[Foxman_WBA]

News coming out of WBA is that we have absolutely zero money and cant afford to bring "Big" players into the club, well lets break this down into who's here, who's going to leave and what we need to do for the season ahead;

Here's my prediction of how we'll line up at the start of the seaon;

Johnstone
Nyom Bartley (New) Townsend
Field Brunt
Burke/(New) Edwards Tulloch
HRK

Subs; Bond, Kane, Leko, Rogers, (New), (New), (New)

This assumes we sell or lose;

Harper, Livermore, Phillips, Rondon, Rodriguez, Dawson, Hegazi, Gibbs

I've left burke in there as it depends how much he's on, the way this works is it makes no difference what we've spent its about costs going forward.

Assuming the squad above left is on an average of 20k each that means we pay £18.75 mil a year on wages. (18 players)

Again we need a manager assuming we pay 20k a week, that adds another 1 mil.

This also assumed we spend exactly what we make on replacing players and the manager.

We need further 4 (atleast) for a deeper squad, again 20k each another 4 mil.

Wages for a first team squad then 24mil (again assuming we spend everthing we make from the above player sales).

Now looking at last year accounts assuming the following is the same;

Gate Receipts - 7.5
Merch - 2.5
Sponsorship/Commercial income - 12
Reported parachute payment (so decreased from last yr - 33
TV money from sky (average of 590m reported) - 25

80 mil

1st team costs - 24
Directors sal - 1
Non playing staffing and costs - 20
(Estimated as theres no official breakdown, based on what id guess the playing staff are on, loan costs etc)
45 mil

Purely in terms of cold hard cash, not messing around with player valuations and amortization (which is just a made up figure lets be honest, there's a bit more science involved admittedly but how can you say exactly what a player is worth?) then we should have 35 mil a year knocking around after the loss of all these players that management appear to be expecting. So the question is;
Why is constantly coming out of the club that we have no money!!!! Where is it all going? Have they just not planned for the loss of the high earners or do they know something we don’t!