Largest wage bills in Europe 2018/19

[Nanook]

Club - wages - wages/revenue

1. Barcelona - £505.1M - 68%
2. Man Utd - £351.9M - 56%
3. Real Madrid - £345.8M - 52%
4. Man City - £335.3M - 62%
5. PSG - £325.4M - 56%
6. Chelsea - £314.4M - 70%
7. Liverpool - £309.9M - 58%
8. Bayern - £309.0M - 53%
9. Juventus - £287.5M - 71%
10. Arsenal - £234.9M - 60%
11. Atletico - £212.4M - 63%
12. Dortmund - £179.9M - 54%
13. Spurs - £178.6M - 39%
14. Inter - £168.9M - 52%
15. AC Milan - £162.1M - 86%
16. Roma - £161.8M - 79%
17. Everton - £160.0M - 85%
18. Leicester - £149.5M - 84%
19. West Ham - £135.8M - 71%
20. Monaco - £124.3M - 112%
21. Napoli - £118.5M - 66%
22. Southampton - £115.2M - 77%
23. Lyon - £114.8M - 59%
24. Marseille - £111.6M - 98%
25. Bournemouth - £110.9 - 85%
26. Schalke (2019) - £108.6M - 47%
27. Valencia - £102.2M - 63%
28. Brighton - £101.6M - 71%
29. Leverkusen (2018) - £97.0M - n/a
30. Aston Villa - £95.0M - 175%
31. Fulham - £92.6M - 67%
32. Seville - £91.4M - 73%
33. Wolves - £91.1M - 52%
34. Burnley - £86.6M - 63%
35. Porto - £86.3M - 56%
36. Benfica - £84.9M - 58%
37. Watford - £83.6% - 57%
38. Ajax - £80.8M - 46%
39. Bilbao - £80.5M - 74%
40. Lazio - £75.1M - 70%
41. Fenerbache - £75.0M - 77%
42. Stuttgart (2018) - £73.4M - n/a
43. Real Betis - £65.9M - 69%
44. Huddersfield - £64.2M - 54%
45. Frankfurt (2018) - £63.3M - n/a
46. Lille - £63.2M - 112%
47. Werder Bremen - £63.1M - 54%
48. Villarreal - £62.5M - 54%
49. Galatasaray - £62.3M - 49%
50. Besiktas - £60.6M - 70%

Wages include costs of all employees, social security, etc. Other sports teams are included in the figures for some clubs such as Real Madrid’s basketball team.

Many German teams use the calendar year as the financial year so the numbers for Schalke, Frankfurt and Leverkusen are for the 2019 or 2018 year, not 2018/19 season.

Newcastle and Palace haven’t filed their accounts yet and probably won’t do so until July so that’s why they’re missing. Newcastle’s wage bill in 2017/18 was £93.6M, Palace’s £117.3M. I couldn’t find any figures for Zenit and Wolfsburg and there’s probably other teams I’ve missed.

 

[Adisa]

Source?

 

[Nanook]

Source?

For which club? They’re taken from each clubs accounts.

 

[BootsyCollins]

30. Aston Villa - £95.0M - 175%

 

[Sassy Colin]

Just goes to show how bent City & PSG are.

 

[Skills]

There's going to be massive clearouts at some of these clubs because of covid-19. Barcelona might be one of them

 

[SilentWitness]

30. Aston Villa - £95.0M - 175%

I think Brighton is worse at 101m or Fuiham who are in the Championship at 92m. Us too at 160m which is scary - the Koeman/Allardyce years of recruitment have meant our wage bill has been inflated for a while and we are still trying to sort it out while trying to reward the players we want to stay.

EDIT: didn’t notice the 175%, fecking hell Villa.

 

[cyberman]

There's going to be massive clearouts at some of these clubs because of covid-19. Barcelona might be one of them

Barca cant even refund fans for future BCD games this season and are receiving government payouts from schemes already.

 

[NoLogo]

Just goes to show how bent City & PSG are.

I mean they have cooked their books every way possible, have sponsorship deals with other companies belonging to extended family and what not so I wouldn't put it past them to not be too acurate with the player wages or maybe have other ways of paying them a bit of extra on the side, maybe they sponsor some of shore companies of their star players in Panama?

 

[NoLogo]

So it's safe to say that the only club who will survive a revenue collapse of 50% is Spurs? Ah no, they still have to pay off their new stadium, which means they are fecked as well. No surprise all clubs want to get back to playing football as fast as possible.

 

[Scroto Baggins]

EDIT: didn’t notice the 175%, fecking hell Villa.

Time to sell Grealish!

So it's safe to say that the only club who will survive a revenue collapse of 50% is Spurs? Ah no, they still have to pay off their new stadium, which means they are fecked as well. No surprise all clubs want to get back to playing football as fast as possible.

Spurs are in the hole big time with that stadium, much like Arsenal before them. They have already had a few cheap years though, famously not buying anyone in one window. Another couple of years being cheap skate charlie and they should be in the clear.

With Covid though no rebuild under Jose, he will have to make do with what he has, the academy, and maybe swap deals or really cheap xfers. Heard somewhere they only have 25mil kitty for xfers. Guessing all the CL money from the past couple years went straight into the stadium funds.

 

[diarm]

There is a reason City owners own a handful of luxury resorts in places like the Seychelles. You could double their wage figures above and still be a ways short of the true amounts they are paying fellas like Aguero will be benefiting for the "loyalty" they've shown City til the day they die.

I was a senior manager in a place owned by Mansour for 4 years and I've seen these lads operate. There is no obstacle they can't get around with money.