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Tranmere play Nottingham Forest U21s this evening in the EFL Trophy It is possible that Jack Barrett may make his debut for them, game is on Sky Sports +, kick off at 7pm score/update

As much as it might stick in our throat PKE would be a good sensible investment for the right people, maybe even a Rusian roulette hedge fund like the other lot. Small well maintained up to date stadium, no expensive academy or training complex to fund, probably minimal external debt, enough crowd potential to fill their shoe box, modestly famous ancient name to trade on. And owners who wouldn't want 100 million back.

If we can afford to pay more be critical of the fact we’re not willing to. If we can’t afford to pay more be critical of what’s lead to this. Neither position, in my opinion, is defendable.

seconded, a wonderful job indeed Wilsden 🙂

Also some seem to like to throw the entire club wage bill or annual losses into the first team squad wage bill instead of the other way around.

I think you’ve outlined perfectly the difference between a wage budget and a wage structure. The first is a very arbitrary limit, the second is more fluid and would have reasoning behind why a player is in a certain range and what’s necessary for him to move into a further one. If these are clearly conveyed to the players they then can’t be in any doubt as to what they need to do to achieve a pay rise. The club should also be keeping an eye on other clubs’ pay structures so what we offer can be adjusted to remain as competitive as possible.

“ITs A cITy cLUb ThO!”

Just to add my thanks to wilsdenrover for his diligence in keeping us up to date with the happenings in India. And also to add you must have the patience of a saint. 😇

Chaddy has previously said we should offer key players £15,000 a week. The suggestion is made that our new wage limit is £10,000 a week. Logically point 1 should lead to him being critical of point 2. Apparently not…

You can have a wage structure that's fine that's understandable and i think we've had one since TM and Venus introduced one alongside Waggot. But rather than hard line it seemed more about ballpark figures where as long as you had a few on low wages the top end could be stretched for the odd player. Now its been mentioned that they just want 3 brackets of c1-3k, 5-7k, 7-10k but whatever your structure it's also about how you move people around within it. A player like Dolan for example (just using his name not exact figures) who has amassed over 100 appearances and become a mostly first choice starter on the bottom end of the wage bracket is entitled to expect to jump to the top bracket not just go up to the next bracket and get a 2 year deal with a years option. That seems to be an issue here.

No apology needed 🙂 You were just being nice, and the comment was appreciated nonetheless

You are just making up random figures and suggesting that players are wanting wage structure shattering amounts based on nothing, purely to defend the club. The concept of a wage structure does not invalidate the point that it is extremely damaging to be in a position where we cant keep any of our main players on new deals. It depends what that wage structure is and the ceiling to ours is clearly not competitive enough. You keep saying fixating because you are underappreciating the fact that as expected, the issue has totally undermined the whole summer window. The overhaul has been more than anyone including the manager would have wanted because instead of topping up a solid core of players with a few additions, we have had to blow apart that core and replace it with cheaper replacements from abroad, all at the same time. Your last jibe is just totally out of context and is not specific to our club. If the TV money for everyone goes up, and wages across the board go up, yet ours keep going down, that doesnt keep us competitive.

Granted. But if you wage bill 20m for the season that's £384k a week.

Just got it from the court case thread and wasn't sure if it had been mentioned here. @wilsdenrover is the one who has been brilliant in keeping tabs on what's been happening with these billion adjournments and caught that this part of things had been resolved. I don't think their court case will affect us anymore, but if I were Venkys my next move would be to get some of that money they've put up for the bond back. Basically the need for more bonds is over because the amount they've paid into bonds already considerably exceeds the maximum fine payable as a result of the case. I think we are talking either 7.7 mill or 8.8 million quid in fines (currency conversions seem to have slight discrepancies) and I think it was something like 25 or 30 million already paid in bonds, but the proper numbers are all in that thread. I expect they'll want that difference back, and then to not pay or minimise the fine, but ultimately I don't think we have to give a shit about that anymore, and thus it's probably be more gratifying for most of us if they suffer as much financially as possible. Some would argue freeing up their constraints on funding us is a bad thing in the long game anyway.

Have they found new owners?.

Thanks for the reply

I doubt any club in this league pays all players the same it's impossible. We are paying Cantwell at least 20K pwk therefore by your definition Tronstad, Carter, and all the other established pros are asking for that as well. It's a nonsense excuse thrown around to deflect the low balling low wage model we now operate.

Apologies @KentExile if that’s the case!

Incredibly convenient timing for them stinks Thanks for sharing any news on what happens next with their court case?

I'm struggling to know what your point is. If they wanted to renew contracts, they could've done, they just chose not to . The other argument would be whose decision was it?

Shame for the lad, he’s now 24 and I think those 5 games for Altrincham is the most he’s played for a single club maybe even for all clubs combined at a senior level Seems Harry Chapman played against him for Gateshead coming off the bench!

To be fair the 8-0 loss to Chorley wasn’t so bad after all The official report says 2 of the goals could be argued as fouls https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/september/08/match-reflection--chorley-women-8-0-rovers-women/ “It should have just been 6-0, you’ll never sing that”

Tax deductable?

They’ll wheel out the privy account with ‘January is a notoriously hard window with inflated prices, look at other teams, Wigan and Kidderminster not signed anyone, with Adam Khan coming back it’s like a new signing’ or similar

Its something I acknowledge weeks/months ago. I just don't fixated on the issue. Players move on and new players come in. We cant match what players want. We have a wage budget and we are sticking to it. Should we pay more than what we can afford, it that right approach. If you pay one 25k then others we demand the same then you are going to be over your budget. Then your squad players will demand more for their role in the team. RF99 complaints that players are taking all the money out of the game then wants us to pay more than our budget is. Massive conflict there Don't you agree?