The Wigan 600

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  1. Ric

    RichieD Well-Known Member

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    Currently Wigan athletic FC has 600 full and part-time employees. That seems an incredibly high number. Does anybody know what the figure is for Barnsley?
     
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    Wonder if any of those employees are players relations with 'jobs'?
     
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    I asked this last night and one of posters who works at club said about half that number(roughly)
    Edit just seen BR post
     
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    My initial gut reaction is "how many!?" but it would be interesting to understand the reasons for the difference between them and us before we start getting too critical. Is Wigan's catering done in-house, for example? Do they have better matchday facilities that require extra staff? Do they use iFollow or do they have their own set-up which might mean extra media staff? Do they employ more stewards directly rather than relying on contracted security?

    600 still sounds a lot, mind...
     
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    I used to call in on Wigan MBC when I worked. Always remember being told that the DW Stadium
    was on the Robin Park development site, with a mixture of retail outlets, fitness centres operated
    by the Council and other smaller business units. Doubt very much whether the football side of the
    operation alone would account for 600 employees.

    https://www.visitnorthwest.com/malls/robin-park/
     
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    They may need more ground staff than us due to sharing with Warriors, same with stewards, etc - but double seems very excessive

    Maybe they have more use of the ground away from match day - conferences, restaurants, etc.
     
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    Barnsley have 300 brave Spartans.
     
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    Does that number include their fans? :p
     
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    Their accounts to June 2019 show 176 staff. I presume the big disparity is that will be full time equivalent.

    What they also show is that without funding from their owners the club was in trouble back then. Total wages of £19.5m and total revenue of £11.5m. Despite profit of £4m on transfer dealings they lost £9.2m that year. Combined losses close to £70m.
     
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    Think I read the owners then gave them an Interest free loan of £24 million.
    The new owners changed it to eye watering repayments
     
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    The new owners are the old owners. The Chinese bloke effectively sold the club to himself (another of his companies) and put the interest on.
     
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    No, I’m on about Whelan family gave the loan(may be dates are out slightly)
     
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    You’re right about above, but from memory DW gave them an Interest free loan, when new company bought out, they converted it to interest at 8% and went to quite a bit more a week and when he sold to him self he changed it again to 20% and the weekly payments increased massively.
     

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