Re: Accounts now published

Wagner’s Dream

Nat

Mayor, do you now want to acknowledge that I was right all along when I said circa Nov 2024 that our average earner would be on five figure weekly wages and you went to great lengths to discredit my claim as such?

That may not be correct still, I dunno how Maguire estimates it but the staff costs include all payments, including bonuses, NI, ect, for all staff.

I'd estimate a lot of our players salary last season came from promotion bonuses, appearance fees, signing-on fees, goals/clean sheet ect ect.

If you'd read the tweet, you'd also notice that the summary of average weekly wages is across 300 odd employees. Allowing for high ranking members of team and club management, circa 10% of those would be on anything approaching footballer earnings (including the footballers obviously) so their average salaries are clearly pulling the average up.

Anyone can see that our first team players last year were on average weekly earnings well into five figures before bonuses and God knows what else, as I claimed in November 2024 (whilst Mayor poo pooed it).

As fun as last season was as well, it is clear that in the medium to long term that most of those players aren't going to be in our plans. I think we have been pretty wasteful money wise, this season moreso but last season we were gluttinous too.

Take Ben Davies for example - we were covering the best part of his £30k a week salary at Rangers. Did we really need to do that? Did we really need to invest that much money into a centre-half in League One who (as I also correctly called at the time) was never going to make the jump with us (and as it turns out with his lack of game time at lowly Oxford) or anybody else to the Championship?

As fun as last season was, were overindulged from a spending POV when you actually anaylise in the cold light of day how many of those players could be counted as medium to long term investments.