City wage bill

[BoyBlue_1985]

The publication and timing of these stories with a negative view on City is bewildering. I have to believe that someone somewhere is pulling strings, trying to de-rail our season and cast accusations that our owners and senior management are charlatans. I maybe biased but what our owners have done since they took over is not only amazing for us but the knock on effect is phenomenal. Take Everton for example Kenwright was in a hole - club in debt so much so that they could have gone into administration - We then buy Lescott for a ridiculous fee and pay on the nose, this helped stabilise their finances and look at where they have grown to. A simplistic but viable evaluation. The investment on the surrounding area is regenerating an area that would have been left with just a fading memory of the 2002 Commonweath experience and us scraping by in a stadium that rarely sold out. They have created jobs, wealth, supported lesser teams with transfer fees, regenerated East Manchester - yet these numb nuts in the media along with the fools who sit in ivory towers in UEFA and FIFA orchestrate an agenda against us. Thank goodness PSG came along because without them I think MCFC would have had its head on a spike at the end of the M56!

They are about 2 months too late

 

[ElanJo]

Bayern has players on less money than some of our bench players. The likes of Kroos, Dante at Bayern (not the biggest stars but important players), are getting less than 100k per week in €. We have Lescott, Rodwell, Richards on similar wages. They wouldnt get close to play at Bayern, they are hardly playing for us these days...
But if I remember well when Txiki first looked at the squad worth and the wage list he nearly fell off his chair. I read it somewhere surely, didnt make it up.:)

I hope we continue what we started that giving smaller fix wages with greater bonuses. If the infos are right none of Navas, Negredo, Fernandinho are over 100k per week. Maybe if all the bonuses would be active they would be even on 120-150k.
But if they arrived here around 2008-2010, their basic wage could have been 150-200 basic wage maybe. Thats where the inflation comes from. I mean we did pay 15-17m for a crocked RSC and 12m for Bridge and 80-90k per week wages. We still had to pay these wages last year when they were out on loan. Or Adebayor still being paid as we had to pay off him next to the pretty low fee we got for him as his wages were high so any possible fee became pretty low.
thats why we couldnt sold Barry for a fee, werent many going to pay his wage and some fee on top of it. At least Everton took him on loan and hopefully pay his wages in full.
Also for Dzeko, it could make it harder to sell him if wants the same wages he gets here at his next club.

I am not against to give huge wages to great players, but we really gave huge wages to some mediocre players or not world class players.

Negredo et al are on 75k, iirc

The study, which you can get via email, is based on last season's wages, as shown in the accounts released a few months ago. The other sports are based on 2014.
So our figures are bloated by the likes of Bridge, RSC, Kolo, Mario still being on the books, as well as Mancini n co's pay offs.

 

[the originalkippaxman]

The only reason we are so high is because they have transferred last years figures into $. With the exchange rate at the moment being 1.67 it makes our figures look higher and the American ones lower. If they actually used the correct exchange rates from last year we would be around 6th on the list.

Though that wouldn't sell papers and do you honestly expect any UK Journalist to actually do their job properly and print the correct information.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

If you take Mancini's reported payout out of the figures then it reduces the annual figure per player by £1.2m

 

[mcfcphil]

Give a shit

 

[Blue Mist]

I remember when that Tevez wage slipped was found and I thought then that it was outrageous.

 

[LoveCity]

If you believe The Sun (and why should you?), Dzeko is being offered a new deal with a significant pay cut. They want him to renew on a lower basic like the new signings have been given, rather than the £150,000-a-week he apparently gets now.

Barcelona pay more than City per player so I guess our problem is we have too many players on the books - when you look at Barry and Sinclair loaned out, Micah and Rodwell contributing less than young academy players would, and also I think this is the last year we pay off Adebayor, getting the wage bill down further shouldn't be too hard.

 

[welsh_andy]

If you believe The Sun (and why should you?), Dzeko is being offered a new deal with a significant pay cut. They want him to renew on a lower basic like the new signings have been given, rather than the £150,000-a-week he apparently gets now.

Barcelona pay more than City per player so I guess our problem is we have too many players on the books - when you look at Barry and Sinclair loaned out, Micah and Rodwell contributing less than young academy players would, and also I think this is the last year we pay off Adebayor, getting the wage bill down further shouldn't be too hard.

come summer its time to trim the excess fat.
we had to pay silly wages to get these players in at the beginning, its something that had to be done, but now we should be established in CL we can attract players with out need to give them silly wages. so imo the wage bill will come down eventually

 

[Maldeika]

Bayern has players on less money than some of our bench players. The likes of Kroos, Dante at Bayern (not the biggest stars but important players), are getting less than 100k per week in €. We have Lescott, Rodwell, Richards on similar wages. They wouldnt get close to play at Bayern, they are hardly playing for us these days...

Dante came from small Mönchengladbach - and some weeks ago the prolonged with him on higher wages. He was not expected to be a player for the starting formation - with Badstuber healthy he probably would not be - he was bought as squad player like e.g. Mandzukic. Kroos prolonged in 2011 when he came back from Leverkusen - he was 21 then. He probably is on a higher wage than Müller was until December 2012 when Müller prolonged (who prolonged his contract in 2010 short after the World Cup). Alaba probably was low in wages before he prolonged as he was on his second contract - the first was a two year contract after the amateur contract.

Neuer probably is not on a very big wage either - but it will be when he makes a new contract. You have to see the developments the players make, how old they were when they made their last contracts and at some where they come from.

Bayern has 3 top earners with about 9 to 10 million EUR wage/year - Ribery, Lahm and Schweinsteiger. And then the others follow in categories. The problem with Kroos only is that he wants to get into a category the club does not see him in.