Thanks for your contribution Jonny. £80k a week to go from one twinge to another enabling you to sit it out when the going gets tough. Awful professional to have as club captain.
I only get the GP's secretary telling me to **** off. The promise of a call back sounds wonderful.The best thing he can do is to ring his surgery at 08:30 prompt and hope his GP will ring him back later in the day.
#goingdownwithsmith#stayingupwithrafa
Delia? You’re gross.#goingdownwithsmith
I think people need a reality check of what the extent of our impending disaster actually means.
Just one example. We have three strikers who are all under contract for next season (at least). This site (https://www.capology.com/club/leicester/salaries/) which I know won't be 100% accurate, says that Vardy is on £140k a week, Iheanacho £80k and Daka £75k.
That's over £15m to pay next year on just those three. For comparison, all three of them are earning more than any current Championship player. To stress this point further, a club like Blackburn (remember them) have a total salary cost from their entire squad of £8.4m.
Looking at the three relegated sides last season - Burnley have an entire wage bill of just over £23m, Norwich just over £22m and Watford just over £29m.
Our wage bill is more than £80m. EVERYONE WILL BE FOR SALE. We cannot afford any of them. It will be a squad of U21s, loans and those nobody else wants.
Maybe we can recreate the team of 2015, that went well.I don't argue that we're in a tricky financial position - but I don't think we'd be as ****ed as you say.
Because like you say, everyone will be for sale. Even the players we don't want to sell.
We'd sell Maddison for 30-40m still. That alone covers a lot of it.
Barnes, Nacho, Castagne, Ndidi, maybe also Ricardo and Daka all are still saleable assets. For that collection, you'd be looking at at least £50m in and big wages off the bill.
So while I agree it's not going to be pretty, and that everyone will be available, I think we can still sell our way out of the worst of the financial situation so we don't end up with only what's left of the academy and then any old freebies we can get. At least for a season...
FixedSo while I agree it's not going to be pretty, and that everyone will be available, I think we can still sell our way out of the worst of the financial situation so we don't end up with only what's left of the academy and then any old freebies we can get. At least for a season or ten.
Yeah, we easily have £100m+ of saleable assets in players so whilst it certainly won't be pretty, I don't see it as the near death situation that some are making it out to be.I don't argue that we're in a tricky financial position - but I don't think we'd be as ****ed as you say.
Because like you say, everyone will be for sale. Even the players we don't want to sell.
We'd sell Maddison for 30-40m still. That alone covers a lot of it.
Barnes, Nacho, Castagne, Ndidi, maybe also Ricardo and Daka all are still saleable assets. For that collection, you'd be looking at at least £50m in and big wages off the bill.
So while I agree it's not going to be pretty, and that everyone will be available, I think we can still sell our way out of the worst of the financial situation so we don't end up with only what's left of the academy and then any old freebies we can get. At least for a season...
You’ll find the time. It’s what we do.Work tomorrow. At least I won’t have time to bother myself with all this nonsense.
I don't think we're going to get 12 points. Nowhere near.
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So - A (hopeful) total of 12 points. Would that keep us up? What do you think?
Yeah, 12 would be an enormous haul from this pointI don't think we're going to get 12 points. Nowhere near.
P | Pld | Pts | |
1 | Liverpool | 11 | 28 |
2 | Manchester C | 11 | 23 |
3 | Chelsea | 11 | 19 |
4 | Arsenal | 11 | 19 |
5 | Nottm F | 11 | 19 |
6 | Brighton | 11 | 19 |
7 | Fulham | 11 | 18 |
8 | Newcastle | 11 | 18 |
9 | Aston Villa | 11 | 18 |
10 | Tottenham | 11 | 16 |
11 | Brentford | 11 | 16 |
12 | Bournemouth | 11 | 15 |
13 | Manchester U | 11 | 15 |
14 | West Ham | 11 | 12 |
15 | Leicester | 11 | 10 |
16 | Everton | 11 | 10 |
17 | Ipswich | 11 | 8 |
18 | Palace | 11 | 7 |
19 | Wolves | 11 | 6 |
20 | Southampton | 11 | 4 |