has the poor January window ruined our season?

[MACCA75]

We wont spend a lot in the summer. The usual people will explain that we just don't realise how much is spent on wages and agent fees and how we are still paying for McCarthy, and how we should 'judge in January' after an inevitable deadline day fail.
It's all painfully predictable.

 

[D410]

Intresting seeing the numbers people think we will spend.

If the window was open right now my guess is that we would have £10m ish to spend whoch would have to cover wages, agent fees and transfer fee. When Vic moved onwards it was said the bulk of his fee went straight to Chealsea to cover the ROM loan !

My guess is that the club will move more players on to other clubs but the full available value will never be spent.

 

[markos88]

Intresting seeing the numbers people think we will spend.

If the window was open right now my guess is that we would have £10m ish to spend whoch would have to cover wages, agent fees and transfer fee. When Vic moved onwards it was said the bulk of his fee went straight to Chealsea to cover the ROM loan !

My guess is that the club will move more players on to other clubs but the full available value will never be spent.

Agreed.

When we talk about having cash to spend wages are often overlooked. Whilst we 'may' be able to come up with 15/20million+ in cash, we simply cannot afford the wages that'd be associated with deals of that scale. I know weve probably trimmed the wage bill a bit with a few moving on, but I just don't see with our revenue how we come up with the 200/300k a week extra we'd need to add those 3/4 players to our core 16.

 

[Dithering Dougie]

Intresting seeing the numbers people think we will spend.

If the window was open right now my guess is that we would have £10m ish to spend whoch would have to cover wages, agent fees and transfer fee. When Vic moved onwards it was said the bulk of his fee went straight to Chealsea to cover the ROM loan !

My guess is that the club will move more players on to other clubs but the full available value will never be spent.

That may well be the case, but we'd already bought in a forward earlier in the summer for roughly the same value we sold Anichebe for, that came from somewhere.

 

[Allezfan]

Agreed.

When we talk about having cash to spend wages are often overlooked. Whilst we 'may' be able to come up with 15/20million+ in cash, we simply cannot afford the wages that'd be associated with deals of that scale. I know weve probably trimmed the wage bill a bit with a few moving on, but I just don't see with our revenue how we come up with the 200/300k a week extra we'd need to add those 3/4 players to our core 16.

Pre new Tv deal, you're spot on.

Our wages and agent fees were so large compared to our income that a lot of the transfer money had to pay that and so we couldn't spend what we got in the market or increase our wage bill.

But our last accounts show our wage bill actually dropping and as a result we made a profit in 2013 even before this new huge tv money has been added. Our current wage bill is not huge at all by premier league standards (it's about the 10th highest in the league, I think) and our new increased income from the tv deal should mean it's safe to increase it again.

We should be able to spend on both wages and fees, this summer.

 

[kevdotbadger]

We should be able to spend on both wages and fees, this summer.

I should be able to get a good looking girlfriend. However, she looks like Michael Jackson.

 

[Allezfan]

I should be able to get a good looking girlfriend. However, she looks like Michael Jackson.

Pre surgery Jacko, inexplicably white Jacko or been dead for over a year Jacko?

 

[kevdotbadger]

Half black, half white, dead and undergoing surgery Jacko.