Squad cost of: Spurs, ManC, Arsenal, Leicester

[Dharmabum]

http://www.espnfc.co.uk/barclays-pr...er-squad-cost-compared-man-city-spurs-arsenal


Leicester squad cost compared to Man City, Tottenham and Arsenal

Leicester's most expensive signing is a mere £10 million.
Leicester are top of the Premier League by five points, but their players cost significantly less than those around them in the title race. Given that Eliaquim Mangala alone set Manchester City back £42 million, we wondered how the Foxes' squad stacks up.

It turns out that Claudio Ranieri's side cost just under eight times as much as Manuel Pellegrini's -- and three times less than Spurs! Here are the numbers:


LEICESTER

Kasper Schmeichel - £2m
Danny Simpson - £2m
Robert Huth - £3m
Wes Morgan - £1m
Christian Fuchs - Free
Marcin Wasilewski - Free
Marc Albrighton - Free
Danny Drinkwater - £1m
N'Golo Kante - £5.6m
Riyad Mahrez - £400,000
Shinji Okazaki - £7m
Jamie Vardy - £1m
Mark Schwarzer - Free
Jeffrey Schlupp - Free
Demarai Gray - £3.8m
Andrej Kramaric - £7m
Yohan Benalouane - £5.6m
Andy King - Free
Gokhan Inler - £5m
Leonardo Ulloa - £10m

TOTAL: £54.4m

TOTTENHAM
Hugo Lloris - £9.5m
Michel Vorm - £4.2m
Kyle Walker - £4.4m
Kieran Trippier - £3.5m
Jan Vertonghen - £9.3m
Toby Alderweireld - £12m
Kevin Wimmer - £4.5m
Ben Davies - £9.5m
Danny Rose - £1m
Eric Dier - £4m
Dele Alli - £5m
Ryan Mason - Free
Nabil Bentaleb - Free
Joshua Onomah - Free
Mousa Dembele - £14.2m
Tom Carroll - Free
Christian Eriksen - £10.1m
Erik Lamela - £30m
Nacer Chadli - £7m
Son Heung-Min - £21.9m
Clinton Njie - £11m
Harry Kane - Free

TOTAL: £161.1m

ARSENAL




David Ospina - £3m
Petr Cech - £10m
Kieran Gibbs - Free
Per Mertesacker - £8.5m
Gabriel Paulista - £12m
Laurent Koscielny - £10m
Nacho Monreal - £8.5m
Calum Chambers - £15m
Hector Bellerin - £375,000
Tomas Rosicky - £7.5m
Mikel Arteta - £10m
Jack Wilshere - Free
Mesut Ozil - £42.5m
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain - £12m
Aaron Ramsey - £5m
Santi Cazorla - £15m
Mathieu Flamini - Free
Francis Coquelin - £750,000
Mohamed Elneny - £7m
Olivier Giroud - £12m
Theo Walcott - £9m
Alexis Sanchez - £35m
Danny Welbeck - £16m
Joel Campbell - £750,000

TOTAL: £251.9m

MANCHESTER CITY

Joe Hart - £1m
Willy Caballero - £4.4m
Pablo Zabaleta - £6.5m
Bacary Sagna - Free
Aleksandar Kolarov - £16m
Gael Clichy - £7m
Eliaquim Mangala - £42m
Nicolas Otamendi - £28.5m
Vincent Kompany - £6m
Martin Demichelis - £3.5m
Yaya Toure - £24m
Fernandinho - £30m
Fernando - £12m
Fabian Delph - £8m
David Silva - £24m
Samir Nasri - £22m
Jesus Navas - £14.9m
Raheem Sterling - £49m
Kevin De Bruyne - £54m
Sergio Aguero - £38m
Wilfried Bony - £28m
Kelechi Iheanacho - Free

 

[Cavehillspur]

£42mil for Mangala??? Cant be right surely, he was about £32mil and even that is outrageous, hes pants.

 

[Japhet]

Didn't Kyle Walker come in with Kyle Naughton for a combined fee?

 

[Sandros Shiny Head]

Ulloa's the worst player in the Leicester team, possibly even the league yet their most expensive

 

[midoNdefoe]

Would be intersting to see the comaparative wage-bills...

 

[Luka Van der Bale]

Didn't Kyle Walker come in with Kyle Naughton for a combined fee?

8m for both.

 

[The Swellhead Spur]

Vorm was valued at nothing, Toby was £11.5 million & Wimmer was £4.3 mil. All of the numbers are off.

 

[riggi]

Don't really care tbh.

Not a dig at you op.

 

[Borks]

Lamela £30m? I don't think so.

 

[GetSpurredOn]

Interesting we have more academy graduates than all the others.

 

[soup]

122 Mahrez = 1 Sterling

Someone did well on that exchange rate!

 

[minesadouble]

Lies, damned lies and statistics. You need to be careful with numbers like these. I think the basic message is fair but the details can be misleading. Even assuming the published transfer fees are ALL 100% accurate (which I doubt), you have to take wages and add-ons into account for a TRUE like-for-like comparison. The COST of a player is the fee paid to a club to sign him, PLUS his guaranteed wages over the length of his contract. A "free transfer" of an out-of-contract player can appear as Nil but in reality the player (usually) gets a signing on fee in the form of a lump sum and / or higher wages instead. If we eventually buy Berahino, for example, it's West Brom who will lose out and the reduced fee they get (if any) will probably end up in somebody else's pocket. This would distort the apparent cost of Berahino in any analysis like this, as it would show we'd bought Berahino for what West Brom eventually receive (not the £25m or so they may have got) . Furthermore, if like Spurs have done, any player is sold for a profit, the actual COST of that player for the time he played for us can be much less, or even zero.

It's a complicated subject and I don't dispute the overall message that Leicester were assembled more cheaply than Spurs, and Man City and Arsenal were much more expensive but it's simplistic to quote these numbers as absolute 'truth'.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

What do these numbers really show? That Arsene Wenger is the league's biggest under achiever.

 

[Mr Pink]

Those figures arn't even accurate - given the way deals are structured these days.

A look at the respective wage bills is much more telling.

 

[Luka Van der Bale]

What do these numbers really show? That Arsene Wenger is the league's biggest under achiever.

How so? They have the 5th most expensively assembled squad in the league. It's not their fault United, Chelsea and Liverpool aren't mentioned due to their title race irrelevance.

 

[fortworthspur]

I think its a great post. we can quibble over the absolute numbers but the overall message is accurate.

 

[Matthew Wyatt]

Those figures arn't even accurate - given the way deals are structured these days.

A look at the respective wage bills is much more telling.

I suspect you may be right. Care to provide those figures? I know we pay less than the 'Big Clubs' but would be interesting to see how we stack up against the likes of Leicester.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

The point behind this post is what exactly?


In other news a portion of fish n' chips set to break through the six quid barrier.............

 

[michaelden]

While the money paid is interesting, its not the same as the VALUE of the player to the buying team or the selling team. Man City needed a CB so paid over the odds for a player they felt had that value.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

How so? They have the 5th most expensively assembled squad in the league. It's not their fault United, Chelsea and Liverpool aren't mentioned due to their title race irrelevance.

You woke up completely void of humour didn't you.