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But as you like to stress - and we all know - James can't play every game in a season.
There are matches that he won't be fit for, there are matches that he won't be suited to, there are matches where just having another option and James Rodriguez to bring off the bench would be a real boost.
Our DOF needs to get creative and we need to shift players. We've made a half-decent start in getting Bernard out and bringing in 3 players for probably not much more than his wage all told.
As I've said, you (we) have to get away from the idea that there can be any such thing as a 'first XI' if you want us to do something. We can't look at it that way.
We know James can't play every game, so why would it not make sense to have other options in there?
Toffeemeister
Player Valuation: £8m
All the people who said "Why do you care it's not your money".
Well this is why! Money dosen't come out of nowhere and if you keep setting fire to it eventually you will run out.
Well this is why! Money dosen't come out of nowhere and if you keep setting fire to it eventually you will run out.
orly
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Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
We must have dropped 30mil off the wage bill so far. Obviously we’ve added to it, with the new signings.
Still very disappointing a RB hasn’t been added. This has now been going on for 2/3 years
No, but our existing wage bill is higher than theirs to such a disproportionate degree that we’d have far less than they would available to spend on wages for the forthcoming year if this hypothetical cap existed.
Toffeemeister
Player Valuation: £8m
Was the £200 million share issue to cover losses and the stadium? I still hold out some hope ?
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
Hopefully we'll get the two 31 year olds off the wage bill soon enough
AndyC
Player Valuation: £70m
Could not agree more.
I've felt for a good few years that the club was top heavy with jobsworths and woefully underachieving personnel in a number of areas. Sadly, the hierarchy have chosen to bury their heads in the sand where over-staffing and incompetence are concerned, and bizarrely continue to expand the workforce with no apparent target setting or target incentivised packages to encourage people to over-achieve.
Without proper target setting and packages/incentives based on exceeding said targets, we'll continue to make hardly any progress in commercial terms visa-vie the clubs we're allegedly attempting to compete with... both on and off the field.
orly
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Absolutely right. That graphic from the Athletic shows quite starkly how bad it has got, and how insane our actual wage budget being three times that projection is.
AmericasToffee
Player Valuation: £40m
Kenwright's good old boy club is really costly.
Mashtray
Player Valuation: £25m
Stuck in a bad 3 year cycle then.
Noisy noise annoys
Player Valuation: £70m
But won't the staff be on peanuts compared to the players? I really don't think the staff pay is the issue here
APN_EFC
Player Valuation: £25m
I agree mostly but also this assumes we get rid of Kean, Gomes, Siggy, Delph, Kenny - that would be amazing to get rid of even 1-2. I used to think that Kenny is done and we definitely need a new RB, but I can't help thinking the midfield and RW/CAM/CM are more important, for now, because we need some pace and forward-motion which we are just not getting. Even if Coleman/Kenny can't beat players and cross like Digne, if they can keep shape and not give the ball away at least, it's in the middle we need a lot more pace and quality.
Generally fed up with buying Cast-offs and Man U, Arsenal failures, but Van De Beek might be interesting, would anyone go for Aaron Ramsey (if he'd accept £100k!) - basically from those 5 gaps you're identifying, I think we need 1 young prospect, 1 big money exciting player , 1 cast-off and 2 squad players.
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