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I can very much believe it. It's not like we have players queuing up to find the exit door. We seem to be competitive in the transfer market with other teams at about our level who we know are also high payers.
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[Football] We are no better than last season at this point FACT
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I can very much believe it. It's not like we have players queuing up to find the exit door. We seem to be competitive in the transfer market with other teams at about our level who we know are also high payers.
Weststander
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I agree.
What I really should’ve asked is whether the £47k is an average for the entire 25 man squad, so includes Button, Alzate, Connolly and Steele?
It's an estimate for regular first team starters, wouldn't include the likes of Button etc.
What we do know is the club have been very shrewd with its #Together ethos.
The highest and lowest earners are considerably closer to the average than those at many other clubs.
We don't have to look to far in order to see £130k a week players along side £30k a week team mates.
That can't be good!
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
This chart says it is £47k ( basic ) per game :
https://twitter.com/sportingintel/status/1210338410835124229?s=19
Aah, the man with the finger on the financial pulse!
This thread seems to have become a little derailed by arguments about averages. The point made by Jolly Red Giant was that WHU were paying more to Hernandez than we were paying to our top 5 earners. If the average is £2.5m (or thereabouts) per annum then JRG is incorrect. Our higher earners will of course be getting more than £2.5m a year.
This may all seem a little petty but in this world of fake news, deceptions need to be highlighted, including fake stats..
Jolly Red Giant
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I linked to this months ago - stated that the highest paid player at Brighton was Jahanbaksh on £50k a week and it went down from there. We have no idea how accurate these figures are - and yes - Hernandez was the highest paid player at WHU - I was making the point that WHU - not one of the big 6 - was paying one player £7.28million a year - even if it is only the average of 3 Brighton players it demonstrates the point.
Nobody knows what is in these contracts apart from the club and the player - all that is known is a broad sweep from the accounts published by the club - and even then there is a lot of stuff hidden behind the figures (like the amortisation of wages and transfer fees).
Jolly Red Giant
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A bit of personal bias coming out there Guinness Boy (despite the bit of stereotyping in the username)
(and by the way - I am not 'Irish-identifying' - I am Irish - well at least 7/8ths going back three generations).
Weststander
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Thanks.
Don’t know why, but that’s reassuring. If Steele and Button each earned £3m a year, for being not particularly good bench-warmers, football really would be mad.
Weststander
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We have the answer from El Pres - £47k for first team regular starters only.
The Sportingintelligence figures exclude any bonuses (appearance, avoid relegation, win, clean sheet etc). Mine include bonuses and are estimates as are all figures quoted.
For a historical perspective of how wages have changed at the club.
For a historical perspective of how wages have changed at the club.
So, basically you are now admitting to making it up. You don't know what the top 5 earners at the Albion earn so how can you compare them to what WHU allegedly paid Hernandez. By all means make comments that other clubs are allegedly paying drastically more than we pay our top players but stop making statements like you did as if they are facts!
Also, according to the oracle on financial matters, last season our average salary for first team regulars was £47k per week so I'm guessing there were a few above that and obviously a few below it.
Blimey - that's some recent jump, and makes you so aware of the pitfalls of relegation.
kevo
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But Bournemouth wasn't the last match of the season! Our four EPL games before that we'd won two and lost two, and the match prior to that game was the FA Cup semi-final, where we put in a very decent performance.
Wow - that's some boost relative to supporters incomes - 1980, about 5X as much as me per week, 2019 a massive 150X ............
Weststander
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£55k a week has been mentioned as the top during 2018/19. That may be Dunk, Propper, Duffy, Gross, Montoya, Jahanbakhsh?
Weststander
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When Codner was jailed in 1993, I recall him pleading with the magistrate/judge about a loss of income of £700 pw.
As a first teamer, does that fit in with your chart?
Separately, a bunch of highly regarded 19 years olds including Lynch and Gatting signed contracts in 2006, paying a minimum of £2,000 a week. Even then with Withdean finances, what a great start to their careers.
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He wanted to be employed. Of course he painted himself in the best possible light. It seems it didn’t work. Time you face reality.
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Pathetic. I’ll paraphrase for you: ‘I don’t agree with them so they are the worst posters’
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Arkwright
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Are the figures quoted just for playing staff? Would they include back room staff, Barber, ect?