And if anyone knows how to get Admins to multi-board, I'm all ears...

Complain on the thread.

Cheers 1DM

Surprised Villa's wages are so high when they've just got a bunch of lower league signings making up their 1st team! Can anyone explain? Can't all be going to Darren Bent surely?

Stuck it on the boards that it will be well received on. It has been a long night.

I hear you Admin1. The rest will probably track it down anyway.

Besides, it may well be that no one comments anyway....

Stick it on the Arsenal board! Please!

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Stick it on the Arsenal board! Please!
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It is too late for that kinda caper.

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City's wage bill is actually quite pricey

Yeah but this does not look into the club's capability to pay those wages. Also, it would be interesting to see if players are worth higher wages due to sponsorship deals.

I don't like these types of analyses. Different clubs are run in different ways and the clubs are run for different motives.

Totally idealistic, but if all football clubs could agree that players got paid a basic wage, but inflated bonuses dependent on success, then reward would follow success. It might also mean that rather than clubs having to splash out on mega wages, players would actually have to earn them, and teams that have poor seasons (or even relegated) are not paying out as much in wages.

kinsang (U3346)

What does success mean? Signing Beckham and signing Modric for example are 2 different types of purchases and have different motives. For example, Modric would bring skill on the pitch but nothing off of it and Beckham would bring success off of it i.e. media attention.

Remember that football is like other professions, the employer has the right to choose how much they pay and can set expectations and standards.

It is a pretty sight, Arsenal doing well considering.

add912 - to put it simply, success should be on how well the team does. Of course variables off the pitch will affect such matters, but generally speaking, the main concern of any team should be to finish as high as possible, not how many shirts can we sell (although such factors are important). As I have siad, it is totally idealistic, but if clubs adopted a scenario where if the team finishes first they get the highest bonuses, as opposed to finishing bottom of the league, where they receive little bonus. Other result based businesses reward success, in football a lot of players are given big wages, irrespective of how well the team is doing.

Arsenal with the 4th highest wage bill in the country finishing 4th every season. Oh dear, I am truly flabbergasted.

Hmmm, I don't buy that approach kinsang.

For example, money can bring class to a team that would not be able to normally attract a certain level of player. I give you Samba and Remy as examples. Without that incentive these players would not play for QPR, they would go to the top teams because they know that they are more likely to finish higher and then earn more money. It has the same effect, the top teams continue to attract the top talent.

I feel that the fair play rules have it right in principle, it should be relative to turn over. If you can generate cash, within the means of the club's operations then that money can be spent in any way they like. It just means that we will not see any drastic changes like we did with Chelsea and Manchester City.

Business and football walk separate lines and the nature of what success means is therefore subjective. This is why a players salary cannot be judged like this.

The difference between spurs and Liverpool is the amount swansea roughly spend!!

For a team in transition with a new manager, different style and new players after the loss of key players....

They are really doing well.

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City's wage bill is actually quite pricey


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Are you surprised ?? I'm not

That's how they are(City) have had to spend to attract players they need to crash out of the Champions League.

Wow, wel done Swansea City

But Liverpool and Arsenal...oh
dear. Oh dear, oh dear. Oh dear,
oh dear, oh dear....
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Oh dear, what an idiot.

By the way, why are Spurs yet to reveal full details of the report of the last financial year? You're still using your 2010/2011 wage bill.

Sheriff John Brown - bring back David Dein

But Liverpool and Arsenal...oh
dear. Oh dear, oh dear. Oh dear,
oh dear, oh dear....
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Oh dear, what an idiot.




Everybody knows that Arsenal clearly throw more wages at their players than Spus, and that equates to about £50 milion a year more, which over a 5 year period equates to something like a quarter of a billion bigger spend on wages than Spurs. And what for a one point gap last season.

I suggest it is you that is the idiot for trying to deny what is a fact.

I have often said that Spurs are doing very well when you compare the whole financial picture, and I think this report backs that up.

Their net transfer spend is also very low.

The big question, I guess, is will Levy release the reigns a little in the pursuit of regular CL football?