Season Ticket 2019/20

I don't know whether we'll be 20 points adrift or not but this season's final points tally will be what determines where we are playing next season. And it's not looking good at the moment.

Let's say for argument's sake that in most seasons 70 points gets a team into the play-offs and 50 points gets a team relegated. Over a season, a team has to get an average of 1.52 pts/game for the play-offs in most seasons. When the transfer window opens we'll have 21 league games left and even performing at play-off standards for the rest of the season that's around 32 pts. Even if that is possible (and I have serious doubts about that!) and sticking with the 50 pts to avoid relegation, we therefore need to get to 18 pts before the window opens and I'm struggling to see where those extra 8 pts are coming from.

Whatever I might think about Hopkin's abilities and whatever I might believe about Rupp digging deep to bring in new players during the transfer window, it will be a miraculous improvement to go from the current <0.6 pts/game to the play-off level of >1.5 pts/game

I share your concern about our ability to turn things around even with the second coming of JR to help!

 

OK. The comment you made about the SCMP constraint isn't entirely correct and it's a little more complex than simply saying we are limited to spending 65% on players wages etc. Whoever quoted this is a little out of date. And probably more importantly, without knowing more detail of the playing budget itself, it's impossible to know how close we really are to breaching the SCMP limit.

I prefer @Get Rid Of It 's earlier comment earlier about Hopkin not being stupid!

 

City’s wage spend on the non-exempt players is around £55k a week. SCMP allows 60% of turnover to be spent on wages. Previous quotes from club officials put the yearly turnover to be between £4.5mill and £7mill a year depending on things like cup runs and transfers out. 60% of those figures works out at between £51k a week and £80k a week. We obviously don’t know what prejections they are working on, younwould assume not thatnlower value based on the spending, if they are then they are already in trouble but it’s certainly not going to be the top end. If you go in the middle that’s £66k a week so about £11k spare but it would be surprising if a free agent of the right quality who hasn’t taken a deal elsewhere already isn’t going to accept much less than £5k a week as if they haven’t taken a deal already their decision isn’t just football based

 

I am not sure what wage structure currently operates at Bradford City, but there was a suggestion that the Owners wanted to implement a German model, whereby players got 50% of their potential earnings as ‘salary’ and a further 50% as bonuses. If that is the case, the players basic salary may well be quite low. If they could negotiate a deal whereby they got 50% of the remainder of their salary and their registration , then they could look for a new club and City could use the money to pay different players.

 

Who have we here? The style of play seems to have driven a lot of fans away? It is not only down to the owners, but the totality of the match day experience.

My concern is that we are stuck with a lot of these players and although on an individual basis they may be able to play to a reasonable level, in a totally different team, their performances as City players is not working.