Are cheap relegated players still too expensive?

Good morning folks, hope you all had a good sleep last night.

I was tucked up in bed by 9pm to give my eyes a much needed rest. As I start this it is 6am and the eyes are pretty good, they will deteriorate during the day and it is a question of how long they last into the evening before tiredness overtakes them and more darkness is required.

The Toad in the Hole was delicious with parsley sprinkled into the batter to go with the Irish sausages. Of course I cheated and used a packet of Yorkshire pudding mix which he local Home Bargains store sells for 39p.

A filling budget meal to fed your troops and so simple to cook. Please do not forget to grease the cooking dish or dishes (if you make individual toadys) otherwise you will have a fight to get your batter out. Grease first for non sticking (to varying degrees).

Right that's the culinary advice out of the way so let's answer a few questions.

Callum Wilson, could we sign him?

There are reports that he is available for £10m as a result of a relegation release clause. Now whether someone has made this up or guessed at this and it has been made into belief through Chinese Whispers on social media, I do not know.

Obviously Spurs have watched him,but our transfers this summer are frugal and must adhere to our wages budget and what little money we have to go around.

What most fans forget in any transfer are the wages and they play an important part.

A club has to take into account the transfer fee, agents fee, signing on fee and wages to calculate the cost of signing a player.

Let us assume that Callum Wilson is available for £10m, sounds great.

What are the agents fees going to be and his signing on fee?

That could come to several million, afterall if his transfer fee is cheap then he can command a higher signing on fee and higher wages, all of which pushes up the overall cost.

Now I don't know what wages he is actually on, but the transfer fee suggests he is on higher wages rather than lower.

My initial inquiries suggested he was on £60,000 wages but other suggestions are that he is on £100,000 wages, which would make more sense given the suggested fee.

Bournemouth, already in financial difficulty, have to cut their cloth now they are relegated. I don't think their proposed legal action will make any difference to that and didn't I warn that we might see legal action as a result of this pandemic.

The misuse of Hawkeye this season in favour of some teams and against others, as well as the biased refereeing of officials who have nobody to answer to but themselves,is a major concern.

Back to Bournemouth, they have to offload the high earners and have to offload them quickly.

If Wilson is on £100,000 a week and there is little income coming into the club then that's £400,000 a month, roughly, which is a major burden.

Spurs are not going to pay £100,000 a week to have someone sit on a bench and Wilson will want to be guaranteed regular playing time I suspect otherwise it would harm his international aspirations.

Tottenham are not ready to move quickly for a striker who would stretch the wages budget, when that money is needed elsewhere.

I have been through the wages a couple of times in posts to demonstrate how it is dictating this transfer market for us and how we have to balance the new wages with offloading the wages of players we sell.

Bearing those posts in mins,you can see that, if he were on £60,000 a week he would be a viable option, but on £100,000 a week is not.

My conclusion therefore is that he will not be joining Spurs.

What would sitting on Spurs bench do to bonus payments a player receives now,half it?

He'd score less goals, have less appearance fees, which we could manage through last minute substitutions to take him to an agreed bonus figure.

Joshua King is another Bournemouth player who could interest. he was on £45,000 a week but that might be a basic with bonuses on top taking it nearer £80,000, which is possibly where the extra in Wilson's wages come from.

Now moving, a player would want to consolidate the higher amount and if they are going to play less, as they would at Spurs, are therefore going to ant a higher basic wage.

Troy Deeney, I believe, is on £65,000 basic wages so I'd ask the question how much he earns in bonuses, what is his total income and what basic he would therefore be looking to earn at Spurs?

I don't know what we have budgeted for, for a striker but their basic wages are where we are looking.

All three signing are possible, but if they are pushing our wages budget then the transfer fees would have to accept that and these clubs need money. Deeney may be happy to stay and try and bring them back up being 32 now.

This is the trouble with Premier League players, their wages make them expensive options where you can pick up a player from abroad on cheaper wages, it's why so many foreign players play in the Premier League.

Remember the striker I listed as a potential signing from France, Habib Diallo? 

His wages are £16,789-a-week.

WE could pay him £30,000 plus bonuses and he would fit comfortable within the budget.

However, when Premier League clubs look to buy abroad the price of a player immediately increases, thus clubs in this country are asked to overpay for foreign players, who would cost less sold to other European countries.

Well it was going to be questions but we seem to have got stuck on one basic question and the problems surrounding it

Have a great day - COYS