500 transfer rumours that might need a taxi ordering...

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Originally Posted by sinkov

Absolute bollox that site, the total above doesn't even come to £20m, Stoke's wage bill was around £76m. I know they've a few more players than on that list but are the others sharing £56m between them ? Are they feck.

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So you think these figures should be quadrupled? I doubt that too. Looking elsewhere Arnautovic and Shaqiri said to be top earners on £65k in 2016
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/foo...yer-earns-week

Global Sports Salary Survey (GSSS) shows that the average Potters player now earns £1.89million per year, at an average of £36,536 per week. This is the 12th highest average in the Premier League, and 127th biggest globally.

Ten Premier League teams now have players earning an average of more than £2million per year, with the two Manchester clubs' players taking home more than £5million each year. Newly promoted Burnley are the only team whose average player earnings are below the £1million mark, coming in at £954,417 per year

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/revea...XSEEIH1SL0b.99

Reports coming into the earpiece that Boro have "Blown us out of the water" with a straight cash offer of £14 million and wages of £60k a week for Assombalonga.

2 questions:
1). Is Assombalonga worth that?
2). WTF is a Championship side getting that sort of dosh from?

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Originally Posted by oldcolner

So you think these figures should be quadrupled? I doubt that too. Looking elsewhere Arnautovic and Shaqiri said to be top earners on £65k in 2016
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/foo...yer-earns-week

Global Sports Salary Survey (GSSS) shows that the average Potters player now earns £1.89million per year, at an average of £36,536 per week. This is the 12th highest average in the Premier League, and 127th biggest globally.

Ten Premier League teams now have players earning an average of more than £2million per year, with the two Manchester clubs' players taking home more than £5million each year. Newly promoted Burnley are the only team whose average player earnings are below the £1million mark, coming in at £954,417 per year

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/revea...XSEEIH1SL0b.99

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No, the numbers don't need to be quadrupled OC because that list isn't complete, there are a lot of players missing. You say Arnautovic and Shaquiri were on £65k in 2016, that list puts them on £36k this season, clearly miles out. The table of average wages shows Stoke paying their players twice as much as us, which I believe is roughly correct. It's in our accounts that we paid £29.3m in wages two years ago in the PL, I've seen it reported that this season we paid somewhere between £35m and £40m, two years on and after the massive increase in TV money that seems about right, and also ties in with Stoke paying double as their reported figure this season is £76m. And yet that list doesn't even get to £20m, it's clearly a nonsense.

Lee Grant on £5k, I would think he was on more than that four years ago with us. Glenn Johnson, ex Liverpool, England International on £18k, he wouldn't get out of bed in a morning for that. Honestly OC, those figures are so far out I thought you were posting them for a bit of a laugh, I didn't think you were taking them seriously.

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Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier

Reports coming into the earpiece that Boro have "Blown us out of the water" with a straight cash offer of £14 million and wages of £60k a week for Assombalonga.

2 questions:
1). Is Assombalonga worth that?
2). WTF is a Championship side getting that sort of dosh from?

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Boro received the increased PL TV money last season, almost as much as us despite relegation, plus they'll be getting the new parachute payments, plus they have a wealthy owner. Boro are not strapped for cash.
But let's just move on, their are plenty more fish in the sea.

Should I cancel the taxi and bring out the...

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Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier

Reports coming into the earpiece that Boro have "Blown us out of the water" with a straight cash offer of £14 million and wages of £60k a week for Assombalonga.

2 questions:
1). Is Assombalonga worth that?
2). WTF is a Championship side getting that sort of dosh from?

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That can't be right BT. The Forest fan told us that they'd already rejected £15m from Boro and they wouldn't consider anything less than £20m.

And you told us that he was coming here and wages are categorically not a problem, but I won't mention that.

Wages are not a problem but £60k a week for Assombalonga is stretching the imagination a bit too far for me.

Got to be a point where we tell the player and his agent to take up our free ticket on "Do One Airlines" and leave...

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If we don't get a player we want because we can't meet his wage demands then, by definition, wages are the problem.

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Originally Posted by Primitive

If we don't get a player we want because we can't meet his wage demands then, by definition, wages are the problem.

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Big difference between can't or won't Primitive!

OK, I'll rephrase.

If we don't get a player we want because we won't meet his wage demands then, by definition, wages are the problem.