Our players wages

[bluemoondays]

Somethings been bugging me for a while now so I sat down with Excel the annual financial report for 2010 and tried to map out players wages - bear in mind a lot of this is guesswork (with loads of assumptions) but I can't be far away, I think!

Wage bill £133m - includes 223 non-playing staff such as Cookie, receptionists etc. We have 190 football staff i.e. players but I've assumed only 30 senior players and 36 youths/reserves from £2k/week to £15k/week.

Assumptions (annual)
£5m - Top execs (incl bonuses)
£4.7m - Top prospects = 6 @£15k week
£2.6m - Middling Reserves etc = 10 @£5k/week
£2m - Lowest paid youths =20 @£2k/week (ignored the kids on a few hundred £)
£6.7m- 223 salaried staff @average of £25k/year

Total = £21m non playing staff costs and youth players

£133m - £21m = £112m = senior players salaries

£112m (annual salary spend) divide by 30 players = £3,733,333 per year average

£3,733,333 divide by 52 weeks = £71,794 (call it £72k/week per player).

So, average per player per week = £72k/week AND this includes bonuses.

For every player on a "supposed" £250k/week wage then 4 other players would need to be on £27.5k/week to balance out the figures - which is pretty ridiculous.

tl;dr So, basically, the papers talk shit about our players wages (which we all knew) but at least some maths (sort of) proves it.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

The papers talk effluence full stop!

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Derek Kevan was on ten bob a week and a free meat pie if he scored.

 

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

Wait to see what the bill is this year. Accounts are always one season behind. I am going for £172m

 

[BlueHubert]

Wait to see what the bill is this year. Accounts are always one season behind. I am going for £172m

I think that you are pretty close there and the 2010/11 results which appear in 2012 will be pretty awful too. Now that we are clearing out the (can't say deadwood, Lakey wouldn't be happy) unwanted players it won't be until September 2012, when we see the wage bill for this present season, 2011/12 season, that we will get a real idea of what we can expect to have to cut down from with the inclusion of more home grown lads we are buying. We are goint o have to go good guns to bring in enough new revenue from new sponsorship and Champs league to break even.

I'm sure we will be able to show that we are going in the right direction to UEFA but to start posting a profit, I'm not sure that will happen in the next 10/15 years, if ever.

 

[Nascent Blues]

Wait to see what the bill is this year. Accounts are always one season behind. I am going for £172m

I think that you are pretty close there and the 2010/11 results which appear in 2012 will be pretty awful too. Now that we are clearing out the (can't say deadwood, Lakey wouldn't be happy) unwanted players it won't be until September 2012, when we see the wage bill for this present season, 2011/12 season, that we will get a real idea of what we can expect to have to cut down from with the inclusion of more home grown lads we are buying. We are goint o have to go good guns to bring in enough new revenue from new sponsorship and Champs league to break even.

I'm sure we will be able to show that we are going in the right direction to UEFA but to start posting a profit, I'm not sure that will happen in the next 10/15 years, if ever.

I know what you mean but I'll think we'll be alright. 35/40 million from the new Etihad sponsor + 35 millionish from the Champions League is a big help. That's pretty much 65/75 million pound of new money that City will be pulling in. It's not gonna cover everything but it's a start.

 

[S04]

Wait to see what the bill is this year. Accounts are always one season behind. I am going for £172m

I think that you are pretty close there and the 2010/11 results which appear in 2012 will be pretty awful too. Now that we are clearing out the (can't say deadwood, Lakey wouldn't be happy) unwanted players it won't be until September 2012, when we see the wage bill for this present season, 2011/12 season, that we will get a real idea of what we can expect to have to cut down from with the inclusion of more home grown lads we are buying. We are goint o have to go good guns to bring in enough new revenue from new sponsorship and Champs league to break even.

I'm sure we will be able to show that we are going in the right direction to UEFA but to start posting a profit, I'm not sure that will happen in the next 10/15 years, if ever.

oh, we don´t have to show a profit for real..just according to the FFPR criteria