Worried about the wages????

[tevezblue]

For those on here who are continually highlighting the HUGE wages we choose to pay to assemble the best, lets get some perspective!
It was the wankers from Trafford that started this game of silly wages, to try to maintain their stranglehold on the monopoly of top tallent.
It was them again who insisted on the 'global brand' issues in merchandising to keep them ahead of any competition, so don't let any rags dare to whinge now they are down and out.
Beckham and Ferdinand were being paid around £100k a week almost ten years ago.
But to ease your minds slightly, if our owner didn't invest any of his money and never made another penny, and chose to pay each of our 1st team squad £4millon a week (that's a total weekly outlay of £100million), it would take over a hundred years before he even went close to his overdaft!
so lets stop being petty and let the ones with nowt do the worrying!

I'm not sure when it happened, but Man City fans advocating following Man Utd example?

Nice one.<br /><br />-- Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:05 am --<br /><br />

Maybe... but I still hope that there is no truth to the story that claims that Toure is on over 220k a week because that would be absolutely ridiculous.

It's disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.

These type of wages, transfer fee's, the lack of any English or local players to see wearing the shirts of their clubs is turning me completely off football.

If we win the Prem league, with a squad of names from every country in the world, except our own, on wages of £100k to £200k a week. I will certainly have conflicting feelings.

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

Yes I'm worried. I don't see how we're going to fit in with the financial regulations coming into play when we are paying evry player more than double what they'd be able to get anywhere else. Maybe if the people at the club were a little more prudent we wouldn't be having to pay £3.90 for a pint at coms

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

For those on here who are continually highlighting the HUGE wages we choose to pay to assemble the best, lets get some perspective!
It was the wankers from Trafford that started this game of silly wages, to try to maintain their stranglehold on the monopoly of top tallent.
It was them again who insisted on the 'global brand' issues in merchandising to keep them ahead of any competition, so don't let any rags dare to whinge now they are down and out.
Beckham and Ferdinand were being paid around £100k a week almost ten years ago.
But to ease your minds slightly, if our owner didn't invest any of his money and never made another penny, and chose to pay each of our 1st team squad £4millon a week (that's a total weekly outlay of £100million), it would take over a hundred years before he even went close to his overdaft!
so lets stop being petty and let the ones with nowt do the worrying!

Really, really daft post. Sorry.

It's not the owner's wealth that anyone is worried about but the impact on our future financial position under the Fair Play regulations. Our current wage bill now probably far exceeds our revenue and that should be a cause for concern of all of us. Even very average (on a good day) players like SWP are demanding £100k a week allegedly because he sees new players coming in on ludicrous salaries. These sort of wages set the benchmark so we won't get away with offering anyone even £50k a week from now on. Remember when we refused to go over £30k a week?

The key questions are:
1) What would happen if the Sheikh walked away?
2) Even if he doesn't, what's the plan to make us self-financing?

 

[tevezblue]

For those on here who are continually highlighting the HUGE wages we choose to pay to assemble the best, lets get some perspective!
It was the wankers from Trafford that started this game of silly wages, to try to maintain their stranglehold on the monopoly of top tallent.
It was them again who insisted on the 'global brand' issues in merchandising to keep them ahead of any competition, so don't let any rags dare to whinge now they are down and out.
Beckham and Ferdinand were being paid around £100k a week almost ten years ago.
But to ease your minds slightly, if our owner didn't invest any of his money and never made another penny, and chose to pay each of our 1st team squad £4millon a week (that's a total weekly outlay of £100million), it would take over a hundred years before he even went close to his overdaft!
so lets stop being petty and let the ones with nowt do the worrying!

Really, really daft post. Sorry.

It's not the owner's wealth that anyone is worried about but the impact on our future financial position under the Fair Play regulations. Our current wage bill now probably far exceeds our revenue and that should be a cause for concern of all of us. Even very average (on a good day) players like SWP are demanding £100k a week allegedly because he sees new players coming in on ludicrous salaries. These sort of wages set the benchmark so we won't get away with offering anyone even £50k a week from now on. Remember when we refused to go over £30k a week?

The key questions are:
1) What would happen if the Sheikh walked away?
2) Even if he doesn't, what's the plan to make us self-financing?

Great post.

Look at Chelsea. Regardless of success they have had, they are totally and utterly reliant, still, on one man's pocket and if he were to lose interest and not invest, they'd fall further and harder than Leeds Utd IMO.

This club needs to create stability somehow. The out goings need to be covered by something other than some Sheik's pocket.

 

[malg]

Don't give a shit how much they earn. I did have grave issues about it a while ago, but it's an argument that isn't worthy of a thread any more. We can't affect it, and as the Yanks say.....the boat has already sailed on that one.

The Rags did indeed start it a long, long time ago, and we are just doing what they done - paying players a lot more than anyone else to ensure they sign for us. If we win some silverware next season, then I won't be too bothered.

 

[shadygiz]

For those on here who are continually highlighting the HUGE wages we choose to pay to assemble the best, lets get some perspective!
It was the wankers from Trafford that started this game of silly wages, to try to maintain their stranglehold on the monopoly of top tallent.
It was them again who insisted on the 'global brand' issues in merchandising to keep them ahead of any competition, so don't let any rags dare to whinge now they are down and out.
Beckham and Ferdinand were being paid around £100k a week almost ten years ago.
But to ease your minds slightly, if our owner didn't invest any of his money and never made another penny, and chose to pay each of our 1st team squad £4millon a week (that's a total weekly outlay of £100million), it would take over a hundred years before he even went close to his overdaft!
so lets stop being petty and let the ones with nowt do the worrying!

Really, really daft post. Sorry.

It's not the owner's wealth that anyone is worried about but the impact on our future financial position under the Fair Play regulations. Our current wage bill now probably far exceeds our revenue and that should be a cause for concern of all of us. Even very average (on a good day) players like SWP are demanding £100k a week allegedly because he sees new players coming in on ludicrous salaries. These sort of wages set the benchmark so we won't get away with offering anyone even £50k a week from now on. Remember when we refused to go over £30k a week?

The key questions are:
1) What would happen if the Sheikh walked away?
2) Even if he doesn't, what's the plan to make us self-financing?

city street is the first step mate....i take it this will be open all year round, not just match days and will look to atrract people onto the complex. I'm hoping to eventually see a couple of hotels too.

Do we still have plans in place to brand the city name around the globe? We were looking at opening city themed restaurants and hotels around the globe. I'd have thought this has been put on the back burner until we are globally known and a regular CL team, therefore making it easier to market.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

The Rags did indeed start it a long, long time ago, and we are just doing what they done - paying players a lot more than anyone else to ensure they sign for us. If we win some silverware next season, then I won't be too bothered.

The rags could well afford it out of their self-generated resources and the last sentence is the attitude that brought Pompey down.

 

[dannybcity]

I'm willing to bet he's wages are not even close to those being suggested.

 

[Lordeffingham]

So, ok the shiekh decides he's had enough and walks away.
We are left with no option but to sell the majority of our squad and return to relative mediocrity of the other 18 English top flight clubs with next to nowt.
Well I for one want to live for the moment and worry about any future problems when and IF they ever materialise.
People in general in the UK are ignorant about many Middle Eastern traits, often assuming (without evidence) that arabs are an untrustworthy and devious people.
Well do some research and you'll discover some very close allegiances with our nation and a history involving great political respect betwwen our nation and theirs.
They do not asset strip like Americans and are almost always honourable in their ways and customs.
The most dispicable nation on the planet by a very long way is America, so we, in my opinion are far less likely to end up with egg on our face than the Rags, Arsenal, Liverpool or Aston Villa.
Now, they do have serious concerns about integrity!

 

[Bonol]

Just stop panicking and enjoy the ride. It's not our job to worry about finance thats the owners responsibility. The owners of this club have shown they are honourable people, they are not going to invest all this money and walk away. They are backing Mancini like they backed Hughes, these boys put the money down they dont mess about, every club in the country is dreaming about some knight in shining armour turning up as chairman with the money our owners have. Look on rawk (oh maybe not) Liverpool are begging there club be sold and i bet they dream of a sheik with loads of dosh to pull them out of the big hole they have dropped into, while calling us for ruining footbal (contradicting cunts). As for young players development, im sure it will come in the future but we need to get to the top fast and the young players are just not here yet. Eventually(like next year i hope) we will have a very good team and then we will not need to buy talent at this rate. Some day soon the Kaka's of this world will be knocking on our door not the other way around.