The relegated Shitty

[ron dodgers]

Which means our wage bill is still £3 million more than one club already in the play-offs.

Does that work out? Assuming we're 4 million pa  - about 300k per month - 25 pros - that's an average of 3K per week which is very high (league average around 1400 pw 2009-10). Let me guess at our top wage - about 4.5k- 5k per week, though I don't know who deserves that. Then the kids on <1k plus the rest at 1-3k - I would estimate the average to be 2k per week (2.6 million pa); maybe it could be 3 million, but 4 million is pushing it.

 So, i presume you're talking about Yeovil - 1 million pa with 20 pros is  only about 960 pw
that's cheap as chips. You'd really estimate it that low??

[Wilf Shergold]

So, i presume you're talking about Yeovil - 1 million pa with 20 pros is  only about 960 pw
that's cheap as chips. You'd really estimate it that low??

They run a tight ship. Av wage £800, 20 pros, no-one on more than £1k, younger ones £600/week. Which is still a lot more than most 21 year-olds will be earning in the area, if they have a job. They've certainly had their fingers burnt in the past, agents pushing up wages, but that was a few years ago.

I might have been told porkies of course but I've known a few YTFC players over the last decade and it squares with their comments. A (good) striker with a Devon non-league team earnt more money, plus a 5-figure signing-on fee, going to Truro City rather than 3rd Div Yeovil.

[ronnie21]

They run a tight ship. Av wage £800, 20 pros, no-one on more than £1k, younger ones £600/week. Which is still a lot more than most 21 year-olds will be earning in the area, if they have a job. They've certainly had their fingers burnt in the past, agents pushing up wages, but that was a few years ago.

I might have been told porkies of course but I've known a few YTFC players over the last decade and it squares with their comments. A (good) striker with a Devon non-league team earnt more money, plus a 5-figure signing-on fee, going to Truro City rather than 3rd Div Yeovil.

That figures, Truro were throwing money at it for a few years.  Those days are gone there now.

[CalRed45]

Kid in our year plays for the youth team, about to find out how successful their scholarships are, but anyways it fun to shout "Thats the standard of league 1" and "Lets all trial for Bristol" when he misses a shot.... which happens on quite a few occasions.

[No Longer Posh Red]

Current league positions of teams relegated from PL over last 3 seasons;

PL - 11th
Championship - 2nd 7th 12th 14th 17th 19th 21st
League One - 22nd

I'd say other teams are competing pretty well with it.

It will become more difficult from next season when teams in the Championship have to compete under the wage cap.

Assuming that it's 65% (which I think it is), that gives those teams a £13m advantage over the other teams in the Championship.

[jonny72]

It will become more difficult from next season when teams in the Championship have to compete under the wage cap.

Assuming that it's 65% (which I think it is), that gives those teams a £13m advantage over the other teams in the Championship.

There isn't going to be a wage cap in The Championship next season. They went with Financial Fair Play instead, which will limit their losses to £8m in the first season which then reduces in subsequent seasons.

Though the real problem with the unfair advantage argument is that the facts don't really support it. All they do with the extra money is piss it away paying inflated salaries to the under performing players that got them relegated.

[ronnie21]

FL meeting yesterday - and they have called for more of the PL money to cascade down to the lower leagues.  No chance, doesn't quite fit in with their idea of PL2 does it?

[Peter Gibbons]

FL meeting yesterday - and they have called for more of the PL money to cascade down to the lower leagues.  No chance, doesn't quite fit in with their idea of PL2 does it?

There's more chance of gold coins cascading out of my ears

[Bukkake Regiment]

Does that work out? Assuming we're 4 million pa  - about 300k per month - 25 pros - that's an average of 3K per week which is very high (league average around 1400 pw 2009-10). Let me guess at our top wage - about 4.5k- 5k per week, though I don't know who deserves that. Then the kids on <1k plus the rest at 1-3k - I would estimate the average to be 2k per week (2.6 million pa); maybe it could be 3 million, but 4 million is pushing it.

 So, i presume you're talking about Yeovil - 1 million pa with 20 pros is  only about 960 pw
that's cheap as chips. You'd really estimate it that low??

Gary Roberts is most likely our highest paid player. He turned down a new contract at Huddersfield before he joined us.