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Aye, I suspect that was his wage when he first signed for us but he’s signed an extension since then, so you would expect that to be considerably more.

That’s the one that seems the most unlikely. Although he was probably on a reasonable whack at Villa, so perhaps not entirely inconceivable

Obviously don’t take as gospel…

? No-one’s allowed to talk about the amount they spend. It’s only ever “big-spending Chelsea”, “big-spending Man City”, “big-spending Newcastle”.

Asensio to PSG

All sites that quote wages are guesswork to some extent, but I guess the wages any player is on are usually relevant to the position they were in when they signed the contract. Wilson had just been relegated with Bournemouth and was probably on a pretty low wage (by PL standards) there. Schar’s I agree seems low given it was an extension he signed here. Only other one that seems a bit out of whack is Targett on £100k. If that’s right his agent has done a top job for him.

Capology have got him as our 15th highest earner. And obviously he’d drop further if this new deal was at a lower rate.

It could be argued that getting a team like Southampton to 8th in the PL is an equal/better achievement than winning the SPL with Celtic or Rangers.

Yeah, forgot about him, he will.

Is your pub friends Northern Irish mate Brendan Rodgers?

Man City are always a bit tight around the homegrown quota. Unless I’m missing someone they have: Carson Walker Stones Phillips Lewis Grealish Foden Palmer *not sure whether some of them even count due to age So unless they have another kid ready to step up, they would have to be buying a homegrown replacement if any of the above were sold

Draw for the Preliminary round a week on Tuesday. Who will Buducnost Podgorica get??

Ridiculous that they’ve already got Nkunku and Malo Gusto to come in. Wage bill must be obscene.

Jack Colback being on ~£40k p/w is probably an example none of us want to remember…. *although (tin hat on) I actually thought he was decent in his first season (obviously fell off a cliff and down to the bottom of the sea after that).

If we’re going to smash our current wage structure, you’d really hope it was for someone better than Tielemans.

Bizarre

“We’ve got Dominic in the middle…”

Or screenshot it?

Yes, obviously how the Kane situation plays out will be hugely significant for them. If he does leave, they really have to do a good job reinvesting whatever fee they get for him, otherwise it could end up being a struggle, at least in the short-term.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. Spurs have been a shambles towards the back end of the season, but until the point Conte decided to tell everyone they were shit, they were bang in with a shout of Top 4. Obviously until they get the managerial situation sorted there’s a big question mark against them, but a good appointment, a couple of good signings, and it’s not that difficult to imagine they’d be back in the mix. We’ve certainly stolen a march on them in some aspects this season, but it’s hardly like we’ve streaked away from them and can’t be caught in the foreseeable.

Yeah, for me the only issue is that if the money really starts to dry up at ownership level, and they end up outside of the PL for any sustained period of time, the costs of a facility like that might well become unsustainable. Whilst I understand the theory of the argument about moving away from the city and taking a bit of the ‘club atmosphere’ away, it’s the kind of point that only ever gets raised when things are going badly on the pitch.

As has been said, Felix’s wages would put him outside of what’s realistic for us at the minute. Pretty mad when you consider what that loan cost Chelsea for pretty much zero return or team improvement (even if I thought that individually Felix looked good the times I watched them). They’ve just written off somewhere in the region of £15m like it was nothing.

For comparison purposes, here’s some images from Leicester’s ‘state-of-art’ training facility: https://www.lcfc.com/galleries/1950021/lcfc-reveal-seagrave-training-ground?lang=en Seen some stories that they might be having to allow other teams to train there to help fund it in the Championship. Seems not all of their fans think it’s a good thing to have it, and whilst I can’t see that at all myself, there’s the odd interesting point raised in this thread: https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/131479-seagrave/

It doesn’t work like that though. Over the course of a season where we expect to play a lot more games, the likes of Joelinton and Bruno won’t be playing every single minute that they’re available, which has near enough been the case this season. Not to mention the fact that his best/most impactful performance this season (Forest away) was in a more advanced position, so he could clearly end up getting minutes in that role too.

Absolutely no chance he goes out on loan. Garnacho got twice the game time because Man Utd had a lot more games. We should hopefully have a lot more games next season, and assuming he can stay fit, he’ll get a lot more game time.