Brogue just having a look at the salaries of the players, and yes we've been here before, we know this isn't exact so we take it with a pinch of salt. But it gives us a ballpark figure. and the majority of places that list the salaries are all pretty close. In Nigel Howes' most recent interview, he said we were still losing 1.2 million a month remember.
So: these are the listed salaries for the players we've let go.
Ovie Ejaria £7,800pw - £405,600 pa - i'm sure there was a figure banded around on how much his mutual termination was going to save us, can't remember now
Dom Ballard £5,400pw - £280,800 pa - not sure how much of that wage we were paying as part of the loan deal
Tom McIntyre £3,600pw - £187,200pa
Nesta Guinness-Walker £2,900pw - £150,800pa - we don't know how much of his wage Stevenage is paying for the loan deal till the end of the season.
Tom Holmes £2,600pw - £135,200pa assume we are not paying anything towards his wages now
Nelson Abbey £900pw - £46,800pa
So let's add all that up, £23,200k saved per week, which rounded up is £100K a month saved on wages, and that's the absolute best case. As above ovie was a mutual termination so it won't be the full saving, were we paying all of Ballard's wages? we don't know. But for the sake of arguments let's just run with the figures. And remember at the top of the post I mentioned that Howe said we are losing 1.2 million a month!! with 6 of our highest earners off the wage bill, we still have only saved 100k a month off that £1.2 million figure. that just goes to show how badly this club is being run. and would suggest that it's our operational costs now that are causing the issues rather than player wages.
Agree - always believed there are losses that we don't truly know about, or that we have potentially underestimated how much the training ground, academy, stadium etc truly costs us.
Added to this, we've lost Moore, Joao, Meite and received around 3 million Euro's for Puscas. Just had a look at a "reported" figure and we've received around £3.5m in transfer fees this season (largely down to Puscas' transfer) and saved whatever else this season on wages, it will work out at something like £5-7m at a guess I reckon. That's a massive amount of money for a L1 club and it's got us nowhere.