Sean Thornton
I say a little prayer….
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Sean, thanks for placing on record the fact that I edited a figure, sure everybody needed to know that. Good to know you are paying real time attention though Still think it could be £6m actually or anything between £5m and £6m. The point remains that it will naturally come down after the big investments made available to Clough and then Adkins on top of Clough's bloated squad. Therefore we fans don't need to read too much into it all.
Paying Adkins and his team off will fall in the 2016/17 accounts but hopefully will be covered as an exceptional item by the owners and won't have too much impact on the wage bill. I think they'll settle with a few of the 7 listed players too and will hopefully treat that outside the manager's wage budget.
P.S. I edited the word 'then' above.
With one of your detailed posts based solely on your own assumptions I wondered why you would drop the figure by a million after originally posting six million. Clearly it's irritated you but you've concentrated on that rather than the point which was that to reckon it's five million in the season - or six to cover your back - just gone, how do you think any reduction from 2014/15 has come about?
Or maybe you believe admin salaries totalled half of the football costs.
The pay offs to Adkins etc will be included in wages as normal because it's contractual. Why you would think otherwise is anyone's guess but hiding them under extraordinary expenses changes nothing on the bottom line, nor I'd imagine for SCMP. I'd have thought someone who thinks themselves capable of running the club would be aware of that.
More editing may make you look less daft in future btw.