West Ham have plummeted down the transfer window net spend table finishing in last place as rival Premier League clubs splash one billion of cash around them.
West Ham have sold Jordon Hugill, Albian Ajeti, Grady Diangana and Josh Cullen for a combined £27m while converting the Tomas Soucek loan deal into a permanent transfer for £15m and buying Vladimir Coufal for £5m.
| Club | Arrivals | Departures | Net Spend |
| Chelsea | £225.5m | £68.5m | £157m |
| Leeds | £94.5m | £0m | £94.5m |
| Man City | £141m | £55.5m | £85.5m |
| Spurs | £88.5m | £12m | £76.5m |
| Arsenal | £77.5m | £1m | £76.5m |
| Aston Villa | £74m | £0m | £74m |
| Everton | £67.5m | £4m | £63.5m |
| Manchester United | £75m | £13.5m | £61.5m |
| Sheffield United | £56.5m | £0m | £56.5m |
| Newcastle | £35m | £0m | £35m |
| Liverpool | £72m | £38m | £34m |
| Fulham | £29.5m | £0m | £29.5m |
| West Brom | £28m | £7m | £21m |
| Southampton | £36.5m | £23.5m | £13m |
| Leicester City | £56m | £45.5m | £10.5m |
| Wolves | £74m | £72m | £2m |
| Brighton | £21m | £18.5m | £2.5m |
| Burnley | £1m | £0m | £1m |
| Crystal Palace | £16m | £18m | -£2m |
| West Ham | £20m | £27m | -£7m |
No surprise, they have no money after the Pellegrini spending. Not sure what people expected?
Hi Sean, thanks for this info.
Maybe you are planning the following already but would be very interesting to see how our wage bill has changed vs last year. Seems to me to be a large reduction circa £250K per week minimum, although that is a guess. It does feel as though the current owners are maybe getting ready for a sale and don’t want to spend more cash? Having openly promised to re-invest the Diangana money, surely they know that the fans will be in uproar – but leave it to the last minute and the inevitable excuses to follow. Surely buying players from the championship has become harder (more expensive) as the selling club knows they are the only option now the abroad window has closed. I think if fans were allowed into the stadium – we would have weekly protests against the board – but support the team/manager as it is clearly not their fault. Our squad in numbers is very thin and a couple of injuries we will really struggle. Any injury to our spine of Rice/Soucek/Antonio/Ogbonna and we would be up the creek.
That is scheduled for 4pm 😉
Sean, probably too big an ask, but do you have the info (for last season) to put our wage spend in a league table.
From memory we have been around 7th or 8th in oast few seasons and pretty much underperform in football v wage comparisons. This could be the first season for a while that we over perform!
Let me work on that
Figures only available for 2018/2019 season. No-one has published figures for last season yet
1. Manchester United
League position: 6th
Total wage bill: £332m
2. Manchester City
League position: 1st
Total wage bill: £315m
3. Liverpool
League position: 2nd
Total wage bill: £310m
4. Chelsea
League position: 3rd
Total wage bill: £286m
5. Arsenal
League position: 5th
Total wage bill: £232m
6. Tottenham
League position: 4th
Total wage bill: £179m
7. Everton
League position: 8th
Total wage bill: £160m
8. Leicester City
League position: 9th
Total wage bill: £150m
9. West Ham
League position: 10th
Total wage bill: £136m
10. Crystal Palace
League position: 12th
Total wage bill: £119m
11. Southampton
League position: 16th
Total wage bill: £115m
12. Bournemouth
League position: 14th
Total wage bill: £111m
13. Brighton
League position: 17th
Total wage bill: £102m
14. Newcastle United
League position: 13th
Total wage bill: £97m
15. Fulham
League position: 19th
Total wage bill: £93m
16. Wolves
League position: 7th
Total wage bill: £92m
17. Burnley
League position: 15th
Total wage bill: £87m
18. Watford
League position: 11th
Total wage bill: £84m
19. Huddersfield Town
League position: 20th
Total wage bill: £64m
20. Cardiff City
League position: 18th
Total wage bill: £54m
Please someone show Jim white
To be honest, if we can accomplish good things with the lowest net spend, then full credit should be given to DM, his staff and those players that dig deep into their hearts.
Personally, I am not that bothered with how much or little cash that gets spent…this year… Financial times are iffy and if we are to be a little fiscally responsible “in this moment” (as some managers like to quip) then we may reap some dividends come next summer’s xfer window and the 21/22 campaign.
The net spend (or negative net spend) figure doesn’t bother me as much as the sheer thinness of our squad. We are two injuries away from a crisis. Diop for Ogbonna. Noble for Rice/Soucek. Haller for Antonio. Doesn’t bear thinking about. We have to get numbers in. This is why it made little sense to let Cullen go for under £1m. Should have kept him until the end of the season. So what if he then left on a free? Why not keep Wilshere as a squad member also? This is suicide
Exactly right tony ..I said the same thing..makes zero sence ….but then again nothing surprises with the running of this club ..