Anyone got a sneaky feeling Salah is getting announced the day after the window shuts? FSG like that kind of thing
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Mentioned this last week. 
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That would be lovely jubblys⌠letâs face it thatâs the best signing we could wish for.
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No. I dont see the benefit of waiting. Weâre not expecting any new signings this month.
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From Cityâs accounts by Swiss Ramble⌠This is our wages to turn over last year and hopefully goes a little bit of the way to explain why we canât just âpay him what he wantsâ
p.s. For a club to be ran properly you expect wage to turnover to be around 66%, anything above this is putting extra risk on your club.
Actually 66% is extremely healthy as you can see by how many clubs have higher percentages. But also keep in mind revenue was lower that year with some even being delayed to the next financial year due to operation restart.
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It is healthy yes and probably on the âcautiousâ side, it will be interesting to see it now with all the renewals we did in the summer.
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Just being lower than the majority of clubs does not automatically equate it to being âextremely healthyâ.
The fact other clubs are that high probably
Helps explain why we have difficulty moving on players at the moment.
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Presumably income should continue recovering from covid pressures, so the % should fall. Its worth remembering, the club will be working off of revenue projections across multiple years when awarding new contracts.
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Plus the money lost from that financial year that will show up in the following financial year (one of the main reasons most clubs to have declared 20220/21 havenât reported as bad as expected).
Yep, just be interesting to see how it all starts to âbalanceâ, weâve doubled a lot of players wages, but also increase revenue in other areas.
My point was more that despite what some will let you believe giving a player âwhatever they wantâ has to work in reality. Crazy for Salah and the context of that could be vâs similar level players i.e. best in the world, which by all reports is ÂŁ400k a week⌠Thatâs double what heâs on currently, and could be pushing that wage to revenue number into red which Iâm sure has a direct alarm line to Johnâs Bostonâs office once triggered!
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Unbelievable. Absolute crime that Mo was not even on the list.
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Absolute joke
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Imagine investing in a movie and having 66% (or in Bournemouthâs case 113%) of revenue going to the actors. Bizarre business owning a sports team.
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Any business that has wages alone accounting for 66% of revenue, I donât know how that is gonna sustain. Thatâs why I think the sports business⌠Is really a dirty one for purposes more than just⌠Business.
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Football is more reliant on the what the players do out on the pitch than any other form of business is. If the money isnât going to the team playing the games we are all paying to watch where should it be going? The suits who run the business?
If the club are refusing Salahâs supposed wage demands, how on earth are we going to offer Haaland or Mbappe a deal???
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Man City.
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If for every dollar you earn, and you give 70 cents to the players, so you are expecting the club to build new stadium, engage in community programs, pay the other staff in the club from top to bottom, operating costs of the club matchday, matchless day and many others cost with 30 cents, provided they donât expect to make a profit. Sure results from the players provide a platform for the revenue generating activities but they are not the only people responsible for the growth of commercial revenue for our club. I donât think even big companies out there pay their top sales teams 66% of their revenue. Imagine Amazon having a salary costs of 250 billion for all their employees, not to mention just their sales team who are directly responsible for generating revenue.
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Yes John.