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Re: New Manager / What it means for the youth?

By Interested Observer4/5 20:01Sat May 4 20:01:23 2024In response to Re: New Manager / What it means for the youth?

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Given most Ks fan have absolutely no trust in the Board and there is zero transparency around the Club finances all we can do is hope and pray this all works out ok. Sadly I have seen this sort of situation many times before with a number of non-league clubs. The Board is under pressure from the fans and feel they have to do something. They bring in a new manager who says I will only join if you give me a budget of £X and allow me to sign a load of players I have worked with before. The Board don’t really want to pay £X or believe that the Club can really afford it, but feel pressured into doing so. They agree to the new manager’s terms and mortgage the future of the Club. If things work out and succes follows, great. But if success doesn’t quickly follow the fall from grace can be swift and leave a big expensive financial mess behind to be cleaned up.

Ks had average crowds of around 200 last season and didn’t own their own ground. W&H had average crowds of around 600 and their own ground. I’m not up-to-date with Step 4 wages but I have detailed knowledge of a Club who finished outside the play offs this season but in the top half at step three and they pay their contracted players an average wage of £400-500 p/w and their top earners (a couple of strikers) were on £700-800 p/w. Structures vary and sometime it can be £500 plus win and goal bonuses to take it up to a higher figure (this also offers the Club some protection if the player is injured as the win and goal bonuses won’t kick in). A number of players at step 3 nowadays even have agents but it is still true that players are often loyal to a manager and fellow players who are their mates and you will still see them moving to a new club to follow the manager. However, few players at step 3/4 are willing to take much if any wage cut when they do. £50 a week but a higher win bonus, maybe. But from my decades in non-league I find it very, very hard to believe that all these ex W&H players are moving to the Ks and taking a substantial wage cut. If it was as easy as recruiting a manager from the level above and getting him to sign all his ex players on half their previous wage, every non-league club would follow that model.

We will almost certainly never find out what is really going on. And if we do it will only be after everything has gone pear shaped. Things may be ok and work out, but they may not. Let’s wait and see how next season unfolds.

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