Been doing the maths on the purchase costs of the current squad and to my calculations, the club have paid just short of 9.5 mil for the whole squad. The squad is made up of per today, 34 players and while I understand that the wage bill may be higher than some premiership clubs, I find it interesting that there a good few journalists, reporters, TV pundits who seem to be under the impression that we have and I quote, * spent heavily in the transfer market*. To me this makes our achievements over the past 18 months or so, even more impressive ! Anybody know what the weekly wage bill is for the squad compared to other Prem clubs ?
Micnorwil! It is very impressive!! We did very well in the 9 days was it, in the last transfer window once TonyF came in, and we hadn't spent much before that. This window is beginning to look promising too!
Surely we have spent more than 9.5 million on our squad? SWP was 4 mil, Faurlin 3.5, Ferdinand around 3.5, that there is over 9.5 already...
Wasn't the 3 something for Faurlin the bragging amount supposedly given out to make us happy, that had a big part in getting us into the whole f*kkin mess with the FA? I understood that the actual amount was a small fraction of this!
I'm unsure Os, but even without that, surely we paid more than 9.5 considering taarabt was also a million, kenny was around 500k, mackie was a couple of hundred k. Now Onuoha was a few million, it's higher than 9.5 I feel
He cost us about £200,000 with add ons. £3.5 was the figure touted by Rangers to appease fans who were unhappy with the little amount of money being spent. And which is what brought about the FA investigation.
9,5 million sounds about right to me looking at the squad before todays Onouhu purchase, which I thought Micnorwil meant anyway!
Yeah I assumed as much with Micnorwil's post. I'm more surprised if anything, it's a fantastic achievement from the club, particularly if we did pay as little as £200,000 for Faurlin which is an absolute steal.
What really gets my goat is the pundits/Jouro's have been saying this about us from the beginning of the season all the time stating that out of the promoted teams we have really splashed the cash and that maybe true in terms of wages but both Norwich and Swansea have spent approx 10 mil in the close season I believe our initial layout was considerably less, not counting this window. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14746094.stm
Excellent site here for transfer comparisons: http://www.transferleague.co.uk/pre...b-comparisons/premier-league-comparisons.html
We have paid more than double the £9,5m for the current squad. Some (shocking) examples: (numbers are aprox but by no means exagerated) Rob Hulse £1 mill Tommy Smith £750k Lee Cook £1 mill Akos Buszaky £500k Hogan Ephraim £500-800k Heidar Helguson £500-800k Luke Young £1,75 mill Matthew Connolly £1 mill Armand Traore £2 mill Jamie Mackie £300-500k Alejandro Faurlin £250-500k DJ Campbell £1,25 mill Adel Taarabt £1 mill Fitz Hall £1 mill Bradley Orr £750k Paddy Kenny £750k 13,3 Anton Ferdinand £4 mill SWP £4 mill Nedum Onouha £2,75 mill Net spend: £24,050 mill - 25,1 mill Not much compared to the established Premier League sides but an absolute fortune compared to the other promoted sides (Swansea and Norwich).
Adds up doesn't it! I But about 8 or 9 million of this is for players bought well before we got near the PL who I didn't think of. We should be looking to sell some of these, if we can.
I forgot Dave, HOW COULD I?! He cost £800k as well, joined four years ago and has cost the club between £2m-£3m in wages... micnorwil, I'm not sure if you're talking about the 25 man squad or everyone on our payroll.
*Ahem* Sorry, just back from being sick as a dog, after remembering that we splashed out 4 million pounds on Fitz Hall, Rob Hulse, Lee Cook and Matt Connelly.
It was the whole squad Norway, away from the latest acquisition ! The site I used though may not be 100% accurate. Still, the more I think about it the more impressive I am with NW and what he managed to do for the club, given the fact his job was not made any easier by the previous owners. Utmost respect to the man !
