January transfer window

Take a '0' off that figure...

 

we are like 5th for agent fees spend so clearly buying players is expensive. if that was the case we should be able to rebuild the squad. to build a squad for 600k is nothing even for L2. pretty sure watters went from crawley to cardiff for £1m

 

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/19202884.bradford-city-fourth-highest-agent-fees-league-two/

looking at the agent fees it must be higher.. no way agents take 20% fee of a signing!

 

I mean Crankshaw went for about 60k I don't think we are rebuilding with that money we might get a good player out of it but that's about it

 

source? im pretty sure its more than that.. has to be. you cant buy anyone in L1 for that amount of money. DA saying we have the cranky money for January would be such an empty statement.

if you take a look at the agent fees link, we paid out to agents £72,000 more than that what cranky was worth....

really its around 5%-10% for fees so in that period we spent 450,000-750,000 on players.

 

You don’t just pay agent fees on players you buy. It’s free transfers too. We sign a lot of players, the turnover is unreal. It’s no wonder we are one of the highest. Had nothing really to do with what we pay for players

 

fair enough, i just cant wrap my head around the value that cranky has.. 60k for a really top level NL player? its peanuts!

 

£300k? There is no way Bradford City are spending over quarter of a million pounds on a player. No chance. We’ll have got £50k max for Crankshaw and saved maybe £75k on his salary until the end of the season. Chuck in any extra money from pay on the day punters, and that will stop if they team don’t start winning, and we’ll have £150k at most for transfer fees, agent fees and wages.

 

Bradford City have not spent £750k on players.

 

zero chance of going up then, we haven't got a pot to wee in

 

Possibly also for existing players signing new deals and players who get sold or released from their contracts.

 

Penny dropped..?

 

id cash out the bets I have, but id only get £2 back

 

Why the point is there isn't any money at this level the only time anything like 250k+ gets spent is if a club higher up the pyramid wants a goalscorer from our division then you can see fees up to a million

But for defenders and midfielders no matter how tidy you aren't seeing six figures very often and if you're talking a conference club buying a surplus winger from a league two club I think you're way off

Nobody else is spending the money you're talking about and neither are we

 

How do you know what we sold Crankshaft for then ? Its never been reported. neither has what we paid for him, which I doubt was even half of a six figure fee.

 

Total guessowrk. £50k each maximum.

 

I am amazed how many people on here know the in's and out's of the clubs finances.
Nobody knows my business finance ,other than myself, the accountant and my wife.
I am pretty certain city will have more money available for the January transfer window than some think.
An average of 2000 walk up's at £15 each is £30000 x 10 games is £300,000 less taxes , so probably cleared £200,000 The Crankshaw money and all the extra sponsorship deals , will boost that significantly. The squad is not massive , if you take out our on kids and we still have the full loan allocation to use.
We probably are in a fairly good position financially, lets hope Dereks scuoting mates can pull out some gems.

 

Crawley to Cardiff for a goal scorer is a million miles away from Wigan to Bradford City for a third choice winger, and even further away from Bradford to Stockport for a permanent benchwarmer.