"The proposal is for Parish, Harris and Blitzer to have 18% stakes each and for the remaining 46% to be held by the other three co-owners."
from http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/12/crystal-palace-shareholding-new-jersey-devils-steve-parish
I'd be interested to know more about this if you can surmise and/or copy&paste.
I'd have thought that, relatively speaking, you didn't have many big earners but you'd only just started taking them on and, as such, your wage bill is likely to be only heading one direction from here.
I read it a few days ago when it was first published and is, as ever, a wonderfully detailed read.
This bit was something I didn't know about and gave me small crumbs of comfort: "Parish is aware of this problem: “There are regulations, cost control measures and targets we have to hit. And we...