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Carabao, League cup sponsors?
Are you genuinely asking if the Thai Company “Carabao” is the Chinese group rumoured to be taking over?
Being taken over by Chinese businessmen apparently. Oh the irony!You never answered my questions above Bigroy. I assume you avoided the questions because you had no answer to them?
New Far East ownership. Due diligence and Deal agreed according to Nixon.
I personally hope this isn’t true. It will spell a period of uncertainty just when we are settled on and off the pitch.
I assume people are getting worked up over the slightly misquoted headline of “Wigan didn’t earn their win”.
Alexander didn’t say that.
“We’ve been defensively strong as a team so far this season, but over the past two games we’ve given some really poor goals away. They’re not ones I believe the opposition particularly earned through good play”
He wasn’t talking about Wigan specifically. Neither was he talking about our overall play. He just thinks they could have defended better against the goals they’ve conceded.
I’ve yet to see the goals so I don’t know if he as a point or not.
I do love how people get worked up over nothing
Graham Alexander – moaning Knob End scum !
I hate everything about them moaning Tom Finney kiss my arse barstewards !Have I missed something? What’s he done?
I agree to an extent. I’m not saying my figures are spot on, but I’m sure we can all agree that we will have to make significant changes if our long term future is League 1/Lower Championship.
You mention money from the sale of Burn, Morsy and Grigg. Another example of premier league money being invested and potentially offsetting any future loses. It wont last.
You can’t have a business model that relies on having a player to sell for millions every year.
Our long term future will be relying on a wage budget less that half of what we currently enjoy.
Unless, of course, you have an academy that produces these players on a fairly regular basis like Mddlesbrough and Crewe have done in the past.
We’re starting to show signs of producing decent players from the academy, so fingers crossed, we get promoted this year and can keep that up.[/quote]
We may have decent young players in the academy but how many are close to making a significant break through?
We have an advantage over the majority of League 1 at this moment in time. The advantage will disappear (or significantly reduce) next season.[/quote]There are a few who are out on loan at present who could potentially be first teamers or sold for a profit next season.
No seven million pound players yet, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction from when Bruce pretty much closed down the academy and took all emphasis away from youth development in order to channel the funds into sustaining a high first team wage bill.[/quote]
Bruce channelled funds away from youth development? That’s a big claim.
How much do you think the club was spending on youth development at the time?
How much of the £40million+ a year wage bill was thanks to channelling money away from youth development?
Don’t believe everything you read in papers!Or on a fans messageboard. I don’t believe that you have personal salary information of our players.
Why was our wage bill well over 10million the last time we were in league one and not this time? How do you account for This 60% fall in wages you are now claiming to below 5million?
I’m getting a strong wiff around here.
If the below article is to be believed, Nick Powell was offered £16,000 p/w to sign for Wolves before he joined us.
Bigroy? We need your input. Where did you get the 8k figure from?
Wage bill won’t be ten million. Top earner at club is Nick Powell on 8K per week. Rest nowhere near that.Is this fact? Or are you just assuming? (I think I already know the answer)
The last time we were in League One, the wage bill stood at 11.9million. That is a published fact. What makes you think that our current wage bill is significantly lower than £10million? We have a lot of the same players we did the last time we played in this League (Grigg, Jacobs, Power, Morgan, Perkins, James, etc) plus some expensive additions (Powell, Morsy, McDonald)
How do you know Nick Powell is the highest earner and how do you know he is on 8k a week?
Why would the club put a complicated ticket priority system in place for something that is only an issue once or twice a season?
I don’t buy into this “I go to most aways but I don’t have a season ticket”.
I agree to an extent. I’m not saying my figures are spot on, but I’m sure we can all agree that we will have to make significant changes if our long term future is League 1/Lower Championship.
You mention money from the sale of Burn, Morsy and Grigg. Another example of premier league money being invested and potentially offsetting any future loses. It wont last.
You can’t have a business model that relies on having a player to sell for millions every year.
Our long term future will be relying on a wage budget less that half of what we currently enjoy.
Unless, of course, you have an academy that produces these players on a fairly regular basis like Mddlesbrough and Crewe have done in the past.
We’re starting to show signs of producing decent players from the academy, so fingers crossed, we get promoted this year and can keep that up.[/quote]
We may have decent young players in the academy but how many are close to making a significant break through?
We have an advantage over the majority of League 1 at this moment in time. The advantage will disappear (or significantly reduce) next season.
I thought it was £9 million in parachute payments that season. Don’t forget that grant holt was also paid off in that season. I doubt anyone in the current squad is on even 25% of what he was getting paid!12mil according to Jackson in this statement.
https://www.wiganathletic.com/news/2016/december/club-statement-on-financial-accounts/
I agree to an extent. I’m not saying my figures are spot on, but I’m sure we can all agree that we will have to make significant changes if our long term future is League 1/Lower Championship.
You mention money from the sale of Burn, Morsy and Grigg. Another example of premier league money being invested and potentially offsetting any future loses. It wont last.
You can’t have a business model that relies on having a player to sell for millions every year.
Our long term future will be relying on a wage budget less that half of what we currently enjoy.