2006/07 - ‘Today’s money’

[Bladeinleeds]

Was bored with all the transfer speculation and got to wondering how our spend 12 years ago might equate in today’s money. As a rough indication of what our budget could be :


What do we reckon this motley selection would cost in today’s money? (2006/07 Fees taken from soccer base - great resource fwiw)

Claude Davis - £2.5m
Christian Nade - free
Leighterwood - £0.6m
Hulse - £2.2m
Lee Tie - free
Ian Bennett- free
Kazim Richards - £0.5m (undisclosed but I seem to remember that being the fee)

January

Killgallon - £1.75m
Stead - £0.75m
Seck - free
Shelton - £1.85m
Fathi - £0.7m

I make that a spend of just over £10m for the season

What do that lot go for in today’s money?

I think you’ve got 2 promising young defenders (Davies and killa ) £5-6m a pop?

One of the better championship strikers in hulse £8-10m?

Lower league player in maxim- Richards - £1m?

‘Decent’ championship midfielder in leighterwood £3m

Out of favor PL striker in stead - £3m?

Fathi - £1m assuming foreign market hasn’t inflated in the same way

Shelton - £3m - as above.

At the lower end of the scale that’s £29m.

Do we spend more or less than that this time?

 

[Tom Bott]

The same.

Been well documented we have a 'budget' of £ 20 million. 9 million for wages - snap.

Still finish above Leeds though

 

[Ricky]

Morrison = Kazlam

 

[8lade]

One of the better championship strikers in hulse £8-10m?

I think 12-15m would be more like it.
I'm looking at the others and thinking, 'we need much better this time around'.

 

[bromtom]

Worse strikers than Hulse would cost you £10m these days.

I'm looking at Tyrone Mings for £26m and thinking Claude Davies might be worth £8-10m, got to the Playoff final with Preston, so that's a couple of mill.

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

I remember Hulse and Davis cost £3m a piece and Kazim was definitely less than that. I remember being shocked at how low the fee was. Sure it was around 250-300k.

 

[metalblade]

Richards the coca cola kid £200-250k

 

[JackSUFC]

Kilgallon, highly-rated young English centre back, from a Yorkshire rival, easily £15m+.

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

Richards the coca cola kid £200-250k

Yeh that’s more like it. His fee was very low. Nice profit!

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

Hulse would comfortably cost £12m in today’s money. Claude Davis probably £6m. Taking their stock at the time and applying it to today.

 

[Brother-Leech]

Did we really pay that much for Shelton?
Worth it for the balloon goal I suppose.

 

[Cappy]

Been well documented we have a 'budget' of £ 20 million

From a reliable source though?

 

[Tom Bott]

From a reliable source though?

Can't get more reliable than ITK.

Apart from CWAK but they are not daft enough to reveal it.

 

[Tom Bott]

I remember Hulse and Davis cost £3m a piece and Kazim was definitely less than that. I remember being shocked at how low the fee was. Sure it was around 250-300k.

Subsequently, Brighton sold him to Sheffield United for £150,000 on 31 August 2006

According to his Wiki page.

 

[dynamoblade]

Looking at that it just reminds me how good Warnock was with relatively limited resources. Some quality signings in there from experience to youth gambles that paid off.

Quite similar to our Wilder in some respects. He certainly doesnt deserve the stick he gets from some on here.

 

[Killamarshblades]

Looking at that it just reminds me how good Warnock was with relatively limited resources. Some quality signings in there from experience to youth gambles that paid off.

Quite similar to our Wilder in some respects. He certainly doesnt deserve the stick he gets from some on here.

Id disagree somewhat with the comment about Warnock. He did at times do great with limited resources, but out of the Premier League signings in that list above i'd argue only Hulse, Stead and CKR had any positive impact on that season. Killa did have an impact but after NW had left, he was injured when signed and only played last 5/6 weeks

In the promotion and prem seasons he had loads of players / budget that he wasted in addition to the above, i.e. Horsfield, Lucketti, Akinbiyi, Nalis, Flitcroft, Sommeil, lads that had no impact whatsoever and were on cracking money. I think Horsfield / Lucketti got 2/2.5 year contracts out of United.

 

[Stu_Blade]

Akinbiyi was worth every penny and some for that volley at Swillsborough. Agreed on the others though

 

[S64 Blade]

I think looking at the players there and similar players who are going now, then multiply by about 4 or 5.