Not saying what Barcelona and Madrid are doing is fair or right but if there was equitable TV revenue sharing in Spain they'd have CL winners making like a third domestically of what relegation battlers in England get. The difference is staggering.
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14Henry
Looking for receipts 👀
If you also look at the "smaller" teams in the PL. You can't bully them financially because of what you said. But i think theres a pride element too. How many times do Real or Barca sign someone from Betis or Celta for big money. It never happens. 20m here or there. The little teams get bent over.
Here if you want a Ben White or a Rice you're paying big money and those teams can then invest and usually find some decent replacements. Look at Caicedo. If he's playing in Seville, Real are getting him for 30m max. We had 75m rejected lol. Madness.
As I said before the PL has at least 15-20 big matches a year. Matches that would interest most football fans. However no other league has that.
Even look at fan support. We are arguably the 3rd biggest team in England. Look at how many different nationalities we have here every day talking about Arsenal.
Go to an Atletico Madrid forum I doubt their are too many international fans.
The PL is the best league in the world by a country mile and its only going one way.
MartiSaka
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Understand but it's a chicken egg problem. A longer term view could be they need to make the competition more equitable so that a smaller share of something within the ball park of the PL is far greater than a large proportion of what la liga gets now
Was about to post this but that such great work from club being top of table when you competing with clubs who payiny double than what we pay.
Chelsea wagebill next season going to be funny
Chelsea wagebill next season going to be funny
Also manutd is such funny club all that Glazers out and they ahead of man city in terms of spending and paying thier players
Tnegs
Active Member
Should have an * next to the Man City wage bill to explain that it does not include money paid through various offshore accounts and other related entities to cheat FFP.
Dutch D
Well-Known Member & FPL Champion 19/20
Our wages have significantly decreased in recent years. We had quite a bloated payroll with Auba, Laca and Özil on crazy wages amongst others. Have really trimmed the squad now so should be in good health.
Buhry
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Country: Norway
fans constantly complaining that glazers are bleeding them dry yet the have 100's of millions to blow on dross like pogba, sancho, lukaku, antony etc?? the list goes on
Liverpool experiencing something very predictable right now. When you have all these players who seem to hit their peak at the same time and are in their late 20’s / early 30’s, unless you are very brave or cut throat and let go of some of these guys you’re gonna have big issues with wages and also not gonna get any big transfer fees for them to reinvest into their squad.
Maybe
You're wrong, no?
That's definitely gonna be something teams will learn from, you can see what Chelsea and Arsenal are doing now.
I would expect contracts for 28+ years old players will go down and top contracts will shift to players from 20-25y with the exception of some senior guys who bring a lot of marketing value to the club.
We also learned it the hard way with massive contracts for Özil and Auba and then you end up with those players just sitting there and taking the money out of the club with no motivation left
Our wages are low now because we’ve been out of CL for so long. Presuming the club carries on its current trajectory we’ll have to give out higher wages to keep our stars and in a few years time the wage bill will probably be closer to 300m.
Interesting. Makes sense that revenues have been falling since we dropped out of CL but interesting that transfer spending has basically been increasing at the same rate.
Spuds revenue is quite remarkable too, obviously partly cos they’ve been in CL but I imagine new stadium is massive boost too. All their silly gimmicks like go-kart track sound dumb but probably pretty lucrative.
Wonder how Arsenal will seek to add and diversify revenue
Wonder how Arsenal will seek to add and diversify revenue
Country: Canada
The comparison vs 2017 is pointless as it's in nominal terms. What we've seen is a huge inflation effect on transfers and wages since then so in real terms the % change vs 2017 won't be near as stark.
Country: Canada
Isn't the fact that we have one of the youngest squads in the league the primary driver?
MD3 Gunner
All Deals Off
Curious lads, are we in danger of breaching FFP if we sign Rice, Havertz and Timber before selling anyone ?
Country: England
Player:Saliba
That’s because net spending on players, which is the club’s investment from it’s own pocket rather than using sales, has been going through the roof since 2019. Inflation has only been a world factor in the last few months, but these last 4 years have seen a much greater investment in players than Arsenal put in for the whole of Wenger’s 22 years.
Country: Canada
There's an article in The Athletic (I don't have a subscription) which states that we've got a decent space to sign all the above players and not be in trouble with FFP. Then there's the fact that we're almost certain to get decent fees coming in for sold players this summer.
MD3 Gunner
All Deals Off
That last line is a MUST.. Tierney, Balogun, Lokonga, Tavares, Holding, ESR/Vieira, Partey, Xhaka, etc should make 130m minimum
