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£4,000 a week?

MintyMatt said:
4.5k per week, and £100k initial fee with another £100k appearance/goal/promotion based.
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OK, fair enough but where did you get your figures from for:
£4.5k per week?
£100k appearance/goal/promotion?
£100k initial fee?

Forgive me for being pedantic about this but being a Cost Engineer specialist I always like to know what are the base source of figures. If you can quote exact sources then OK, but if it is just hear then there will be greater uncertainty around the final figure and be call a WAG (Wild Arse Guess) or SWAG (Scientific Wild Arse Guess) but if just made up then its called a PIDOOMA (Pulled It Directly Out Of My Arse) and yes in professional career I have seen the later.

Nearly forgot to add if any of the above then your total final figure could be plus or minus 100 to 200% out.
 
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SalfordImp said:
OK, fair enough but where did you get your figures from for:
£4.5k per week?
£100k appearance/goal/promotion?
£100k initial fee?

Forgive me for being pedantic about this but being a Cost Engineer specialist I always like to know what are the base source of figures. If you can quote exact sources then OK, but if it is just hear then there will be greater uncertainty around the final figure and be call a WAG (Wild Arse Guess) or SWAG (Scientific Wild Arse Guess) but if just made up then its called a PIDOOMA (Pulled It Directly Out Of My Arse) and yes in professional career I have seen the later.

Nearly forgot to add if any of the above then your total final figure could be plus or minus 100 to 200% out.
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Believe it, don’t believe it, it’s of no concern to me. My ‘source’ is well informed, close to the club and has no reason to make things up. Akinde was very clearly our number one target and the club did what it needed to do to get him, which was spend an awful lot of money. But as alluded to earlier on this thread, top strikers cost a lot, and for once we’ve signed one.
 
MintyMatt said:
Believe it, don’t believe it, it’s of no concern to me. My ‘source’ is well informed, close to the club and has no reason to make things up. Akinde was very clearly our number one target and the club did what it needed to do to get him, which was spend an awful lot of money. But as alluded to earlier on this thread, top strikers cost a lot, and for once we’ve signed one.
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I didn't say I believed it or not, just challenged your estimate. There is a saying everyone estimate is correct its just that there assumptions are wrong.

Being pedantic again, if you as you say 'source is well informed, close to the club' this does not sound very well informed, as close to the club to me could me they live near the ground. Also, have they seen the contract details in writing.

But so adjusting my final assessment, I will now reduce your final figure to being to +/- 75% out in either direction.

Therefore could be between £675,00 up to £1,250,00. I personally feel that it will be towards the lower end.
 
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Therefore could be between £675,00 up to £1,250,00. I personally feel that it will be towards the lower end.
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67500... definitely towards the lower end. bargain!
 
There is a reasonable article below (I say reasonable because it comes from The Mail Online) that gives some average salary comparisons for the leagues - £40,300 for League 2. A more reasonable assumption for some of our 'League 1 quality' players is the League 1 average of £69,500. That doesn't mean that £200-£250k for Akinde is out of the question, but I think it unlikely, given that if we were spending that sort of money we could be matching the salaries of top League 1 players. The other interesting part from the article is the gap between the top and the bottom. Only 20 years' ago Man Utd spent 10 times as much as Shrewsbury on player's wages, now they spend 50 times as much.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...14-15-season-1-7million-rest-creep-along.html
 
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DonnyImp said:
Of course if 'plucky Salford ' make it into the first round proper of the FA Cup no doubt the BBC will be all over them like a rash, pushing more dosh in their direction.
It'll be Forest 'CamberwickGreen' Rovers all over again.
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Have the bbc featured pgr?
 
DonnyImp said:
Of course if 'plucky Salford ' make it into the first round proper of the FA Cup no doubt the BBC will be all over them like a rash, pushing more dosh in their direction.
It'll be Forest 'CamberwickGreen' Rovers all over again.
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That season, it was sickening to see. I was only surprised that didn't try to show some Salford league games as well.
 
I'm guessing having spent money on Rooney the 300k they were going to spend on Matt Green won't be happening now?
 
MintyMatt said:
Believe it, don’t believe it, it’s of no concern to me. My ‘source’ is well informed, close to the club and has no reason to make things up. Akinde was very clearly our number one target and the club did what it needed to do to get him, which was spend an awful lot of money. But as alluded to earlier on this thread, top strikers cost a lot, and for once we’ve signed one.
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I'm sure the club is delighted to have details of Akinde's salary splashed across the internet, agents for the remainder of our signings will be sharpening their quills as they read it and absorb the possibilities...
 
Another thing about Salford is that they shouldn't be needing to spend what they are to get out of the NL. Some of it will be planning for a L2 season, too, but they're paying wages on par with Billericay in terms of wages relative to the division.
 
Casperimp said:
Why would you say that?

I would imagine by the time you add in bonuses, signing on fee etc you would be surprised. Unfortunately strikers particularly ones with a good scoring record cost a premium and always will.

As someone alluded too no one knows what we are paying but you only have to look at the last set of published accounts to see that the season we came up our wage costs were £2.4 million the season we came up from the National League.

Now I know that includes everyone but if you divides that figure by 48 allowing for all players and staff it comes out at £1,000 a week for everyone. I can't imagine that the office staff and many of the backroom people are on £1,000 a week! I would imagine the wage bill has gone up a lot in the League.

We clearly aren't signing all these quality players for peanuts and because the love Lincoln and The Cowleys.
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Skewed by bonuses as well I suspect.
 
Luke Imp said:
Another thing about Salford is that they shouldn't be needing to spend what they are to get out of the NL. Some of it will be planning for a L2 season, too, but they're paying wages on par with Billericay in terms of wages relative to the division.
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I guess spend forest green money and you might cock it up a few times. Spend Salford/Billericay money and if you don’t win the league by ten points minimum and it’s a massive embarrassment/shock.
 
Rasenimp said:
Salford can suck one.

Love these lower leagues so we can avoid all the Premier League crap and Neville and co seem to be insistent on bringing the Premier League to the conference.

Hope they feck it up and don't come up.
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Absolutely this. They really just don’t get it do they?

The sooner they bring in stiffer financial rules and punishment the better.
 
imps_joe said:
Absolutely this. They really just don’t get it do they?

The sooner they bring in stiffer financial rules and punishment the better.
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what is the problem financially with salford. they have money to burn and are spending it on expensive players. are you saying that they are spending money that they don't have?
 
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