Championship playing budgets league table

[Biscuit]

14th

 

[grawhite]

|I reckon somewhere more like 15 or 16th... if you read inbetween the lines of Gus.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Have voted 15th,can only go by what we are told by the club,what would another £32m have done instead of an the traning facility? Perhaps a few places up the table..

 

[HastingsSeagull]

12th, 13th or 14th Id say

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12th, 13th or 14th Id say

14th for me, those ex-prem teams will be over-paying a bunch of players and recruiting new ones in relation to that. Less for sure than ex-prem but prob more than us

 

[bobbybighead]

Twelfth for me. Behind Cardiff, Hull, Leicester, Watford, Middlesbrough, Blackburn, Leeds United, Blackpool, Birmingham, Bolton, Ipswich, and Wolves.

Spot on 12th

 

[mikeyjh]

About 13th for me - Leeds, Forest, Cardiff, Bolton, Blackburn, Wolves, Leicester, Hull, Watford, Middlesbrough and Derby all probably have higher wage bills than us for starters and have more money in the kitty.

You are having a giraffe right?

 

[Perkino]

14th

 

[rabbitmaddie]

An annual figure might be a bit irrelevant. As an example what clubs signed expensive players last year on, say a three-year deal, so have a strong team now but may not be spending moneythis year?

It would be interesting to measure how much each team has spent on players over the last three years, and the current transfer value of the team. I wonder how many teams would be in the positive and by how much?

PS I believe we have a far more valuable team than last year. Has the value of the team increased by £8 million, to justify our P&L loss?

 

[chucky1973]

7th

 

[El Presidente]

The average for this division was £16 million in 2010/11, which I appreciate is out of date, but I would have expected that average to have been higher last season given that the division contained West Ham, Southampton, Reading (£20 million in 2010/11) and Pompey.

Therefore last season, with a wage bill of £14 million we were in the lower half of the division. Walt is right in saying that there is a general correlation between wages and success on the park, we only have to look at the Albion in the Championship at Withdean for evidence of that. However occasionally there are outliers to this trend, and I suspect that Palace are one of them this season.

 

[gazingdown]

Walt is right in saying that there is a general correlation between wages and success on the park

It's the other way round, i.e. there is a general correlation between success on the park and wages. That is to say, successful teams generally spend a lot on players. It's not quite true the other way, i.e. not all teams that spend a lot on wages are successful.

A bit like all horses are animals have 4 legs but not all 4 legged animals are horses.....

 

[Eggmundo]

Do we have an answer or will this go on for ever?

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

You are having a giraffe right?

Yeah i put you instead of Blackpool for some bizarre reason. Id say you have around the same budget as us really.

 

[sully]

Aren't parachute payments for 3 years? That puts us way down the list and can't be considered an irrelevance given the fact that that puts at least 9 teams in front of us for wages.

Except that not all nine of them are still in this division.....

West Ham, Pompey for example (there may be others).

 

[father_and_son]

Do we have an answer or will this go on for ever?

THIS... I answered the poll (13th, just in the second half, mostly for the reason stated above about ex-prem clubs, etc) and scrolled down expecting someone to enlighten me (or shock me that we were top or bottom or something similar)

 

[glasfryn]

16th

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

14th

Lets hope the new seats and shirt sponsorship push this up into the top 10. Bar the parachute payment clubs we will improve as the fair play rules start to bite, certain clubs will not be able to live beyond their means.

 

[Turkey]

These 8 as they're all getting parachute payments so should be higher than us: Middlesbrough (8m), Burnley (8m), Hull (8m), Blackpool (16m), Birmingham (16m), Wolves (16m), Blackburn (16m), Bolton (16m).

Cardiff, Leicester City would make it 10 sides above us. I suspect Forest & Leeds are too.

 

[Black Rod]

Do Blackpool still have their £10k a week wage maximum in place? If so, and given the fact that I don't recall them spending any major money, while they might be receiving parachute payments their outgoings on the squad would presumably be less than ours.