Just making the point on another article that its clear that we are reducing wages which is a good idea i think for a number of reasons but mainly because it frees up wages for an additional one or two top rate players. So i wanted to come up with some sort of estimate on what we've saved on wages so far this transfer window.
*These will not necessarily be 100% accurate!
So outs:
Reina (£90,000p/w)
Andy Carroll (£80,000p/w)
Jamie Carragher (£80,000p/w)
Jonjo Shelvey (£18,000p/w)
TOTAL £268,000p/w
Ins:
Mignolet (£50k)
Toure (£70k)
Alberto (<£20k)
Aspas (£25k)
TOTAL £160k
Last year we got rid of Aquilani (£90k), Joe Cole (£90k), Kuyt (£70k), Maxi (£70k), Bellamy (£70K) and Charlie Adam (£50k).
We've brought in since then Allen (45k), Borini (£45k), Sturridge (65k) and coutinho (12.5k according to wiki!??)
plus Luis Suarez +55k/week contract improvement, Daniel Agger +25k/week and Martin Skrtel +25k/week.
TOTAL WAGES SAVED - around 250kp/w
So having already saved £250k on wages a week and also having broken even so far this summer on transfer fees, i see no financial obstacle as to why we can't add two more quality additions to our first XI.
Wage reduction
posted on 31/7/13
SAF no doubt he would have got a nice signing on fee but he was out of contract and in the Indian summer of his career so there is no chance he'd be on so much.
He also said he wanted to stay in the northwest for family reasons cos no doubt a Turkish club would have offered more.
posted on 31/7/13
40k is a pretty small amount (crazy isn't it) these days, not saying it isn't possible but I would expect him to be on more like 50k-60k...
posted on 31/7/13
Maybe it is more 50k. The reason why I questioned the figure was because the owners have been on mission to reduce the wage bill so paying a 32 year old 70k would be going against what they are preaching.
posted on 31/7/13
Well speculate away but multiple sources say toure is on 70-75k a week. He was on like 110k at city. He is carraghers replacement who was 80k so if we were willing to keep carra then it's not so bad
posted on 31/7/13
Wasn't Carra on 100k a week?
As his direct replacement it would still be a significant saving... you may be right though.
posted on 31/7/13
Ahh 80k was it, still a saving.
posted on 31/7/13
It's impossible to know exactly but some sources suggest around 80k and that sounds about right to me. Certainly wouldn't be any less than that so its a saving still
posted on 31/7/13
If Borini is on 45k a week then i'm off to take 1000 paracetamol and call it a night life's not fair.
posted on 1/8/13
Cara was on a par with gerrard at around 120k a week
Toure took a huge paycut to sign he's on about a third if what he was on at city
posted on 1/8/13
this is not right in my view.
We keep forgetting the club is still not saved and not in europe so just cos we reduced the wage bill by X does not mena we can go out and then hired more guys at the same x figure.
The club can't afford the wage level and must reduce to start generating a positive cash flow and stop relying on FSG hand outs.
in my view there is a hit list in ayres desk drawer with the name sof our higher earners on it. The moment for example reina said if barca come in i'm off his name was on the list and ayre pushed him out the door on loan to napoli. Skertl's name is on that list after signing a new deal and promptly finding BR doesn't like him.
I think johnson is on that list....
I honestly believe that for papadopolos to arrive skertl will have to go.