Teams like Bournemouth and Palace probably turned up in the Premier League with operating costs below £20m We are used to seeing promoted teams struggling, but with the amount of money they have available to them overnight, it's almost like a huge springboard to leapfrog teams that are lumbered with a dysfunctional squad, like yourselves. They turn up with a clean slate, assemble a bunch of grafters and hope for the best. There's never been a better time to be promoted into the PL, only badly run clubs like QPR will stick with the old model and look awful no matter what.
GOALKEEPERS 1COSTEL PANTILIMON 25000 13JORDAN PICKFORD* 5000 25VITO MANNONE 15000 DEFENDERS 12ADAM MATTHEWS 10000 15YOUNES KABOUL 20000 2BILLY JONES 10000 3PATRICK VAN AANHOLT 15000 5WES BROWN 10000 16JOHN O'SHEA 25000 27SANTIAGO VERGINI* 5000 22SEBASTIAN COATES 10000 VALENTIN ROBERGE 5000 MIDFIELDERS 17JEREMAIN LENS 30000 21YANN M'VILA 30000 8JACK RODWELL 30000 14JORDI GOMEZ 15000 30WILL BUCKLEY 20000 7SEBASTIAN LARSSON 20000 11ADAM JOHNSON 45000 23EMANUELE GIACCHERINI 40000 4LIAM BRIDCUTT 25000 6LEE CATTERMOLE 25000 CHARIS MAVRIAS 5000 STRIKERS 26STEVEN FLETCHER 25000 19DANNY GRAHAM 25000 18JERMAIN DEFOE 45000 £535000 per week at a guess (no exact figures just guesses) So that's 27.8m per year for wages of players that are still here - and I reckon that I may have underestimated some of those - I think Roberge may be on significantly more than 5k a week As @Typical_Juan says - a club who has been in the championship for 5 or 6 seasons and is running at Championship operating costs are far better position financially than us! (Except QPR)! As for the Stoke etc - they've just been better run probably and played the market better!
I Agree (although I don't believe in God!) - I was being economical rather than looking anything up! So you can add another £1m onto my estimate with theirs (maybe even 1.5m)
Here's some of the ones I've managed to find via google. Accuracy unknown of course Fletch 28k AJ 50k Pants 16k Defoe 60k Giacc 27k PVA 16k Rodders 38k Vito 19k O'SHea 25K Cats 38k(on old contract) Seb 35k
Heard Defoe was on 80k a week like. But the alternative was Dozy, so turns out it was a cracker of a deal for SAFC. I can't wait for the transfer window to close. Every ****in year is the same. And it's always got me wanting it to close ASAP. I reckon it should close a week after the season begins, one last chance after a game to see if you need anything else and incase there is an injury. Then close it and get on with the season. None of this 3 games down, then a mad scramble on the final day. Close the window and get on with the football.
Defoe was on 80 at Toronto, he took a pay cut to come here and the Canadians called him greedy until I mentioned sebastian giovinco and they shut the **** up
Scandalous that players like him and Dos Santos in their prime are wasting their careers in that graveyard.
Would have gone something like "Im sorry, I just dont agree with you. Again, sorry. Eh. Sorry. Lets not fight. Sorry"
I'm bit by bit collecting every name who's played under short and for how long. We can then work out wages + price paid - price sold to = what operating costs have to cover. We'll never know the signing, agent and bonus fees and we'll never know sacking settlements however it will give us a rough idea of what's going on.
