Wage Bills

The Prince-e-Paul

Interesting artical from Plymouth boss perspective. Has Plymouth down as having a £6m wage bills, Ipswich £16.5m and the average in championship as £32m. Can Charlton really afford to go up if that is the competitive amount to fund a campaign.

As a side issue I wonder whether TS wants us in league one as cheapskate owners (who are only prospective owners) can't afford the 2 years funding requirement from EFL finance test in the Championship. .

https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/23521218.ipswich-town-steven-schumacher-plymouths-championship-budget/

se9addick

The Prince-e-Paul said:

Interesting artical from Plymouth boss perspective. Has Plymouth down as having a £6m wage bills, Ipswich £16.5m and the average in championship as £32m. Can Charlton really afford to go up if that is the competitive amount to fund a campaign.

As a side issue I wonder whether TS wants us in league one as cheapskate owners (who are only prospective owners) can't afford the 2 years funding requirement from EFL finance test in the Championship. .

https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/23521218.ipswich-town-steven-schumacher-plymouths-championship-budget/

Charlton can’t afford to stay down. 

I would imagine that average Championship wage bill is highly skewed by the teams that have recently come down from the Prem and/or have parachute payments.

JustFloydRoad

4th Highest Wages in League One Apprentley 




From a Northampton paper (still probably bitter we battered them 5-0)

letthegoodtimesroll

The Prince-e-Paul said:

Interesting artical from Plymouth boss perspective. Has Plymouth down as having a £6m wage bills, Ipswich £16.5m and the average in championship as £32m. Can Charlton really afford to go up if that is the competitive amount to fund a campaign.

As a side issue I wonder whether TS wants us in league one as cheapskate owners (who are only prospective owners) can't afford the 2 years funding requirement from EFL finance test in the Championship. .

https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/23521218.ipswich-town-steven-schumacher-plymouths-championship-budget/

Plymouth will have got at least £6m tv money from being in the Championship, so that’s their wage bill sorted without any other revenue 

SantaClaus

We're still 5th.

Stig

Can't afford to stay down, can't afford to go up. The wages in football are ludicrous, and it's all driven by the ridiculous league structure which was instilled for the benefit of the few. It's nigh on impossible to have any sustained success on a budget that wouldn't make your average multi-millionaire squirm. 

WelshAddick

FFP doesn’t work. It keeps the elite elite. It was better when smaller teams like Leeds and Blackburn won the title. 

Garrymanilow

WelshAddick said:

FFP doesn’t work. It keeps the elite elite. It was better when smaller teams like Leeds and Blackburn won the title. 

FFP works exactly as designed, which is to ensure that there aren't any more upstart teams like Chelsea and City coming in and upsetting the status quo. Instead of protecting clubs from overspending Everton were pushed right to the brink by FFP, Leicester have shown how a bad window or two can shred you completely and Forest are piloting the idea that you just have to sign decent enough players that the points they win you are sufficiently more than the points deduction so you can benefit from the spend down the line/get the signings wrong and be shunted into oblivion. Liverpool and Man Utd like it though.