For clarity: Aden Flint, George Saville, Paddy McNair, Jack Harrison, Mo Besic, Andy Lonergan, Jordan Hugill, Sam McQueen, Danny Batth, John Obi Mikel, Rajiv Van La Parra, Martin Cranie.
Of which 2 players costing £13m are still the in the team and regular starters. He brought in 13 players.
League finishes: 5th and 7th
On the wage bill it was half of the the 16/17 bill.
It was miracle work. Let’s not let facts get in the way of opinion though eh. Let’s play from the back and lose games 4-3 instead
#Woodgate
Amusing.
1. Let's look at the facts.
PL season to June 2017: Turnover £121.4m (Broadcasting £100.6m); Wages £57.1m; Amort £24.4m
Monk/pulis to June 2018: Turnover £62.0m (Broadcasting £46.3m); Wages £43.2m; Amort £24.5m
Pulis to June 2019: Turnover £55.6m (Broadcasting £40.6m); Wages £35.6m; Amort £25.8m.
So the wage bill was NOT half it had been in the Premier League season, it was 62% of the PL wage bill on 46% of the PL revenue.
Karanaka took the club up on a wage bill of £28.6m, not a dismal 7th with £35.6m and having seen £70m spent on recruitments reflected in the amortisation charge.
Wages went from 47% of turnover in the PL and Amortisation from 20% (both too low for a promoted club to stay up) up to 64% of turnover and 46% for amortisation under Pulis horror season.
pulis had massive resources and he simply wasted them.
There are no published figures yet for year June 2020 - Woodgate/Warnock. There are no facts, just reports.
We know revenue will have collapsed as the Parachute Payments ended. It is reported that the wage bill dropped to c£25m may be less last season and would have to fall again this season too.
2. Let's focus then on opinions.
It is fair to say that Woodgate and Warnock have had a fraction of the budget ( wages and amortisation) to operate with versus pulis and Monk.
I am no apologist for Woodgate, as I think he did badly despite the constraints and should never have been appointed.
The man who did perform miracles is Neil Warnock, operating without players like Bamford and Traore and on a fraction of the budget he kept us up and is highly likely to get us higher than the fraud pulis did in his first full season.
Come back Atypical is what I say.
Nobody is going to save time and see things the way of this new poster DidsburySmog92.