The gulf in pay... the gap widens....

Shocking the extent of Citeh's money machine.. FIFA fair play ruls anyone?... nope... disn't think so...

Interesting to also note that believe it or not SAFC pay their 'stars' more than we pay ours on average.


http://www.newcastleunited-mad.co.u...etter_wages_than_newcastle_797502/index.shtml



According to a new report on global sports salaries, Sunderland pay their players (on average) more than Newcastle pay theirs.

Man City are top of the list in world sport, with Newcastle coming in at 127.

The average weekly pay at the Etihad Stadium is a staggering £100,764 which translates to an annual salary of £5,239,750.

City jump to top spot from third place last year, replacing Barcelona who are now fourth.

The LA Dodgers basketball team are second on the list, with their players averaging £93,380 per week, £4,855,783 annually.

Manchester United are in 12th place on the list, with average weekly wages of £75,423 (annual £3, 921,423). Last year they were 11th.

At 127 we have Newcastle who pay £26,107; an annual average of £1,357,295.

Sunderland come in at 110 - paying £27,590; an annual average of £1,434,654.

 

Interesting to also note that believe it or not SAFC pay their 'stars' more than we pay ours on average.


Didn't know that they had any.

 

Didn't come as a surprise really as MA is a tight wad. We buy poorly paid French players who then see their salaries increase significantly with Newcastle, but less than a lot of other PL clubs.

 

Didn't know the LA Dodgers had changed sports........

 

More an indictment of football than an assassination of Ashley. It's all a bit crap - financial fair play has literally had no effect whatsoever, and will continue to be utterly ineffective. It's all about spin, essentially, and accountants.

 

yeh, don't even rate the motives of FFP either and actually think our club is exactly where it wants us; unable to move out of this payment structure, therefore less chance of any serious progression, therefore the status quo is maintained. so i'm not adverse to teams finding loopholes around it just as much as man united are allowed to sell themselves more times than a hooker to meet standards

 

Speaking of gulfs in pay - Monaco have been quoted saying Cabaye "excites" them. It's yet to be confirmed if this is sexual or football related. However, I would imagine Mike Ashley's grinning like a cheshire cat and sat by his phone already.

 

heard he charges sex line rates for incoming calls too, could be a productive summer

 

Any link to the actual original source?

 

Reckon this s it.
Evening Bronx.
Tea time on the east coast?

http://www.sportingintelligence.com...-pay-charts-dodgers-soar-to-challenge-110601/

 

always interesting to look through these sort of statistics

 

Sunderland are 73rd and Newcastle 75th on that list in the link.

110 and 127 were last year.

73 (110) Sunderland EPL £1,868,800 (£35,938) $2,874,479 ($55,278)
75 (127) Newcastle EPL £1,810,400 (£34,815) $2,784,651 ($53,551)

We should both be doing a lot better than scraping relegation every bloody year.

 

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Working nights now Steve?

 

Got to love the fact that the Italian champions aren't in the top 10, neither are the beaten Champs League finalists/German runners up.

 

It's laughable that people are suggesting that the FFP rules are going to help anyone but the elite clubs.

The rules, if they ever manage to escape the litigation, will simply concrete the positions of power amongst the bigger clubs.

The ones with bigger stadiums will always have an advantage, the commercial incomes are up-for-grabs to trophy winners, but we already know there is a very small number of teams that can realistically challenge for honours.

 

Most laughable thing about it is the title - that they even think, somehow, this is "fair play" really makes you wonder whether this is action or politics? Like how David Cameron says "I'll give you your EU referendum.....right after the NEXT election" and the public simply miss the point. This, for me, smacks of a whole stack of saying stuff that millions of football fans will buy, whilst simultaneously doing absolutely fcking nothing. This sh!t is supposed to be in play yet Manchester City have a net spend of £45m already this Summer, in spite of already having a wage bill that far exceeds their legitimate turnover.

The notion of "fair play" in football is fcking laughable. I read something about Benfica signing some very highly rated player, but it turned out that Chelsea had signed them and simply loaned them to Benfica, presumably to make them better. I think Chelsea alone have agreements with at least 4 clubs now - Vitesse Arnheim, Genk, plus one or two in Eastern Europe. How many of these kinds of players actually exist around Europe, away from the Premier League's prying eyes, I wonder? Is that "financially" fair, that if this kid turns into a star at Benfica then Chelsea can just drop him into their first team?

The ethics and morality have spun out of control, it's gone WAY too far for FIFA/UEFA to pull it back. Besides which, if they bothered their arses to REALLY make it fair, I suspect there'd be a new Euro SuperLeague before you can blink. One day, the fans will eventually give up. I cannot even imagine what football will look like in 50 years. I'm fairly certain that, if still alive, I sure as sh!t won't be watching it.

It was this that got me thinking about Newcastle, that somehow what we all crave is this financial stability and silent operations, with a hand puppet in charge of the team and that the biggest threat to our well-being is actually European football. I thought about it and fcking hate it. I hate not being linked with big names, I hate being predictably dull. I am going to hate gunning for 40 points next season, I am going to hate the lines being trotted out about keeping our best players (cos we're a sellin' club, guv'nor), I am going to hate having no desire for winning a cup, I am going to hate survivalist rather than aspirational football. That's not what ANY of this is about, is it?? Football is about dreaming big, aiming high, being unrealistic, isn't it? I'm really beginning to wonder what we're doing now, defending the owner because it's all nice and dull. Money's played it's part fully now, that's for sure - football just doesn't feel like something identifiable, it feels like something exposed and, dammit, it ain't 'arf fcking ugly.

 

Abso-fking-lutely.

 

To be fair, we don't know yet if FFP is meaningless.

We are in the second of the three years which will be considered in determining whether a club has balanced its books or not. it is only after the figures from the three years are collected that the moment will come to ban Man City from European football, or bottle it.

I anticipate bottling, but it hasn't happened yet.

FFP would be good for us if it has any teeth. We are one of the few clubs that lives within its means, and our revenue stream is fairly healthy.

 

If Manchester City get banned from European competition, I will convert to Islam.

There is no way they would ever start taking on the super-rich clubs - as mentioned, the Arabs have enough financial wealth to start their own European Premier League.

It seems dramatic, but I believe they could.