(20-05-2019, 21:10)Phil Penn Wrote:

(20-05-2019, 13:16)4evaabaggie Wrote: In the interest of balance, not supporting his comment but relegated clubs have in the past, in the name of cost cutting, laid off backroom staff, you can do without a tea lady for example but you can't do without footballers ...... laying off backroom staff makes no sense because as you rightly say a footballer on 55 grand a week costs the same as three minimum wage staff do in a year ....... but as with politics scaremongering keeps the public worried and compliant.

Dowling is thick the £6 million it would cost to bring Gayle to the baggies £3million wages per year £3million transfer fee per year for 3 years =
£6 million pounds a year - if we paid a tea lady - let be gererous and say £6,000 a year for 2 days work per week. With Dowlings threat to remove back room staff we would have to get rid of ONE THOUSAND TEA LADIES to fund Gayle's costs
This is a man who is charged with making decisions at our club    He hasn't got a fkn Scooby Doo

(20-05-2019, 22:08)St Charles Owl Wrote:

(20-05-2019, 21:10)Phil Penn Wrote:

(20-05-2019, 13:16)4evaabaggie Wrote: In the interest of balance, not supporting his comment but relegated clubs have in the past, in the name of cost cutting, laid off backroom staff, you can do without a tea lady for example but you can't do without footballers ...... laying off backroom staff makes no sense because as you rightly say a footballer on 55 grand a week costs the same as three minimum wage staff do in a year ....... but as with politics scaremongering keeps the public worried and compliant.

Dowling is thick the £6 million it would cost to bring Gayle to the baggies £3million wages per year £3million transfer fee per year for 3 years =
£6 million pounds a year - if we paid a tea lady - let be gererous and say £6,000 a year for 2 days work per week. With Dowlings threat to remove back room staff we would have to get rid of ONE THOUSAND TEA LADIES to fund Gayle's costs
This is a man who is charged with making decisions at our club    He hasn't got a fkn Scooby Doo

More to the point, if all of this is because the club are trying to stay within P&S limits, then the tea lady and all other General Staff do not count towards the 39m pound loss over three years.  The only salaries included in this are the playing/coaching/football executive staff, not other employees of the company.  The academy and all cost associated are also removed so its just the first team squad, plus ground improvements are also not included.  As was said Dowling is right that you “should” not pay what it would cost to buy Gayle but this will only result in general staff redundancies if you simply cannot afford to pay the general staff, it has no nothing bearing on meeting the P&S stipulations!!  Either he is making a political/populist statement or he doesn’t know the P&S rules or the club is financially unsound - the last two should worry you, the first suggests other things!!

(21-05-2019, 20:58)Salopbaggie Wrote: Celtic apparently entertaining Harper with the VIP tour after their Scottish Premiership win, of course as an 'international' club they would only have to pay £235,000 in compensation.  Albion have apparently tabled RH another, "take it or leave it" offer.

What the **** is it with young players these days, as good as it is we may as well as scrap the academy and invest the money elsewhere if this continually keeps happening, then go poaching the same as everyone else seems to do,

(23-05-2019, 15:16)4evaabaggie Wrote: Josh sounds good, maybe a cheeky build of a couple million euros and we could sign him. Get more players around the 21 - 24 mark, decent manager, academy players and we could lift the title next May.