Following my recent article on the women’s team loophole around PSR – an option Aston Villa utilised yesterday by selling 10% to an external investor and 90% to one of their holding companies to remain compliant, the club must now address its wage-to-revenue ratio following productive discussions with UEFA.
Villa’s reported annual wage bill last season stood at £131m, though this figure was significantly inflated due to the loan signing of Marcus Rashford.
In comparison, West Ham, last season had a wage bill of just shy of £102m, excluding bonuses (source: Capology). To put this into perspective Newcastle United who secured a Champions League place recorded a lower total wage bill of £96m.
Nottingham Forest have been shrewd in their transfer dealings, since being docked points due to PSR breaches and came in at a modest £58m a year, excluding bonuses.
Overall, West Ham had the eighth highest wage bill in the Premier League – resulting in a 14th place finish!
West Ham have already made moves to reduce costs having moved on a number of players saving a projected £14m. However last summers spending spree of £155m added an additional £31.5m to the wage bill over the course of the season. There was however a turnover of 21 players, so £21m was removed from the wage bill following the departure of Phillips, Kehrer, Benrahma, Downes, Johnson, Ogbonna, Trott, Anang and Mubama.
The club is expected to continue trimming their wage bill, potentially moving on high earners such as Mohammed Kudus and Lucas Paqueta. Off loading both could reportedly save them around £12.5m a season in wages.
Other notable top earners include Guido Rodriguez, James Ward Prowse, Emerson, Edson Alvarez and Niclas Fullkrug.
Nice work if you can get it!
The club faces a crucial summer of balancing competitiveness with compliance, as the wages / income ratio rules are something of a ticking time bomb – new regulations (SCR) are coming into play next summer.
“It would appear Sullivan/Brady/Steidten have overpaid for players”
Overpaid for who exactly?
We don’t know what the cost/return of an investment is until we cash in.
and…
Are the players responsible or are the Head Coach/manager ?
Yet teams like Chelsea for all there corruptnes seem to find loop holes in all of these.
Christ knows what there wage bill must be with the size of there squad yet they’ve already spent well over 200 million this window already.
To me all this psr bullshitt just seems to help the so called bigger teams pull away even further from the pack
Again can someone please tell me how Man Utd can afford to be buying players as well,when they have no European football,we’re pleading they have to sell before they can buy yet they stumped up 60 mill already on cunha and probably another 65 mill on Mbemo, its an absolute joke this psr
I will ask again where does it say officially that we have to sell to buy.
Let’s see will you publish this time
Next June July is where we will have a problem, as it’s a rolling 3 year period with psr and the 105 Mill loss. That’s why they say we have to sell first. Personally I think we need to find a loophole like others do.
No mention of the 15 million in total Brady has taken in wages from the club. That’s a drain on resources that needs looking at. How on earth has she earned this money with such financial mismanagement that has lead to this colossus cash flow problem that has basically run this club into the ground. Serious questions need to be asked and answered about Sullivan and Brady total financial mismanagement of this club.
It would appear Sullivan/Brady/Steidten have overpaid for players…… which questions their understanding of the club.
Based in London is a great attraction for the majority of non UK players……even more so their ‘wags’.
Given our European involvement and success for 3x consecutive years this would also be an attraction, irrespective of the heritage of the player.
So why are Sully & Co so weak in negotiating?