Is This True?

[City_Sean]

A league,FA cup,Charity shield in recent times tells me that it is money well spent.

Correct.

+1

 

[Sunny Coast Blue]

Add up ManUre's rags wage bill and you will see the cost of FAILURE.

 

[Marvin]

based on Chelsea and City's latest accounts, I think the press reported that City had the biggest wage bill followed by Chelsea and then Utd

But remember that Chelsea have bought a lot of players this season, and Utd have bought RVP on a reported £10m pa. Whether the order has changed I don't know, but I think they are all in the same ball park. The biggest difference is that Utd's wage-bill is much smaller as a percentage of their turnover. Around 50%

City's wage bill according to the accounts at 31st May 2012 was 178m pa whilst turnover was £231 ie 77%. I am sure I read that City's wage bill was 85% of turnover so my amateur reading of the accounts maybe wrong

 

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

The £200m figure includes every staff member that we employ all 400+ of them.

I think that our playing staff wage bill on it's own is still the highest though.

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

We need a big clearout in the summer and it looks like its gonna happen.

 

[BimboBob]

We need a big clearout in the summer and it looks like its gonna happen.

The tea lady can do one for starters. It's diaretic you old woman.

 

[stony]

We need a big clearout in the summer and it looks like its gonna happen.

So who is being cleared out then ?

 

[bluemoondays]

We need a big clearout in the summer and it looks like its gonna happen.

So who is being cleared out then ?

I don't think we have the turnover still (for FFPR) to justify world class 1st team and 'european class' backups for each position. I think Bobby will be told to get a couple of genuine first teamers and reduce our backup costs (and use them less). Very few teams have (or can afford) our strength in depth and we probably can't also as well as meet FFPR, that may change later but for a couple of years we may need to cut our costs.

My estimates would be:

RSC, Bridge, Kolo and MJ as mentioned must be on a combined £300-£350k/week - that's £15.6m - £18m/year.

I think we could end up losing some of
Kolarov - replace with cheaper youngster
Lescott - if he goes will be replaced with top CB so no change
and one of our 4 high earning forwards - cheaper youngster again.

Could be another £10-£12m there, £7-8m for a forward and a few £mill for Kola

Potentially knocking £30m off our wage bill (depending on who they bring in as replacements). .

 

[coulsonblue]

lol

 

[Oystercatcher28]

Well I can tell you one thing, there are no referees on our payroll.