Knock yourself out if you want to do that, you can also remove Schneiderlin, Depay and Januzaj's wages if we're being pedantic as they left in January.
I wasn’t intending to burden you with any calculations, I was just pointing out what financial year those figures relate to, which is a fair and important point I believe.
I guess the easier way is to compare salaries of 1st team players based on latest available information, which would still result in significant lower City wage bill.
Or, we can just wait until the end of the year for the new financial reports. No need for either you or me to skew any data to suit any of our arguments.
I think we're only counting contracts that are reduced for City?
I did factor in Zlatan’s reduced wage didnt I? I was not trying to manipulate any figure. There are a few contract amendments wich would affect the remaining few months of the new financial year. I did mention KDB, Fernandino, and Otamendi when I was discussing the same thing a few days ago, although I dont think the figures for the latter 2 would be that much changed.
Yup, City's non-playing staff are paid by a holding company rather than the football club so any apples to apples comparisons to our wage numbers don't really hold up.
As I said, comparing 1st teams wage bills is more appropriate, but your point needs some clarification, as it gets mentioned regularly.
First, your claim is not entirely true. Not all non-playing staff are paid by the group.
53% of the latest wage bill was attributed to commercial and administrative staff. The remainder to all football staff, including players.
More importantly, City are not segregating costs to skew any figures.
For FFP purposes, and new reporting requirements, City had to restructure it’s reporting to make it adherent and ready for assesment at any point, instead of making new accounts for UEFA every year. There is no need for City to include spending on infrastructure, academy, womens team, other city group teams etc in their accounts, as they are excluded from FFP accounting. The academy, womens team, other teams show as different subsidiaries under the group.
In any case, City Group Financials are published every year, and in 2016, City Wage bill to Group wage bill ratio was already at 80%, so City basically does pay their fair share.
Is that you Eto'o?
