Champagneblade
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We seem to have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.
By all accounts we were 2m above the desired budget. The initial question there then is how you manage to get so far out of sync with your desired spend? We must have given away some daft contracts. Setting that aside, how we are currently run is my concern.
I've kept a tracker just for temerity's sake since we got relegated when the wage bill was quoted as 12m. I reckon at the end of 2015 season the wage bill was at around 7m and through the course of the 2015/16 season it came down to the 6m figure. Once the huge raft of about 33 players, young, old, perm, loans dropped off, and then new players added, I reckon we are at around 4.4m for the playing wage bill.
Just to keep the club running with such large overheads more akin to a more high profile set up, it must cost a few million to support absences of sponsorship etc.
That said, my biggest concern is how the club has gone from a lavish squad of around 50 to 31 (including 1st year pros) to the point now where it seems we have almost become hand to mouth in terms of the recruitment.
We unfortunately have managed to recruit in a fashion that means we still need at least 3 crucial players at this late stage - First choice centre half, first choice midfield general and first choice left sided option with pace. You could read that as Morgan+Murphy/Morsy/Grant/Diaguraga+Lavery. A first choice left back who can defend without having to compromise your centre half options could also be argued.
Of the 4.4m, I guestimate we have close to 800k per annum tied up in transfer listed players.
Is the key recruitment going to be compromised by Wilder's inability to shift James and Kieron Wallace's wages? Will he be forced to sacrifice McNulty, who he might like to keep if he gets Lavery?
I appreciate you can't have your cake and eat it, but we did just sell Adams for a decent amount of money. If the owners really want to get this team up and running, when in the league above tens of millions are being spent, surely some flexibility, within reason, could be shown on the recruitment side.
We of course wait and see how we go, but I don't feel we are in a good place right now with less than 48 hours of the recruitment window to go.
Is anyone else concerned that this is an emerging theme in terms of how the club is run?
By all accounts we were 2m above the desired budget. The initial question there then is how you manage to get so far out of sync with your desired spend? We must have given away some daft contracts. Setting that aside, how we are currently run is my concern.
I've kept a tracker just for temerity's sake since we got relegated when the wage bill was quoted as 12m. I reckon at the end of 2015 season the wage bill was at around 7m and through the course of the 2015/16 season it came down to the 6m figure. Once the huge raft of about 33 players, young, old, perm, loans dropped off, and then new players added, I reckon we are at around 4.4m for the playing wage bill.
Just to keep the club running with such large overheads more akin to a more high profile set up, it must cost a few million to support absences of sponsorship etc.
That said, my biggest concern is how the club has gone from a lavish squad of around 50 to 31 (including 1st year pros) to the point now where it seems we have almost become hand to mouth in terms of the recruitment.
We unfortunately have managed to recruit in a fashion that means we still need at least 3 crucial players at this late stage - First choice centre half, first choice midfield general and first choice left sided option with pace. You could read that as Morgan+Murphy/Morsy/Grant/Diaguraga+Lavery. A first choice left back who can defend without having to compromise your centre half options could also be argued.
Of the 4.4m, I guestimate we have close to 800k per annum tied up in transfer listed players.
Is the key recruitment going to be compromised by Wilder's inability to shift James and Kieron Wallace's wages? Will he be forced to sacrifice McNulty, who he might like to keep if he gets Lavery?
I appreciate you can't have your cake and eat it, but we did just sell Adams for a decent amount of money. If the owners really want to get this team up and running, when in the league above tens of millions are being spent, surely some flexibility, within reason, could be shown on the recruitment side.
We of course wait and see how we go, but I don't feel we are in a good place right now with less than 48 hours of the recruitment window to go.
Is anyone else concerned that this is an emerging theme in terms of how the club is run?
