Quote="tad rhino"And certain players are on £15k a week. This comes from a first team player. Becchio, snodgrass and mccormack are three. Also, and i don't know which idiot agreed it, but paynter and brown are also on this. Leeds wage bill is £11m a year. More than enough at this level'"
Oh how easily Bates manipulates Leeds fans...
The quote in the Leeds programme was:
Quote="Bad Santa"Where’s all the money gone?’ is the latest chant from the vociferous few. Well, I’ll tell them. Simon Grayson’s player budget was £9.5m for the year. As I write, we have so far committed £11.722m, over budget by nearly 23 per cent.
It is bad business practice but a demonstration of how far we have backed the manager and continue to do so.'"
Now there's too important weasel words here:
"player budget" that does not equal wage bill a more normal interpretation would be that it means wages and fees (whether for loans or signings).
"committed" means its a projection for the whole season but we already know that they're trying to get rid of some players. (Also it seems likely this projection doesn't include Howson's sale as it wasn't completed at the time that was written)
Also 11m is not "more than enough" at championship level - in 2009/2010 (the last year for which championship clubs accounts are publicly) 18 out of 24 Championship clubs had wage bills ([unot[/u "player budgets"icon_wink.gif of over 12m. In the same year Leeds' wage bill in League One was 14m! [url=http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2011/11/derby-countys-american-dream.html[uLinky[/u[/url'"
Quote="tad rhino"And certain players are on £15k a week. This comes from a first team player. Becchio, snodgrass and mccormack are three. Also, and i don't know which idiot agreed it, but paynter and brown are also on this. Leeds wage bill is £11m a year. More than enough at this level'"
Oh how easily Bates manipulates Leeds fans...
The quote in the Leeds programme was:
Quote="Bad Santa"Where’s all the money gone?’ is the latest chant from the vociferous few. Well, I’ll tell them. Simon Grayson’s player budget was £9.5m for the year. As I write, we have so far committed £11.722m, over budget by nearly 23 per cent.
It is bad business practice but a demonstration of how far we have backed the manager and continue to do so.'"
Now there's too important weasel words here:
"player budget" that does not equal wage bill a more normal interpretation would be that it means wages and fees (whether for loans or signings).
"committed" means its a projection for the whole season but we already know that they're trying to get rid of some players. (Also it seems likely this projection doesn't include Howson's sale as it wasn't completed at the time that was written)
Also 11m is not "more than enough" at championship level - in 2009/2010 (the last year for which championship clubs accounts are publicly) 18 out of 24 Championship clubs had wage bills ([unot[/u "player budgets"icon_wink.gif of over 12m. In the same year Leeds' wage bill in League One was 14m! [url=http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2011/11/derby-countys-american-dream.html[uLinky[/u[/url'"
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