Who said anything about half? Your words. I said a little over £6m. You seem proud of your maths. Maybe do some? Is 53% of £13m more or less than £7m? The answer should sort your confusion out.
Well I wasn't trying to do exact income tax based maths on numbers based on vague rumours - I simply halve whatever probably BS number someone quotes and round down to get a worse case scenario for if tax and national insurance, etc. was being applied. If you want to get all precise there are a...
No way in hell anyone could possibly live the rest of their lives on such chickenfeed. After tax he would be looking at little more than £6m. Maybe we should organise a bucket collection for him at our next match?
Thinking about it more, he might be more suited to a sleeping giant resurrection type of project. Maybe take on Birmingham City or even Sheffield Wednesday? He did OK at Swansea in their fire-sale season and would probably have got them challenging for promotion given another year or two...
I'd say that Palarse are about where we were at the end of Hughton's time with us with regards to their squad: the nucleus of an OK team but in serious need of a revamp and new ideas. However at Brighton there were a number of advantages that are not available in Selhurst; a better ground...