Wilson was on £1600/w? (7 Viewers)

shmmeee said:

Just a back of the fag packet calculation, but I was wondering what wages should be if ticket prices were reasonable (say £10 adults £5 concessions) and supported the entire year wage budget.

Take an average gate of 10k to make the maths easy and an average ticket cost of £4 to be conservative. That £40k x 23 games = £920k a year. Divide that by say 20 players and you're looking at an average of £46k a year (just under £900/week) and that's on a fairly large attendance for this league. Most teams would be close to half that.

Then TV and sponsorship money goes to paying the rest of the clubs costs.

Shows how far off we are from sustainable as a game.

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SkyBlueSid said:

I just find it so depressing that a twopenny-ha'penny little club like Bournemouth can attract our best players and pay them more than we ever could.

How times have changed, and how far we have fallen.

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skybluefred said:

How many fans who are complaining about high wages & admission costs have SKY T/V. Sky get their money from the gullible people
who buy their T/v programme, they in turn pay ludicrous sums of money to the premiership clubs with just a mere pittance reaching
our level. This allows mediocre players like Rooney to be paid some £12m a year.It's the reason that the small clubs like Burnley Norwich
hull and many others end up in a financial mess through chasing a dream. CCFC Portsmouth, Luton and Brighton to name but a few
have all ended up in the financial mire. It's high time Football's governing bodies bought an end to this financial disaster and split Sky's
money evenly throughout the leagues.

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fernandopartridge said:

With 10k gates we're no better. Not that anybody will bother to admit it.

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