Friend of mine is a QPR fan and he is convinced that their wage bill (before the Jan spending) has decreased this season from last season after getting rid of loads of "overpaid ****"
They didn't shed that much during the close season. Looking at their list of transfers, there's not much chance that they've actually reduced their wage budget...those players outgoing might well have been overpaid relative to their contributions, but unless Paddy Kenny was secretly making 300k p/w, their wage bill has jumped considerably.
I doubt it aswell, but according to him players like Smith, ****tu, Ramage, Hall, Cook and Helguson were all on like 20k as they were bought to get them out of the Championship, not to mention whatever Barton is on aswell (around 60k I think I read). Still doubt players of the quality and reputation of Granero, Julio Cesar etc would be joining QPR for anything else other than money, so those 2 alone would probably cover the wages of all the players who left
Has anyone done the BBC predictor? If it hasn't been done already then I think people should and post their final tables on here as it's always interesting to see what people think. I had Villa definitely going down with Wigan and a shootout with QPR/southampton with QPR staying up by a point.
haha woops my bad. was drinking earlier. two sec will look up the exact points tallys that i predicted.
If those players were on 20k, odds are good that merely the two goalkeepers alone are making as much as all save Barton combined...Rob Green is reportedly on 50k or thereabouts, and Cesar is on somewhere between 60k-80k, depending on whose reports you believe. I'd be shocked if they hadn't added, in sum, 150-200k p/w to their wage bill before even getting to Remy/Samba.
I just done it again. Wigan, Reading and Villa down. QPR and Southampton just about surviving. Everyone should do it, here is the link http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/predictor/default.stm Post results
Silly game in hand thingamy on that predictor but here goes: 15 Reading 37 16 Fulham 36 17 West Ham 36 18 QPR 35 19 Wigan 34 20 Villa 32 Couple of those have a game in hand ( I think West Ham and Wigan) with Saints finishing 13th on 38. Looks unrealistic to me but then it's hard to predict without either rose tinted glasses or doom monger glasses on. Compromise was wearing beer goggles instead and I must say the wife is looking half decent tonight Mine had villa bottom on 32, Wigan and QPR on 34 but wigan with a game in handQPR better on GD. Just surviving on 35 (but with a game in hand because of
Most unlikely final table, imps. Where are Wigan? Can't see Reading, West Ham and Fulham all finishing below Saints. My suggestion is a bit more water with it
Not if we win our game in hand Lambo! I had Saints finishing 15th on 37 and the Mighty Hammers in 13th on 42. So much depends on that Wigan vs Villa game on the final day. I had it down as a draw but a win for either in that game could change everything. 18th Aston Villa 19th Wigan 20th Reading
