watford - 9.4
Leicester - 11.6
QPR - 6.3
For the same year a few Prem sides
'Boro - 28.7
Portsmouth - 24.8
Spurs - 39.7
Fulham - 30.1
Newcastle - 52.2
Liverpool - 68.9
by Huntley & Palmer » 22 May 2008 12:55
Skylinerhroyal As for Shorey, we've said we want a decent price and by the sounds of things there will be a few bidding for him. If you've ever player Football Manager you'll know that when a few parties are involved you can continuously stall bids and negotiate until you get the price you want, and with JM being a businessman he'll be a pro at this.
This has got to be the HNA? equivalent of Godwin's Law, surely? Invoking FM or CM to prove a point is just, well, pointless.
by North Somerset Royal » 22 May 2008 12:58
brendywendy i too thought that this referred to the coming season, once changes have been made
Royal RotherNorth Somerset Royal Yes but that is the current situation including the highest paid players who the club intends to sell. After that we will be middle range at best.
Without reading the whole article, just seeing the quote you extracted, I thought JM was talking about what is has to be for the coming season (is that not the case?) - so it seemed reasonable to assume that whoever gets sold, he intends us to still have players in the higher range.
by rhroyal » 22 May 2008 13:04
Huntley & PalmerSkylinerhroyal As for Shorey, we've said we want a decent price and by the sounds of things there will be a few bidding for him. If you've ever player Football Manager you'll know that when a few parties are involved you can continuously stall bids and negotiate until you get the price you want, and with JM being a businessman he'll be a pro at this.
This has got to be the HNA? equivalent of Godwin's Law, surely? Invoking FM or CM to prove a point is just, well, pointless.
It's what Hitler would have wanted
by Platypuss » 22 May 2008 13:14
rhroyalHuntley & PalmerSkyline This has got to be the HNA? equivalent of Godwin's Law, surely? Invoking FM or CM to prove a point is just, well, pointless.
It's what Hitler would have wanted
I don't quite understand how you jump to that conclusion, unless you're comparing my logic to the logic in Aryans being the master race. I like to think what I said was created from a little more than just thin air.
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