In the summer all our new financial sponsors will be signed and the revenues streams will be much much wider.

Our spending will be greatly enhanced.

Whilst we will be enjoying greater revenue streams the other side of club finances is expenditure. What shocked me was the Wage/revenue ratio.

Due to fat slug milking the club and abandoning all commercial efforts other than to provide free advertising for this tat shops our off-field income has crashed compared to our peers prior to him purchasing the club 15 yrs ago. We've been surpassed 10 fold by the likes of Spurs who we previously generated more cash than. Ridiculous to call that man a 'Shrewd business man'. Fat Fraud is more accurate!

Anyway back to the program. Shedding deadwood and freeing up wage budget works out as follows: (please correct me if I'm wrong at any point)

Leaving the club/Contract ending:
These guy are absolutely gone maybe tomorrow (before the winter window closesif we are lucky) but definitely in the summer.

Matt Longstaff - £7,500
Ciaren Clark - £35,000
Paul Dummet - £35,000
Matt Ritchie - £45,000
Mark Gillespie - £11,538

Total - £134,038/week

Shelvey's contract is up in Summer but he's off to Forest in the winter window. Chris Wood will also be gone in the summer as his loan has an 'obligation to buy' so he's off the books too. Looks like Darlow will be moving to Hull and will sign for them full time in the summer too.

We will need to move on Hayden & Hendrick

Hayden should be easy as Norwich are in the playoffs and he's only on £22k a week
Hendrick some how is on £40k a week and not having the best of seasons.

JonJo Shelvey - £70,000
Jeff Hendrick - £40,385
Isaac Hayden - £22,000
Chris Wood - £80,000
Carl Darlow - £30,000

Total - £242,385/week

Contactual expiration Total - £376,423/week - £16,928,304/season

So in total we can be assured that 9 players will be off the books, only Hendrick has a question mark over his head from the players that are out on loan or out of contract.

Of those who are not out of contract:

Javier Maquillo - £35,000
Ryan Fraser - £41,800
Jamal Lewis - £38,462
Jamal Lacelles - £40,000

Total - £155,262/week

We could be moving on these guys too, however if we manage to get rid of Hendrick which I'm sure we will get him off the books + the 4 above that's a total of 15 players out in the summer of 2023. That's a lot more than a full team. A considerable amount of players to replace. However most are not actively involved in the squad and won't be missed.

This would be good house keeping and certainly clean up wage bill reducing it by a grand total of:

Grand total - £531,685/week

Half a million quid a week. With our current wage structure of £100,000-£120,000/player/week that affords us 4 or 5 top quality 22-25 yr old players we are targeting currently.

The bigger picture of all this work to remove these players is to prove we are a viable business to the regulators, being run sensibly.

Also it's the last rotting effigy of the previous regime. To remove these players from the club will signal the true beginning of the new year.

A healthy happy club with nothing but positive, determined ambitious people all pulling in the same direction.

Ain't it just wonderful to see!

Hope there was a point in there somewhere lads... haha maybe someone can find one