Mirror reporting that MM will get 20 million?

At first I thought, no way. But thinking about it, we need that much to build a promotion winning side.

well according to carl its true as he stated it a few weeks back. (they prolly got it from this forum)

According to Carl it's meant to include wages, last year we spent £17m on wages. So it's about £3m transfer kitty if we pay as much in wages as last season.

According to Carl it's meant to include wages, last year we spent £17m on wages. So it's about £3m transfer kitty if we pay as much in wages as last season.

well i think malky has brains unlike jonesy. id be happy with 10mil on wages and 10 mil on transfer fees

According to Carl it's meant to include wages, last year we spent £17m on wages. So it's about £3m transfer kitty if we pay as much in wages as last season.

Yes but our wage bill will be lower this season as we have got rid of quite a few high earners.

2009/10 Championship team wages taken from http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2011/06 ... -time.html

These are the Championship teams for 2010/11 but obviously six of them were either in the Premiership or League 1 in 2009/10 so wages aren't for championship for those clubs.

Portsmouth 65m
Hull 38m
Middlesbro 31m
Burnley 22m
Reading 20m
Sheff Utd 19m
Ipswich, QPR, Cardiff 17m
Derby, Forest 16m
Leicester, Bristol, Leeds 14m
Coventry, Norwich, Palace, Preston 12m
Watford 11m
Barnsley 9m
Swansea 8m
Doncaster 7m
Millwall 6m
Scunthrpe 5m

Apart from Swansea you don't get much for 10m-12m wages and remember we are still paying Jones 750k for the next year. I am assuming that's got to come off the 20m and Bellamy's 1.3m ish. Current squad probably about 7-8m already. Say we need 10 players on low average wages of 8k per week that's 4m. So altogether that is 13-14m and we are not paying high wages to any new players (high being similar to Oli, Koumas, Chopra, what Jay wants).