Wigan need to unload players

Yarmouth Seasider

Yarmouth Seasider

Well-known member
I see Wigan need to offload players as potential buyers are being put off by their 19m payroll.

Would any of their players fit what we are looking for? Kieffer Moore for example, or would he be out of our price range?
 
Yarmouth Seasider said:
I see Wigan need to offload players as potential buyers are being put off by their 19m payroll.

Would any of their players fit what we are looking for? Kieffer Moore for example, or would he be out of our price range?
Click to expand...
If they have a £19m payroll I’d have at a guess unless their prepared to take a massive pay cut then yes they would all be out of our price range.
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
If they have a £19m payroll I’d have at a guess unless their prepared to take a massive pay cut then yes they would be out of our price range.
Click to expand...

Kieffer Moore signed by Wigan for £2M a year ago. He’s had a decent season. Think he’s scored around 10 goals in the championship. Miles away from what we’d be able to offer.

He’s not the model we re after at the minute. We’re trying to pick up the Kieffer Moore’s of the league before they go for £2M
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Players across all divisions of the EFL, will soon have to understand the new normal, and I suspect wages will (*& should) plummet.

As I have said before, £5-10k a week for the EFL is an insult to the average family on the terraces/stands, when millions face redundancy, it is abhorrent that these players, no matter how short a career, earn more than the Prime Minister, some prem players earn more in a week than some people will earn in 20yrs (EG,, *De Gea. £400k per week) (* reportedly)
 
Rektseasider said:
Kieffer Moore signed By Wigan for £2M a year ago. He’s had a decent season. Think he’s scored around 10 goals in the championship. Miles away from what we’d be able to offer.

He’s not the model we re after at the minute. We’re trying to pick up the Kieffer Moore’s of the league before they got for £2M
Click to expand...
I guess you're right Rekt, even if there's a fire sale at Wigan and they are prepared to let players go just to get them off the books, we'd be miles away from his wage demands. Here's to finding a cheaper version elsewhere
 
Yarmouth Seasider said:
I guess you're right Rekt, even if there's a fire sale at Wigan and they are prepared to let players go just to get them off the books, we'd be miles away from his wage demands. Here's to finding a cheaper version elsewhere
Click to expand...


Wigan are a really weird example at the moment, because they shouldn’t really be in administration and have a a lot of assets which they could easily shift to make up their “short fall”. I don’t think the majority of the Wigan playing staff will actually leave for a cut down price. It was only January that they messed around with Robinson’s transfer to AC Milan.

Weird club at the minute.
 
Agree that a new norm will emerge. Most Clubs are skint, and have little or no income. A player is worth only what another Club is prepared to pay. If a player is out of contract this Summer, he can expect a wage packet about half the size he has been used to.
 
Rektseasider said:
He’s not the model we re after at the minute. We’re trying to pick up the Kieffer Moore’s of the league before they got for £2M
Click to expand...

Spot on. We want the Kieffer Moore of a couple of years ago when he went from Ipswich to Barnsley for a couple of hundred thousand.

More interesting for us to look at younger Wigan lads who might’ve been on the fringes, perhaps. Callum Lang maybe - scored goals on loan at Oldham and Morecambe. Was rumoured to be going to Motherwell.
 
This is a really good explanation of whats happening at Wigan....it's 29mins long...but explains in detail why the club has gone into admin.
The new 'owner' is a known 'gambler'....and would explain the massive bet put on in the Philippines
The clubs wage bill may be £19m but the club only loses around £3m - £4m a year and that was always paid for by the owners
PNE need £12m - £14m EVERY season.....
 
Seems to me like Div 1 should be £2k / week for a top rated player. Even for most clubs this would not be achievable if you were running your budgets correctly?
Gravy train is about to derail completely.

Hypothetically - how many people on here would have ditched their job in the 20s to accept a 50% pay cut and become a footballer in Div 1?
I would guess pretty much all of us. Certainly ditch current job to be on pay parity.
If nation average is £25k then its pay cut time for the hairband wearing squad.
 
I dont think this short career reasoning holds water any longer.
If you look after yourself there’s a 15-20 yr career with opportunities to move into coaching roles afterwards. A lot of youngsters would expect two or three changes of career direction these days anyway. And get a fraction of the earnings for doing something worthwhile
 
B_Side_The_C_Side said:
This is a really good explanation of whats happening at Wigan....it's 29mins long...but explains in detail why the club has gone into admin.
The new 'owner' is a known 'gambler'....and would explain the massive bet put on in the Philippines
The clubs wage bill may be £19m but the club only loses around £3m - £4m a year and that was always paid for by the owners
PNE need £12m - £14m EVERY season.....
Click to expand...

If you look at their accounts they have lost an average of £9m each year for the last 2 years. That is why they need to halve their wage bill to be sustainable. Gone are the days where owners will bankroll losses at a club like Wigan year after year in thd uope of PL football
 
They’ve certainly got some attainable players on the periphery of their squad.

Chey Dunkley would be good for us, centre back that played in around half their fixtures last season. Somehow managed 6 goals in 25 games from centre back.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top