The Wage Bill

[Muttley]

I thought I'd have a stab at where all the wage bill goes and what we could afford if we halved it.

Assuming
- the wage bill is £8m pa as stated, that works out at approx £154k per week,
- this only relates to the 1st team squad as listed on the OS (ie youth team players, manager, coaching staff and admin are excluded and the directors don't take a salary(?))
- the oft-quoted £10k pw for Sharp is correct (I've used this as an upper limit and benchmark

Player	Current	Future?
Neil Sullivan	8	2
James O'Connor	5	2
George Friend	6	2
Shelton Martis	5	2
Richard Naylor	6	2
James Chambers	5	2
Martin Woods	5	2
Brian Stock	8	2
Chris Brown	5	2
Billy Sharp	10	10
Adam Lockwood	5	2
James Hayter	7	2
Ryan Mason	3	2
Tommy Spurr	5	2
Mark Wilson	5	2
John Oster	8	2
Giles Barnes	6	2
Simon Gillett	6	2
Jon Parkin	0	2
Oscar Radford	3	2
Sam Hird	6	2
Dean Shiels (on loan to Killie  )	5	2
Kyle Bennett	5	2
Mustapha Dumbuya	5	2
James Baxendale	2	2
James Coppinger	7	2
Milan Lalkovic (on loan from Chelsea  )	0	2
Rachid Bouhenna	5	2
Paul Keegan	4	2
Herita Ilunga	2	2
Chris Kirkland(on loan from Wigan  )	0	2
Gary Woods	5	2
Eddie Wilding	2	2
Jordan Ball	2	2
Pascal Chimbonda	2	2

[tr][td]Total[/td][td]163[/td][td]78[/td][/tr]
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Admittedly I've got no inside knowledge and I might be some way off on some of these but the total seems to stack up (again with the assumptions I've made above).

What is interesting, to me anyway, is that if you want to keep the same size squad and reduce the wage bill to £4m pa ie £76k pw then everybody has to be on WM's magical £2k pw (I've allowed us the small luxury of keeping Sharp on at £10k pw).

(Obviously the future players wouldn't be the ones listed above).

Of course, it the £8m includes the manager etc, then future looks even harder to achieve.

[Wellred]

Is the sun shining on fantasy island?

[Muttley]

Is the sun shining on fantasy island?

Not sure what you're trying to imply, care to elaborate?

The maths seems fairly clear to me - if you want a 35 man squad and a wage bill of £4m pa then you can only pay £2k pw.

I'd suggest that would mean you can only employ players that aren't Championship standard or you have to fill your squad with loanees etc.

Obviously there's a limit to how many loans you have/play, so the alternative scenario is that you have a vastly reduced squad and rely on a high turnover of loanees.

[Wellred]

The maths are simple its where you get your figures from that is the fantasy.

[ScillyRover]

Mods, any chance we might merge this thread with this one ...
http://www.drfc-vsc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=999999&id=194992&Itemid=108

[GazLaz]

We haven't got anyone on 10k a week.