How many times do I have to tell you? Our spending is sustainable, the Thais own a massive company and are completely minted. Teams are spending loads of money in the league above ours, why not in this one? The game is a business now, you're lying to yourself if you say otherwise.
Mills 5m,Beckford 3m,Kasper 1.5m,...........Beckford and Nugent each,£40,000 a week that's 4m a year,Kasper & mills around £30,000 each a week. 3m a year. Now I don't think my numbers are far out and i make that 16.5million. Throw in Pearson & Sven's pay offs if you like.15m is on the low side.
Is it sustainable in the context of the Financial Fair Play rules that will soon be coming in? Well considering players like Beckford are on 40k a week and the wages:turnover ratio will be set as 60%, no. Sustainable means "Practices that would ensure the continued viability of a product or practice well into the future." Is this spending conducive to that definition? Obviously it's not. Sustainable spending should be money which the club itself makes, then reinvested into transfers and wages so that there's no excess having to be put in. That's how fan-owned clubs are run, and that should be the ideal model for everyone to follow. Chairmen injecting money left, right and centre just perpetuates the ****ty status quo of 'successful = wealthy', and surely even you don't think that's the right way for football to be going. Success should be earnt through honest hard work and shrewd dealings. Before you point out that I want more investment from my own club, that's because the money we ourselves make is kept back from being invested. I don't want external funds pouring in by the millions, only for the repurchase of our training ground and stadium which are fundamental necessities. Because what they're doing is wrong too. Two wrongs are two wrongs, simple as that. The knock-down effect this warped logic will have is a four-tier Football League beholden to the financial doping that UEFA are working hard to eradicate. Luckily their rules will stop it from happening. It should be a business which is run sustainably, and that's all that matters to the Football Fan. It's up to us to stand up for the game's best interests. You're lying to yourself if you say otherwise. I know a fella who supports a Scottish team who have a proud tradition of being amateurs. He thinks football really should be a sport rather than a business and the players should all play voluntarily rather than for a wage. I wouldn't go that far (though it would certainly bring back some loyalty and fairness to the game), but the way football has gone is shameful and saddening. I want to see clubs like Leicester be able to get success again by having managers like Martin O'Neill, not by having chairmen like the Thais.
Probably because they're expected to be in the Premier League next season, so they'll get £50m to cover those costs.
I read the first line of that essay, you told me that Beckford is on 40k a week which instantly eradicated the credibility of your knowledge of our football club and the way it's run. Please, **** off with your useless bile that you and many others spew on these boards daily.
Were the press wrong when they reported that? Even if they were, your players are doubtless still on unsustainable wages, and my overall point remains intact. Yours meanwhile doesn't exist because you can't be arsed replying to my 'essay'.
AKCJ was the one arguing seriously, not you. If someone doesn't want to take it seriously, I'd suggest they didn't make serious points. That's usually what I consider 'not serious' to be.
Beckford, who is being paid an eye-popping £40,000 a week, cost an initial £3 million as well and, having rebuffed the overtures of other clubs during the summer — he recently got married and his wife did not want to leave Merseyside — he was simply given an offer he could not refuse. He also became Leicester’s 12th signing of the summer at a cost that has, despite the wealth of the club’s new Thai owners, raised eyebrows throughout the division. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ps-summer-transfer-window-of-frustration.html Newcastle pull out of Beckford deal, as his wages exceed their £30k per week limit... http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2565...-wage-limit-to-blame-for-collapse-of-jermaine Come on AKCJ, show us something that points to him not being one of the most highly paid players in the league.
See this is the trouble. You have no idea how much our players are earning. Why should I give a 'serious' response to someone who is guessing something? Just please leave, you're completely in the dark as to the way our club is run. Andrew Neville, someone I know quite well, has told me in person that we've not spent anything like the figures the press have printed, he's also said that we have a wage structure that will not be broken no matter who it is. Just because we have money it doesn't mean we're spending it left right and centre. We've managed to sign players with the ambition of the club and not by the flash of a a few bits of green paper.
I struggle to see how you can believe such rubbish. 'www.goal.com' I'm quite happy in the knowledge that we're not spending 40k a week on a player, I don't need to be able to justify that.
The £40,000 comes from the press and takes into account,wages Beckford and Nugent were on at there previous clubs. Do you really think your money grabbing mercenaries went to Leicester,because they wanted to play for you.money talks.ps your grumpy snap says you know you've lost the discussion.
Actually, you do, either that or you need to stop pretending you know something that everyone else doesn't.
