Stop it with that negative spin

Disappointing but unsurprising that contributions to this topic are more about personal insults than addressing the original question.

As I understand it the cap is around £1.8m for the top 25 players. Therefore if everyone gets the same slice, that's £72k each. However what we know is that 83%, ie £1.5m is spent on the top 17 earners, ie their average is £88k. It's probably fair to speculate that there will be a range of salaries within this group. We know Kelly is on a big wedge, which you'd expect as a MoS nominee. Taylor and Connor probably get some sort of international weighting, and Manu is international captain. Houghton is a MoS winner and club captain. Let's say for the sake of argument that these get £100k each, with Kelly on £150k, that's £550k on our top 5 earners, leaving £950k for the next 12, presumably Shaul, Faraimo, Tuimavave, Griffin, Talanoa, Sneyd, Bowden, Green, Minichiello, Hadley, Westerman, Paea. They'd be on an average of £79k each. Then the last 7 - at a guess Abdull, Matongo, Washbrook, Logan, Downs, Litten, Miloudi would share the 17% - £300k - at an average of £38k each. Would this be hugely disproportionate?

If your figures are correct no wonder Pearson was spitting feathers and I don’t see how Kelly can be on 50% more than Taylor or Houghton.

It's obviously just illustrative of the point that there'll be some spread of earnings within the top 17 and bottom 8.

All very interesting but pure speculation. Do you remember when you used to try and convince me that hetherington wasn't fleecing the club and that jimmy rule was doing a great job?

Of course. But here's a question for you. You imply the club's not doing the right thing in terms of cap distribution. Scenarios are presented that are both reasonable and aligned to information we have that challenge this. Your only response is to resort to personal insults. Why not present a reasoned response?

Oh those were the days.
Don't forget the other old classic, if we don't buy passes the club will go out of business

Have you seen the net debt position? Clearly not.

No one is personally insulting you.
I think he is just implying your numbers are fictional, you over egg the pudding verbally and use a lot of jargon.
But again it's not personal.
Anyway Radford said our cap distrubution is probably no different to the other big teams it just comes down to lack of quality thereafter in youth product and squad fillers.

Sounds about right. The issues with the squad IMO are levels of injury this season and lack of penetration in the forwards, Taylor apart, which won't be resolved fully by injured players returning. I did like having Litten and Houghton on together tonight, that brought a different dimension. But we need to replace Watts and Ellis somehow.

For all he was the panto villain tonight, Watts showed what we’re missing.
I wish he was still in the black and white.
Ellis is irreplaceable unfortunately. After watching FC since 78, I’ve come to the conclusion he’s the best player and leader I’ve seen in an FC shirt.
I’m still mourning him not being out there!

I'm not implying anything. I merely restated what pearson had said (and radford talked about again last night on blunderside) to get people's views and some idea if that was likely to be normal then, as usual, you come out with some ramble that you believe to be correct then go to the nth degree defending it and throwing around comments in your own insulting way. You and bumpy share many traits

FWIW radford said last night not all clubs operate the same salary cap model