Wages 09/10 Season

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http://www.talksport.co.uk/magazine...age-totals-revealed-where-does-your-club-rank

Top-flight financial firm Deloitte have gone through the audit books and worked out how much the Premier League clubs paid their staff in the 2009/2010 season.

Deloitte collate their Annual Review of Football Finance using the financial records submitted by each club at the end of the financial year. The figure given above is the total of salaries and fees (including any contract termination payments) that have been paid to the staff by each club.

Portsmouth aren't included in the list due to going into adminstration in February 2010, meaning that Deloitte didn't have acceess to their documents.

You can read more about the Deloitte report and download the full list of highlights from the Deloitte website.
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1 - Chelsea
2 - Manchester City
3 - Manchester United
4 - Liverpool
5 - Arsenal
6 - Aston Villa
7 - Tottenham
8 - Everton
9 - Sunderland
10 - West Ham
11 - Fulham
12 - Blackburn
13 - Bolton
14 - Stoke
15 - Wigan
16 - Hull
17 - Birmingham
18 - Wolves
19 - Burnley
 
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Literally the worst way of presenting the information :-/

Team 2010 (2009)

19. Burnley £22,372,000 (£13,427,000)
18. Wolves £29,801,000 (£16,747,000)
17. Birmingham City £36,739,000 (£27,390,000)
16. Hull City £38,252,000 (£33,598,000)
15. Wigan £39,421,000 (£42,198,000)
14. Stoke City £44,806,000 (£29,749,000)
13. Bolton Wanderers £46,437,000 (£40,892,000)
12. Blackburn Rovers £47,382,000 (£46,143,000)
11. Fulham £49,285,000 (£46,232,000)
10. West Ham £53,647,000 (£66,749,000)
9. Sunderland £53,687,000 (£49,530,000)
8. Everton £54,311,000 (£49,069,000)
7. Tottenham £67,203,000 (£62,567,000)
6. Aston Villa £79,974,000 (£70,577,000)
5. Arsenal £110,733,000 (£103,978,000)
4. Liverpool £121,085,000 (£107,206,000)
3. Man Utd £131,689,000 (£123,120,000)
2. Man City £133,306,000 (£82,633,000) :eek:
1. Chelsea £174,111,000 (£167,179,000) :eek: :eek: lololol

Couple of surprises, one is how low Spurs wage bill is, second being how high Liverpools is. Also interesting although Arsenal spend a lot in wages, but still considerably less (£20million-£30 million) annually than their competition (bar Chelsea which is just lol)
 
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Not surprised at Liverpool as they've always been in the top 3 for wages but the scale of Chelsea's wage bill is a little surprising. I'd be amazed if the figure for 2010-11 isn't lower as they've shrunk the size of their squad recently and Torres/Luiz didn't join until the end of January.

Could be a few eyebrows raised at Villa, basically £80m for a side that built a very 'decent' squad under MON, decent amount of depth but not many world beaters, you would have thought they could have set a realistic wage cap at that club. Their bill is a lot higher than rival teams i.e. those battling for UEFA cup spots.
 
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allow £60m to reach the CL final, £16m for EPL champions (Im surprised this is so comparatively low - I guess this is without tv money, gate reciepts etc which CL money includes I believe) and other cup runs, shirt sponsorship, kit deals etc etc

(this is just to give people a general idea of how much comes in)

Im surprised at Chelsea being so much higher - 40% or so - than City and Utd, I knew it was bad but not that much.

To me the one that sticks out positively is Everton, to usally be 6/7 in the league every year by the end on wages which are approx 50% of Arsenal's is incredible

Spurs are the kings of negotiations in every way lol so Im not surprised their wages are so moderate (although very well done of course)
 
Keep in mind, if everyone gets a 1mil bonus for the league(this is the previous season when Chelsea won it) then thats 25mil added on to the wages, bonus for cup, maybe a bigger bonus for the double. I'd expect this season Chelsea to be less because, no bonus's for cup and they removed Ballack, Deco and Beletti who were likely on insanely good contracts.

Utd's likewise would have increased, Rooney up to a supposed 200-250k a week will add a load, Hernandez was on smeg all. But factor in bonuses for all the players, league, champs league final, and it will go up a pretty huge amount.
 
FrankJH said:
To me the one that sticks out positively is Everton, to usally be 6/7 in the league every year by the end on wages which are approx 50% of Arsenal's is incredible
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I don't see it as being that incredible; they have the 8th biggest wagebill in the country and finish 'usually 6/7' yet you compare them with Arsenal who have the 5th biggest wage bill and always finish in the top 4. Much of a muchness IMO.

The point is you can't really compare in numerical terms teams playing in the CL with those that don't, there is a real gulf in both class and income, and hence a big gulf in wages is to be expected.

Furthermore when bringing net player transfers into the equation, over the last 5 years Everton on average spend £8.8m more than Arsenal every season, which eats into their savings on wages.

Finally bearing in mind the fact that Arsenal make a profit whereas Everton turn a loss, you could argue that, in a head-to-head comparison with Arsenal, Everton are underachieving. Having 50% of Arsenal's wagebill could be viewed as excessive, not something to be proud of. Everton's turnover for 2010 was £79m compared to Arsenal with £379.9m

Now I'm not saying that Everton are doing anything out of the ordinary for the Premiership, but choosing Arsenal as a club to compare with, who spend a far, far smaller proportion of their income on wages than Everton do, is questionable.
 
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You know Arsenal aren't doing that well profit wise as our income from flats/developement has almost gone now and our wages have gone up significantly while everything apart from the income from redeveloping Highbury has completely stagnated.

This year profits could be a close call and next year I think we're projected to make a loss. We were looking great when we moved to Emirates, because we had that income but the wages were significantly lower, we've been consistantly raising wages on players that shouldn't be getting raises.

Commercially, shirt sponsorship is a joke, lack of touring pre-season has been a joke, lack of growth in income aside from tv/tickets has been a joke and left us in a rather dangerous position profits wise.

Theres a reason Arsenal finally sorted out a preseason tour, our finances don't look great and Wenger hasn't asked, or wanted, or thought its a good idea, he's been told we need that 5-10million it might generate. We also need the fanbase in other area's of the world so that our next shirt sponsorship deal isn't so utterly, utterly, utterly pathetic.
 
The key thing about those property sales is that they were used to repay debt so although one would expect a fall in turnover in future years, there will also be a signicant drop interest repayments. Obviously I'm expecting reduced profits moving forward but nobody was expecting £50m+ profits to be sustainable; a modest loss would be par for the course.

Don't forget that in 3 years time Arsenal's deals with Emirates and Nike expire so based on what you are saying about the quality of the existing deals, that's surely got to mean a big hike in revenue from them, the fact that they are currently poor deals implies that moving forward the club should find it easy to tap more money out of it. I think Arsenal get like £5m compared to Liverpool with £25m, something like that? So the long term prospects look fantastic on that front.

Also in terms of ticket revenue don't forget season tickets are getting hiked by ~6%, not big money but you'd expect that to bring in an extra couple of million.
 
I still think things are looking in acceptable shape, just announced profits of £14.8m announced for year ending 31st May, debt-free property business (this is what I referred to above - the club still easily cleared a profit in spite of the expected fall in turnover), net transfer profit over the summer to add on, edging closer to expiry on the Stadium/Shirt deals which will see a hefty improvement, rising ticket prices etc.
 
Yeah Arsenal looking very healthy going forward - I imagine their wage bill will be thereabouts or potentially less with the players they lost in the summer, they have a massive stash of cash on hand and major sponsorship deals to be re-negotiated in the future.

Combine that with the prospect of UEFA actually growing a pair and enforcing the FFP rules and 2014 could well be a good year for them.
 
It's interesting to note the top 5 teams have massive squads, compared to everyone else, meaning that all clubs are paying their players similar money on average. (Certainly in the top 10 and maybe even the top 13)
 
To think with Fulham it's because theres about 4-5 players on £30k+, £30-40k is probably Duff/Schwarzer/Hangeland, £40k probably Johnson and £50k Zamora.
 
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