MonkeyLove
Striker
One thing that we are going to have to factor in even before we get into discussions about transfer spend, SCR etc… is we may well have to stump up significantly this summer just to stand still (Unless we go down the route of selling and reinvesting).
Just been looking at the Times ‘Value for money table’ and it has our wages down as 85 million for last year. Being it’s in the Times id imagine it’s fairly credible. By comparison most of our “mini league” are spending nearly twice that. Bournemouth, Fulham, Brighton, Forest etc… all at around 160 million a year. Even Brentford are over 130 million.
Clearly we don’t know who wants or will ask for a new contract but we all know what agents are like and just off the top of my head I’d imagine all of Roefs, Hume, Ballard, Sadiki, Talbi etc… are on considerably less then their performances are worth either because they were with us before promotion or because they were low profile when they came to us.
Brobbey, Le Fee, Mukiele etc… are supposedly our highest earners along with Xhaka at 70-80k a week but again their performances would easily make them 100k+ players at other clubs.
We’ve talked a bit about potentially selling to reinvest if we get huge money but the other dilemma the club may have is we are clearly getting huge value for money in achievement vs our wage bill (The exact analysis the times article were showing). That’s probably not going to last indefinitely with the current crop as by definition our young, emerging prospects will want bigger and better wages now they are established and that may domino to our current higher earners.
Probably 8-10 players I can think of that would potentially have a strong case. Something the club may have to build in to our squad plans this summer as it’s possible before even a penny is spent that just keeping this squad together for next year will take an investment in itself.
Just been looking at the Times ‘Value for money table’ and it has our wages down as 85 million for last year. Being it’s in the Times id imagine it’s fairly credible. By comparison most of our “mini league” are spending nearly twice that. Bournemouth, Fulham, Brighton, Forest etc… all at around 160 million a year. Even Brentford are over 130 million.
Clearly we don’t know who wants or will ask for a new contract but we all know what agents are like and just off the top of my head I’d imagine all of Roefs, Hume, Ballard, Sadiki, Talbi etc… are on considerably less then their performances are worth either because they were with us before promotion or because they were low profile when they came to us.
Brobbey, Le Fee, Mukiele etc… are supposedly our highest earners along with Xhaka at 70-80k a week but again their performances would easily make them 100k+ players at other clubs.
We’ve talked a bit about potentially selling to reinvest if we get huge money but the other dilemma the club may have is we are clearly getting huge value for money in achievement vs our wage bill (The exact analysis the times article were showing). That’s probably not going to last indefinitely with the current crop as by definition our young, emerging prospects will want bigger and better wages now they are established and that may domino to our current higher earners.
Probably 8-10 players I can think of that would potentially have a strong case. Something the club may have to build in to our squad plans this summer as it’s possible before even a penny is spent that just keeping this squad together for next year will take an investment in itself.
