Southampton Weekly Salaries (Update final FM 2015 database)

Edit:  An updated version of this post can be found here.

Football Manager 2015 has released their post-January transfer window update.  Following my policy of cribbing data from them and posting things that interest me, I have decided to update the Southampton Weekly Salaries post from last month.

As I stated then, I have no idea how accurate these figures are and they do not take into account performance bonuses.  On the other hand, last summer when I was considering Financial Fair Play issues FM’s base salaries fairly closely corresponded to the information released by the club for the players’ salaries as a whole.

I have left the last numbers in so it is easy to see the changes.  The salaries are in thousands of pounds per week.

PLAYER                                 CURRENT             NOVEMBER 2014

Alderweireld                      £68                         £78

Ramirez                                £55                         £55

Osvaldo                                £54                         £54

Long                                      £50                         £50

Mane                                    £45                         £45

Bertrand                              £43                         £35

Tadic                                      £42                         £42

Elia                                         £40                         £46 (at former club)

Forster                                 £40                         £40

Ward-Prose                        £40                         £20  (Signed new contract between data bases.)

Pelle                                      £37                         £37

Wanyama                            £34                         £34

Schneiderlin                       £34                         £34

S. Davis                                 £34                         £34  (Signed new contract between data bases.)

Fonte                                    £34                         £34

Boruc                                    £32                         £32

Gardos                                 £30                         £30

Rodriguez                            £28                         £28

Yoshida                                 £28                         £22.5  (Signed new contract between data bases.)

Clyne                                     £27                         £27

Cork                                       gone                      £25

Mayuka                                £23                         £23

Hooiveld                              £18                         £18

K. Davis                                £16                         £16

Gazzaniga                            £14                         £14

Djuricic                                 £10.8                     £12.2 (At former club.)

Gallagher                             £10                         £10

Reed                                     £10                         £10

Everyone else is listed as making £5K or less  a week so I will stop here.

According to FM 2015, Southampton’s total weekly pay has increased £49K since September 1, 2014.  However, that includes the £10K per week drop in Alderweireld’s pay which almost certainly did not happen.  Presumably, the experts at FM decided that they overstated his salary in the first database which would mean an actual increase of £59K.  Assuming that, this year, that total is only paid for half a year, that would use up only £1.5M of the summer’s transfer profits and would certainly not move us anywhere near our salary cap.

McCarthy. Turnbull, and Mugabi have signed new deals since the transfer window closed.  Possibly they are making £5K or more now, but I have no way to determine that.  I do not think their increased salaries are significant to Southampton’s overall financial position—although I am sure that the individual players are quite pleased.

I am slightly surprised that there has been no extension of Lloyd Isgrove’s contract.  Given our potential need for club trained players to fill out our European roster next year, there would seem to be no good reason not to sign him.  Possibly, the contract is being negotiated even now.