Sports Team Wage Bills - Barca At Top (worldwide)

[adedawson]

Amazing united have been able to compete at the top level with that... until this year lol We jumped up from 16 so even lower previous years... Great Manager.

 

[adedawson]

Full list bottom of this page.

http://www.sportingintelligence.com...ity-close-in-on-barca-and-real-madrid-010501/

This table shows, wage to point ratio for the prem.

Shows how amazingly well some teams are doing with limited budget.

Pos League Pos Team Points/ Wages ($m)
1 10 West Bromwich Albion 27.87363548
2 5 Newcastle United 27.68094408
3 13 Stoke City 22.5497979
4 7 Everton 21.92290893
5 16 Wigan Athletic 20.23930517
6 9 Fulham 20.20485246
7 11 Sunderland 19.00765671
8 20 Wolverhampton Wanderers 16.39378976
9 4 Tottenham Hotspur 16.27520425
10 2 Manchester United 15.0323567
11 18 Bolton Wanderers 14.51154564
12 12 Swansea City N/A
13 19 Blackburn Rovers 14.32365547
14 14 Norwich City N/A
15 3 Arsenal 12.49974432
16 1 Manchester City 11.21052915
17 17 Queens Park Rangers N/A
18 8 Liverpool 9.368084466
19 15 Aston Villa 9.09657713
20 6 Chelsea 8.976001556

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Not sure if any of you guys have read Soccernomics, or I think abroad it is called Why England Lose, but they say that statistically the best predictor of league position is the wage bill. Not transfer fees, not anything else, but wages. In a way, you're looking at a ranking of the best teams, and if someone put out a ranking like this I don't think it would be all that controversial. It only fails where entire squads have aged out of effectiveness at the same time while still on their former large salaries, in the case of Inter and to a lesser extent Chelsea.

 

[adedawson]

I wonder how long it will be before City become number one spenders. There bound to strengthen the team again given how close the league has been this season. They will want to do better in Europe too.

 

[Mandieta6]

Barring City, top 4 spenders are also the the top 4 clubs in Europe this season (the 4 CL semifinalists).

 

[Filipower]

Barring City and Milan, but yeah.

 

[Mandieta6]

Is Milan over Bayern? Must've missed them.

 

[Help?]

Chelsea lol

 

[adedawson]

as a matter of interest are LA lakers the top basketball team?

Also interesting to see the connection of wealth and success, I didn't realise it was such a big gauge.

Curious also that out of the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, Spain is significantly the poorest country. I wonder if you could get a breakdown of how much money these countries funnel into football.

 

[ARIAGA II]

They have the biggest superstar in the league so sort of yes, but basically all these teams have been champions in their sports at least once since 2008.

With baseball especially where there was a pretty good amount of free agent talent this past offseason, the jumps some of these teams made has been incredible. Funny enough the two teams who made the biggest jumps (Miami Marlins/ LA Angels) are currently bottom of their respective divisions.

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/...telligence-global-salary-survey-espn-magazine

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Spain funnels a ****load of money into football. Just about every team has a massive delinquent tax bill that the government is going to eventually just wipe out. There's some serious political backlash about it. Actually not as big of a problem with Real and Barca though, I think most of their money comes from marketing and tv abroad.

 

[adedawson]

Spain funnels a ****load of money into football. Just about every team has a massive delinquent tax bill that the government is going to eventually just wipe out. There's some serious political backlash about it. Actually not as big of a problem with Real and Barca though, I think most of their money comes from marketing and tv abroad.

I think I heard about Real Madrid selling property to the government to wipe out massive loans and have them given back? More funnelling there, obviously working but I wonder how much money it generates the country?

 

[Mandieta6]

From what I understand, the Spanish government is going to force the teams to give the money back, which could mean that lots of good players are up for sale.

If the debt is wiped, it'd be ridiculous. The country is in financial shambles as it is.

 

[adedawson]

Don't the Uefa final fair play rules come into effect this year? I dont think you can make a loss of more then £19 mil