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Stolen shamelessly from Devonian on COYS. Interesting read.
The continuing talk of a salary cap is a nonsense – there is no cap on individual salaries – it is controlled by a wage budget based on the whole footballing squads.
Levy can go to £51.5 million this year, without any sanction from Lewis, and as we currently stand at £43.8 million then that means we can afford to pay NEW players a total of £7.7 million (and that does not include players leaving) – that equates to an extra £148,000 per week on wages. That can be distributed any which way Levy wants and if it needs to pay out £70k pw on top class players then so be it.
If we really need to push the boat out then (with Lewis sanction) we can go to £56.65 million which gives us an extra £12.85 million on wages to play with or an extra £247,000 pw.
Just because we can spend that level of money does not mean that we will if Levy does not think they are worth the money – he busted the overall budget for Davids so all this talk about players not being able to come to us due to our not paying the necessary wages is nonsense.
The only time, since Tavistock Group has owned us, that we failed to match wages was when we went for Duff and Parker – we were already running at 57% of T/O on a much reduced T/O and Levy would have gone to 60% but both of those players were on ridiculous wages (as all Chelski players are) and so we passed.
I can assure everybody that EVERY Club in Europe (including Chelski) are trying to REDUCE wages and every Chairman is in agreement. The THFC business model is seen as the perfect model to adopt by most European Clubs.
If we do not get a player it will not be because we could not afford to pay the wages – we might not agree with their demands which is a totally different issue – that said I do not believe a word of what the Daily Mail says and if this Tiago guy is somebody that Ramos wants then Levy will get him.
There are so many postings on many threads which seem to make us out as cheapskates – we are second only to Chelski spending in the transfer market since Levy came in – 6th highest payers in the PL and trading at a profit – we have got the £20 million required for the new training centre already in the Accounts – we have record profits - oh and we gave £4 million to charity last year.
Do you think that we got that way by Levy giving in to mercenaries? Levy is the best negotiator I have ever known so have faith in the guy.
And for those who say that Levy is the highest paid man at THFC, you could not be more wrong if you tried to be – his exact wage is £18,269.23 per week.
And for those that think that Kemsley was robbing the Club when he was here – his last year salary was exactly £0 – some might say that he was overpaid at that but those are the facts.
The continuing talk of a salary cap is a nonsense – there is no cap on individual salaries – it is controlled by a wage budget based on the whole footballing squads.
Levy can go to £51.5 million this year, without any sanction from Lewis, and as we currently stand at £43.8 million then that means we can afford to pay NEW players a total of £7.7 million (and that does not include players leaving) – that equates to an extra £148,000 per week on wages. That can be distributed any which way Levy wants and if it needs to pay out £70k pw on top class players then so be it.
If we really need to push the boat out then (with Lewis sanction) we can go to £56.65 million which gives us an extra £12.85 million on wages to play with or an extra £247,000 pw.
Just because we can spend that level of money does not mean that we will if Levy does not think they are worth the money – he busted the overall budget for Davids so all this talk about players not being able to come to us due to our not paying the necessary wages is nonsense.
The only time, since Tavistock Group has owned us, that we failed to match wages was when we went for Duff and Parker – we were already running at 57% of T/O on a much reduced T/O and Levy would have gone to 60% but both of those players were on ridiculous wages (as all Chelski players are) and so we passed.
I can assure everybody that EVERY Club in Europe (including Chelski) are trying to REDUCE wages and every Chairman is in agreement. The THFC business model is seen as the perfect model to adopt by most European Clubs.
If we do not get a player it will not be because we could not afford to pay the wages – we might not agree with their demands which is a totally different issue – that said I do not believe a word of what the Daily Mail says and if this Tiago guy is somebody that Ramos wants then Levy will get him.
There are so many postings on many threads which seem to make us out as cheapskates – we are second only to Chelski spending in the transfer market since Levy came in – 6th highest payers in the PL and trading at a profit – we have got the £20 million required for the new training centre already in the Accounts – we have record profits - oh and we gave £4 million to charity last year.
Do you think that we got that way by Levy giving in to mercenaries? Levy is the best negotiator I have ever known so have faith in the guy.
And for those who say that Levy is the highest paid man at THFC, you could not be more wrong if you tried to be – his exact wage is £18,269.23 per week.
And for those that think that Kemsley was robbing the Club when he was here – his last year salary was exactly £0 – some might say that he was overpaid at that but those are the facts.