West Ham’s Financial Fair Play limit rises to £64m this coming season and over a third of it could be available to spend this summer. The loss of loanees Alex Song, Victor Moses, Emmanuel Emenike together with end of contract Joey O’Brien have released over £10m wages already from our annual bill plus Carl Jenkinson who we paid up for the rest of the season brings the total released to just under £13m of wages.
If Enner Valencia, Diafra Sakho, Pedro Obiang, Stephen Hendrie and Doneil Henry were all to leave this summer that would release another £7m of wages brining the possible wage annual budget to £20m.
When you add the additional £4m limit rise this season it means our wage budget could be anywhere between £17m and £24m. However, with transfer fees and wages inflated to ridiculous levels in this summer transfer window because of the new Sky/BT TV mega deal it remains to be seen what that will actually buy you.
Just to put it into context if we had pulled off the double signing of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Jamie Vardy that would have taken nearly £18m from that budget if reports are to be believed. Ibrahimovic is thought to have agreed a £220,000 a week deal with Manchester United while Vardy is said to be close to a £120,000 per week deal with Arsenal.