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5000k a week?

Cristiano Ronaldo, eat your heart out.

Clough Out brigade OUT!

Ramdini
You must be the most biased, black and white tinted glasses poster 606 has ever known

All your money went paying Tyson £16k a week!

McMoans:

When we owe our ex-chairman 65 million quid, we'll come to you Florists for advice. Until then, haven't you got guns to clean?

OOE

Great to see someone extrapolating from known facts to draw reasoned conclusions instead of just asserting that their opinion is a 'FACT'.

I think you've been over-generous on the average value of a season ticket though. I'd guess you were about right if every season ticket holder was an adult, but the concessions for juniors / juveniles / full-time students etc are quite generous. My own estimation is the average will be in the range £250-£275.


I also think you're well below par on the Derby squad's wages.

I thought it may be interesting to work the logic from the other end...

If there are 201 heads on the payroll, and 24 of them are footballers, that means 177 are ordinary employees.

I think the average full-time UK wage is something like £23k. Yes NC and JM may be on considerably more, but counterbalancing that I'd guess there are plenty of back office types on less - so I'm going to go for £25k as a reasonably round number. That would say the payroll for the non-footballers is £4,425k.

That leaves the rest of the £16.1m - £11.675m as player wages. That figure seems about right to me, as I recall a statement from the club about 18-24 months ago that they still had a bit further to go to get the player-wages budget down to £10m.

I guess Sav was still on the payroll at the time the £16.1m was published, so if you mentally adjusted for him, Bywater, Pearson and Leacock - who I assume would be the 4 biggest earners because they were with us in the Prem, and allowed for their replacement on somewhat more modest terms, and I reckon we'd get to the £10m figure.

Looking at your own figures OOE, you allowed for 24 players at an average £300k. That would be £7.2m. That's be leaving £8.9m for the 177 non players. That implies the average non-playing DFCF employee was on more than £50k a year. That seems too high to me.

Great to see someone extrapolating from known facts to draw reasoned conclusions instead of just asserting that their opinion is a 'FACT'.

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Hang on a minute, OOE had a go at me for doing just that

Bush, you just pulled your figures out of your colon, like you normally do. I read four separate reports and went through Derby County's most recent published accounts, so don't you ever have the audacity to suggest that I did the same as you.

Notice that I haven't said that your figures were wrong - sometimes, people can get lucky.

I'd like to put this to the test.

Can you get your colon to fart six numbers between 1 and 49? I'll put the quid on, and if we win the jackpot, I'll buy you your own weight in underpants (to compensate you for any 'accidents'. The next million I'll pay to Greeny for a 4 year contract to write a couple of paragraphs in the OOE reports, just like we paid Dave Mackay to supplement his wages.

That ought to do it.

So we are about right on salaries. No room for improvement without investment. Let's hope Nigel can keep finding the gems and the academy keeps producing good enough players because most of our team our young up and coming players who will want higher salaries year on year.

Re Green, I hope Glick doesn't tout him around on the cheap on the last day of the season. He is a good player and one we need if we are going to make a challenge for the playoffs. He will work extra hard in the last few months to impress potential new clubs. To lose him would show a lack of ambition.

Let's hope Nigel can keep finding the gems and the academy keeps producing good enough players

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That's what the majority of non-Premier League clubs should be doing, it's time football re-discovered it's soul