National League Budgets

[Chief Rocka]

If the figure quoted above is correct, you would have basically the same budget as us on an average gate 1,700 lower, which does not add up. As you say though, could be nonsense.

Craig Hignett at the Trust meeting tonight said he was asked/told to reduce the playing budget from 850,000 to 550,000 last season in the football league, our finances are a mystery to all, no one knows our playing budget, competitive for this league, totally, breaking a million? I really doubt it, unless we're paying the likes of Jack Munns and Luke George three grand a week.

 

[Monkey Tennis]

Our playing budget is around £375k this season. I think some of the other figures on here are exaggerated.

Would that not be an average wage of about £350 p/w? Seems a bit unlikely, unless you're totally part-time and not paying 52-week contracts. Especially when there are players at this level earning six-figure salaries.

 

[#Beebot]

Have to say I agree with that, Devonshire knows how to work wonders with Part Time teams down here. When do you think the ground will get improved? Its in such a tight location as well..........

Don't think anything is planned in the short term but the most likely next step is a new main stand on the dugout side of the ground, which would most likely see the existing clubhouse demolished along with the existing terrace and possibly the 5-a-side facilities in the corner of the ground.

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[GTFCfish]

At our latest supporters meeting with the owners it was mentioned that our player budget is about 600k. So i was just wondering how ours compared to everyone else.

Has anyone got an idea of what their teams budget is??

I've seen Chester's mentioned as 450k
Ebbsfleet's rumoured at 1.2 million (our owners mentioned that ours is half their budget)

Eastleigh Fan is the man to ask, he knows everybody's budget.

 

[Pliny Harris]

Dayum, some of these go to show what we're up against.

Our general ins and outs including total profits/losses fpr the previous season tends to be produced every year at the start of either March or April. We made a loss in our first two years and I believe have made at least slight profits ever since. Other than the down payment in restarting in the glue leagues, it's all self-sufficient and of course, part-time. To pluck figures from unspecific rumours and comparison, if we had a budget of £350k three/four seasons ago, it'd be £400k/year now due to slightly increased crowds and prices. But I've only heard a from-the-arse figure of ours from 2011/12 when some other fan listed the teams by assumed budget, which listed us as £5,000/week.

 

[EnglishRed]

Would that not be an average wage of about £350 p/w? Seems a bit unlikely, unless you're totally part-time and not paying 52-week contracts. Especially when there are players at this level earning six-figure salaries.

Macclesfield players play for the love of Sir John Askey and the chance to play alongside Football Mum-Ra Danny Whittaker in his 3 thousandth game.

 

[Soup Ladle]

If the figure quoted above is correct, you would have basically the same budget as us on an average gate 1,700 lower, which does not add up. As you say though, could be nonsense.

Craig Hignett at the Trust meeting tonight said he was asked/told to reduce the playing budget from 850,000 to 550,000 last season in the football league, our finances are a mystery to all, no one knows our playing budget, competitive for this league, totally, breaking a million? I really doubt it, unless we're paying the likes of Jack Munns and Luke George three grand a week.

I was told it was around or just under 1 million by someone who worked at the club. Whether it's totally accurate I'm not sure and it was in the summer when we had the FL money and 29 FT pros on our books. He said that our budget was easily top 7 if not 3/4th highest commensurate with our crowds which are the 4th highest in the division.

 

[Fyldefan]

29 full time seems a hell of a lot of players. We have 17 and they don’t get paid out of season

 

[Tranmerewhite]

Our overall wage bill is 2.3m.

Last season FGR had a 2.3m wage bill of which 400k was staffing. Not unrealistic to suggest our staff bill would be between double to treble theirs. £1.2m +/- seems likely for us.

 

[B2TF]

http://www.doverathletic.com/news/from-the-chairman/

No idea what our budget is, not sure parmenter would ever say, but says today

"To put into context the cost of watching football at our level and Dover Athletic in particular, an average gate receipt after deducting V.A.T. at 20% and match day costs will pay approximately half of that week’s wages, so all the other running costs plus a great deal of the wage bill rely on sponsorship and frankly my support."

This is called living beyond your independent means. In doing so you are inflating the wages that everybody else has to pay in order to compete. And don't give me any crap along the lines of "it's up to them if they decide to compete with us". Of course they're going to compete! That's what they're here for. Looking forward to you pissing off back to your natural level along with all the other Mickey Mouse operations riding on their own Mr Moneybags' wallet.

 

[B2TF]

Our playing budget is around £375k this season. I think some of the other figures on here are exaggerated.

I think we already established with a contribution by another Milkmen fan on an earlier thread that Mickey Mouse Macclesfield come in under the "bankrolled" heading.

 

[Tranmerewhite]

Sorry but no full time squad will be under a 500k wage bill. 15 full time players alone would be a minimum of £450k

 

[The_Boss]

£375k for a squad of 18 players on 42 week contracts would be just shy of £500 a week on average. I think we'll definitely be a bit higher.

Take into account Danny Whitaker's appearance bonus for every 10 thousandth game he plays and ours is probably somewhere around £4.5m a year.

 

[Railway Blue]

How do you know what you’re clubs budget is? I have no idea of ours. What I do know is our biggest transfer fee paid was 50k for Dan Bradley and we sold him to Kiddy for 75k. We signed 5 players from the league below. Montrose from Stockport, 3 lads from kiddy and 2 that weren’t wanted by Salford. The exception was Muldoon from Lincoln. I’d be amazed if ours was a million but I don’t know much about it

Fucking hell ... will they ever learn?

 

[Railway Blue]

Master D, I’ve been told £1200 a game and £400 a goal. Probably bullshit though

So 2 games in a week and he scores a hat-trick in one of them he's on £3,600 that week.

 

[John Still]

We have a squad of 26 even if 4 are out on loan and part wages are played it's still a hugh budget. Said it previously, gone are the times when you would pay young players pittance, even youngsters would be on 500 per week these days.

In league two we had a budget around £1.2m. Forest Green doubled Doige wages when he left us for them last season he was on around £700 a week here.

 

[Master D]

So 2 games in a week and he scores a hat-trick in one of them he's on £3,600 that week.

Yeah exactly. Easily believable.

 

[DarkSithLord]

How do you know what you’re clubs budget is? I have no idea of ours. What I do know is our biggest transfer fee paid was 50k for Dan Bradley and we sold him to Kiddy for 75k. We signed 5 players from the league below. Montrose from Stockport, 3 lads from kiddy and 2 that weren’t wanted by Salford. The exception was Muldoon from Lincoln. I’d be amazed if ours was a million but I don’t know much about it

Really you paid 50k for Dan Bradley?

 

[Fyldefan]

Yeah 50k. They felt the need to put it on the club website saying he’s our most expensive transfer. Fortunately we more than recouped that, thanks to Kiddy

 

[MTFC_07]

Would that not be an average wage of about £350 p/w? Seems a bit unlikely, unless you're totally part-time and not paying 52-week contracts. Especially when there are players at this level earning six-figure salaries.

42 week contracts.

If you think about it - all our players are rejects from other clubs. Some even from teams in the league below. On the flip side, teams like Chester, who can't have a particularly big budget, stole three of our players in the summer.

Whitaker lives locally and does other stuff on the side. Pilkington's wife has a decent job. Whitehead only plays us because he was paid off by Wigan and enjoys playing for Askey. They are our 'would-be' higher earners, but don't earn anything like what they would elsewhere. We only really have about 15/16 National league standard players anyway.

All our players will leave again in the summer and we will start again from scratch. It will be the same every season unless we get some investment.

 

[Boz]

They might stay/you might be able to pay more, if you go up though?

 

[Railway Blue]

42 week contracts.

If you think about it - all our players are rejects from other clubs. Some even from teams in the league below. On the flip side, teams like Chester, who can't have a particularly big budget, stole three of our players in the summer.

Whitaker lives locally and does other stuff on the side. Pilkington's wife has a decent job. Whitehead only plays us because he was paid off by Wigan and enjoys playing for Askey. They are our 'would-be' higher earners, but don't earn anything like what they would elsewhere. We only really have about 15/16 National league standard players anyway.

All our players will leave again in the summer and we will start again from scratch. It will be the same every season unless we get some investment.

... and it'll take us years to recover from that bit of madness from McCarthy.

 

[PoolieTom]

If the figure quoted above is correct, you would have basically the same budget as us on an average gate 1,700 lower, which does not add up. As you say though, could be nonsense.

Not sure what bit is surprising to you? You are 4th(?) in the league, and we are going bust. It adds up pretty well, doesn't it?

 

[RLC]

Not sure what bit is surprising to you? You are 4th(?) in the league, and we are going bust. It adds up pretty well, doesn't it?

Which was entirely my point.

 

[EnglishRed]

Well now we know how Macclesfield afford to pay their players....