Even that figure is eye-wateringly high. I dread to think what it is today.crazy,
Wasn't that long ago...…
Premiership wage bill 1999: £397m
Even that figure is eye-wateringly high. I dread to think what it is today.
Sanchez being on £370k a week makes my skin crawl. It wiuld take me years to earn that, and I do my job better than he does. People would cite ''market economics" as justification for this but United will struggle to offload him now, he's on a long term contract and has been dire for 2 years....who'd take him off theor hands?
Very harsh, particularly on Burnley who are a great club with a long top flight tradition including title wins as recent as the 1960s. They have an average gate of 20k in a town with a population of 70k. There is an argument that can be made that they are the best supported club in England based on attendance to population ratio.As long as obscene TV deals are dished out clubs will keep handing out contracts like money's on tap. There's a few PL clubs who could make a profit without anyone going to the games, such is their TV income. Which is how titch pieces of shit like Bournemouth and Burnley can turnover £100m+ with crowds little better than ours
True about Burnley, my dads team as a lad. For years their capacity at Turf Moor was higher at just over 60000 than the towns population and used to finish top four year after after.Very harsh, particularly on Burnley who are a great club with a long top flight tradition including title wins as recent as the 1960s. They have an average gate of 20k in a town with a population of 70k. There is an argument that can be made that they are the best supported club in England based on attendance to population ratio.
Very harsh, particularly on Burnley who are a great club with a long top flight tradition including title wins as recent as the 1960s. They have an average gate of 20k in a town with a population of 70k. There is an argument that can be made that they are the best supported club in England based on attendance to population ratio.
Harsh but true. Propped up by obscene TV revenue like quite a few others in that league. Let’s be honest and say that below the top 6 it’s a pile of average teams who got lucky with a tycoon or a manager who put players in the right slot..
below the top 6 ?. Chelsea and Man City are the two who "got lucky" the most
Most analysts say there is almost a direct correlation between league position and wage bills across all divisionsWe were the 8th biggest spenders on agents in league 1 - there’s no direct correlation to player budget but I’d say it’s a pretty good indicator
As long as obscene TV deals are dished out clubs will keep handing out contracts like money's on tap.
An honourable exception was Jamie Vardy of course
This is where I do hae some sympathy for football - the TV companies offer such sums because they know people around the world will buy enough subscriptions to justify it; TV companies can't afford to let their rivals snaffle all the rights as TV companies with no rights = no subscribers = out of business, so they bid up as can't afford to not get some. With enough global demand for the Premier League, it makes sense. Equally, once they have the money in their pockets, the clubs have to outbid each other for the limited talent. So as long as fans are interested in watching TV, their money will find its way to the players' pockets.
I was at a conference recently and met delegates from Sweden, Kazakhstan, America and the Czech Republic - all football fans but they had no interest in their own national leagues, they all had PL teams they followed and each of them actually spent Saturdays watching games on TV at home as part of their lifestyle. I didn't understand quite how big a deal our PL is abroad; it's huge.
Didn't realise that Fulham had spent £100m, 5th most in the league. Still getting relegated. Wow.
Yup plastic foreigners are worth big money. I saw La Liga’s president say they wanted to be the second biggest league in every country after the native league. Scudamore would never allow that.
The game was packaged up like that from 1992Huddersfield fans have been moaning about their club not even tringt to compete. You can't aim that at Fulham, but their utter incompetence with a budget like that is pretty startling.
The game is becoming part of "the entertainment industry" , more and more it reminds me of WWF/WCW in terms of how it's promoted/marketed etc.
Huddersfield fans have been moaning about their club not even tringt to compete. You can't aim that at Fulham, but their utter incompetence with a budget like that is pretty startling.
The game is becoming part of "the entertainment industry" , more and more it reminds me of WWF/WCW in terms of how it's promoted/marketed etc.
The game was packaged up like that from 1992
Correct, but as BSB says it has increased massively in the last few years. When we went down in 2001 the PL was still fairly similar to how it had been in the last years of the football league. It's unrecognisable now, more like NFL or something.
Lee Hughes was being paid £18,000 a week in the championship by us. I know one very average defender in the premier league in the mid 90’s was on £28,000 a week basic salary.
Lee Hughes was being paid £18,000 a week in the championship by us. I know one very average defender in the premier league in the mid 90’s was on £28,000 a week basic salary.
I reckon that the equivalent of Hughes today would be on ten times that!
Sorry I meant as a 15-20 goals a season Prem striker, not Championship, so perhaps that's not quite a "Hughes equivalent".In the championship? £9 million a year?
Yup plastic foreigners are worth big money. I saw La Liga’s president say they wanted to be the second biggest league in every country after the native league. Scudamore would never allow that.
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