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Hopefully not. We shouldn't base our spending on CL revenue.
Oh, I totally agree, but maybe the added windfall will allow for a few goodies.
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Hopefully not. We shouldn't base our spending on CL revenue.
Has anyone considered we might be playing the waiting game ourselves, waiting to see if we do indeed qualify for the champions league proper, and the added finances that could provide.
Might be in a posotion to push the structure of wages even furthet once CL secured.
It would be madness to base our wage structure on qualifying for the cl.
If we don't qualify the following year we'd have to sell players to bring the wages down.
See any team that gets relegated to understand how damaging that could be.
Not on about the whole wage structure, merely trying to suggest that a few extra quid in the coffers from qualification could give us a little more revenue to offer Toby or whomever.
It's a revenue stream is it not, sure it would be factored in the end of year financials. Money in, money out.
Levy and THFC base the total wage bill primarily on a percentage of turnover. 55% of turnover is considered to be acceptably prudent. Very few football clubs comply with it. We do.
The problem with considering Champions League revenue when assessing individual player salaries is that CL is a year-to-year thing, whereas a player contract represents a 4-6 year commitment. So they wouldn't do that.
Also, the standard is not related to individual contracts, it is related to the overall salary bill for the organisation. I doubt that an individual wage negotiation would be directly affected by an individual season's qualification (or not) for the CL.