Last Friday, Huddersfield Town released an article on their website that was written by Phil Hodgkinson, providing details about how the club is currently being run.
Here are a few of my thoughts on the things contained within the statement. Click here to read the statement if you haven’t seen it yet.
Monthly updates
Committing to monthly updates is a good idea as it will help with the communication between the club and the fans. Clearly it would have been better to have done this a long time ago but better late than never.
I think live Q&As with fans or interviews with the press would be better than releasing prepared statements every month but otherwise it’s a step in the right direction. Talking with fans or the press allows more opportunity for uncomfortable questions to be asked and the club can show their willingness to be open about how they run the club. While this statement is good, a preprepared webpage isn’t going to be seen as authentic as a conversation directly with fans.
Pandemic affecting finances
I think it’s fair to point out that the pandemic has had a huge impact on the finances of the club. While parachute payments and TV deals have been somewhat reduced, I think it’s worth remembering that those parachute payments still put us in the higher bracket of earners in the league even if much of that money is committed to paying back debt and covering our Premier League excesses.
The estimate of five million pounds being the direct impact of Covid-19 on the finances seems about right. It’s a significant amount of money but not a fatal blow to the club. I’m less convinced about the claim that transfer fees for our player sales have been impacted. I suppose the market has been slower and there’s less money being spent but the players we’ve sold haven’t exactly been world beaters either.
The wage budget
I’m a bit baffled by the wage figures Phil mentions in his statement. He says that we’ve got a wage bill of £19m, which is more than the budget Danny Cowley said he was working with at the end of the January 2020 transfer window. Given the large number of high earners we’ve moved on since then it doesn’t really stack up. Unless the players that have come in since have also been given contracts similar to the players we signed in the Premier League.
Phil says that our £19m wage budget is unsustainable and points to the £12m wage budget we had in our promotion season (though bonuses almost doubled the wages for that year if I remember correctly). This part of the statement makes me think he’s “managing the expectations” of Town fans for the upcoming summer window. It also doesn’t bode well for the high earners that have expiring contracts. Schindler, Pritchard and Mbenza are probably the ones costing us the most at the moment and may not get new deals if we need to slash the budget further.
It’s probably not great for player morale to see these kind of statements being made. Some are most likely hoping to be offered a new deal before the end of the season and Phil’s words here may lead to them seeing the writing is on the wall for them. While any player contracted to Town will be expected to give their best until they are no longer Huddersfield Town players, it’s only human that some heads may drop a bit if they think they’ll be out of a job come the summer.
Paying back debt
I know it’s a very contentious issue but I don’t completely disagree with the way Phil is attempting to bring down the club’s debt levels. Whether he is doing this out of choice or as part of the arrangement he made with Dean to buy the club is pure speculation at this point. Regardless, if we fail to clear the debts the club has while we’re getting parachute payments then we’ll be left owing money with little prospect of being able to repay unless we somehow fluke our way into the Premier League again.
Balancing paying back debt with being competitive is probably the point I disagree with the current board’s approach. It’s not the idea of cutting costs and focussing on repaying debt, it’s the extent to which the playing squad has been allowed to decline because of underinvestment. This year’s squad isn’t as good as last year’s one and the idea that Carlos would be the magic solution to this underinvestment is currently not looking like such a wise assumption.
I find it a bit patronsing when the club’s hierarchy talk about how fans want to see millions spent on transfer fees. No fans wants to see the club destabalised by overspending on players. But there is a reasonable expectation that when key players are sold we make an attempt to replace them with players that have the quality to make an impact on the Championship. Too many have left without adequate replacements and our squad is too thin and lacks genuine quality.
The three transfer windows claim
Phil blames the pandemic for his previous statement about it taking three transfer windows to get the squad sorted out not coming to pass. I’m not convinced the pandemic is the main reason for this. The Premier League-era players that have been sucking up money while not delivering on the pitch were all contracted to this summer, so regardless of the global health crisis we would most likely have been stuck with these players.
I thought it was a bit of an odd thing to say at the time anyway, as fans don’t want to be told to wait 18 months before expecting to see success at their club. It felt like an attempt to kick the can down the road for a while and now the can is being kicked a little bit further. By which time the excuse can be changed to the parachute payments ending having reduced our income and we have to cut our cloth accordingly.
The simple truth is that we’ll never have a squad that we’re entirely happy with. I’ve been following Town for enough years now to know that every transfer window there is a gaping whole in the squad that needs to be filled. “We need a striker” was the cry this January (and last October) but in past years it’s been a lack of pace, a lack of a midfield playmaker, a commanding defensive presence, a goalkeeper that doesn’t coat his gloves in Lurpak before every game, wingers that can cross. There’s always a missing piece of the puzzle.
Talking about a point when we’ll be happy with the squad is like talking about finding the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, it’s a myth and there will always be a missing link that we’re hoping to find in the next transfer window.
Phil’s personal financial issues
I was a bit surprised to see Phil open up about the impact the pandemic has had on his other businesses and his ability to fund Huddersfield Town. The current Financial Fair Play rules and the fact that most owner investment comes via loans makes me not too interested in his ability to pump money into the club. I’d rather he didn’t and instead made the club self sufficient.
I find the “Potless” jibes aimed at Phil a bit juvenile and silly. He could walk into almost any room and be one of the wealthiest people in it. But not if that room is filled with other football club owners. Still, I’d prefer a proper fan in charge of the club than a wealthy stranger. These comments about his ability to put money into the club will only intensify the accusations that he’s not wealthy enough to own the club. If we’re debt free and still competitive in the Championship in two years time then I don’t particularly care about how much investment has been made.
There is an interesting comment in the statement about keeping cash in his businesses just like in the football club. This suggests, as Phil mentioned in his Radio Leeds interview last year, that Town have money in the bank that is there as a contingency to cover the pandemic but may become available once the fans can come back in. I know a lot of fans feel that the finances don’t add up in terms of money in and out of the club but this rainy day fund may explain what has happened with some of the transfer fees we’ve received and continue to receive installments on.
The dreaded statement of support
It’s a longstanding tradition in football for chairman to come out and publicly back their manager weeks before they bin them off. So Carlos shouldn’t feel too warm and fuzzy about the nice things Phil says about him in this statement. Jan Siewert received similar praise before the start of last season and didn’t last all that long.
Town have spent more in compensation for managers than they have on transfer fees in recent times, so I think Carlos is pretty safe for now because of his new contract he signed just before Christmas and how expensive he would now be to sack. I also think he’s doing exactly what the club want him to do with his approach, so they won’t be bothered about his commitment to his way of playing. It was Danny Cowley’s tactical flexibility that led to accusations of him lacking a clear identity, so Carlos won’t be sacked for not changing his even in times of adversity.
The January transfer window
I admire how open Phil is about the transfer business here, it’s interesting to see their version of what seemed like an utter shambles from the outside.
Phil complains that we didn’t get the fees we should have for Diakhaby and Hamer when I’m absolutely stunned that either commanded any fee beyond the bus fare to their new club. Hamer redeemed himself at Town but as an aging keeper on a significant wage, we did well to get any kind of money as getting him the wage bill was surely the priority. Diakhaby being sold for money is absolutely crazy, while he could resurrect his career in France, his performances at Town were diabolical and he’s lucky to still be playing professional football.
The points Phil makes about the January business we managed to pull off are fair enough, we did do fairly well in the areas we needed to strengthen with the significant exception of getting a striker.
The discussion about the failure to bring in a striker only confirmed the rumours from deadline day, that there was a lot of dithering and we ultimately left it too late and proposed deals that weren’t attractive enough to the players or clubs involved.
The forward who needs development Phil mentions sounds like Adebayo who went to Luton in the end. If we truly felt like he couldn’t help us in the short term and we think there are better options in the summer then I’m pleased we didn’t sign him. If he starts scoring regularly for Luton then we’ll all be wondering if we made the right call as it seems clear we were at the front of the queue to sign him at one stage.
The club’s relationship with the fans
Any Town fan on social media will be aware of the bitter feelings many fans have towards the board at the moment. There are always a few moaners that complain about how the club is being run but the current situation is far more than the usual and it’s clear many fans are turning away from the club. Partly because they can’t physically attend games but also because of what they perceive as poor stewardship of the club by the current board.
Phil makes a couple of vague references of plans in the works to improve communication, including “a new digital platform” which sounds grand but its hard to imagine a shiny new app or website being able to win back fans that are turning away from the club.
We’ll have to wait and see with these plans but it has to be a positive that the club can see there’s an issue and are trying to address it.
TerrierSpirit.com opinion on Phil Hodgkinson’s statement
I think this was a welcome attempt at improving the communication between the fans and club. I don’t agree with everything the club is doing but I respect the fact they’ve been open enough to share their current thinking on what’s going on. While Phil Hodgkinson hasn’t revealed anything that’s particularly earth shattering, I like to know what’s going on behind the scenes.
I think it’s smart that there was no mention of the West Vale Squash club or the 10-1 game against Man City. While it may seem obvious to avoid engaging with the sillier stuff that goes on online, Phil has shown an appetite to squabble with fans on social media before he closed his Twitter account.
All the vitriol swirling around the club at the moment is mostly due to the results on the pitch and that will soon turn around if we win a few games. Until then there will be continued grumbling from sections of the fanbase about the way the club is being run.
I’m personally on the fence about Hodgkinson so far. I think most of the problems with the club are ones he inherited when he took over but he has himself made mistakes. I’m seriously worried that we’ve deliberately flirted with relegation this season because of the lack of investment in the squad. If the gamble pays off then we can most likely strengthen the squad more cheaply in the summer but if we go down we’ll be in a real mess.
What do you think? Leave your comments below.
A very thorough & fair analysis. I’d just like to focus on your last sentence and that’s the effect that relegation would have on the finances, on support, on morale, on the future. The Chairman hasn’t mentioned the ‘R’ word at all.
Like you, I think relegation would be disastrous. From the position Town were in pre-Christmas, to see the depths to which the team has sunk is just so disappointing. They say every year in every division there’s a club that goes into freefall in the second half of the season; this year it appears to be Town. Once you get into freefall, it’s very difficult to stop.
Professional sport has been kept going during the pandemic partly to give us all a lift during lockdowns – ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Sensible not to put the club in financial peril but like other clubs of our size in and around the championship it’s difficult to get good players to come when they can get paid better elsewhere. Carlos has had awful luck with injuries and form from the likes of Pritchard. The championship is such a difficult league but losing at home to Wycombe was a low point. Perhaps we need to build from the back and stop conceding so many, lovely to see our full backs attacking but leaves us open to counter attacks.
Your Comments are Pretty accurate but the thing i dont like is still getting back to the Striker Situation Phil new there was a massive Hole there that needed filling and he has done nothing about it fans will be turning there backs on Town when New Season Cards Are Due there is still money in the bank so stop blaming Hoyle the recruitement of players seem to be down to Phil And Bromby not CC but CC style of play has been picked up by other clubs and therefore we are easy to beat if we do go down Disaster for the club and Giving CC and his staff new contracts is so strange
the point about the coach derek is we have to have some stability even if we go down. changing managers doesnt always work and i was and are a cowley fan but i like what carlos is trying to do with the squad he has got given the injuries etc no one else would change the situation.it is a difficult time but ph as to hold is nerve because if he sees carlos as a failure nhe has tosee himself asone too. we are not down yet .But i agree tyhe comunication at the club needs improvement but we have two contrasts here Dean said to much at times and phill not enough
A very fair summary.
The Owner…Leigh Bromby & C.C. are very inexperienced and the fans arnt asking for millions to be spent. Smaller sums of around 500K each could have got us some experience in with a couple of Championship/Top end League 1 players in to steady the ship. I like the idea of these project players like Grant & Sorba…but we havnt got the balance right. Another thing that annoys me is that after 53 years of supporting them watching circa 1500 matches…we have finally built up a great fan base but are now slaughtering them with our 4th consecutive relegation battle. We are our own worst enemies.
you are correct about the fan base but alot as been built on reasonable season ticket prices which the club deserve credit for but yes your point is valid
A lot of what’s said in this article I agree with. I feel sorry for Carlos and his coaching team. You can hire the best ‘chef’ in the world, but if the ‘ingredients ‘ are poor quality, it’s not going to be a great meal.
Very well written terrier there’s not a lot in there for me to disagree with, yes going down will be a disaster but even after all the trimming Of the squad I still think we have enough to easily finish mid table, CC has the backing of the board & just needs a tad more luck plus be a bit more experimental with his team, we are quite lucky that we have a chairman that is willing to put out these statements once a month I don’t see that happening at other clubs & could be a good or bad thing time will tell, your plotless jibe being juvenile & silly I thought was very good cheers
Just a word about the Corberan “style” of play. It is obviously basically the same as he and Bielsa had at Leeds. Leeds style in the Premier League, still with Bielsa, hasn’t changed much and it is interesting to look at their goal stats. Only the 4 top teams have scored more than Leeds. Conversely, only West Brom have a worst goals against record. It seems to show that the style relies on the front men scoring prolifically as the defensive record is inherently leaky. For instance they can easily let 4 in as they did against Arsenal. Town also have a terrible “goals against” but the difference is that Town do not have the attacking players to provide enough goals at the other end. So once again in comes down to quality creators and finishers, something that Town do not have and unless this is addressed very soon the leaky defence will put us down.
I see the purchase of the club a marriage of convenience between Hoyle and Hodgkinson. Hoyle has been the chief benefactor from the deal and Hodgkinson has financially a low risk stake in the club with benefits.
It seem every penny coming into the club from whatever the source is earmarked to pay off the creditors and very little is going back in to strengthen the areas of weakness.
The management team Hodgkinson has built around him are quite frankly not fit for the job. The focus is still on youth rather than experience. I do not blame Corberan I think given a different club with a better management structure he will do very well.
I have supported the club for many many years and have not felt so down and dejected since the Ken Davy era. Hodgkinsons’ reluctance not to be open with the fans has not helped and as you point out there are many financial dealings at the club that do not add up.
Should we be relegated at the end of this season I for one will not be renewing my season card.
Good sound comments all round from the instigator and all the contributors. My only other observation relates to cash flow. To go from 18000 to 11000 Season Cards in one season is a disaster (£1.75m plus match day losses) but in a pandemic, a success story; with a smaller SC base not many would be forking out a tenner per game at the moment. So Town are very lucky there. With relegation another £1.75m loss seems likely but there would be reduced match day income on a much smaller crowd. The unravelling of this season is not a good look with criticisms all around and little praise. It is difficult to find many positives at the moment. My hope is CC ends up being one.
A fair analysis, in my view the results on the pitch mean that whatever Phil does, it will be wrong, even if he invested £15 million in cash on a striker. We always look for someone to blame, and as chairman the buck stops with him. It was always a risk appointing an inexperienced coach, and a more experienced manager is unlikely to have made as many mistakes, but there are aspects of Carlos’ game that are very pleasing on the eye – notably Town’s moves for their goals on Saturday. The injuries have played a big part too -we’ve not had a settled team. However, most of all I want a solvent club, I remember 2003 only too well.
One thing that does concern me is whether players today have the same dedication to their club as in previous years – or is it ‘just a job’ and whatever happens their agent will find them another club? I wonder how many would have the reaction of Peter Clarke after the playoff final?
Absolutely spot on Cyril Smooth. I wrote to the club after the shameless team selection against Plymouth. We seemed to be running a Youth Club rather than a football club. (I wrote that before Keogh joined us). The B team, age group teams, etc, get well beaten regularly by lower league and non-league sides and some of the players who played against Plymouth will never play first team football anywhere again. You don’t turn a game in the Championship by pinning your hopes on a player who was playing non-league football a month ago (Thomas). Everyone in senior positions at the club are out of their depth, coaches, recruitment staff, chairman, many of the players. I do believe CC is a good coach – right club, wrong time though.
I have been a Town supporter for over 55 years and there have been dark times in the past. Yes, we have always been a selling club, apart from a couple of years under Rubery and whilst in the Premier League. Having said that we often generally managed to get replacements who were good enough to play in the team. That is not the case now. The gap between the players sold and those replacing them now is too big. We are hoping to stay in the Championship with a squad, as a whole, which is League 1 at best.
The likes of Pritchard, Mbenza, Bacuna etc who are on big wages and know they are not going to get new contracts won’t care a monkeys about the Town when they are moved on at the end of the season.
The Chairman’s message, whilst helpful, leaves more questions than answers. I could go on…..
Like you I’ve been a Town man for well over fifty years, I’ve had some great matches, the West Ham FA cup win all those years ago. The best for me was when we made it to div 1 and had been promoted with Blackpool and beat them first match. The press said Town have only beaten a promoted club, wait til Southampton come midweek. Well we weren’t doing too well until we got a direct free kick just outside box. I’ve never heard a chant so loud and spontaneous ‘Nicholson ‘Nicholson’ went up. Well jimmy didn’t disappoint smashing into the net and we pulverised the Saints for the rest of the match. Gonna remember moments like that and keep supporting til this mess is over.
I think the decision to sack the Cowley’s has backfired and it is a decision I have never understood or agreed with. If Carlos is being given 3 windows why were the Cowley’s not. Pipa and Vallejo were decent signings and are on reasonably sensible wages according to a website I have found ,but I understand that Brexit rules no longer allow us to make such signings. I doubt if this site is totally accurate but at the turn of the year we had 10 players earning more than £10K per week. Of these only Hogg, Bacuna, Mbenza and Campbell started the game on Saturday and none of these have performed consistently well. Of the others Schindler is top earner, so I am prepared not to see him in a Town shirt again , Diakhaby was second highest (who on earth agreed to that). The other 4 high earners are Stearman , Elphick, Ward and Pritchard who between them are pocketing over £60K per week.but do they not have these players insured against injuries.I can see the likes of O’Brien. Toffolo and Koroma leaving in the summer as I believe they are all capable of performing at a higher level than the Championship basement so it will be a case of bringing in the youngsters from the academy who with the odd exception are not up to even League 1 yet as proved in the cup against Plymouth. Another point is why have we not used the allowed number of loans? We only have Eiting and Perrera but are we not allowed six.?The future does not look good I am sad to say.
Don’t keep the info to yourself. Share the address of that website so we can all assess its reliability. You’re keen to lose Schindler? If he wants to go after putting his heart and soul into the club in five successive seasons then fair enough. But we should be doing all we can to persuade him we need him and want him to continue being the stalwart of our team and defence. Until he’s as old and crap as Elphick, Stearman, and Keogh in fact. If we need to make salary savings, those three should head the list of departures – not Schindler.
As a lifelong Town fan, my comments surround the recruitment side of our club and my conviction that we regularly sign players of dubious ability. Someone somewhere needs to own up to the fact that our scouting team, is for the most part, a disaster!! Very few players we sign permanently these days sell for more than we paid for them and we regularly lose big big money on them! E.g. Mooy apparently paid £10million and sold for much less, Kongolo (sale to Fulham for around £4 million – purchased for £16 million plus) , Pritchard £11million (could go for £0 when he leaves?), Sohbi started 4 or 5 games and cost us £5million. Granted players like Jordan Rhodes, Nkhi Wells, and Adam Clayton were an outstanding purchases when they came a few years back, but these transactions now seem few and far between these days. Look at Mbenza – who to be fair to the lad is playing well at present – but apparently he cost something like £8 million, when we made his signing permanent after a loan spell, but the loan spell was shocking! Yet despite the shocking first season on loan – when he couldn’t hit the long end of a bard door – we still purchased him for £8million!!!!. Similarly we paid millions for Diakhaby (possibly around £5 – £6 milliona from Monaco and unfortunately, he couldn’t hit a barn door or cross a ball to save his life. Someone doesn’t know what they are doing and we are getting ‘old manned’ into buying cast off’s for ridiculous fees, and then seem to spend our time trolling the free transfer market after we have sold the the better players. Wake up Town!! – we need a scouting team who know the English leagues and who can recognize footballing talent. The sort of players who can handle the rigours of tough matches, week in week out. Until that happens we will struggle.
It could be incompetence to spend that amount on poor players like Diakhaby. I was very surprised at the amount Derby County paid us for Butterfield. I thought that could only be down to their CEO’s incompetence. It didn’t take long before the true explanation emerged.
Everything must be done to secure the club’s future and if that means offloading the highest earners and restricting investment in new players, then so be it. In my opinion the club’s current problems stem from:-
– terrible player recruitment following our first season in the Premier League;
– rushing into recruiting David Wagner’s successor, when there was plenty of time to assess what type of manager might be best qualified for managing a club at Championship level;
– sacking the Cowleys and taking a big risk by appointing the current management team and attempting to dramatically change the club’s style of football.
It looks like we are now stuck with the current management team if we can’t afford to pay them off. It’s become the same every week; no full backs, no support for the lone striker, missed tackles, misplaced passes, no direction, no hope. I wonder if this was the vision that the Board shared with Signor Corberan when he was appointed? I can’t see where our next points are coming from and just hope that we prepare properly for life in League One.
Herr Wagner currently available, just saying…..
From a financial perspective Hodgkinson points are fair. In a nutshell, we’ve been on a very expensive five year adventure from the bottom of the Championship to the Premier League and back and it has provided no positive financial legacy. The club now has no choice but to pay down debt and unwind expensive wages: it’s not Hodginkson’s fault the money was blown on players that didn’t deliver.
What’s missing from the statement is much about where we go from here.
On that point I think it’s instructive to look back five years to the beginning of the adventure (start 2016-17 season) and think about the ingredients for success Dean Hoyle had created at that time. These were (1) recruitment of an excellent head coach and director of football (Wagner / Webber), (2) a few good quality Championship players already in place (e.g. Wells, Smith, Hogg), (3) the wherewithal both to make a number of good permanent signings (e.g. Schindler, Hefele, RVP, Lowe) and loan signings (e.g. Mooy, Ward, Kachunga).
The question now: does Hodgkinson have the plan and financial commitment to repeat what Dean Hoyle did?
This is the second article I have read over the past couple of days that gives a really fair and balanced assessment of what’s happening at HTFC. The other article was written by Steven Chicken in the Examiner on Saturday after the Wycombe fiasco.
I understand that when Phil took over money had to be paid back to Dean and that the club has to have a sustainable future. Nobody saw the pandemic coming which once again has had a major impact on football in general.
The clubs worst decision was to bring Olaf Rebbe in as Director of football in 2018. He made a mess in Germany and his recruitment at HTFC led to a number of players coming to the club that couldn’t play in the Wagner system, hence we kept losing matches and Wagner resigned. This left a right mess. Siewart joined and if you remember the q and a at the Odeon Phil said that seven first team players said that they didn’t want to play for Siewart a few weeks after he became manager.
The rest is history then the Cowley’s came. Some good loanee’s ESR and Chris Willock that we should have signed. The Cowley’s kept a steady ship with a mass of injuries. But after the West Brom game they would have had a wish list, Big Phil said no chance, debate/ argument continues about player recruitment so they were sacked. Enter Carlos. Same circumstances as the Cowley’s to deal with albeit Aaron’s and Holmes look as though they may come good. Again recruitment is taking risks on players that have a history of injuries and it’s come back to haunt us.
The fans can see the gaps. Leigh Bromley ( not an experienced director of footie) was guest commentator at Luton, he was critical of some players and I thought you had the chance to do something about it, but didn’t. Frazer was never a fifteen goal a season striker so the question is why were we scratching around at the end of Jan looking at a striker. Why wasn’t the business done on 1st Jan? We knew we needed one.
Alex Pritchard I believe was on around 50 k a week in the Premier League at Town. Even if his wage has dropped he is not going to be in any rush to leave until the end of the season as QPR were never going to match his salary at town, far from it.
We had a chance in Jan to recruit, we didn’t so looks like we will pay the price now.
January? We knew in August (if not earlier) that Mounie would be leaving and that Campbell (as you say, and despite his athleticism and excellent attitude) could not adequately replace Mounie’s goal-scoring potential. So we embarked on a season -long experiment to see if ( for the only time in my sixty plus years of following the club) we could survive a season without a goal-scorer. We are about to see the results of that experiment.
i put freeze on ALL CLUBS 8OO PREM 500 CHAMPSHIP PLAYERS THE REST WOULD GET 3OO AWEEK clubs like bury would never gone out of bizand still be in the league player got too greedy. cut players wage his what i do first for playing for country 1000 Scotland n Ireland England Wales stop pay outrageous wages pt everyone on even keel give Jimmy Hill STARTED HIS ROT OFF HE RUINED FOOTBALL .He laughed when one of oldest club went out of biz Accrington Stanley BRADFORD PARK ave was next now Bury THE FA SHOULD CUT WAGES
Responding to Gavin, i am not saying I would like to see Schindler leave, certainly not , but I am concerned the board will not renew his contract as they clearly want to trim the wage bill. Without Schindy the defence is a shambles and without immediate improvement we are heading for league 1,,or worse, and Schindy is far better than that.
I simply googled Huddersfield Towns players wages and there is access to all top clubs. Just found another site salarysport.com. Some slight differences on this one such as Joel Perreira being paid £15K per week, another diabolical signing and Hearts fans did warn us. According to this site our budget for players is well short of the £19million quoted by PH but maybe he is including coaching staff etc
No idea of the accuracy but makes interesting reading. We are not the only club paying silly wages to donkeys. Heres hoping the terriers can show some fight tonight and pick up much needed points
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Responding to Chris. Thanks for that Chris. Up the Town.