Man City - Spending

[Jammy89]

If Man City sign Guehi in January as being reported.

Pep Guardiola will have signed an entire starting 11 worth over ?500m since last January alone?

[Ragatino]

If Man City sign Guehi in January as being reported.

Pep Guardiola will have signed an entire starting 11 worth over ?500m since last January alone?

Yep that is correct. That is the gulf the club are competing with & the gap we need to close.

LiVARpool, the Filth, Arsenal et al have spent hundreds of millions more on players than NUFC yet still Howe's men are battling with them.

The negative keyboard warriors and bed wetters seriously need a reality check on the disadvantages NUFC are playing with. If it was combat sport NUFC would have one arm behind their back.

I'm completely fine with success bringing benefits. That's competition at it's essence. However, to complain and demand our manager sacked when we're 3 points off the filth in 5th & 4pts of the Dippers in 4th is ridiculous.

Each are entitled to their opinion but what do they think other managers are gonna do? The inability to offer matching 300k a week salaries to players go else where.

[Jammy89]

The wages those players are on as well will be sumit else.

We say an average of ?200K a week. That is ?2.2 million a week or ?114.4 million a season.

We can't compete with that at the minute.

[Ragatino]

The wages those players are on as well will be sumit else.

We say an average of ?200K a week. That is ?2.2 million a week or ?114.4 million a season.

We can't compete with that at the minute.

Guehi will be on 250-300k. Donnarumma about the same,

But yeah 200k up, where as NUFC's top earner Bruno is on 160-180k a week

[Jammy89]

Don't get me wrong - I think on average 200K a week for each player is one the well low side. I suspect it'll be more like 250K but thought better to err on side of caution.

[Ragatino]

Don't get me wrong - I think on average 200K a week for each player is one the well low side. I suspect it'll be more like 250K but thought better to err on side of caution.

Yeah man, for the younger lads they'll probably be on closer to the NUFC squad but the likes of Reijnders, Ait-Nouri, Semenyo, Cherki etc will be on 200+ for sure!

As you said, based on the 4 above, over a month even 50k / man / week = 800k a month x 12 = approx 10m a year.

NUFC just don't have that sort of revenue right now.

[toptoon]

Its the salaries, not the transfer fees that blow us out the water. If the PL were really interested in clubs not buying success and protecting clubs from their owners (as well as trying to reintroduce some sporting integrity), then a type of salary cap is an extremely obvious solution.

[toonviking]

Howe and Emery is fighting with one arm on their back.

Slot, Guardiola, Arteta have both hands free. The same goes for whoever is manager at Chelsea, Man U and Tottenham.

[Ragatino]

Howe and Emery is fighting with one arm on their back.

Slot, Guardiola, Arteta have both hands free. The same goes for whoever is manager at Chelsea, Man U and Tottenham.

Indeed, all the cartel spend like drunken sailors on shore leave, citing their commercial revenue as the reason for their financial sustainability yet all carrying insane levels of debt.

Unfathomable how a club like the filth can be 'sustainable' with over ?1.1Billion worth of debts, being subject to fluctuations in the stock market and interest rates. A massive financial down turn will hammer them. Can't happen soon enough.

The only way to understand it is to view it as a form of controlling restrictions on competition not as any sort of safe guard against recklessness.

The red cartel Arsenal, the Filth & Bin Dippers pressured the Prem into the City lawsuit which they will lose embarrassingly. City have worked within the rules, sure they've bent the rules, the Cartel have done the exact same thing for decades before the City money came into the game.