Series question. What is considered too high of a wage for the current Championship? What is considered to be an expectable wage? I ask this because I am curious what would be good business for this summer window and more importantly what can Fulham carry for a seasons wage bill?
No with the above questions in mind how much can we spend realistically on various players to strengthen the team?
I think the top players in the champ are on around £50k. They are the real top ones though.
"For the avoidance of confusion", these figures are per week.
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So between 20 to 30K a week🤔 sounds like we need to find a lot of diamonds in the ruff.
In the MLS the Atlanta United team has a young Paraguayan age 23 who is an attacking midfielder. He has proven to be an exciting player to watch and is the kind of player I would love to see Fulham get in the summer window. He's current wage is 1.9 million a year though so that is probably to high right now for Fulham.
I'd suggest actually our average is less than that. Chris Martin, a high goalscorer was on £17k a week when he joined, and only to make sure he came back to Derby was he offered £28k a week. I'd suggest out average is closer to £20k, with a couple of higher earners at around £25k.
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Jonjo Shelvey was reportedly earning £80k per week at Newcastle last season - that's over £4m per year. As a comparison Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink was on £40k per year as manager at Burton before moving on to higher things, and could have earned more as a player there! It makes you wonder how football has managed to get things so askew as to value the guy who puts it all together much, much less than the players he 'manages'. It is what happens when the media gets involved in monopoly game play.
That was what the reports at the time he signed were suggesting, but yes you're right for a striker with his record he was underpaid. But I'd also suggest £28k is too much, and it was only to get him to stay did they increase it by such a margin
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