City wage bill

[RandomJ]

For me it means we have to assess whether we are getting value for money on some of the players.

Its crunch time this summer for

Barry gone anyway??
Milner definitely yes
Dzeko this one i'll give you
Kolorov best lb in the league
Nasri negotiating new contract, probably same terms as Yaya
Richards probably going
Lescott gone anyway??

I would imagine the wage bill for those 7 players alone is £30m a year.

The question is, can we replace them with players who are not quite top level but close to it and get similar players for half the cost.

These are the questions the powers that be will be asking themselves.

He's had a better year but kolorov is nowhere near the best LB in the league.

As other have said our wage bill is so high due to the left overs of the contracts Clueless gave out and a couple from Mancini. Players like Silva, Aguero, Toure are worth every penny we pay them but some of the others are on silly wages considering the role they play for the team. Hopefully this summer we clear a few of them out.

 

[aguero93:20]

For me it means we have to assess whether we are getting value for money on some of the players.

Its crunch time this summer for

Barry gone anyway??
Milner definitely yes
Dzeko this one i'll give you
Kolorov best lb in the league
Nasri negotiating new contract, probably same terms as Yaya
Richards probably going
Lescott gone anyway??

I would imagine the wage bill for those 7 players alone is £30m a year.

The question is, can we replace them with players who are not quite top level but close to it and get similar players for half the cost.

These are the questions the powers that be will be asking themselves.

He's had a better year but kolorov is nowhere near the best LB in the league.

As other have said our wage bill is so high due to the left overs of the contracts Clueless gave out and a couple from Mancini. Players like Silva, Aguero, Toure are worth every penny we pay them but some of the others are on silly wages considering the role they play for the team. Hopefully this summer we clear a few of them out.

Name one left back in the Premier League who has had a better season.

 

[Richard]

Luke Shaw and Leighton Baines are both comfortably better than Kolorov.

Don't get me wrong, he has improved beyond belief, but the fact that Pellegrini won't trust him defensively in big games is telling.

Would keep him over Clichy though.

 

[aguero93:20]

Luke Shaw and Leighton Baines are both comfortably better than Kolorov.

Don't get me wrong, he has improved beyond belief, but the fact that Pellegrini won't trust him defensively in big games is telling.

Would keep him over Clichy though.

Luke Shaw is only excellent for his age, not compared to senior players and has no final product going forward and Leighton Baines has had a disappointing season.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I've sent off for a free copy of the report but unless we gave them the information, I can't see where they got an accurate figure from.

 

[Mr HJ]

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!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I've got a copy of the report and checked the methodology. He takes the figure in the accounts and strips out what he estimates to be non-player wages, using some sort of formula.

Whatever is left is divided by 25 (a PL first team squad). It's interesting but has no great scientific basis.

If it's true that we retain image rights and pay these as salary then clearly we'll have a bigger wage bill than a club which doesn't do that, as additional earnings for things like image rights are excluded from the calculation.

 

[moomba]

I've got a copy of the report and checked the methodology. He takes the figure in the accounts and strips out what he estimates to be non-player wages, using some sort of formula.

Whatever is left is divided by 25 (a PL first team squad). It's interesting but has no great scientific basis.

If it's true that we retain image rights and pay these as salary then clearly we'll have a bigger wage bill than a club which doesn't do that, as additional earnings for things like image rights are excluded from the calculation.

I had half a thought that he's just taken our total salary costs and split it along football staff/non football staff ratios as per our annual report to get to $202m.

Not sure if numbers/exchange rates support that theory though.

 

[mancity111]

Perfectly understandable that we would be at the top or near the top as far as a team game is concerned.

The progression of our academy will largely determine whether we go down the order in years to come.

 

[hertsblue]

I remember reading a story that we were the only PL team to pay a living wage to staff. Of course being a positive story it hardly had any coverage and all talk of our wages included all staffs salaries but that was omitted from reports, making the casual armchair headling reading fan think it was just player wages.
No surprise the Rag arse licking BBC are now reporting this and had to add to the end "Manchester City are one of 76 clubs being investigated by Uefa over a possible breach of its Financial Fair Play rules. A decision is expected in the coming days. "