Riley McGree [Mail / Sun]

Indeedio

"English Championship wages are categorically not treble Celtic's wages bill. Riley was not contemplating signing for Hibs, Aberdeen or St Mirren, he was approached by Celtic."

Fulhams wages are the equivalent of Celtic is relative terms in their respective divisions.

Celtic appear to be offering £10k/week according to the Daily Record
Do Fulham pay in approximate terms at least £30k/week?

I would be shocked if its less than £30k/week - say £37.5m for a 25 man squad. (their total staff costs in 2019/20 were around £72m in the Championship too).

As said I was surprised Celtic only offering £10k/week.

We will be trimming our squad in this window and certainly have trimmed our squad since June 2020 (last accounts)
Friend
Clayton
Ayala
Gestede
Morrison
Shotton
Assombalonga
Fletcher
Johnson
Pears
Steponvic
Saville

Those above are just the permanent ones I can think of.
 
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Redwurzel said:
Indeedio

"English Championship wages are categorically not treble Celtic's wages bill. Riley was not contemplating signing for Hibs, Aberdeen or St Mirren, he was approached by Celtic."

Fulhams wages are the equivalent of Celtic is relative terms in their respective divisions.

Celtic appear to be offering £10k/week according to the Daily Record
Do Fulham pay in approximate terms at least £30k/week?

I would be shocked if its less than £30k/week - say £37.5m for a 25 man squad. (their total staff costs in 2019/20 were around £72m in the Championship too).

As said I was surprised Celtic only offering £10k/week.

We will be trimming our squad in this window and certainly have trimmed our squad since June 2020 (last accounts)
Friend
Clayton
Ayala
Gestede
Morrison
Shotton
Assombalonga
Fletcher
Johnson
Pears
Steponvic
Saville

Those above are just the permanent ones I can think of.
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Fulham are nothing like us at the minute, they have Parachute Payments. in year to 2020 their wage bill was £73m on a turnover of £58m. They lost £49m pre tax in that year. They are another who haven't published for 2021 yet but turnover will have dropped faster than their wage bill, they will face a huge loss again.
So despite getting Parachute Payments, Fulham spent £20m more than Celtic on an obscene wage bill and lost £49m.
They spent £42m more than Boro did in that season on wages.
They have a mega wealthy owner who injected another £53m in equity in 2020. That doesn't help with FFP, he's only allowed £24m in a 3 year slug, but it does stop them going pop.
They lost £20m in the PL 2019 and £46m in their previous promotion season 2018.

What it exposes is that Championship clubs who go up are lost to Championship FFP rules as to how they got there.
Even if that were fine (which I don't think it should be), Fulham will be utterly goosed re FFP if they don't go up.
The club has lost £115m in the last three years of published accounts. Even if ALL the injected equity counted against their losses they would still be way over £39m loss. The FFP rules are a farce, or rather the application of them is.
And then the penalty for breaking them, as Derby have discovered is just 9 points delayed beyond the offending seasons.

Clubs outside the PL, even those without PP, simply can't afford huge wages and stay FFP compliant, especially without equity injection.

Red - we have cut our wage bill significantly, but on the current realistic Championship revenue of £18-£25m we can't pay higher overall wages than Celtic, if Celtic want to pay him. They clearly don't think he is good enough to give him what we are prepared to pay. They may think £10k per week is all he is worth within their wage structure. They may have made a huge mistake.

I say again only once in history has our wage bill been higher than Celtic's and theirs has been over £50m per season for the last five years at least, despite less than brilliant European seasons. So not only can they pay higher wages, they do. They have just chosen not to pay him.
He may have gone to us for the same money as they were offering. He may have gone to Celtic if they upped their offer, or matched ours. That would be his choice and we will never know whether he has come for football or financial reasons.
 
Billy69_uk said:
having a tattoo of yourself is a bold statement. Not the kind of thing an introvert does.
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WOW, that's even more conceited than Robbie Savage's Armani tattoo. What happens if he ever moves to Southampton and has a picture of himself playing for Brighton on his arm?? He really didn't think that through
 
BoroMart said:
WOW, that's even more conceited than Robbie Savage's Armani tattoo. What happens if he ever moves to Southampton and has a picture of himself playing for Brighton on his arm?? He really didn't think that through
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Surely not? Alan Partridge levels of weird if so...
 
indeedido said:
What it exposes is that Championship clubs who go up are lost to Championship FFP rules as to how they got there.
Even if that were fine (which I don't think it should be), Fulham will be utterly goosed re FFP if they don't go up.
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I absolutely agree that it isn't fine and any team returning should face points deductions and embargos
 
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