Arsenal Wage Bill is £26m higher than Liverpool

Amazing.

I thought the difference would be around £3-4m.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ar...lsea-Arsenal-Liverpool-Manchester-United.html

 

nah sound right. we've been reducing for 4 years and they have been historically high payers and in cl....not shocked at all

 

Sell your best players to fund massive wages for your worst players

#wengernomics

 

They've always been amongst the highest in wages... probably why they always spend less in the transfer window.

 

in the end we are looking at cl next year so i expect this to change but arsenal need to get real very quickly now to get 4th

 

True, guess the expensive tickets, help funds the players excessive wages as well.

 

But I dont understand, why doesnt Wenger give Sagna a higher wage then?

 

The amount spent by Man City is insane

#datwagebilldoe

 

We won't suddenly start paying more from one CL season

 

We should immediately put Suarez on a watertight £300k, Studge on £150K (yes, I know he's been dire for a few games) and Stirling and Hendo on £100k. Coutinho too. Be more than covered by increased revenue and merchandising IF we win the league, never mind just getting in the CL.

 

Where abouts in the article are you getting that info? Upon reading it it seems to only show the average salary amount of players at the club and doesn't list total wage costs anywhere?

 

£26m seems a lot - I wouldn't take Daily Mail as Gospel but I do think we have made serious reductions in our wage bill - credit to FSG and the manager for making difficult decisions in letting players go.

Will be surprised if Agger, Reina and Johnson are still here next season and that will save another £300k a week.

 

The figures haven't been done by DM, there is a link at the bottom.

 

Ahhh so there is.

It is written by Sporting Intelligence - can we take their word as Gospel??

 

That, I don't know

 

I'm still wondering where this 26million number has come from as I can't find any reference to total wage bill in the article, it just lists the average salary.

 

I don't know but I guess it would be easy enough to work out. The article tells us the averages so all you need is squad numbers. If you guys have ten more squad players than us then it would make a big difference for example.

 

Yeh that's what I was thinking, how many players are taken per team? Just the first team? Reserve and youths as well? What are the differences in the squad sizes?

Feels like a lot more info is needed to do a proper analysis.

 

Can't see it including all the youth teams when they average is £3.4m/£3.9m per annum for our teams. Thats £65k/£75k per week.

 

You find the average weekly salary of the First team, and multiply this by 52.14 weeks to find yearly difference.