Our player wages

[Mister Chops 11]

[quote user="nutty nigel"]

[quote user="Mister Chops"][quote user="Tangible Fixed Assets anyone"]Jealousy runs deep, runs wide.[/quote]So does Grant Holt, and we all f''ing love him.[/quote]

He''s found his level in round four. If we have realistc aspirations to progress further we will have to bring in a more experienced FA Cup goalscorer.

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That''s all well and good, but you and I know why we can or can''t afford to do something like that.  I''ll PM you so we can discuss in more detail.

[a1canary 0]

What an irritating thread! I''m interested in the actual topic, and since someone has already had a guess that our wage cap is around 15k a week, perhaps some of ye enlightened ones could give us an indication of how accurate this is?

I''d be amazed if it was as low as this (great if it was) because surely many PL clubs could come a calling offering 20 or 25 and they''d all be out the door. I suppose in this sense the dire financial position of football today works in our favour since not long ago many Championship clubs could compete with this and Johnny Howson would be taking a pay cut coming to us. But presumably no-one at Leeds today is on more than about 6 or 8k a week.

But if we are only paying those sort of wages, then I would worry about how threatened this model will become in a second season in the Prem for the reasons above.

[Bill Car 0]

[quote user="nutty nigel"]

[quote user="Mister Chops"][quote user="Tangible Fixed Assets anyone"]Jealousy runs deep, runs wide.[/quote]

So does Grant Holt, and we all f''ing love him.

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He''s found his level in round four. If we have realistc aspirations to progress further we will have to bring in a more experienced FA Cup goalscorer.

 

 

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Excellent insight, John Byrne has got that FA Cup experience that we are so desperately lacking.

Could someone PM me, to let me know if we could afford him or not?

[a1canary 0]

Incidentally, presumably all it would take is a look at the accounts to work out total first team player wages divided by the number of players to get an average wage. Then we mere mortals could too be privileged special ones!

[PurpleCanary 6,467]

[quote user="a1canary"]Incidentally, presumably all it would take is a look at the accounts to work out total first team player wages divided by the number of players to get an average wage. Then we mere mortals could too be privileged special ones![/quote]

 

Yes, but then we''d have to kill you, a1![;)]

 

OK, we''ll let you live. According to the accounts our "player wage costs" were 47 per cent of turnover. Since turnover was £23m, that comes to £10.8m for player wage costs. If you divide that by the 72 people on our footballing staff that comes to an average yearly wage of £150,000.

 

But the footballing staff, I assume, includes youth players, trainers, physios etc, whereas the 47 per cent presumably only applies to players (for which there isn''t a separate figure) and possibly only to the first-team squad. And it is not clear what the club means by "player wage costs". Basic salaries or bonuses etc as well?

 

To sum up, no help at all really...[*-)]

[Tangible Fixed Assets anyone? 0]

[quote user="Mister Chops"][quote user="Tangible Fixed Assets anyone"]Jealousy runs deep, runs wide.[/quote]

So does Grant Holt, and we all f''ing love him.

[/quote]

Mister Chops,

I can''t drag my intellect low enough to make sense of your post. You would never get a meeting with Mr. Bowkett.

 

[Mister Chops 11]

[quote user="Turgid Fixed Ass anyone"]

[quote user="Mister Chops"][quote user="Tangible Fixed Assets anyone"]Jealousy runs deep, runs wide.[/quote]So does Grant Holt, and we all f''ing love him.[/quote]

Mister Chops,

I can''t drag my intellect low enough to make sense of your post. You would never get a meeting with Mr. Bowkett.

 

[/quote]On the contrary, I only have my Personal Assistant return Mr. Bowkett''s calls on a one in five ratio, to keep him interested.  I know you''re prudent enough not to mention whether "Mr. Bowkett" (though we''re on slightly less formal terms) had mentioned this to you in your minor league meeting, and I''m impressed.  Keep up the good work and maybe we''ll invite you to the next thingy I can''t talk about.Grant Holt runs deep and runs wide, by the way. That''s why he''s never in the box to score goals.  It wasn''t that difficult, was it?

[nutty nigel 7,967]

[quote user="PurpleCanary"]

[quote user="a1canary"]Incidentally, presumably all it would take is a look at the accounts to work out total first team player wages divided by the number of players to get an average wage. Then we mere mortals could too be privileged special ones![/quote]

 

Yes, but then we''d have to kill you, a1![;)]

 

OK, we''ll let you live. According to the accounts our "player wage costs" were 47 per cent of turnover. Since turnover was £23m, that comes to £10.8m for player wage costs. If you divide that by the 72 people on our footballing staff that comes to an average yearly wage of £150,000.

 

But the footballing staff, I assume, includes youth players, trainers, physios etc, whereas the 47 per cent presumably only applies to players (for which there isn''t a separate figure) and possibly only to the first-team squad. And it is not clear what the club means by "player wage costs". Basic salaries or bonuses etc as well?

 

To sum up, no help at all really...[*-)]

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We could do that Purple. But those accounts won''t be published until well into next season. So it will be a bit late. No, I''m afraid the only way to find out is through people who are "in the know"....

 

But....

 

[8]Our lips are sealed. Pay no mind to what they say, it doesn''t matter anyway. Our lips are sealed[:#]

 

 

 

 

[Statler & Waldorf 0]

[quote user="nutty nigel"] 

 

[8]Our lips are sealed. Pay no mind to what they say, it doesn''t matter anyway. Our lips are sealed[:#]

 

[/quote]Terry Hall and Fun Boy Three?

[nutty nigel 7,967]

83. The year of Jimmy Case and the Goldstone riots. Deehan and Bertschin were scoring for fun. But where were Leicester[:^)]

[. 0]

"Jealousy runs deep, runs wide".Yes indeed Tangy... and those who make the most noise are the ones who feel the most pain......

[nutty nigel 7,967]

Cluckin’ Nora was so jealous that when her husband came home one night and she couldn''t find hairs on his jackets she yelled at him, "Great, so now you''re cheating on me with a bald woman...

 

But our lips are still sealed[:#]

[Mister Chops 11]

[quote user="Mister Chops"][quote user="nutty nigel"]

[quote user="Mister Chops"][quote user="Tangible Fixed Assets anyone"]Jealousy runs deep, runs wide.[/quote]So does Grant Holt, and we all f''ing love him.[/quote]

He''s found his level in round four. If we have realistc aspirations to progress further we will have to bring in a more experienced FA Cup goalscorer.

 [/quote]

That''s all well and good, but you and I know why we can or can''t afford to do something like that.  I''ll PM you so we can discuss in more detail.

[/quote]Nutty, the PM function isn''t working - not really a surprise, but as I can''t get in touch with you secretly then I''ll have to post it here but you''ll have to use the cypher "Dizzy McNesbit" gave us as I must have left the one from "Auntie Bucket" in the gents.Moon = 7th houseWF♥78 may be over the rainbow.  If Old King enquires pre 31st then invoke Humberside dockyard manouevre.The kitty has been fed.

[nutty nigel 7,967]

[quote user="Mister Chops"]

Nutty, the PM function isn''t working - not really a surprise, but as I can''t get in touch with you secretly then I''ll have to post it here but you''ll have to use the cypher "Dizzy McNesbit" gave us as I must have left the one from "Auntie Bucket" in the gents.

Moon = 7th house
WF♥78 may be over the rainbow. 
If Old King enquires pre 31st then invoke Humberside dockyard manouevre.
The kitty has been fed.

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Mister, gone for a wee is top of the shop and the bullseye is almost there.

Uranus is in the Pi$$ house.

The lemon drops above the chimney tops

The queen is in the parlour, the pot of honey hasn’t arrived.

The litter tray stinks.

[Mister Chops 11]

Thanks.  I''ll let Closeknit & McSally know.

[nutty nigel 7,967]

OK Mister, Mumbles and out.....