It’s easy being a pundit isn’t it. Everyone knows the problems, but what the solution?
So Theo is joining Everton because he wants to win trophies. Is he saying that Everton are more likely to win trophies than Arsenal? Absolutely nothing to do with the approx. extra £6m he will get than if he had joined us?
Holy crap. According to the Mirror Walcott is on £140k a week at Everton!!
Just been checking up on FFP rules from here
Clubs will be able to increase their wage spend by £7m each season from 2016/17 to 2018/19 (an increase from the £4m a season during the current TV deal). Clubs can exceed this £7m cap if they generate increased revenue from commercial income, player trading and Match Day income. The Premier League rules are explained here
Theo’s new wage alone covers all of that £7m and more (if applied to the whole season).
Could never have seen Saints matching that as the other “star” players would have had to have their wages bumped up as well. It’s mad, mad I tell thee…
The solution is simple too - be owned by somebody really, really rich and corrupt and say nay to abiding by financial fair play.
The rules are in place to maintain and protect the monopoly of the status quo ‘top six’ clubs and screw the rest for ever dreaming of disrupting it. Any industry where you can become the ‘victim of your own success’ (something the pundits loved to throw around about us) is pure poison in my opinion.
These transfer windows can be likened to feeding time on the savannah. Let all the big fuckers with teeth have their fill first and then if we ‘small clubs’ (thanks for reminding us Ralph) are lucky we can pick the bones of the carcass on deadline day.
But ultimately we tried to play the game differently to give ourselves a leg up and did admirably for several years before, I guess, the inevitable happened and we got a few things wrong and the backwards momentum gathered pace. Something that was always likely to happen when a methodology isn’t by its nature very scientific. As they say in casino gambling, ‘the House always wins in the end’.
To further complicate matters I believe that clubs like Everton, Leicester and to a lesser extent Tottenham (going back a few years) have noted our success of identifying players under the radar with potential and started targeting the same ones. Each of those clubs seems to always be linked with our primary targets and muscle in with their bigger spending power. Even Leicester have surpassed us in spending due to their league winning and Champions League antics.
Whilst admittedly I am feeling rather melancholy today, I am slowly but surely coming to terms with our fate and have decided to ‘hate the game, not the player’.
Pay the wages and don’t sell your best players, either that or you’re in this shit position.
Welcome to the club.
If the Mirror is correct then Walcott will be earning £25,480,000 at Everton. How do you think a club our size can afford those kind of wages?
Not sure if this helps, matters or is indeed completely relevent, but the accounts to June 2016 for both clubs below have me wondering whether here is much between us.
Turnover £122m
Wages £84m** Gate receipts** £18m
**TV and broadcasting ** £83m
Sponsorship, advertising and merchandise £9m
Oher commercial £12m
Net debt £55m
Interest payable £5m
Highest-paid director Unnamed: £400,000
Turnover £124m Wages £85m** Matchday** £19m
Premier League and broadcasting £90m
Commercial activities £12m
Other income £3m
Net debt Not stated, total bank, owner and other loans: £63m
**Interest payable ** £6m
Highest-paid director Unnamed: £445,000
Oh, yes Everton is first followed by Saints. 2016-17 wages bills, according to The Mirror, suggests Saints spending is now £92m and Everton £102m.
Not sure about those figures Chez. I would have thought that their wage bill was much higher than ours. The average attendance for Everton last season was 39,310 and ours 30,936 so you would expect their match day revenue to be higher too?
Unless we sell a LOT more pies at half time…
Comfort eating!
i wonder if thier ticket prices are lower
Yeah. let’s ignore the FACTS about Everton since 2016 shall we?
Moshiri even paid for a coat of paint
However, Mr Elstone was keen to highlight the importance of Farhad Moshiri’s investment in Everton.
He told evertontv: “ The other major aspect of the accounts is the major contribution that Mr Moshiri has made and the injection of funds that he’s put into the club. That has helped us do several things, not least pay off some long-term debt.
“His money has also helped us move forward on the stadium project and we’ve made investments in that.
“As fans have also seen, we’ve made big improvements to Goodison Park, there’s a lot of work happening at Finch Farm with the new first-team block and new pitches and, indeed, the most significant thing is the investment on the pitch.”
And you thought are fans were bedwetters, most of the replies to the tweet you could, word for word, apply to Saints
I did say the figures were from June 2016 accounts, so it would be 15/16 season.
They come from here: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jun/01/premier-league-finances-club-by-club
The updated wage figures were from Talkshite, not The Mirror, and they were for 16/17 season https://talksport.com/football/every-premier-league-club-ranked-their-total-wage-bill-2016-17-171109261432
Day 18 and fuck all.
Lol
You won’t be disappointed at the end of the month if it stays the same then?
Big Brother?