From Matt Murray via Twitter: "Hearing that #BarnsleyFC tried to get a few players out on loan yesterday but clubs couldn't meet their wages. Don't know which players." I've been brainwashed in to thinking we paid our players in brass buttons and blackies eggs.
Guesses would be:- Hassell, Done, Etuhu, Dagnall? I would let RNL go out on loan to "tough him up" a bit...........and he won't be earning a King's Ransom?
By championship standards. Teams coming in for our players will have been lower league sides with even less cash than us so what Matt said sounds right to me.
Rob Staton said something along the lines of their were enquiries but they wanted 'an early Christmas present' in terms of wages so we said no.
Doesn't mean anything without some context. What clubs? Which players? Which division? How much of their wages? All of it? some of it?
I can see Bobby being on a decent whack, but the one's signed under the current system? Perhaps. An example I suppose would be - Done was on 5 buttons and a blackie's egg at Rochdale, signs for us and gets 10 buttons and two blackie's eggs which is now unaffordable to clubs of Rochdale' stature.
I think you're all getting hold of the wrong end of the stick and proceeding to beat about the bush with it. The clubs were probably trying to get away with paying nothing towards their wages whatsoever and expecting us to continue to pay them, so it doesn't necessarily mean that any of our players are on mega bucks.