[Football] Team Sport Salary survey. Albion average pay is....

[El Presidente]

According to the report the Albion come in at an average weekly wage this season of £32,597, just behind Fulham and ahead of Villareal.

Barcelona top the table with £201,000 a week, Manchester United highest English club with £125,666, Palace are £53,000 a week, and plucky little Leicester, who denied us victory on Saturday £52,000.

Only four clubs (Newcastle, Burnley, Cardiff and Huddersfield) pay less per week than the Albion.

http://globalsportssalaries.com/

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Newcastle surprises me.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Is that the playing salary or are the office wallahs included?

 

[nwgull]

Is that the playing salary or are the office wallahs included?

If only El Pres had included a link to the article.

 

[Titanic]

Is that the playing salary or are the office wallahs included?

It claims to be 'AVERAGE FIRST-TEAM PAY'

 

[Return of the Rev]

According to the report the Albion come in at an average weekly wage this season of £32,597, just behind Fulham and ahead of Villareal. By

Barcelona top the table with £201,000 a week, Manchester United highest English club with £125,666, Palace are £53,000 a week, and plucky little Leicester, who denied us victory on Saturday £52,000.

Only four clubs (Newcastle, Burnley, Cardiff and Huddersfield) pay less per week than the Albion.

http://globalsportssalaries.com/

Where's mile oak on the list?

 

[Deadly Danson]

We get so used to these ridiculous figures nowadays that £32k a week barely registers but just stop and think about that - £32k a WEEK for playing football. Extraordinary really that these figures are at the low end of anything.

 

[El Presidente]

Where's mile oak on the list?

Reminds me of when we worked at TCDCU at Amex House with those salaries.

 

[El Presidente]

Is that the playing salary or are the office wallahs included?

First team.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

If only El Pres had included a link to the article.

Why look at links? Nobody else does (see the ape thread)

 

[nwgull]

Why look at links? Nobody else does (see the ape thread)

You're probably being sensible by not clicking through on any of [MENTION=31]El Presidente[/MENTION] 's links to be fair.

 

[Titanic]

You're probably being sensible by not clicking through on any of [MENTION=31]El Presidente[/MENTION] 's links to be fair.

There speaks the voice of bitter experience

 

[marcos3263]

We get so used to these ridiculous figures nowadays that £32k a week barely registers but just stop and think about that - £32k a WEEK for playing football. Extraordinary really that these figures are at the low end of anything.

I am reasonably well off, with a good job and a mortgage etc etc. However my car is poorly and I really need a new one, I am trying to work out the best loan on a 6 year old car and if I can realistically pay it back etc. when one of these footballs can buy me one by Tuesday 3pm - god I wish I had just a little bit of talent......

Actually I don't begrudge them as look forward to watching them work and I don't think they will say the same about me.

 

[Badger Boy]

They aren't earning that money based on recent performances. They get paid incredible sums of money in return for showing up for the 38 games a season the club plays. Only 18 can be in the squad at any time, so we have some players who are just leaches. At the moment, at the choice of the management, Suttner and Schelotto are wasting their careers and we're wasting our money paying them when they're fairly clearly nowhere near the squad. In Suttner's case, it's through no fault of his own on the pitch. He must have really done something wrong behind the scenes to be so out of the picture.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

They aren't earning that money based on recent performances. They get paid incredible sums of money in return for showing up for the 38 games a season the club plays. Only 18 can be in the squad at any time, so we have some players who are just leaches. At the moment, at the choice of the management, Suttner and Schelotto are wasting their careers and we're wasting our money paying them when they're fairly clearly nowhere near the squad. In Suttner's case, it's through no fault of his own on the pitch. He must have really done something wrong behind the scenes to be so out of the picture.

Whilst I get the point you are trying to make, your choice of the description 'LEACHES' seems incredibly harsh. I very much doubt there is a single player at the club who wouldn't dearly love to be starting every game.

 

[El Presidente]

There speaks the voice of bitter experience

Sorry about that, has the crick in the neck gone yet?

 

[Easy 10]

Interesting that if fans alone had to cover the cost of the players salaries in the EPL, then each ticket would cost £111.

With my season ticket I'm paying £32 per game, minus a fiver for travel so £27. Bargain.

 

[Diablo]

What is it that has made footballers so ridiculously overpaid?
Our average first team player therefore gets more than £1.5 million a year £4500 a day. A decent salary is £50k a year it takes our average first teamer 12 days to earn £50k..
A footballer as others have said plays 38 League Games and perhaps ten others. Less than a match a week!
It would be interesting to see a wage increase chart for most professions as compared with one for footballers over the last 50 years.

 

[Easy 10]

What is it that has made footballers so ridiculously overpaid?
Our average first team player therefore gets more than £1.5 million a year £4500 a day. A decent salary is £50k a year it takes our average first teamer 12 days to earn £50k..
A footballer as others have said plays 38 League Games and perhaps ten others. Less than a match a week!
It would be interesting to see a wage increase chart for most professions as compared with one for footballers over the last 50 years.

Broadcasters, advertisers and sponsors are pouring BILLIONS into the game nowadays, so why should the players not hoover up a large chunk of that money ?

 

[dadams2k11]

Broadcasters, advertisers and sponsors are pouring BILLIONS into the game nowadays, so why should the players not hoover up a large chunk of that money ?

This. We all would given the chance.