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1 hour ago, Finley_Smith10 said:

Selling our 3 best players and only spending a fraction of it is what’s gunna cost us this season, all well passing around 2/3 of the pitch but in the final 1/3 we’re awful, defiantly need a loan striker or a creative midfielder of we’re in for a long season 

Someone else on here said when the accounts for last year come out they will show we lost over £18m. If that's the case LJ would have been under orders to sell and get some money in as our losses will have to be in single figures this year to get us back on track, we'll have to wait and see.

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7 minutes ago, ashton_fan said:

Someone else on here said when the accounts for last year come out they will show we lost over £18m. If that's the case LJ would have been under orders to sell and get some money in as our losses will have to be in single figures this year to get us back on track, we'll have to wait and see.

Nail on head.

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1 minute ago, BRISTOL86 said:

What utter tosh. Lansdown is many things but I don’t think stingy can be levelled at him as one of them. 

Indeed. The idea was always to develop players to sell at a profit to help minimise the club's losses. The players we sold this season cost us less than £3.5 million combined. We've spent over £10 million replacing them. Someone can question whether we've bought the right players but it isn't stinginess - the club cannot afford to spend everything received through player sales on player purchases. That's simple economics. 

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Just now, LondonBristolian said:

Indeed. The idea was always to develop players to sell at a profit to help minimise the club's losses. The players we sold this season cost us less than £3.5 million combined. We've spent over £10 million replacing them. Someone can question whether we've bought the right players but it isn't stinginess - the club cannot afford to spend everything received through player sales on player purchases. That's simple economics. 

Exactly this. Whether the recruitment in is done well is a completely separate issue. But to call SL stingy is deeply unfair and ignorant. 

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18 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said:

Indeed. The idea was always to develop players to sell at a profit to help minimise the club's losses. The players we sold this season cost us less than £3.5 million combined. We've spent over £10 million replacing them. Someone can question whether we've bought the right players but it isn't stinginess - the club cannot afford to spend everything received through player sales on player purchases. That's simple economics. 

Have we really spent over £10m on transfer fees this summer? 

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25 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

20,000 fans per game.  How many will keep on coming if we dont start to win a few.  How much will that cost.

Record number of season tickets sold.  How many wont renew next year if things dont improve?

Nowhere near 19000 there today, fans are already turning away which is worrying

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8 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Have we really spent over £10m on transfer fees this summer? 

That's the best part of 30 Tilsons ?

3 minutes ago, JBFC II said:

Nowhere near 19000 there today, fans are already turning away which is worrying

Loads are away on holidays

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12 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Have we really spent over £10m on transfer fees this summer? 

 

Just now, LondonBristolian said:

I think so. I have seen it banded about a lot. 

Webster was 4m

Hunt I have seen listed at 1.4m

Think Eisa was about 1.5m

Watkins was more than £1m

That is 7.9 on those four alone, excluding signing on fees etc.

£9.68 million according to transfermarket

We received according to them £26.55 million 

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I agree with the sentiments about Korey FWIW, top player but the thrux of this thread would suggest even with the non match day revenues that we're not sustainable as a Championship club judging by transfers covering the losses?

How do Preston and Brentford do it?

Concerned? Yes. 

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What people forget, is that even the average player, lets say Eliasson, costs this club about £350kp/annum in wages.

Outside of the first team, on loan, and others (regarding periods of injury) add up, we spunked wages on: Engvall, Moore, Hinds, Eliasson, Djuric, Dhiediou, Hegeler, Baker, Steele, Taylor, Magnússon, Leko, Woodrow, Diony, Kent (300k fine also), Wright, Walsh, O'Dowda, Pisano, all who either didn't play for periods, at all, or were loaned out.

All not in the team, in cases at all, injured, or intermittently. Then lets say roughly £5kpw average. Diedhiou, Diony, Kent, Woodrow, Leko, on £10kpw,, Baker on £15kpw, being very optimistic. I honestly thing Leko, Woodrow, Diedhiou, Kent, Diony, were all on significantly more, same with Hegeler and Magnússon.

Our last recognised loss (selling Kodj) was £3.26m for the 16/17 season.

For all those on a (supposed average) £5kpw salary (12 of the above), that adds up to £3.12m, Second bracket (10kpw, 6 months for Leko and Kent each) come a further £2.08m, and Baker adding £0.8m (Total Salary increase of an estimated >£6m), Transfers was a further net spend of £9m. Further signing on fees, clauses, and loyalty bonuses will probably add in the region of £1m including agent costs, adding on further allowances for increase in costs and new player wages...

That all told would give us a net loss for the 17/18 season of around £16m

This also gives an estimated overall total wage spending of around £27m; our last recorded gross income was £21.2m, lets assume growth of £2m from the cup run, and a further 10% from increase attendance and commercial income, would give us around £25.5m; therefore our wages to turnover, even with the cup run was much worse.

The issue is whether that income (if it does show, eventually, to have risen) is artificially inflated on a once-off basis.

28 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

I agree with the sentiments about Korey FWIW, top player but the thrux of this thread would suggest even with the non match day revenues that we're not sustainable as a Championship club judging by transfers covering the losses?

How do Preston and Brentford do it?

Concerned? Yes. 

For comparison Ska, in the 16/17 period, our wages to turnover was 98%. Brentford had a wages to turnover of 166%. Based on the (very) general/rough figures I adopted above (its midnight, meh) gives a indication of our wages to turnover being 106%, and that's being kind. Note also in the below QPR's are artificially deflated due to PP from relegation.

Either way, these supposed 'squad' players, along with last seasons over-reliance on loans, really bitten us in the ass. Only going to get worse with Weimann's suppoed wage at Derby being around £25-30kpw.

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Just now, Fuber said:

What people forget, is that even the average player, lets say Eliasson, costs this club about £350kp/annum in wages.

Outside of the first team, on loan, and others (regarding periods of injury) add up, we spunked wages on: Engvall, Moore, Hinds, Eliasson, Djuric, Dhiediou, Hegeler, Baker, Steele, Taylor, Magnússon, Leko, Woodrow, Diony, Kent (300k fine also), Wright, Walsh, O'Dowda, Pisano, all who either didn't play for periods, at all, or were loaned out.

All not in the team, in cases at all, injured, or intermittently. Then lets say roughly £5kpw average. Diedhiou, Diony, Kent, Woodrow, Leko, on £10kpw,, Baker on £15kpw, being very optimistic. I honestly thing Leko, Woodrow, Diedhiou, Kent, Diony, were all on significantly more, same with Hegeler and Magnússon.

Our last recognised loss (selling Kodj) was £3.26m for the 16/17 season.

For all those on a (supposed average) £5kpw salary (12 of the above), that adds up to £3.12m, Second bracket (10kpw, 6 months for Leko and Kent each) come a further £2.08m, and Baker adding £0.8m (Total Salary increase of an estimated >£6m), Transfers was a further net spend of £9m. Further signing on fees, clauses, and loyalty bonuses will probably add in the region of £1m including agent costs, adding on further allowances for increase in costs and new player wages...

That all told would give us a net loss for the 17/18 season of around £16m

This also gives an estimated overall total wage spending of around £27m; our last recorded gross income was £21.2m, lets assume growth of £2m from the cup run, and a further 10% from increase attendance and commercial income, would give us around £25.5m; therefore our wages to turnover, even with the cup run was much worse.

The issue is whether that income (if it does show, eventually, to have risen) is artificially inflated on a once-off basis.

For comparison Ska, in the 16/17 period, our wages to turnover was 98%. Brentford had a wages to turnover of 166%. Based on the (very) general/rough figures I adopted above (its midnight, meh) gives a indication of our wages to turnover being 106%, and that's being kind. Note also in the below QPR's are artificially deflated due to PP from relegation.

Either way, these supposed 'squad' players, along with last seasons over-reliance on loans, really bitten us in the ass. Only going to get worse with Weimann's suppoed wage at Derby being around £25-30kpw.

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Blinding post Fuber, thanks for that.

Essentially then, we don't belong in the Championship, even with the redevelopment as we can't afford to compete unless we take the same risks others take.

**** it then, let's all stay at home.:(

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We were aready performing at this level at the back end of last season. The sale of them all probably hasn't really made a difference honestly, we just had a head start before we were crap last season so our league position didn't look quite so bad. 

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16 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

Blinding post Fuber, thanks for that.

Essentially then, we don't belong in the Championship, even with the redevelopment as we can't afford to compete unless we take the same risks others take.

**** it then, let's all stay at home.:(

Keep in mind Ska.

Our spending is the same as Brentford. It says a lot about what proper scouting like we had under Kieth Burt, who couldn't half identify a player (Freeman, Ayling, Moore, Robinson, Baker, Kodjia), can achieve at this level.

Reading manage fine, their wages to turnover was 76%, and they posted a profit recently I believe, and made the playoff under Stam that season - so it can be done. But keeping momentum and morale is critical as Reading showed this season, and what Brentford manage everytime.

Something needs to change, if its not LJ, its the coaches, the scouts, the DoF, something.

The problem is that LJ's erratic form highlights poor management of individuals and the squad.

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17 minutes ago, TBW said:

We were aready performing at this level at the back end of last season. The sale of them all probably hasn't really made a difference honestly, we just had a head start before we were crap last season so our league position didn't look quite so bad. 

Players have the ability; they've proven that. And I've mentioned a key word(s) that's all but required at this level. Look at Nuno, Warnock, Jokanovic, Rowett, Bruce, even Dean Smith, McCarthy, Harris, Wilder.

We may not like the all of them on that short list; but they all of that one skill, that key word. Man-management.

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