Emerton cost us about £3 mil and we sold Dunn for £5 mil, so that puts us £6 mil up in total. Our highest payed player will be on £40k max compared to Arsenal's £100k as well.
Jack Walker wasnt a billionaire, he made about £350 million from the sale of Walkersteel. The majority of his wealth went on to his son-in-law after he died and unfortunately he sits on the board and doesnt want to spend his money in the same way Jack did. Not sure how much he has, i would guess no more than £100 million.
Jack Walker did set up a fund for us with about £25 million or so in it, but how long do you think that lasts in football these days? He also has some system where by for every hmoe game we play he adds an extra 5,000 worth of ticket sales onto whatever the attendance is, which when we only average 23,000 or so is quite useful.
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We arent even a city, we are a town with a population of about 120,000, which makes us the smallest team in the Premiership. We are in between Manchester and Liverpool and have to compete with them for fans, so we do well to have roughly 1/5th of our population attending the games. I doubt many other Premiership teams can say they have such a high population to paying fan ratio.
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Originally Posted by G.K Zhukov
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He got us promoted, won the Worthington Cup and into Europe 2 years running. He did well for us until his last 18 months in charge.