Britts Wages......

Jonny Ingbar said:
His contract earned him on average about £50k p/w I was told.
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This also stacks up much better against Warnock's quote of five players.
Take a look at the wage bill we had and it is impossible to go so high if the massive earners like Assombolonga were on "just" £35k per week, or under £2m per season.
I believe Jonny to be a little under it if anything.
 
indeedido said:
This also stacks up much better against Warnock's quote of five players.
Take a look at the wage bill we had and it is impossible to go so high if the massive earners like Assombolonga were on "just" £35k per week, or under £2m per season.
I believe Jonny to be a little under it if anything.
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Given who told I think that sum is fairly accurate, which is an eye watering deal really, absolute madness.

Is he the worst boro signing ever, pound for pound?
 
Let's have it right not one of us knows the details of his contract all this is just guess work so don't get yourselves wound up over something out of our control.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
Also cost us bamford.
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Pulis cost us Bamford. It's a myth that we were forced to sell Bamford due to finances, as shortly after he went and brought in Hugill as a replacement.

Signing Britt did however mean we struggled to get the best out of Bamford and Braithwaire under Monk, as they were both played out of position to accommodate Britt.
 
Well he wanted money to reshape the team didn't he, and a forward suited to the way we going to play. The key thing was when going down we had the spine of a promotion side. We had a player who had scored 19 goals previously and won championship player of the year. And yet monk bought 3 centre forwards. To add to the two we had. For one position.


Because of this one had to leave. We couldn't get rid of braithwaite and assombalonga because we were massively over paying wages compared to ability. Fletcher isn't going to raise any cash. And gestede is gestede. So bamford went.

I personally think that had they picked a random person off this forum, put them in charge of transfer strategy and given them a team of experienced coaches, we would have been promoted. Because it takes a special kind of idiocy not to recognise that your key players are bamford and traore. If most of us could recognise that why couldn't monk.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
Well he wanted money to reshape the team didn't he, and a forward suited to the way we going to play. The key thing was when going down we had the spine of a promotion side. We had a player who had scored 19 goals previously and won championship player of the year. And yet monk bought 3 centre forwards. To add to the two we had. For one position.


Because of this one had to leave. We couldn't get rid of braithwaite and assombalonga because we were massively over paying wages compared to ability. Fletcher isn't going to raise any cash. And gestede is gestede. So bamford went.

I personally think that had they picked a random person off this forum, put them in charge of transfer strategy and given them a team of experienced coaches, we would have been promoted. Because it takes a special kind of idiocy not to recognise that your key players are bamford and traore. If most of us could recognise that why couldn't monk.
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The only big money signing we needed to make really was a no 10 to replace Ramirez. I'd have been happy enough with us not signing Howson to be honest, and going with the old trusted combination of Leadbitter and Clayton in midfield.

We then could have had Bamford as our no 9, Traore and Downing out wide and then used the remaining money to bring in others to bulk up the squad.
 
I would argue Rudy was one of the worst pound for pound. Probably in excess of 10mil for 5-7 league goals in 4 years 😕

It was 'worse' as everyone knew he was sh*t when we signed him.
 
Taken from accounts from Companies House

Middlesbrough FC Year ending 30/6/20 (last published accounts)

Playing staff wages £24m
Playing staff 74 (this will first team, young teams, managerial, coaching and medical staff),

Average playing staff wage £324,324
Average wage per week £6,237

I estimate 49 staff non first team players with total pay of £5m. (this included Woody)

First team squad (players only) was 25 players on around £19m = £14,615/week per player (25 players listed below)

Randolph (left part way through, but I have not included Braithwaite who was around till end of July 2019 and Flint mid July)
Meijas
Pears
Johnson
Bola
Djkesteel
Fry
McNair
Friend
Ayala
Shotton
Coulson
Spence
Johnson
Howson
Wing
Clayton
Saville
Tavernier
Roberts (half season but Stojanovic came half way and not included)
Brown
Gestede
Assombalonga
Fletcher
Nmecha (half season)

Not much leeway for £50,000/week players in that total and list, to get that average.
 
Boro1876 said:
Let's have it right not one of us knows the details of his contract all this is just guess work so don't get yourselves wound up over something out of our control.
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I don't pretend to be someone who is 'in the know', but in this particular case the figure quoted is accurate, sadly.
 
Redwurzel said:
Taken from accounts from Companies House

Middlesbrough FC Year ending 30/6/20 (last published accounts)

Playing staff wages £24m
Playing staff 74 (this will first team, young teams, managerial, coaching and medical staff),

Average playing staff wage £324,324
Average wage per week £6,237

I estimate 49 staff non first team players with total pay of £5m. (this included Woody)

First team squad (players only) was 25 players on around £19m = £14,615/week per player (25 players listed below)

Randolph (left part way through, but I have not included Braithwaite who was around till end of July 2019 and Flint mid July)
Meijas
Pears
Johnson
Bola
Djkesteel
Fry
McNair
Friend
Ayala
Shotton
Coulson
Spence
Johnson
Howson
Wing
Clayton
Saville
Tavernier
Roberts (half season but Stojanovic came half way and not included)
Brown
Gestede
Assombalonga
Fletcher
Nmecha (half season)

Not much leeway for £50,000/week players in that total and list, to get that average.
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True , but who is talking about lots of players? only Assombolonga.
Not sure why you seem so sure of talking his obscene wages down?
Meijas, Pears, Coulson, Spence, Wing, Tavernier, Bola, Dijksteel, Brown and Johnson will have been on a lot less than your average.
(The Playing Staff wages are not actually identified in the Published Accounts to June 2020. Total wages and salaries (ex taxes) were £27.4m covering the 74 playing staff and 140 others and excludes the Furlough credit for non playing staff)
 
I remember the forum when Brit was signed, most people on this forum was very excited with him coming here.

Not you of course.

Hindsight eh?
 
What would you actually do with £40k per week?
I know what contract a player is given is only partly to blame, as the club made the final offer, but if you see a club struggling financially and you’re sat there banking that kind of cash. You must feel guilty, surely.
 
changingman said:
In hindsight, are Braithwaite's wages that surprising when we look at where his career has gone since Boro? He may not have fulfilled his potential at Boro but the lad plays for one of the best clubs in the world and has just gone to the semis of the Euros with Denmark.
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He signed for a very small team at the bottom of La Liga.

He only left Leganes near the end of the season because of a ludicrous rule in La Liga which allows clubs to sign players outside of a transfer windows if there is a long term injury, with La Liga also making release clauses mandatory in every contract, and Barcelona were and are in financial dire straits which heavily limited their options.
His release clause was "only" £15m, which shows how valued he was.
 
TheLodger said:
I remember the forum when Brit was signed, most people on this forum was very excited with him coming here.

Not you of course.

Hindsight eh?
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I wasn’t excited, too many forest fans were saying the team always played worse when he was in it.
 
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