Slot insinuated yesterday that club were open to doing transfers in January but only if the deal was right. Nothing new obviously but maybe it’s worth mentioning in the context of failed Guehi transfer.
£300k a week is probably a fairly average contract at City. Haaland is on £500k.
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What is this £300k excuse?
Maybe that was a lot when we signed Virgil but a lot has changed since then. Just need to compare the TV and CL money.
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Isnt the average wage for the squad around £150k a week.?
We have a few on around £300k+ (Mo, Virgil and reportedly Isak) but that is by exception. As much as i like Guehi, i can understand why the club may be reluctant to pay that.
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So everything grows in football but our wage structure is stuck in the Roy Hodgson era.
I mean our wage bill is one of the highest in the league and some of our players are amongst the top earners, so i don’t think we can complain from that.
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We might not be the reckless spenders like the shitties but we have doubled our wage bill in 10 years from 90mil to 180mil. And that sort of prudence plus our commercial deals still only allowed us to barely make a profit. This is the challenge of the football climate nowadays so I am not sure what else we want the club to do financially. We are as responsible as possible and yet spending when necessary.
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And yet we have one of the highest wage bills in world football.
It’s almost as if you’re talking complete shit.
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300k per week for Guehi is excessive and understandable why we would hesitate to match it. (All wages at this level are, but that’s beside the point).
That said, it doesn’t change the fact that we need to bring a defender in who will probably have to be homegrown. We really should have wrapped this up in the summer.
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We had the money on the last day of the season though.
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‘We have one of the highest wage bills in world football’
‘We have one of the best squad in world football’
We are third in the PL wage table. Ahead of Chelsea because they have 30 players out on loan.
Behind Arsenal who have won shit in the last decade.
£1m a week behind City - our former main targets Semenyo and Guehi not included.
We have 7 players in the PL Top50 while Arsenal and City have like 15. And people wondering why our bench looks shit.
source: dude trust me
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But our wage structure isn’t stuck in the Hodgson era is it? That was the point you’ve conveniently tried to deflect from.
You’re also getting moody about missing out on a player in Semenyo who we appear to have had no more than a passing interest in.
And Arsenal may now have a higher wage bill but as you rightly point out they’ve won fuck all in the last decade and once they do and all their players come to renegotiate their contracts let’s see if they can afford to keep them all. They’ve already got Saka on £300k a week and his goals and assists output per 90 for both this season and last is near enough identical to Gakpo’s and some people here don’t even think Gakpo is all that good.
Plenty of things we could be looking at, no need to make stuff up to be miserable about.
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Name me another international centre back who is 25 who you could on less money.
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I guess when the deal was all but done in the summer most of you thought he would be on next to nothing.
Don’t go there, mate.
200k or 300k,nobody can say right now for certain but if we only needed to pay 20mp for a player worth at least double that, then 200k should be a wage we are comfortable paying.
How much are Isak, Ekitike, Wirtz and Frimpong on, on top of some huge transfer fees.
There’s no point going up against City as both the transfer fee and wages will likely have increased if we did try for him this week, but we scrimped on this player in the summer, eventually leaving it until it was too late.
Yeah, and the fucking rest…
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