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Looking at details relating to our players.
Salaries range from £97,000 per week down to £20,000 per week. That covers 38 players with a weekly base total of £1,068,000 an average of £29,666 per week. That is worth about £1.5m per year.
In addition there are bonuses earned by each player, all differ but the total bonuses being £13,800,000 which equates to approx £380,000 per player - unclear how bonuses are earned or lost.
All that amounts to approximately £158m per annum. Over the 38 players that gives an average of £4.16million per player. I am sure we would all agree those players in the main are handsomely paid for playing for our club especially when the club in playing so badly.
Now similar figures cannot be extracted for Mansfield. The team that embarrassed us Mansfield. I would first congratulate Mansfield because one thing I would say they never gave up and deserved their win. However, the total gross salaries of Mansfield amount to £5,404,000 covering 27 players approx £200,000 per player per year, compared to our figure of approx £4.16 million per player.
Forgetting the Premier comparisons I cannot accept we are getting any VFM when we compare our £4.15 m per player per year compared with Mansfield's £200k per player per year.
The differences are mind blowing.
What this tells me ist hat Alan Pace has no idea what constitutes good value for money for the players he has bought and employed. If I was investing the kind of money he claims he is I would be going ballistic with the Players and Manager and maybe others involved in recruitment.
Finally I am beginning to think that I do not want to be part of a club where consequences are not meted out to those who clearly are not pulling their weight on or around the pitch.
Some might point at details but the fact remains but no matter how you slice and dice the figures the vfm is mainly lost because of attitude and aptitude of the players. They need a rocket.
Salaries range from £97,000 per week down to £20,000 per week. That covers 38 players with a weekly base total of £1,068,000 an average of £29,666 per week. That is worth about £1.5m per year.
In addition there are bonuses earned by each player, all differ but the total bonuses being £13,800,000 which equates to approx £380,000 per player - unclear how bonuses are earned or lost.
All that amounts to approximately £158m per annum. Over the 38 players that gives an average of £4.16million per player. I am sure we would all agree those players in the main are handsomely paid for playing for our club especially when the club in playing so badly.
Now similar figures cannot be extracted for Mansfield. The team that embarrassed us Mansfield. I would first congratulate Mansfield because one thing I would say they never gave up and deserved their win. However, the total gross salaries of Mansfield amount to £5,404,000 covering 27 players approx £200,000 per player per year, compared to our figure of approx £4.16 million per player.
Forgetting the Premier comparisons I cannot accept we are getting any VFM when we compare our £4.15 m per player per year compared with Mansfield's £200k per player per year.
The differences are mind blowing.
What this tells me ist hat Alan Pace has no idea what constitutes good value for money for the players he has bought and employed. If I was investing the kind of money he claims he is I would be going ballistic with the Players and Manager and maybe others involved in recruitment.
Finally I am beginning to think that I do not want to be part of a club where consequences are not meted out to those who clearly are not pulling their weight on or around the pitch.
Some might point at details but the fact remains but no matter how you slice and dice the figures the vfm is mainly lost because of attitude and aptitude of the players. They need a rocket.
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