Sell your best players, have money in the bank...

Yes I’d have waghorn all day long, it’s a shame we can’t afford his wages though.

 

Well surely the 500k saving is signing fee would help???

 

Thiam 5k a week, waghorn 15k. There’s 500k pissed up in a year, we simply can’t compete on wages, transfer fees are irrelevant.

 

It is but surely counter balanced by the bigger crowds, more tv revenue and having a team worth watching/cheering. No atmosphere at the ground and nothing to create one

 

The choices are fifteen hundred quid a week or £25k a week. There's no middle ground.

There will be League One clubs with 10% of our turnover and bigger wage bills.

 

The plan as it stands without tweaking isn’t fit for purpose in the Championship. If you don’t adjust targets and wage bills upwards as Brentford have with a similar ethos you’ll get relegated sooner rather than later.

 

All of them.

 

nobody's gonna come in for any of our players this year

 

I am not disagreeing with you, but how do you attract those players with that quality to sign for us , because even if we pushed the boat out with wages & contracts , their agents will still be working hard to get them better deals with some of the big boys of our league & with half the league still on parachute payments its not a level playing field

 

Do I heck. It was hyperbole.

 

Well that is the ultimate problem where football has moved a long way away from being a sport and transformed into a business. Should we be looking at salary caps etc??? The answer to your question is we can't across the squad but surely we could look at covering the spine of the team with Championship experience to bring on the young players. January for me is a keeper, Kevin Long, Marty James and Oli Mcburnie plus another striker god knows who Doige???

 

I agree with you , but I would like to see parachute payments removed or at the very least vastly reduced . Under the present revenue agreement , the premier clubs receive somewhere in the region of £100 million per season , surely if they get relegated they should not be compensated for failure but they are

 

He's pumped £90 million into Brentford in 5 seasons and aren't they losing £9 million a year? Another Bolton in the making, as will Bournemouth be in 5 years time.

 

So might we imply that the "surplus" could have been made available earlier? And put to better use?

 

I can't remember exactly how it was phrased, but it was something down the lines of 'they've been trying to secure the long term future of the football club with the money coming in from transfers and now the picture looks healthy, some of the surplus cash will be made available to secure playing staff'. Again I'm paraphrasing but I'm sure the interview will still be on the Radio Sheffield website if you want to know what was exactly said.

So in short, I don't think the cash has been made available before because they 'wanted to secure the long term future of the club', whatever that entails.

 

It's wages that are the killer. The average wage for a decent championship footballer is probably between 15k-30k a week - based on the Winnall and Hourihane transfers.

If you have 10 players on 3 year contracts on 20k a week then you are spending 10 million a year on those 10 players for 3 years. And that's without the rest of the squad who are maybe on 5k/10k a week.

We simply cannot compete with that.

 

90 million is misleading as it’s gone on developing the new ground on football matters showing a massive profit. When they sold Horgan they got 13 million and invested some in Ollie Watkins when we sold Winnall we got 500k and invested it and another 500 in Thiam.