An MBA at Cardiff Met costs £13,500 for International students.
Actually it will be considerably higher than that as that would be the cost for an UG cost. Just checked the Masters course where I work and given the player is likely to be Canadian, the cost is likely to be between £15k and £16k.... it did make me think about the sponsorship with Cardiff Met. If we get fully funded places for four people then that is an impressive sponsorship package, even if fees are discounted it is a pretty good deal.
Really does make you appreciate what we have with the sponsorship package, but also in cases like Parisi - the money he would have been paid would be offset loosely against the cost of the Masters.
(made up figures below, i have no clue/interest of actual wages/budget)
Player X earns £800p/w
Season is approx 34 weeks long
player x will earn £27,200
masters is costing us 0, but worth £13,5k
£27,200 - £13,500 = £13,700
£13,700 divided by 34 weeks
= approx £400 (£402) to be paid
Obviously there are certain things that are massively wrong with above, as in the player is here months after the season is over (is he being paid for this months???)
But based on a £800p/w figure, we would only need to pay an MBA enrolled player HALF that wage, for a comparable 'cost' (if the MBA we paid for).
The met MBA agreement is very very lucrative for us in attracting talent, if we can't utilize it this year it would be a real shame, and the budget for that new player i guess becomes smaller than it would be.