i think salaries should be stated per year so people can compare to annual revenues

here’s wikipedia:

Player wages

There is no team or individual salary cap in the Premier League. As a result of the increasingly lucrative television deals, player wages rose sharply following the formation of the Premier League when the average player wage was £75,000 per year.[175] In the 2018–19 season the average annual salary stood at £2.99 million.


The total salary bill for the 20 Premier League clubs in the 2018–19 was £1.62bn, this compares to £1.05bn in La Liga, £0.83bn in Serie A, £0.72bn in Bundesliga, and £0.54bn in Ligue 1. The club with the highest average wages is Manchester United at £6.5m. This is smaller than the club with the highest wage bill in Spain (Barcelona £10.5m), and Italy (Juventus £6.7m), but higher than in Germany (Bayern Munich £6.4m), and France (Paris St Germain 6.1m).

Th ratio of the wages of the highest paid team to lowest paid in the Premier League is 6.82 to 1. This is much lower than in La Liga (19.1 to 1), Serie A (16 to 1), Bundesliga (20.5 to 1), and Ligue 1 (26.6 to 1). Because of the lower differential between team wage bills in the Premier League, it is often regarded as being more competitive than other top European leagues.[176]


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so your average player counting even the benchers at cardiff is 3 million pounds.

is bat-macumba worth 2.5 your AVERAGE league player.

oh i should stop speculating and go read what actually happened

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chelsea refused him to spurs and he went to crystal palace!

does it burn, you guys? or is it more like “good riddance”? sour grapes or legit?

who did you get in the end?

I don't regret him going to Palace. The club doesn't need another over-payed striker when the priority has been strengthening n defence (we've needed a defensive midfielder for bloody years). So I'm pissed that the window has been wasted trying to sort out the Arnie situation when there are other areas that desperately need sorting out (and Batshuayi was just another distraction from that) but even if we were desperate for a striker, his wages were just silly given his poor record in the Prem. I'm surprised Palace have taken him, tbh.

oh i see. yes. zabaleta is great but not getting any younger. i see...

so you got nobody? shiiiiiiiiiiiiiittt...

and artie now injured again? fuck...

(i would have sold him immediately, like i said pages back)

yeah whoever is in charge of hiring at west ham... i don't know... probably not a genius

On reflection I wish he'd gone, too. He's an excellent player but we were in for Maxi Gomez and that fell through when he stayed. Our most important player now is Declan Rice and our most creative one is still Lanzini - even though he's out for the season. We're not in a relegation battle for a change so I see the next few months as just getting through this barren patch as best we can. Then hopefully Pellegrini gets the money to push forward next season, by which time Lanzini should be back, Arnie will probably be gone and some of the dead weight will have hopefully followed him.

i was gonna ask “lanzini?” and realized ive never seen him cuz heks been out all season.

o man rough times.saw the score v wolves earlier and felt bad for you.

Blimey, this is a dream compared with previous seasons. Remember last year, the big protests against the owners? The whole new stadium debacle? Fans literally fighting with players on the pitch? The genuine fears that the club might go under? The whole "Big Sam" thing? Compared with that this looks like not that bad a season.

Anyway. enough of all that. Some big games at the weekend: West Ham v Liverpool will be a behind the sofa job for me but lots of big teams will be coming back from some pretty bad results last week so it could be a very interesting next few days for the likes of Man City and especially Chelsea/Sarri.

oh yes hahaha. i had forgotten cuz i never witnessed it.

this weekend i’d like to see everton wolves but not sure what they’ll show cuz it’s the crowded timeslot

lester man u should be good, man city arsenal might be a small massacre, west ham liverpool i will avert my eyes.

there is something weird with the everton calendar. playing man city on date 28 ahead of date 26 wat. this league confuses me...

The Everton v MC game was meant to happen in a couple of weeks time but cos MC have a cup game that weekend, they've brought it forward.

Just read this morning that Wilshire might be out for the rest of the season because of an ankle problem. I'd actually forgotten he was even at West Ham!

I'd pretty much forgotten about him too. Sooner his contract runs out the better.

dortmund v frankfurt about to start

They're not showing it on bt today:mad:

did they show bayerN getting punked hard by bayer? cuz that must have been a good show too.

this game was good overall, but the first half was great. 1-1.

Nah, they showed the Shalke game.

Well as predicted Everton got beat and at my predicted 3-1. However, the best news is a cat turned up! Brilliant commentary on the game below

Tomcat Davies

oh shit i missed the wolfitos!

sorry about your defeat. but did you win a bet?

“the video is not available in your location”

damn...

No didn't did I. After my brief dabble which only ended with me losing money I stopped betting.

yeah. it’s even in the name no? ladbrokes. how can it be more obvious lol.

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man u scored at 8’ then defended defended defended defended defended....

wasn’t that the mourinho way? lol

well at least on theory cuz he couldn’t win. but...

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ja ja ja el kun...

could not resist and now tuning in to liverpool-west ham to have on while i file papers

1-1!

I'm stuck in a meeting at work so any updates I can sneak a peek at under the table would be most appreciated

declan rice just missed a header alone in front of the goal

halftime now

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eta: highlights show liverpool goal was offside?

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restarted couple of mins ago seems unchanged. eta: but antonio limping from his celebration jump earlier

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my app crashed and i spaced it but continues 1-1 at 62’

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wh doing well up front

shaquiri getting insteuctions to come in soon

Is arnie out?

Just got back from climbing. Jeez, if this stays 1-1...

And injuring yourself from a celebration must be the most stupid way to deck yourself

noble missed another good chance for wh

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oh shaquiri went i for lallana

now firmino out

arnie who?

West Ham
1Fabianski
24Fredericks
23Diop
21Ogbonna
3Cresswell
41Rice
16Noble
30Antonio
11Snodgrass
8Felipe Anderson
17HernándezBooked at 60mins

Substitutes
5Zabaleta
9Carroll
13Adrián
14Obiang
26Masuaku
27Pérez
45Diangana

noble out
obiang in

chícharo out
carroll in

Thanks :)

cresswell threw it to the corner

salah denied

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anderson out masaku in at ‘90

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carroll almost stole a stupid alisson clearance

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origi offside failed and failed

1-1 final. good game!

ps but west ham was robbed.

Honestly I could kiss a West Ham fan right now.

Thanks guys. Got through the meeting without getting caught checking my phone. Although nearly gave a mini fist-pump when I saw the final score.

for the finish, google “mourinho russia hockey gif”

i couldnt find one to post in this clunky old board but you should take a look...

effin priceless

"an extra fiver if you want tongue"

So I didn't see the game but it sounds like typical West Ham. Capitulate against teams they have a fighting chance against then raise their game against the likes the Liverpool so they can celebrate a point. Nice, but frustrating at the same time.

liverpool now under pressure to win and win big

nice CL matches coming up in the next 2 weeks:

“new” man u v. psg
spurs v dortmund
lyon v barcelona? no idea...
liverpool v bayern! aka “kloppo’s revenge” hahahaaa

ft copypasta:

Liverpool has posted the largest annual profit ever recorded by a football club, after a stellar run to the Champions League final and blockbuster player sales provided an unexpected boost to its financial performance.

Revenue at the English Premier League side, currently mounting a strong challenge to win its first league title in 29 years, was £455m in the year to May 31 2018, a period that covers last season.

Liverpool also made a pre-tax profit of £125m, up £85m from a year earlier.

The figure beats the £92.5m profit achieved by Leicester City in 2016/17, the season the Midlands club played in the Champions League, European football’s most prestigious competition, following its unlikely Premier League victory in 2016.

Liverpool has closed the gap on the sport’s financial elite, which includes Spain’s Real Madrid and Barcelona, England’s Manchester United and Germany’s Bayern Munich. However, each of those clubs still made at least £100m more in revenues than Liverpool last season, according to figures collated by Deloitte, the consultancy.

“What we have seen is a stable and sustained improvement in the club’s financial position over recent years,” said Andy Hughes, Liverpool’s chief operating officer.

Liverpool’s run to the Champions League final last May, when it was defeated by Real Madrid, provided extra income from broadcasters, ticketing and prize money.

Media revenues were £220m, up by £66m from a year earlier. Commercial revenues, such as from sponsorship contracts, were £154m, an increase of £17m. Match day revenues also increased to £81m, up £7m.

Over its financial year, Liverpool made a £124m profit in player trading, in part through the sale of Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona for a reported £142m. In most transfers, fees are paid in instalments, meaning income from the Coutinho transfer will probably be realised over a number of years.

I reckon the MU board are now desperate for Solksjaer to slip-up so they can justify replacing him in the summer.

man you ingleses really need to start keeping an eye on your boy sancho

dortmund kicking ass with him

hoffenheim ended up leveling up 3-3

after dortmund had them at 3-0

insane game it was