Players salaries.

Sounds obscene, wage bill of just under 250k a week.

But Burnley's bill is twice that, and they can afford it. That's why the championship is dividing into two leagues, basically those with chute payments and those without.

Would take that with a handful of salt, personally. A random website doesn't know player's salaries.

But just entertaining it for a minute; Roberts aside, those weekly wages are probably about the level I would expect tbf and dont seem high at all (in the context of footballer's salaries!). Dozzell being 2nd highest earner is lol mind.

It’s not the wages that are shocking for me it’s the huge amount of players in that top list, there are 30.

Of those 30 it’s not too difficult to pick out just 8 players on paper that could be seen to be worth a wage and I would bin the rest

Haha, clicked on the link on the source website where they say he’s a Wolves player.

salarysport.com/football/player/tyler-roberts/

Shows:

1 I’m gullible/lazy

2 The source web site is a bit naff

3 Both of the above

These salary sites seem to do the rounds. This is a similar one from a couple of years ago: footballleaguefc.com/queens-park-rangers-2019-20-player-wages/

Seny and Field poorly paid

agree sparks and that’s why an effective DOF system should prevent that but were working a half in half out model where we have DOF but manager still seems to get the players he wants.

I still remain unconvinced that our club needs a DOF system for a number of reasons.

What are their actual day to day duties outside of each transfer window?

What’s the difference between being Head of Recruitment and a DOF and do we need both?

Does it warrant a salary on par and along with what a decent manager costs?

How would you go about finding a good one and how would our numpty owners trust them to be spending their money wisely?

If you were a successful manager would you really want your reputation ruined by somebody else dictating what tools you can have to do your job properly? 

Call the role whatever we want. But a squad 30 and every manager coming in getting what he wants adding to it screams we do need something to prevent this.

Perhaps the problem is not the DOF role but more the person in it and how we execute it. Having people pleasers as owners don’t help.

Just my opinion

At Bolton they’ve done a ‘John Lewis’ on Ian Evatt and made him a shareholder. Smart move. Keep an eye on him, seems to have what it takes.

But do we want year on year of me-to-you across the back 3/4 clocking up possession stats? We’re too quick to forget that when we were in a great position to kick on, show a bit of initiative and flair, he failed.

les seems totally invincible from being sacked and i honestly don't get why. we all know his negatives and failings so there's no point writing them down now but due to all of those things we're in the same league position as we were when he came in.
he hasn't fostered a culture at the club nor has he implemented that conveyer belt of players and managers.

i don't blame him for the eel leaving but i blame him for the clubs response. when is les' contract up? he needs to go asap.

I don’t blame him for Eel going to GR, he was never going to turn that down, but I’m not so sure he isn’t in some way culpable for the Wolves thing. I took a job once and left after a week because I’d been mis-led. Eel was looking for an out before GR landed in his lap. Eel rated himself (rightly or wrongly, who cares) so was he really expecting to work with Ramsey and Hall, never mind a pretty poor DOF.

Well it might be a bit unfair on managers/ head coaches but they are the ones required to motivate the players and get results. Totally agree in the case of Les its a scandal that his performance never seems to be reviewed as he is rewarded for failure - eight years in his case is way too long. But the director of football lays out the strategy and you don't want that changing every two minutes. So there is a balance. A good director of football would provide more support to the head coach. Its not Les's fault we have FFP and owners who can't or won't spend more money, but is his responsibility ultimately that our youth structure is not bearing more fruit and that we are not picking up the kind of players we can develop and sell at a profit. A good DoF would also have the authority to stand up to the head coach and say "no, you can't have a crocked 34-year-old centre half - these are the young up and coming ones our analysts have identified, choose one of these."

Who else can I suggest? I have suggested a couple of times on here we just go all out to headhunt whoever is the number two to the head of data analysis/ recruitment/ DoF at Brentford and follow their model properly this time!