Premier League Finances

[CP 0 3 BHA]

Big piece in the Guardian today. The attached table showing the finances of each club shows just how unsustainable and unequal the whole circus is.

Premier League Finances Table from the Guardian

Even Tony Bloom might gulp a bit at having to bankroll that kind of madness for long.

Whilst I'm desperate to see the Seagulls soar, I do have moments when I think being outside the Premier League is far more fun and less likely to end in tears.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Prem League Table of wages:

1. Chelsea £174m
2. Man Ciy £133m
3. Man Utd £131m
4. Liverpool £121m

5. Arsenal £110m
6. Villa £80m
7. Spurs £67m
8= Everton £54m
8= West Ham £54m
8= Sunderland £54m
11. Fulham £ 49m
12= Newcastle £47m
12= Blackburn £47m
14. Bolton £46m
15. Stoke £45m
16. Wigan £39m
17. Birmingham £38m

18. Wolves £30m
19. WBA £23m
20. Blackpool £13m

 

[Pavilionaire]

Big piece in the Guardian today. The attached table showing the finances of each club shows just how unsustainable and unequal the whole circus is.

Premier League Finances Table from the GuardianWhilst I'm desperate to see the Seagulls soar, I do have moments when I think being outside the Premier League is far more fun and less likely to end in tears.

Sustainability can be done - the Wolves figures are brilliant. You just need a manager and board that "keep it real".

 

[Simster]

West Ham's tiny wage bill just goes to show what a remarkable job Avram Grant has done there.

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

Sustainability can be done - the Wolves figures are brilliant. You just need a manager and board that "keep it real".

True, but sadly keeping it real almost certainly translates into scrabbling against relegation most years in that environment.

Your table certainly shows what a cock-up of a club WHU have become - equal 8th on wages and relegated!

 

[strings]

Well done Wolves. The only club in the Premier League to be debt free.

If they stay up, they have big plans for the future - so I have been reliably informed. (This is the actual rubbish thing about being a Brighton fan in the Midlands - I hear gossip about Wolves, but none about Brighton!)

 

[Gritt23]

I for one would certainly take a yo-yo existance on sustainable wages over the timebomb that most of those clubs are sitting on to achieve mid-table. Who wants to play in a division you can never win anyway? That's not so great that I would want to be running up huge unsustainable debt levels to achieve.

 

[Gritt23]

West Ham's tiny wage bill just goes to show what a remarkable job Avram Grant has done there.

Whereas, a genuinely brilliant job done by Tony Pulis. Top 10 finish, FA Cup Final, and qualified for the Europa League.

 

[Daffy Duck]

Those figures are very scary!

As much as we would all love to be playing in the Premiership, figures like that really do make you think twice.

No other clubs could hope to compete with the top 5. Now if they broke away and formed some sort of European league with the wealthiest clubs in Europe, the rest of us could hope for some sort of sense returning to the game here.

 

[crodonilson]

Well done Wolves. The only club in the Premier League to be debt free.

If they stay up, they have big plans for the future - so I have been reliably informed. (This is the actual rubbish thing about being a Brighton fan in the Midlands - I hear gossip about Wolves, but none about Brighton!)

What are they?? Renovating the Tap & Spile??

 

[NUFC1892]

Good to see ours have dropped, I reckon we'd have been probably 6th in our last Premier League campaign. I dislike Mike Ashley but I will give him and the current regime credit for the fact that our turnover is no longer spent on under acheiving players.

 

[strings]

What are they?? Renovating the Tap & Spile??

Don't be silly - why mess with perfection.

They are going to start to dismantle Molineux's North Bank on Monday... my offer to turn up with my hammer and crowbar has been politely declined.

 

[Peever]

Villa debts are a bit skewed. WE have 110 million but 90 million is to Randy on interest free so its not crippling us. With MON out now this summer is going to be a massive cleanup of alot of deadwood he left behind. Prime example Beye on 35k a week and hasnt played for us. Its going to sort out our wage bill a bit and we can reinvest in better quality.....hopefully

 

[APACHE]

Those figures just go to show some of the rubbish talked about the players we are interested in on this site.the names talked about are on P/L wages, so look at the wage bills,it's maddness.

 

[itszamora]

Worth noting that these figures are for the 2009-10 season, not the one just past.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Bloody hell, Man City and Utd and Arsenal - their highest paid director is £2m? Not even Kenyon's taking that much at Chelsea

 

[Gully]

Makes you wonder what will happen with the wage bills for the top teams when the new rules of expenditure versus income are enforced for European Cup competitions.