Kieran Maguire from the Price of Football has produced a new table showing all time net spend on transfer for Premier League clubs between 1992-2018.When inflation is factored in West Ham are twelfth in transfer net spend shelling out a total of £358m giving an average net spend of £13.8m per season since the Premier League was formed.
Chelsea are top of the table spending £2.8 billion in the same period followed Manchester City on £2.4 billion, Liverpool come third with a £2.1 billion spend and Manchester United in fourth position spending a cool round £2 billion.
There is then a massive drop to newly promoted Aston Villa in fifth place on £997m, Arsenal are sixth on £905m, Everton are seventh £884m and Spurs a little way behind in eighth place on £751m of net spend.
League one side Sunderland are a surprising ninth on £595m from their days in the Premier League before another big drop to Leicester City in tenth on £395m.
Championship club Stoke City are the last team above the Hammers with a net spend of £369m since 1992.
Source: priceoffootball.com
No wonder we aren’t better then 12th then.
Was this news supposed to put the owners in a positive light? It just shows we should have stayed at Upton Park, as the new level only is the owners bank account.
You misunderstand. WE publish facts and go out of our way to research stuff. All this nonsense about showing the board in a positive light is utter crap. We try to do a proper job and if it isn’t what people want to read that’s not our problem. We could become one of those sites who slag off everything everyone does but actually we prefer to report the truth rather than become some stupid little protest voice.
You seem very offended by my post. Why is that I wonder?
You know Hugh, you have many great stories, but wether you like it or not, you come across as a mouthpiece of G&S.
Being independent from WHU, you would not take offence like you just did, even if we had different views.
Too busy to worry what a few individuals feel about my position which is mine to decide just as yours is yours. I responded to you because it’s the courteous thing to do. Water and duck’s back are the words that spring to mind. I have taken no offence whatsoever but I like to make my point as plainly as you obviously feel you have the right to do. Not offended in the least but surprised you feel you have been moderated when they are all out there to see and were I offended and defending the board you might have expected me to do so. i didn’t and don’t. My point is I prefer not to mouth off and abuse as some feel they need to. I might about food banks and homelessness but certainly not football I’ve been a supporter for nearly 60 years and seen the club in the same place under a variety of owners for all of that time. It’s all par the course and Que sera. Nor do you appear to have read any of the stuff I wrote last year about DS needing to step aside as DOF etc or the highly critical stuff about the media department with whom I am seriously at odds. Never mind. Were I to be pro or anti board that’s my decision as yours is yours.Nor do I understand why it matters or needs to be raised but there we are.
If you were really going to research this then would you not compare the top 20/30 and adjust them for how many seasons they had actually spent in the Premier League? Surely we have spent more seasons in the PL (how many have we missed, 4?) than Stoke? And yet they are still above us? I.e. see below, we are 9th on this list,
Source: https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/20-successful-clubs-premier-league-era/
27 – Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham, Everton
24 – Aston Villa, Newcastle
23 – West Ham
22 – Man City
20 – Southampton
18 – Blackburn
16 – Sunderland
15 – Middlesbrough
14 – Fulham
13 – Bolton, Leicester
12 – Leeds, West Brom
10 – Stoke
Joe these are great stats and they show a consistency from West Ham. We are always around the middle be it in terms of spend, time served, points per game etc. It is entirely what you would expect.
All I can say is it speaks volumes to why we are not doing so well . The net spend per window is shocking , the owners need to invest more .
Please detail
Hi Hugh , in the article you detail yourself the net spend is 13.8 million per season since PL started . If those figures are correct it shows poor investment.
I’ll look in due course but it was sean’s piece not mine