Transfer Rumours 2016/17 City Transfer Thread

Any news on potential bids tomorrow OLM ?

 

arethey expecting bids from elsewhere?

 

Anyone think Valencia or Sakho are out of our reach or even worth bidding for (don't think we will btw)? Both seem surplus to requirements at West Ham, and Lazio and Sunderland seem favourites to get them at the moment

 

It's amazing that we somehow only have 20m to spend when taking into account wages, etc. and yet clubs like Bournemouth, Palace, and Middlesbrough are able to splash cash around like there's no tomorrow.

I'm happy for us not to spend big to instead pay down the debt or make it easier to sell the club, but to say that we only have 20m available to spend is a bit silly.

 

So no talk in here about the fact we're reportedly close to signing Lamine Sane? Should be a decent option, and good to see he can cover midfield and CB.

 

So you don't get any money from gate receipts, merchandise sales, advertising and sponsorship etc?

 

Gate receipts are such an insignificant amount of money compared to the Sky money it will barely register.

 

Wages for staff around the club are also insignificant compared to player wages. OLM including them to argue why our wage bill is massive was silly.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if we have the lowest non-playing staff outgoings in the league.

 

Exactly.

 

It's not silly, it all adds up. There's a lot of admin staff when you think about it, not just the ones listed on the website. It's not a deciding factor but it certainly contributes.

 

I doubt their contracts also include a promotion clause though, so our wages 'jumping' to 50m would have had nothing to do with their salaries.

I can't believe it's even being considered. All of their salaries would probably fit inside one of our top earners' contract, and we have another 20 or so senior players.

 

No they probably don't, but their 30k a year or whatever still come out of that wage bill. The footballing staff and management all have promotion clauses though and that does make a massive difference.

 

As the original point was made though, I don't think we now have a 50m wage bill when you consider that would mean 25 players on 40k a week.

 

Absolutely, remember that one of the "Non Playing Staff" will be Steve Bruce, and add to that Phelan and quite possible Ehab etc and the army of cleaners, cooks, medical staff, stewards etc etc, and the wageroll will be far from insignificant.

 

We must be buckling under our huge wage bill. I wish we were like other clubs who are able to run on an army of volunteers.

 

It's not 'non playing staff', it's 'non football staff'. All our management and backroom team are included in the football wages.

 

Our highest earner is probably Hernandez and he's on just short of 40k. I believe the next highest was Huddlestone but I don't know what the renegotiated terms were. He was on around 28k a week. But that's just their basic wage, it doesn't take into account things like appearance fees, sub appearances and bonuses, which all come out of the wage budget. All players will have stuff like that, even the youth players.