Cos some1 is pocketing the money!!! Or my figures are way off.


Your figures are way off mate, unfortunately
We spend around 75% of our income on wages so thats pretty much going all out in backing the manager. We need to either get more money by gates (ticket increases / new stadium), or much, much more via commercial and marketing work.
There's one HUGE problem with your figures - it double counts the sky TV / prem prize money.
What you think is Premier league prize money is in fact the Sky TV money. The amount of money you get depends on your league position (and also I believe on how many times you are screened). Look at the annual reports - theres no mention of Prize money at all.
Also your wage figure is far too low - it was £36m in 2005/2006 season, since when we have signed the players you have listed, and given new contracts (at higher wages, probably £50k a week) to Johnson, Cahill, Arteta, Yobo and Lescott, plus contracts to Osman, Neville, Hibbert (less money but more than in 2005?).
Now redo your figures, and you'll see we don't have £58m....
And we don't even have 20m to spend. Now everything make sense.

Wasn't there a spreadsheet hanging around somewhere with all these facts and figures on?
Which links us to selling AJ. Hope I'm wrong.
So we have less than £20M to spend...:huh:
If we've got no or even so little cash to spend, why we wouldn't be considering smashing our transfer record by several million?...![]()
75% on wages is a bit far fetched me thinks...50% tops.
Wasn't there a spreadsheet hanging around somewhere with all these facts and figures on?