Dyche plays the underdog card...

[army88]

The thing that gets me Sinkov is the wage structure etc etc , there are ways and means to sort it so if they come they are on 35 k like the other top earners but they get a lump at the beginning when they sign, seems to me that’s what others do and just get the job done.
I don’t know the issues with Ben Mee but after watching last night we need to be getting him on an improved contract if that’s what he wants - solid performer and I think Tarky needs him to produce performances his self.
Same scenario contract at X payment initially evens out over 2/3 years etc to somewhere near what they want.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

If Mee leaves how much do the Burnley "recruitment team" need to spend to replace him? Ball park £30 million? Makes no sense whatsoever not to pay the lad what he is worth, does it? He cost us half a million quid, like you say sinkov, FFS, just do it.

[oldcolner]

The problem is what he wants is often more than what he is worth BT and that is what all the shenanigans seem to be about. Do agents get a cut of wages as well as fee I wonder? They must put numbers in the players head.

[sinkov]

Sinkov that’s helpful and we’ve debated this before. I thought it interesting Sean said players wages were not £61m as some think but £37m. It doesn’t explain the difference though.

Wages/salaries accounted for £55m of the £61m staff cost. We employed 188 people of whom around 160 weren't players, so they must account for £18m of the wage bill. To sum it up,

Player wages £37m.
Other staff wages £18m.
Social Security costs £6m.
Total staff costs £61m.

Sean saying player wages are £37m is interesting OC. I've never known a way before to tell how much of the staff costs, which are always quoted in the annual report, are player wages. There is a guide now, on Sean's figures player wages take up around 60% of staff costs. I don't see why that would change much in the future.