Really interesting - you can see how it went mad once Abramovich came in and started chucking money around, look at the wage bill for the Champions in the season prior to this and look at the wage bill of the worst teams in the current season. Even allowing for inflation that's an absolutely insane increase.
There is a wider point here in that people say RD's plan must be to get us into the PL to make sense financially but nothing about those wage bills really scream "sensible financial decision" to me.
A recent story in the paper suggests an 11% increase in costs for 2012/13 in advance of the new Premier League TV deal and that collectively the clubs lost more than £200M on a £5Bn turnover. 19 of the clubs pay the minimum wage for catering staff! Five of the clubs lost £50M+ ... Villa, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City and QPR.
If Duchatelet is looking to introduce a new model then why not start here?! Since that report the TV deal has risen from £3.5Bn to £5.5Bn - It doesn't all have to go to the players and directors!
£34 million pound wage bill for each of our last two seasons. I expected our last season to be very high because of Dowie's signings but not the season before. Interesting .
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There is a wider point here in that people say RD's plan must be to get us into the PL to make sense financially but nothing about those wage bills really scream "sensible financial decision" to me.
If Duchatelet is looking to introduce a new model then why not start here?! Since that report the TV deal has risen from £3.5Bn to £5.5Bn - It doesn't all have to go to the players and directors!
Interesting .