Race to Fourth, Wage Comparison?

[beats1]

Some people may ask why? I don't know, but Hughy thought it would interesting
Arsenal
Lukas Podolski £107,000 £5,564,000
Theo Walcott £100,000 Signed new contract rumoured to be this amount
Jack Wilshere £80,000 £3,120,000 got £30k raise apparently to 80-90k
Tomas Rosicky £80,000 £4,160,000
Per Mertesacker £80,000 £4,160,000
Andrey Arshavin £78,000 £4,056,000
Santi Carzorla £70,000 £3,640,000
Mikel Arteta £70,000 £3,640,000
Thomas Vermaelen £70,000 £3,640,000
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain £60,000 £1,560,000 Signed new contract to around £60-70k
Olivier Giroud £60,000 £3,120,000
Gervinho £60,000 £3,120,000
Bacary Sagna £60,000 £3,120,000
Marouane Chamakh £60,000 £3,120,000
Andre Santos £60,000 £3,120,000
Abou Diaby £60,000 £3,120,000
Denilson £60,000 £3,120,000
Laurent Koscielny £60,000 £3,120,000
Johan Djourou £50,000 £2,600,000
Kieran Gibbs £50,000 £2,600,000 got a £10k increase which would be £60k
Nicklas Bendtner £50,000 £2,600,000
Sebastien Squillaci £50,000 £2,600,000
Aaron Ramsey £50,000 £2,600,000 Signed a new contract got a £10k increase to £60k
Wojciech Szczesny £50,000 £2,600,000
Lukasz Fabianski £50,000 £2,600,000
Ju Young Park £50,000 £2,600,000
Carl Jenkinson £30,000 £1,560,000 Signed new contract and dailymail says he got a £15k raise to £35k
Vito Mannone £30,000 £1,560,000
Emmanuel Frimpong £30,000 £1,560,000
Francis Coquelin £30,000 £1,560,000
Ryo Miyaichi £18,000 £936,000
Wenger £125,000 £7,000,000
Last published wage bill: £143.4million(2012) Is going Higher

Chelsea

Eden Hazard - £185,000 ​

Fernando Torres - £175,000 ​

John Terry - £175,000 *Reportedly has a match the highest earner clause​

Frank Lampard - £140,000 ​

Ashley Cole - £120,000 ​

Petr Cech - £100,000 ​

Demba Ba - £90,000​

Gary Cahill - £80,000 ​

David Luiz - £75,000 ​

John Obi Mikel - £75,000 ​

Juan Mata - £67,000 ​

Daniel Sturridge - £60,000 ​

Ramires - £55,000 ​

Oscar - £40,000 ​

Paulo Ferreira - £40,000 ​

Ryan Bertrand - £40,000 ​

Marko Marin - £35,000 ​

Cesar Azpilicueta - £30,000 ​

Victor Moses - £30,000 ​

Branislav Ivanovic - £28,500 ​

Ross Turnbull - £17,000 ​

Oriol Romeu - £15,000​

Last published wage bill:£171million(2012) Is Dropping

Liverpool
Steven Gerrard - £120,000
Luis Suarez - £100,000
Pepe Reina - £90,000
Joe Cole - £90,000
Jamie Carragher - £85,000
Stewart Downing - £80,000
Glen Johnson - £80,000
Jordan Henderson - £70,000
Martin Skrtel - £70,000
Daniel Agger - £70,000 - got new deal
Lucas Leiva - £65,000
Daniel Sturridge - £60k minimum
Jose Enrique - £55,000
Joe Allen - £45,000
Sebastian Coates - £29,000
Oussama Assaidi - £21,000
Danny Wilson - £20,000
Brad Jones - £20,000
Jonjo Shelvey - £18,000
Martin Kelly - £15,000
Suso - £10,000
Andre Wisdom - £10,000
Raheem Sterling - £5,000 - got new contract
Last published wage bill: £129million (2011) did raise, but this is expected to drop for this season to about £100-110million

Us
Emmanuel Adebayor - £70k indépendant says we pay this
Gareth Bale - £75k-100k got a extension unsure to amount
Hugo Lloris - £80k
Clint Dempsey - £50k american newspapers adament he is on $7.4million
Brad Friedel - £50k same as dempsey but $6.6million
Scott Parker - £65k
William Gallas - £60k
David Bentley - £60k - we got some money back through shirt sales as he was the next Beckham
Jermain Defoe - £55k
Aaron Lennon - £55k
Moussa Dembele - £50k
Younes Kaboul - £50k-60K
Michael Dawson - £50k-£60k - not sure to amount but he accepted a £60k basic salary at QPR so it may be lower rejected main salary
Heurelho Gomes - £50k
Gylfi Sigurdsson - £40k
Kyle Walker - £40k
Benoit Assou-Ekotto - £40k
Tom Huddlestone - £40k
Jan Vertonghen - £39k
Sandro - £30k - this doesnt sound right tbh but he hasnt signed a contract since 2011
Kyle Naughton - £20k Got new contract, not sure to amount
Steven Caulker - £15k Got new contract, not sure to amount
Last published wage bill:£91million (2011) Our wages are performance based so this will drop(CL) but likely to go higher due to higher wages

Of course Everton aren't here because they dont have the money to spend this kind of money tbh
Man United Last Wage bill:£161million pretty low tbh (2012) raising consistently
Man City Last Wage bill:Under or Around £200million for 2012, will raise for 2012 and drop for 2013

 

[beats1]

All figures are not 100% accurate but Arsenal's come from a blog on the back of the shareholders meeting

 

[Misfit]

Cheers for this beats. Really appreciate the legwork you must have done to get this. Very interesting rough comparison.

Pool don't seem that bad but hucking fell are they paying some big wages to dross. £140k a week for their first choice defence. Dang. Not that they're a bad defence. At all. But 70K each. We'll say no more about the likes of Downing and Henderson, which Pool fans will vehemently deny anyway. Which begs the question, why is their wage bill so high then if they aren't paying those outside of Gerrard and Suarez silly money?

 

[Snarfalicious]

Good Lord. This is gratifying stuff.

 

[Flashspur]

great post. thanks.

 

[kcmei]

Is there a total for each club?

 

[SandroClegane]

Is there a total for each club?

yes, if you take all the numbers and add them up you get a total

 

[fortworthspur]

Gareth Bale is underpaid.

 

[fortworthspur]

btw, great post, but Liverpool isnt in the race. Maybe thats your point.

 

[kcmei]

yes, if you take all the numbers and add them up you get a total

I argue that the total is the key info for thread, so i think it should be provided

 

[beats1]

yes, if you take all the numbers and add them up you get a total

I argue that the total is the key info for thread, so i think it should be provided

i disagree, now the arsenal figures I got were very detailed for a blog anyway and they showed how it would make up the expected £150million now must of those included training fees, pensions and etc but I have edited for you the last published Wage bill cost

The posts was just to highlight some of the shit it was being spent

I also added our very David Bentley

 

[tototoner]

i think only 4 seasons ago Villa and Newcastle both had a higher annual wage bill than us

 

[JimmyG2]

'The love of money is the root of all evil'
Some fella way back, possibly Nicholson or Blanchflower
Most of my best quotes come from them.

 

[Misfit]

I like the one about fisting two birds in the bush. Or something like that anyway. You get the idea. *wiggles eyebrows suggestively*

 

[dontcallme]

This should be a bit of a shout out to all those asking Levy to splash the cash.

We constantly hear fans say we need to pay the wage bill and transfer fees to compete.

Wenger often gets praised for unearthing young gems but in reality he is just paying them big money to come to Arsenal. I believe Arsenal and Liverpool have a problem with regards to paying their players too much which is leading to a culture of unfulfilled talent.

I like that our highest earners, generally, have to work for their contract. The meritcratic system AVB is putting into place can only be a good thing for Spurs.

 

[hughy]

Amazing that Liverpool fans claiming that Gylfi was asking too much, yet they're quite happy to pay Downing double what Gylfi wanted...

It's bloody incredible that we're even competing when you look at the difference. Good work beats!

 

[vegassd]

In summary:

United - 161m
City - 200m
Spurs - 91m (22 players)
Chelsea - 171m (22 players)
Arsenal - 143m (31 players)
Liverpool - 129m (23 players)

Although it's worth noting that Arsenal have more players listed, plus 7m for the manager. And we don't have Holtby or Livermore on the list by the looks of things.

 

[dk-yid]

In summary:

United - 161m
City - 200m
Spurs - 91m (22 players)
Chelsea - 171m (22 players)
Arsenal - 143m (31 players)
Liverpool - 129m (23 players)

Although it's worth noting that Arsenal have more players listed, plus 7m for the manager. And we don't have Holtby or Livermore on the list by the looks of things.

So us L'Arse would theoretically spend about 101 million if they only had 22 players in the comparison ... or?

 

[vegassd]

So us L'Arse would theoretically spend about 101 million if they only had 22 players in the comparison ... or?

Yeah I guess. I was just summarising the figures from the OP to be honest.

Based on those figures, our spend per player is 4.14m per year, and the gooners spend 4.39m per year, and whilst 250k is a shit of a lot of money to me and you, it's not the gulf that some people might think.

They also have players out on loan, and normally the receiving club will pay a lot of the wages in that scenario. We have Bentley in our list but I think they have Denilson to cancel him out, then Bendtner and Frimpong too. So despite the headline figures they are (unfortunately) a pretty well run club.

I would imagine that a first XI wage comparison would show a bigger gap between us though.

 

[dk-yid]

Yeah I guess. I was just summarising the figures from the OP to be honest.

Based on those figures, our spend per player is 4.14m per year, and the gooners spend 4.39m per year, and whilst 250k is a shit of a lot of money to me and you, it's not the gulf that some people might think.

They also have players out on loan, and normally the receiving club will pay a lot of the wages in that scenario. We have Bentley in our list but I think they have Denilson to cancel him out, then Bendtner and Frimpong too. So despite the headline figures they are (unfortunately) a pretty well run club.

I would imagine that a first XI wage comparison would show a bigger gap between us though.

good point about the 250k gap. like you say this really isn't that much especially in the current market.

In a strange sense it makes me happy to know that this must mean that we can somehow compete with Arse who in my opinion are the only rivals we could and should be comparing ourselves with.