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Jimmy McCormick
Did City put ticket prices up much this season out of interest?
'Adult season ticket prices for 2012-13 £275-£745 (up 9%)'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/22/premier-league-season-ticket-prices
Did City put ticket prices up much this season out of interest?
Did City put ticket prices up much this season out of interest?
My comment related to the debt amount - which has very little to do with our ability to purchase players, imv
If we can service our debt - we can afford signings
Thanks to tax credits, THFC loss after tax smaller (than before tax loss) at £4.3m
We can service our debt, but there is not much left after that. Hell we made a profit of 9.2m on player sales and still made a loss.
That insinuates a sell to buy policy in my mind. Well or release ageing players on massive cash.
Edit: Although we won't be spending on the training ground this season, so unless we spend on the stadium there might be more leeway.
We can free up a bit of cash by getting rid of a few players this summer:
Gomes - 45K
Bentley - 55K
Hudd - 30k
Parker - 60K
Friedel - 40K
Cudicini - 25K
Adebayor - 100K
They are made up figures but probably aren't too far off. Thats 350K a week right there of the wage bill potentially.
We would obviously need to sign some replacements but we'd probably only need one goalie (maybe 2), midfielder and striker. Could probably get all of that for less than 200K a week I'd say.
We can free up a bit of cash by getting rid of a few players this summer:
Gomes - 45K
Bentley - 55K
Hudd - 30k
Parker - 60K
Friedel - 40K
Cudicini - 25K
Adebayor - 100K
They are made up figures but probably aren't too far off. Thats 350K a week right there of the wage bill potentially.
We would obviously need to sign some replacements but we'd probably only need one goalie (maybe 2), midfielder and striker. Could probably get all of that for less than 200K a week I'd say.
Why would we get rid of Friedel? I also don't think we'll be able to shift Ade even if we want to.
Agree for the most part, there is a lot of crap in the squad on high wages which needs to be moved on.
Not forgetting Khumalo, Falque and Jenas.We can free up a bit of cash by getting rid of a few players this summer:
Gomes - 45K
Bentley - 55K
Hudd - 30k
Parker - 60K
Friedel - 40K
Cudicini - 25K
Adebayor - 100K
They are made up figures but probably aren't too far off. Thats 350K a week right there of the wage bill potentially.
We would obviously need to sign some replacements but we'd probably only need one goalie (maybe 2), midfielder and striker. Could probably get all of that for less than 200K a week I'd say.
You missed out Gallas too, who's contract ends this summer.
Not forgetting Khumalo, Falque and Jenas.
I fecking knew it.
Our wages effectively doubled under Redknapp.
Thats why our net transfer spend is down significantly for the last 2 seasons.
Your post implies Redknapp negotiated wage deals, rather than Levy, which is not the case.
Also you could just as easily say that our net transfer spend is down significantly for the last 2 seasons because Cheat$ki fluked their way to the CL title and took away our hard earned CL place.
Interesting to see that going into EL instead of CL cost us £31m in prize money and gate receipts according to Mr Swiss Ramble; I'm sure some know-all was on here the other day saying that it was only worth about £10m difference and wasn't such a big deal.
Because he's done and offers nothing
Agree with everyone on that list except for Ade - deserves another season, imv
yeah i think we need a goalkeeper in reserve who plays the same style as Lloris
I fecking knew it.
Was told for ages that the only reason our wages were up to 90m in 2011 was because of Champion's League bonuses.
Now the season after with no Champion's League and they're still 90m.
Our wages effectively doubled under Redknapp.
Thats why our net transfer spend is down significantly for the last 2 seasons.