£bbsfleet

[Arthur Horsfield]

https://twitter.com/stevetervet/status/ ... 3375908864

[Happy chappy]

I don't believe that figure for one minute HC!!

Trust me if we get promoted this season that's the wages we are looking at to get decent players in and lets not forget that the club has said that if we get promoted we will go full time so in affect that means at least doubling the wages the players are on at the moment, and expenses will rise at the player will training more or we could go down the Maidstone route and pay average wages and get relegated.

[Happy chappy]

https://twitter.com/stevetervet/status/ ... 3375908864

I think its a given that they will be relegated this season by the FA where ever they finish in the league.
Probably to the Premier Bostik league.

[Jonty]

Don't they put you down 2 leagues for financial regularities? They could use our facilities for say 20k per quarter, money up front of course! I do feel for their manager Gary Hill, he is one hell of a manager at that level and he always seems to find clubs with money troubles.

[Arthur Horsfield]

Does anyone really want them at PP. Not me. For 20k Micky Austin would raise that to keep them away

[Capricorn25]

I cannot see many of Ebbsfleets players coming to us next season.
I do not know our wage structure but I honestly believe that we cannot afford them.
On the positive front I am so glad that we are run by our directors and are not some rich man's plaything.

Hopefully we will get promoted and then we will have to pay bigger wages to get better players.
I did hear that you have to pay around a grand a week at least to get a player of National league standard nowadays plus good expenses. That's scary.

I don't believe that figure for one minute HC!!

Sorry M1 you had better believe it; I think HC was being a bit Conservative when he quoted £1000 a week for good players to play in the National League? it is alleged that some of the Fleet players are on double that amount, and Bill and Rickys wage bill was allegedly close to £25-30,000 a week? Ironic that both clubs now seem to be having big problems at this moment in time for different reasons. The teams at the top end of the National League are all big spending clubs , some with big financial backers ? So our decision to go Full Time if we are promoted is felt with mixed emotions , on the one hand; i feel we have got to take this chance if we are to compete with the best, and on the other i am worried it may go "Tits-Up" and we end up a financial wreck!

[Lincoln exile]

This club will not support a wage bill even approaching the figure you quote- the money just isn't there. I believe it was made clear in February that we could only go over to day-time training by employing young players whose wage demands would not be as great. The challenge then is for them to be good enough on the pitch.

[spike]

People look at this the wrong way around and this is why clubs get themselves into trouble. It doesn't "cost" more for players wages, players wages are whatever your club decides they will be. They can and should be set on the basis of what the club can afford, it is as simple as that. Agreed, that may make it difficult to attract the better players, but that is reality so deal with it. The only reason football has this problem is because so many clubs pay far in excess of what they can truly afford. Our club has learned its lesson and we don't play this game. We may not offer the best wages, but we pay our bills and wages on time. This is why we've had to work very hard to attract quality players and have relied on engendering a fantastic team spirit that makes them want to stay. We are however, competing against many teams who just throw money at players, either because they have some rich benefactor or because they are reckless and taking chances with their club's future. Invariably, the wheels eventually come off and the gamble backfires or the rich bloke gets bored and rides off into the sunset. Suddenly its everyone else's fault! This is why I get the raging hump when clubs start passing the bucket round and expecting the rest of us to chip in. They have players out there on the pitch, competing with and earning more than our lads and when it all goes tits up they expect the rest of the football community to rally round and pay for it.

I see Steve Tervet's latest article where Ebbsfleet's Andy Drury is calling for clubs to pay players and staff a year in advance. What a ridiculous and selfish suggestion. Of course that is fine at a club that's funded by a bloke with bottomless pockets, but the vast majority of clubs don't work like that. Players who sign big contracts at clubs who are being bank-rolled by one man don't really care about where the money is coming from until the tap gets turned off. In the real world, clubs can't afford to pay a year up front and why should they? Players and supporters need to get it into their heads that when you allow one rich person to fund your club to a level far in excess of what you could ever achieve independently, you effectively hand over control to the whims of that one man. It can be great fun for a while but as Colne Dynamos proved, it can all blow up at any moment. Today it's Ebbsfleet in trouble, Billericay is another disaster waiting to happen.

I feel sorry for the Fleet fans and I genuinely hope the club sorts themselves out, but I find it incredible that so many people are surprised by recent events. Al-Humaidi didn't spend his childhood in Kuwait wearing an Ebbsfleet shirt and playing keepy-uppy in his garden. He came here for the theme park and the football was a dalliance on the side. As the real reason for his presence seems to stutter and stumble, he now seems to have got tired of the football distraction. Surely even Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming.

[Home And Away]

Great read spike well done but problem now if we go up what happens do we go straight back down or start paying big wages. Getting a load of players Released from pro clubs won't work players that have experience will come only for the money

[spike]

Great read spike well done but problem now if we go up what happens do we go straight back down or start paying big wages. Getting a load of players Released from pro clubs won't work players that have experience will come only for the money

Hopefully not, but better that than going bust.

… and anyway, we'll just fight to get back up again.