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I’ll repeat the point I made earlier on another thread. Those high earners will not match their current earnings at any team at a level realistic to their abilities. They will be taking a pay cut wherever they’re playing next season. If they’re settled here and we can be close to any other offer they receive it’s possible that some might stay. (maybe)
For example, it’s harsh, I know but could Fitz be retained in a player/coach capacity if we save Mussy’s wages.2 users thanked author for this post.
How do clubs like Wycombe get to 2nd place in league 1 with tickets very similar in price to ours and average crowds only 1000 or so higher?
How do Tamworth win our league and comfortably survive in the league above with crowds a quarter of ours?
How many of our magnificently expensive 7 would make their first teams?
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Difference is debt and cash flow. We’ve reduced the debt down to 150kish?, yet still have the legacy wages from the Hilton era which can’t be sustained on our crowds. We have 1 player on the books on a reported 2.5k a week still, not his fault nor the current owners.
Our options are either: reduce costs, or increase revenue. With the latter I’m not sure what else we can realistically do, our crowds have held up well with our historic averages and we’ve had lots of local businesses get involved with sponsorship etc. Even the kit launch was a big success and unlikely to be replicated again.
Our only real option next year, regardless of the league, is going to be slash the wage bill. Additionally, we have to put form of some strategy in place with regards to recruitment which is why the recently head of recruitment role is absolutely vital. Our scatter gun approach to transfers just isn’t good enough and as far as I’m aware our current player recruitment is down to the manager and assistant ?
Myfootballclub isn’t the answer, but at some point in the near future it’s likely we need some external investment, I just hope we fall lucky and not end up with an egomaniac or conman this time.
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Sorry but a 65k shortfall each month is debt, if you think the directors covering it aren’t going to want it back your being naive,Sharp has already proved that, just freeloader’s imo, at the end of the day we’re probably putting more into the club at least we pay for tickets. You wait and see Some of them will take more out of the club than whatever hilton did.
It’s the non playing staff wages that are killing the club not the players.
Don’t forget last season we had double the so called high earners on the books still paid the debt down and this season we’re building it back up on the back of 4000 crowds wtf, if we can’t manage this season how the hell we going to manage other times when crowds or commercial things aren’t as good.From what I can see we’re no better off under this lot than
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“Some of them will take more out of the club than whatever hilton did.”
lol. There won’t be bags of cash with this lot.
“From what I can see we’re no better off under this lot than”
Aye, those CCJs are piling up and the club is about to go bust.
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Sorry but a 65k shortfall each month is debt, if you think the directors covering it aren’t going to want it back your being naive,Sharp has already proved that, just freeloader’s imo, at the end of the day we’re probably putting more into the club at least we pay for tickets. You wait and see Some of them will take more out of the club than whatever hilton did.
It’s the non playing staff wages that are killing the club not the players.
Don’t forget last season we had double the so called high earners on the books still paid the debt down and this season we’re building it back up on the back of 4000 crowds wtf, if we can’t manage this season how the hell we going to manage other times when crowds or commercial things aren’t as good.From what I can see we’re no better off under this lot than
They won’t get anything close to what’s been put in for a loss making club with no assets, our biggest selling point has always been the ground/land which is now in the CIC.
4,000 crowds are irreverent when you’re paying league 2 wages with no EFL TV income, we’re spending a third of our match day income on stewards FFS.
It’s incredible they’ve reduced the debt down so much in such a small period of time, 99/100 you’d stick a padlock on the door and start again.
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