2019/20 Marcel Brands

[Bluewolf]

Does it not make more sense that we are in need of trimming the wage bill for ffp?

We have about 40 first team players on the books atm some are on a ridiculous wage for what they offer. Luckily for us the players we want out of our squad are the highest earners.

 

[Frang]

As far as I know though there is a steep hierarchy there in terms of wages at Spurs: first teamers ranging from 30/40 grand pw up to 100k pw. Everyone wants to do better to stay in the team and boost their wages, and the revenue can handle that. It seems like we'll be asking players to keep wage discipline but with no room for the best to boost their earnings. If you place a ceiling on total wages then that can be the source of problems and the sale of your better players.

the spurs way of doing things will blow up right in their face.

will be very interesting to see who leaves this summer.

auderwield off to united by all accounts.

 

[blueblue]

Whoever comes in will be presented with a fait accompli on players they cant and can go for - and in all likelihood a slate of players for each position that are achievable. The club will be unrecognisable from the way it was run under Moshiri in the last two years, with a lot less of the £20M-£30M fees.

We better get used to a tight plan from now on. Appealing to Kenwright/Moshiri to get the chequebook out will have no relevance whatsoever. After a stuttering start to the DoF system this feller Brands will be the real deal. For good or bad.

Whereas I can certainly see that what you say makes sense I am not sure it would bring either Brands or Silva to Everton.

 

[davek]

I mean this tweet by Esk highlights what ive been saying.



Ive just done the math, the above players are costing us 790k a week in wages, 41m per year, thats a quarter of our wage bill.

Moshiri spoke of 1 window to establish ourselves, thats what he meant, use the Lukaku sale to bump up our wage bill, which allows us to increase it from the 85m last year to the 120m this year. So now we can ship out some players, free up wages and offer the BALLERS all the dough.

Its cashflow 101 in the Premier League era.

I'm not arguing that we shouldn't get rid of waste. I'm saying that it's a dangerous game to play by sending out the message to the industry that the party's over where wages are concerned. Our peers wont be doing any such thing, partly because they haven't just been through Koemageddon and dont have the aftermath of that disaster to recover from.

This is a Moshiri made crisis on finances and Brands is employed to clean the mess up. That cant be sold as an ethical victory over waste, it's an organisational defeat brought about by the gibbering idiot who owns most of the shares.

 

[davek]

Whereas I can certainly see that what you say makes sense I am not sure it would bring either Brands or Silva to Everton.

Two men who wont get a better chance than Everton IMO. The'll certainly be well remunerated. Which helps!

 

[Saint Domingo]

It's simple in theory.

Get the squad size down to 23 whilst maintaining the right balance in terms of age, experience, and positional cover.

Not an easy task given the very lopsided squad that they inherit.

We would lose 10 players in net terms but getting decent offers from other clubs, and getting players on contracts to accept those offers, will prove to be difficult in some cases.

There is a lot of work to be done and I think it will take about three years as I see it, the typical length of a managers contract, to see some results. There will be a lot of teething problems to be expected too.

I can't see us spending big, I think the focus will shift to signing younger and more adaptable players, and players from less expensive markets, supplemented with the odd more flashy signing here and there.

Personally I am concerned about the liberal spending, we all want money invested in the team but not if it comes at the cost of making the club less stable financially in the long-term. We have to be disciplined, with excellent scouting and analysis. Buy low and sell high, use the loan market, be as creative as we can be. That is the challenge for Brands in essence.

Pickford
Stekelenburg
New 3rd goalie

Coleman
Kenny
Holgate
Keane
New CB
Pennington
Robinson
New LB

Gueye
Davies
Siggurdson
Lookman
Vlasic
Baningime/Dowell
new creative mid.

Walcott
Tosun
Niasse
Calvert Lewin
New striker

That is 23 there that may only require 4 or 5 key arrivals. Even less if Silva can rehabilitate Klaasen Sandro or Besic. That would see an awful lot of the deadwood high wages out of the door too. I really don’t think there’s going to be a huge number of incomings but an awful lot of outgoings. Even just making better use of Lookman Vlasic and the academy players in the squad would be an improvement on some of the players in their positions currently. Out the door could then be:

Jagielka Williams Baines Martina Robles Schneiderlin McCarthy Besic Klaasen Bolasie Rooney

 

[Goat]

I'm not arguing that we shouldn't get rid of waste. I'm saying that it's a dangerous game to play by sending out the message to the industry that the party's over where wages are concerned. Our peers wont be doing any such thing, partly because they haven't just been through Koemageddon and dont have the aftermath of that disaster to recover from.

This is a Moshiri made crisis on finances and Brands is employed to clean the mess up. That cant be sold as an ethical victory over waste, it's an organisational defeat brought about by the gibbering idiot who owns most of the shares.

I havent once said the whole thing isnt a mess.

Ive also said its a tough ask to expect Brands to even sort this out in the next 3 windows.

Im just saying that we need to cut players, not to "save" money, but to allow the money to be "invested" into better players.

You think the whole thing is a cost cutting exercise cos we over-reached, we didnt over-reach.

 

[mahermi1]

Simply as we found out to our cost last year..... we need quality, not quantity.

 

[Axlswhk]

Spurs still remain the model for us to follow.

They have bought a lot of what turned out to be excellent signings for relatively modest fees, players that either have remained mainstays of the squad under Pochettino or sold for decent profit.

That's not easy to replicate, but they have achieved their success without a huge spend.

It's possible, but the right people have to be in place with the right structure. Spurs experimented mostly through trial and error before hitting on a winning formula, at least in financial terms.

We could also do with DBB and Ryazantsev finally getting to grips with the commercial operation, we'll need every penny we get.

Spurs model has been successful for a long time and very consistently implementation since a decade ago. Buying young players at the TOP of their age group. Plenty of examples in their transfer history and they are continuing to this day and beyond.
2 transfer target this season showing their typically recruitment policy, Kluivert and sessognon, both strongly link with spurs.

been crying out loud for us to follow this approach.

 

[polish]

the spurs way of doing things will blow up right in their face.

will be very interesting to see who leaves this summer.

auderwield off to united by all accounts.

Didn’t he just sign a new contract?

 

[Frang]

Didn’t he just sign a new contract?

which literally means nothing but a big payday for spurs.

 

[orly]

I mean this tweet by Esk highlights what ive been saying.



Ive just done the math, the above players are costing us 790k a week in wages, 41m per year, thats a quarter of our wage bill.

Moshiri spoke of 1 window to establish ourselves, thats what he meant, use the Lukaku sale to bump up our wage bill, which allows us to increase it from the 85m last year to the 120m this year. So now we can ship out some players, free up wages and offer the BALLERS all the dough.

Its cashflow 101 in the Premier League era.

Disappointed.

 

[Goat]

Didn’t he just sign a new contract?

Nope.

 

[Goat]

Disappointed.

A great man will use all tools to gain an edge.

 

[orly]

A great man will use all tools to gain an edge.

That's certainly one tool