CW's transfer budget

[Blade58]

Meeting held with board last week says CW. Now knows what the budget is. Budget been affected by loss in revenue and because of the club asset purchase. Contact made with targets (agents and players)

'We've 100 per cent made contact' - Chris Wilder makes transfer admission

Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder has put his plans for next season's team to the board

www.examinerlive.co.uk

 

[Niceguyeddie]

If wages take up.about 50 percent of the TV money I can't see the budget being more than 20 million
Getting a bit worried about next season ,going to be a huge challenge

 

[Blade58]

If wages take up.about 50 percent of the TV money I can't see the budget being more than 20 million
Getting a bit worried about next season ,going to be a huge challenge

Plus any sales

Around £8m for Callum Robinson to WBA for example, plus his wages

Plus loan wages that have been saved such as Zivkovic, Retsos and Besic

Up to £30m now ....................... all good

 

[robbiez666]

I presume, without any sales, the squad next season will be:

GK Verrips, Moore
DF Stevens, JOC, Bryan, Egan, Bash, Baldock, Robinson
MD Berge, Fleck, Norwood, Osborn, maybe Lunny
ST Sharp, McBurnie, Mousset, Didsy, Robinson

Maybe Norrington-Davis as well.

I suspect we'll be making better use of the loan market this time round as I doubt we'll have that much money for player purchases.

I assume we'll (try and ) part with Bryan and C Robinson

We'll at least need a GK, RWB, 2 CBs, CM and I assume a striker.

 

[JohnDenver]

Meeting held with board last week says CW. Now knows what the budget is. Budget been affected by loss in revenue and because of the club asset purchase. Contact made with targets (agents and players)

'We've 100 per cent made contact' - Chris Wilder makes transfer admission

Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder has put his plans for next season's team to the board

www.examinerlive.co.uk

No surprises here. I expect we’ll be hit harder than most by Covid‘s revenue drop, but at least the market will be down and our manager is proven to work within restrictions.

It makes keeping our best players even more important, but a silly offer for JOC would be tempting if it enabled purchases.

The biggest issue will be replacing Henderson....

 

[Berkshire Blade]

It's going to be a huge challenge if we don't make the champions League. If we do it will help fill the gap massively.

But nearly every club is going to have huge issues

 

[Carlton Blade]

Keep the core 16 and add 2 loans and 2 signings and I'd be happy

 

[bromtom]

No surprises here. I expect we’ll be hit harder than most by Covid‘s revenue drop, but at least the market will be down and our manager is proven to work within restrictions.

It makes keeping our best players even more important, but a silly offer for JOC would be tempting if it enabled purchases.

The biggest issue will be replacing Henderson....

I'd think we'd be the least effected by Covid to be honest, we're not multiple years into TV money dependency and our wages aren't that high.

The difficulty will come depending on where we finish, as we may need more players than we would for a normal domestic season.

 

[MobileBlade]

If wages take up.about 50 percent of the TV money I can't see the budget being more than 20 million
Getting a bit worried about next season ,going to be a huge challenge

If our wages take up 50% of TV money it means we've given everyone a 600% increase on average compared to last season.

 

[Ricky]

I'm sure the summer plans we had around January time have now changed.

We're going to really have to focus our spending.

 

[WORKSOPBLADE]

Canny Chris. Always talks the budget down.

Negotiating at its best !!

 

[Bladesman]

We have no fuckin munneh!

 

[Niceguyeddie]

If our wages take up 50% of TV money it means we've given everyone a 600% increase on average compared to last season.

How do you work that out ?

 

[INTERUNITED]

Don't forget we signed Berge using a portion of the summer transfer kitty. I don't think we'd have spent a massive amount regardless of the virus. The main problem is the Prince using the club's money to buy the ground etc from McCabe.

 

[Chabuddy G]

Everybody is going to be hit not just us. You keep that back 5 in place and you’ve got a superb base from which to build from anyway.

 

[MobileBlade]

How do you work that out ?

Simple really. Try taking last seasons accounts to see the wage bill. And then take the average income allocated from the Premier League for a team finishing in the top 10. I've not added anything for the fact that this seasons tv money is worth more although any pay back is not until the next 2 seasons. I then got a fag packet and put the 2 together. How did you work yours out?

 

[MobileBlade]

Don't forget we signed Berge using a portion of the summer transfer kitty. I don't think we'd have spent a massive amount regardless of the virus. The main problem is the Prince using the club's money to buy the ground etc from McCabe.

What's his contract length?

 

[CentralQuay]

If wages take up.about 50 percent of the TV money I can't see the budget being more than 20 million
Getting a bit worried about next season ,going to be a huge challenge

Which is why a lower finish next season than this can still actually be considered as 'progress'.
It's also why if you can't really invest much into the playing squad, you can't discard Berge/Mcburnie like Man City can do with £50 million full backs when they don't settle in right away.

Developing a squad is a long-term process which is why in this league position is almost irrelevant. Lets be honest here, this seasons signings have done little more than add depth to the squad. I don't see an improvement to your starting eleven, in fact most are arguing on here for the same players to play that were ever presents last season.

That's pretty standard and how it works for all newly promoted sides. In 12 months time though, if Berge/Mcburnie have not begun to establish themselves, and your summer signings for the upcoming season don't work out either, that's when the problems will start.

 

[Niceguyeddie]

Simple really. Try taking last seasons accounts to see the wage bill. And then take the average income allocated from the Premier League for a team finishing in the top 10. I've not added anything for the fact that this seasons tv money is worth more although any pay back is not until the next 2 seasons. I then got a fag packet and put the 2 together. How did you work yours out?

I worked out that if the wage bill is between 50 and sixty million for next season that is half of 120 million

 

[MobileBlade]

I worked out that if the wage bill is between 50 and sixty million for next season that is half of 120 million

So where you get the £50-£60 million from?

 

[Niceguyeddie]

So where you get the £50-£60 million from?

I'm assuming the average wage next season will b around 35 k
Its a guess to be fair it could be as low as 20 grand which would mean our wage bill is lower than last years which would be great financial acumn from the club

 

[LoughboroBlade]

What's his contract length?

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First team contracts - June 2020

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[Flatulent_Bob]

He’s not talking to us, he’s talking to the agents and the current clubs of his targets.
I don’t think we’ll be spending £60-70million, but I don’t think it’ll be £20 million either.
As a side note, if the market is flat there isn’t another manager in the league I’d want to in charge of us to extract the maximum from what he’s got.

 

[MobileBlade]

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Fab. So we paid £22 million for him. It means his cost in the accounts is £5.4 million a year.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Meeting held with board last week says CW. Now knows what the budget is. Budget been affected by loss in revenue and because of the club asset purchase. Contact made with targets (agents and players)

'We've 100 per cent made contact' - Chris Wilder makes transfer admission

Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder has put his plans for next season's team to the board

www.examinerlive.co.uk

I can understand why the comments about not taking up the options on Retsos & Zivkovic might concern folk, but we’ve barely seen either so Wilder is far better place to know how they’ve fit into our system based on how they’ve performed in training.

The main point is also that for Retsos in particular we apparently agreed a fee, based on his market value at the time. Not only had that probably dipped since (making the deal less attractive to us) but it’s likely to couple with a change in the domestic market in the leagues below the Prem as clubs deal with the cash shortfall. We opted to look at the options from abroad probably due to the likes of Ipswich asking for crazy money for Luke Wolfenden – players like him might be now available at a substantially reduced cost.

 

[MobileBlade]

I'm assuming the average wage next season will b around 35 k
Its a guess to be fair it could be as low as 20 grand which would mean our wage bill is lower than last years which would be great financial acumn from the club

25 man squad on £35k is £45 million. Can't see our average been anything like that given how many youngsters and support players are in the squad.

 

[bornablade]

I expect to see Ramsdale to return

 

[WORKSOPBLADE]

I expect to see Ramsdale to return

Decent but not Deano.
We’ll go abroad if needed.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

He will have good money to spend, Wilder was saying we won't go mad last summer and we broke the transfer record 5 times.

 

[Niceguyeddie]

25 man squad on £35k is £45 million. Can't see our average been anything like that given how many youngsters and support players are in the squad.

OK so you think our wage bill will be lower than 45 million
Will it be lower than last seasons of 34 million
Or somewhere in between ?

Shall we say 40 million ?
Which would be easily the lowest in.the division.probably by about 50 %

So a third of the budget ,but let's be honest we won't attract anyone decent on those wages and
Makes a bit of a mockery of your ridiculous 600 % increase comment