Playing budgets next season?

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What are everyone's playing budgets looking like next season? With Kenny End long gone I'd say it's safe to discuss this topic again; and since there are already a couple of threads up about next season, and at this point the biggest factor is likely to be the business everyone can get done in the summer, it may be a more relevant question to ask before we start to pick out potential promotion and relegation candidates.

I seem to be having deja-vu but our current status is; new manager who will want to build his squad, hardly any players carried over from the previous season, board warning that we need to make cuts.
 

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I’d imagine ours is pretty strong, but nowhere near the levels of the Mansfields of this world.

We will probably only bring in free transfers but I expect we can offer decent wages. I’d imagine Nicky Law and Lee Martin wouldn’t have signed if we were offering peanuts. Taylor wants to bring in 5 or 6 permanent players and I’d imagine 4 of those would be first 11 players so it’s quality over quantity for us.

As for other teams, I’d imagine that Bradford have a few quid, as would Scunny. If Mansfield stay down they’ll have another strong window too.
 

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Allegedly it was top 10 this season and is expected to increase and be competitive next season under the new ownership...

Sadly despite near on £2.5 million in player sales in 2 seasons we saw f**k all of it, that won't happen now under the new regime.
 

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Ours was somewhere in the region of £1.8m this season and is set to rise regardless of division. At current levels Tranmere board think it is the 8th highest in the division.
 

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Allegedly it was top 10 this season and is expected to increase and be competitive next season under the new ownership...

Sadly despite near on £2.5 million in player sales in 2 seasons we saw f**k all of it, that won't happen now under the new regime.
Wow that's crazy who did you sell to make £2.5 million?

Our budget is around a tenner.
 

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We were told before we went down that we’d have a strong budget regardless of what division we’d be in, yesterday we let go our assistant manager as it sounds like we can’t afford him, read into that what you will.
This season we had the fourth highest budget in L1 and still finished bottom.

As an aside, we have a 15% sell on for Oli McBurnie at Swansea so that could change things should they sell.
 

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As LS has stated above, we had the 4th highest playing budget last season in L1 - over £4m, apparently.

Because we were over budget this season, our fans seem to think we’re skint - and it infuriates me.

I’m not reading too much into the assistant leaving - I’m sure it’s not just solely due to cutting cloth accordingly.

The sale of McBurnie could prove to be pivotal. Surely he’s worth at least £10m?

We should have a budget big enough to ensure we’re competitive. Currently, I don’t know enough about the teams in L2 to draw any comparisons.
 

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Wow that's crazy who did you sell to make £2.5 million?

Our budget is around a tenner.

We had:

£100k Anthony Grant
£250k Jak Alnwick
£1.8-2 million for Jordan Hugill sell on

Plus sold four youth lads to Prem Clubs and Stoke for decent fees.
 

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We have a handful of IOUs ready for a shopping spree.
 

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So far this is what I've read into this thread and a couple of others:

MINTED
Bradford
Mansfield
Scunthorpe
FGR
Plymouth

GOING UP
Tranmere
Port Vale

SPENDING WISELY
Exeter

GOING DOWN
Carlisle
Cambridge

SKINTED
Macclesfield
Morecambe
 

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Ours is £2.5m according to Power - but that may include all staff not just the players, not sure.
 

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I heard on Talk Sport this week that Grimsby had the second worst budge this season...Is this true?
 

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I’m not sure if anyone at the club has claimed where ours stands within the league as seems so fashionable at the moment. I’d guess it’s middle of the road.

Seeing as a few first teamers have left or are leaving, who I’d expect to be high earners for us, we should be competitive enough in the market. It’s hard to tell when the likes of Bury can blow everyone out of the water with Monopoly money and fairies.
 

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I heard on Talk Sport this week that Grimsby had the second worst budge this season...Is this true?

Not sure about second worse but certainly in the bottom 10. When Fenty himself admits the budget was low, it must have been LOW
 

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No idea on the actual figures, but at Christmas our chairman said: "I recently received a report from the league which compared what the players’ wage bill is at Colchester United compared to the rest of League Two. Bearing in mind that we have almost spent all of the allowed budget, the report showed us as having currently spent the twelfth highest amount on player wages in League Two."

Can't see that really changing unless we get decent money for Szmodics, Kent or Vincent-Young this summer.
 

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The average L2 budget this season on the EFL bench-marking was around £1.8m (jumps to £3.1m in L1!).
 

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The average L2 budget this season on the EFL bench-marking was around £1.8m (jumps to £3.1m in L1!).

What’s your source mate, I would’ve suggested it was significantly less?
 

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Our chairman Simon Hallett has definitely got the money, just depends on how much he’s willing to put in. He’s a sensible bloke so I imagine he won’t go bonkers.
 

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I expect that Orient’ll be mildly above the division average unless we flog off the family silver. I’m lead to believe that we had the third biggest budget in the NL, though it was dwarfed by Salford’s splurge.
 

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“Being brutally honest, I’m finding it difficult at this moment in time with some of the figures that agents are requesting – and what clubs in League Two are willing to pay.

“From what I’m hearing, there are clubs who will certainly be paying a lot more than we will. It’s important that people understand that.“
 

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Getting excuses in early, eh. We’ll all be doing that.
 

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Our chairman says we’ll have a good budget but everyone thinks we’re skint. Got some big earners off and sold Van veen and Crooks in Jan so should have decent wedge to play with.
 

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The league seems to have changed from our previous five season spell 08-13.

Then there was more about bigger clubs in terms of likes of Bradford, Gills, Crewe, Rotherham, Stockport, Vale, Plymouth, Swindon etc who’d slipped down from the top two leagues at the turn of the millennium and the post ITV digital issues (most still floating around the bottom two leagues)

This time I was surprised as when we came down didn’t expect clubs like Mansfield/Lincoln for eg to be spending huge wages at this level so it’s been a different challenge. Seems a lot more about the smaller clubs who’ve recovered from non league spells now wanting to invest to get up which is fair enough. Feels a different dynamic these days that will probably take more finance to really challenge or shrewd management over a longer period of time to build a squad. Problem is most clubs don’t have that patience.
 

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If there’s one league where money talks to L2. Those, Newport excepted, were the biggest budgets.

The problem really are those owners who don’t see L1 as being much more financially appealing than L2 - but the operating costs are much higher. With relegated Championship clubs having such financial clout it’s really hard. It’s why Luton’s rise has been so impressive.
 

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If there’s one league where money talks to L2. Those, Newport excepted, were the biggest budgets.

The problem really are those owners who don’t see L1 as being much more financially appealing than L2 - but the operating costs are much higher. With relegated Championship clubs having such financial clout it’s really hard. It’s why Luton’s rise has been so impressive.

Do you mean Notts County excepted?

You could potentially chuck Swindon/Northampton in the top seven of budgets at a guess, I imagine not much is in it.

Indian Dan, did you ever tell us good folk why you thought the £5m figure was real?
 

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What’s your source mate, I would’ve suggested it was significantly less?

From what I gather, every club get the figures of each individual club budget but they are not named.
 

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