Interesting article re: Wagebill

[City123]

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I was actually going to post last night about player wages.

I've heard Swansea have recently agreed £16k a week for a contract from their youth setup. Compare that to LRZ who was only making about 5k at his best in rugby which is in dire straits financially does make me worry.

Clubs are stuck between a rock and a hard place, either risking losing a future star or paying wages that will inevitably cripple them so when I hear a kid is getting £16k a week (if true) £50k for Ramsey doesn't seem too farfetched.

However the article is from October and is based on estimates and when you look at actual accounts on companies house, for 2023, we were only at 14,227,000 then.

https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/d...283af1e417cbcf

The idea we're paying 50k for Ramsey is extremely far fetched, as is the idea Swansea are paying an academy player 16k a week. Most of their first team aren't even on that

[J R Hartley]

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Take out Aaron Ramsey and that's got to knock down the wage bill quite considerably

Robinson is on a good whack too

Let’s just take everyone out and then we will have a zero wage bill.

[City123]

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If we're 6th, that puts us top of the teams that are not on parachute payments. I can't see it. I'm not saying it's not true, but there's definitely room for doubt. It's not like Siopis and Goutas are star players.

I reckon we're probably around about that. You have the relegated teams and then I imagine West Brom and Norwich above us, I'd assume we spend less than Boro and Hull as well. Beyond that I imagine the differences aren't that massive until you get to the newly promoted clubs

[Doucas]

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We paid £22 million in wages the season before according to https://swissramble.substack.com/p/c...r%20impairment.

The majority of our wages are on players that Bulut didn't bring in. We won't be paying £65k a week for Phillips and I expect we will be having a big clear out this Summer.

Has a single Cardiff fan said we're like Rotherham when it comes to finances? The OP is talking nonsense.

[Rjk]

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I don’t think 16k a week has been a “top championship player salary” for a while now.

Wolves had someone on 100k a week when they went up and that was nearly 7 years ago.

Whilst that is no doubt an exceptional outlier, I wouldn’t be surprised if top end championship players are in the 30k-50k a week range.

I know for a fact that a middling championship team had to push the boat out a couple of seasons ago to prevent their best 2 players leaving on a free, and they increased their highest salary to 17.5k to keep them.

outside the parachute payment clubs 16k is still a high wage for the championship

[blue matt]

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£50k for Ramsey doesn't seem too farfetched.

he isnt on anywhere near that if what ive been told is true, not even close

[2b2bdoo]

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I still don’t believe it but I think most of us knew the wages would shoot up while under the embargo, the flip side I’ve seen an article saying we are one of the best for points v transfer fee over the season. As usual truth somewhere in between.

[MOZZER2]

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here you go 2b2bdoo

Sorted by money spent pic.twitter.com/DzF15j5Wh2

— luke (@louorns) April 11, 2024

[2b2bdoo]

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Thanks, yeah that’s what I seen. I don’t think either article paint a fair reflection tbh.

[Madassa]

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here you go 2b2bdoo

Sorted by money spent pic.twitter.com/DzF15j5Wh2

— luke (@louorns) April 11, 2024

Thats a fascinating analysis. I'm a bit pissed without my specs but if I read that right based on cost per victory us and QPR should be promoted and the Owls should win the play-offs.

I'd like to see the one for PL. Luton would've walked it.no doubt.

[Divine Wright]

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Let’s just take everyone out and then we will have a zero wage bill.

Probably score more goals too

[the other bob wilson]

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I don’t get how anyone can know current wage figures for each player in this season’s Championship when we’re months away from getting the Accounts of the clubs involved in the public domain. Are we really to believe that we’re spending more than £7 million than Hull? However, I’m in agreement with those who say the embargo had only a limited impact on our workin the summers transfer.window and, although I can’t prove it, I firmly believe that the money Bulut had available last summer was enough to have led to a much more attractive style of football, and equally successful in terms of results, than we’ve seen since late October if he was so minded.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Thats a fascinating analysis. I'm a bit pissed without my specs but if I read that right based on cost per victory us and QPR should be promoted and the Owls should win the play-offs.

I'd like to see the one for PL. Luton would've walked it.no doubt.

Amazing with an embargo too and lost the three best players, what a job!

[J R Hartley]

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Amazing with an embargo too and lost the three best players, what a job!

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Hope you're more awake today