United wages higher than Chelsea

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Chelsea's wage bill has been overtaken by Manchester United's for the first time in more than a decade, it can be revealed.

In 2004, the Roman Abramovich-owned club were reckoned to be the biggest payers in world football as Chelsea spent heavily to challenge United's dominance.

Ten years on, and Manchester City are now easily the biggest payers in the Premier League, and Chelsea's accounts lodged with Companies House show that they are now in third spot in the 'wages league' below United as well.

Chelsea's wage bill in 2012/13 was £176million compared to £182million for Manchester United in the same season, while Manchester City's was £233million.
 
It shows you how ridiculous football has become when £115 million was the highest wage bill in the world 10 years ago and now 3 of the clubs in this league alone have wage bills standing at around 150% or more that number. Incredible.
 
Well, RVP wasn't exactly playing for free.

Anyone got the full list?
 
Well we took Mata off Chelsea and doubled his wages. We took van Persie off Arsenal and raised his wages. We pay Young roughly £100 grand a week. And of course, Rooney is the highest paid player in Premier League history.

Expect it to change this summer. Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, and Giggs would all be on massive wages.
 
These are last season's wages, which people would do well to actually notice before commenting.
 
Vidic, Rio, Giggs, Evra coming off the books on big money in the summer, even if we keep 3 of them I would imagine it would be at a reduced rate.
 
KiD MoYeS said:
Well we took Mata off Chelsea and doubled his wages. We took van Persie off Arsenal and raised his wages. We pay Young roughly £100 grand a week. And of course, Rooney is the highest paid player in Premier League history.

Expect it to change this summer. Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, and Giggs would all be on massive wages.
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Not sure if Giggs will still be on massive wages but the other three definitely. It will free up a huge chunk of our wage budget if we off load Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Young and perhaps even Van Persie.
 
Blasphemy said:
Not sure if Giggs will still be on massive wages but the other three definitely. It will free up a huge chunk of our wage budget if we off load Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Young and perhaps even Van Persie.
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I'd imagine the fact Giggs is both a player and a coach would result in pretty high wages, would it not?
 
The rumored wage Ashley Young is paid which is 150k per week really does explain it. If we're paying Young that kind of money, every player signing for us would expect more.
 
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KiD MoYeS said:
I'd imagine the fact Giggs is both a player and a coach would result in pretty high wages, would it not?
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Hopefully not, I'd expect him to be on a pay as you play contract from a player perspective, and a coach salary which should be much lower than a player.
 
Mrs Smoker said:
Don't we also have a lot more employees?

These figures are not only for players, right?
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They're for all the clubs' staff. So I reckon Chelsea's will have jumped just a little this season.
 
KiD MoYeS said:
It can't be, can it? That'd be a travesty. He's surely on roughly half that.
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He was a £27m signing which would indicate he was signing to be a key part of the first team. £100k per week minimum IMO.
 
KiD MoYeS said:
I'd imagine the fact Giggs is both a player and a coach would result in pretty high wages, would it not?
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Coaches don't earn anything close to what players earn though do they? Anyway, it's total speculation.
 
Wouldn't be surprised if Nani is on big wages too, same for Anderson. Do we know if Fiorentina are paying his wages or not? Either way he's never picked by them so he's coming back on the wage budget in the summer.
 
Boy, are we spending our money incorrectly. That was for last year, and it would only have increased this year, although the bonuses will be down I imagine. We pay handsome salaries to people who rarely, if ever, perform well for us. Anderson, Nani, Young, Fellaini, defenders who are always injured, hopefully we'll get some of them off the books this summer and utilize that money on players who'll actually add something positive to the team.
 
Blasphemy said:
Coaches don't earn anything close to what players earn though do they? Anyway, it's total speculation.
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No they don't. But if you combine players wage and coaches wage I'd imagine it'd be a nice amount. Speculation though, as you say.
 
africanspur said:
It shows you how ridiculous football has become when £115 million was the highest wage bill in the world 10 years ago and now 3 of the clubs in this league alone have wage bills standing at around 150% or more that number. Incredible.
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Yeah its getting silly, 20 years ago the top wage in england was probably £30,000 per week, now its £300,000. Make the same move 20 years from now would have one player on £3,000,000 per week. Crazy
 
peterstorey said:
£125K/week isn't an unreasonable wage for a £27M player.
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I was under the impression he took a pay cut when he joined us as part of the deal. Surely Everton weren't paying him more than 125k a week?
 
stevoc said:
Yeah its getting silly, 20 years ago the top wage in england was probably £30,000 per week, now its £300,000. Make the same move 20 years from now would have one player on £3,000,000 per week. Crazy
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Is it that much crazier than the increase in 'consumption' of the sport? When you factor in the Bosman Ruling, probably not IMHO.
 
Bestie07 said:
Nope. He sacrificed some money from his prospective contract with United, to the tune of 4 million. He is definitely on over a 100k a week.
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Gotcha.
 
Kill 'em all said:
The rumored wage Ashley Young is paid which is 150k per week really does explain it. If we're paying Young that kind of money, every player signing for us would expect more.
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The ball boys should start expecting more than Young. They put in more effort than Young.
 
We're going to find it quite hard to get rid of Young, aren't we...
 
Distracted Steward said:
Is it that much crazier than the increase in 'consumption' of the sport? When you factor in the Bosman Ruling, probably not IMHO.
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I can see where you're coming from mate, footballs big business now and the tv deals get ever bigger. And i suppose players are entitled to their cut of that.

But surely there has to be a point where the wages plateau and settle, £3 million a week would be £156 million a year for one player, what would your wage bill be well over a billion probably.

Surely it will never get to that stage.
 
Bestie07 said:
Nope. He sacrificed some money from his prospective contract with United, to the tune of 4 million. He is definitely on over a 100k a week.
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From what I heard, he forego some aort of loyalty bonus which Everton would have had to pay him in trying to get his move through.
 
I could save 4 million a year by having my 12 year old manage the team - and I doubt if anyone would notice a difference in the results.
 
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