League 2 Wages

[Agombar stool]

An interesting read into how much league 2 clubs pay their players.

https://www.footy.com/footballers-vs-the-fans/#efl-league-two

2 teams which seem to buck the trend that throwing money at it will buy you success are FGR and Accrington (of course).

 

[valefan16]

An interesting read into how much league 2 clubs pay their players.

https://www.footy.com/footballers-vs-the-fans/#efl-league-two

2 teams which seem to buck the trend that throwing money at it will buy you success are FGR and Accrington (of course).

Doesn’t overly say a lot, the reason being they are averages... so overall budgets will vary depending on squad size. Ours with 73682 players will have some higher than that some on low wages.

Ultimately shows though had we had a smaller squad we’d have likely been paying much better for quality over quantity.

 

[Luke Imp]

Our CEO said only last week that we were 14th highest budget in the EFL benchmarking.

An Exeter journalist has used that against us in an article for some reason, but as above, it doesn't take into account squad sizes of which we have one of, if not the, smallest in the division.

 

[Agombar stool]

Doesn’t overly say a lot, the reason being they are averages... so overall budgets will vary depending on squad size. Ours with 73682 players will have some higher than that some on low wages.

Ultimately shows though had we had a smaller squad we’d have likely been paying much better for quality over quantity.

That is a great point to be fair and you have to take the figures with an amount of salt but its still relatively interesting for a couple of minutes!

 

[JJ1532]

Some of those figures are highly suspect, even if they are only a rough guide. Cambridge at £900? Yeah, pull the other one.

Oh and I doubt many of our fans are earning £450 a week.

 

[Soup Ladle]

Good read but where do they get these figures from? Football Manager?

 

[Agombar stool]

Good read but where do they get these figures from? Football Manager?

Wouldn't surprise me. To be fair the Football Manager team have a very wide and varied army of staff.

 

[Youpies]

Doesn't look legit to me. Looks way too low for a number of clubs

 

[Habbinalan]

Based on figures coming out from our recent AGM, Our footballing budget has been around £3.3 million and likely to fall, perhaps to around £3million. We also know that around 25% of the costs are staff and 75% players.

On that basis, you would need to divide our wage bill between around 50 players to get to £900/week. With our youth set up you might just about get there but that's actually costed separately - so the figures are bollocks as far as I can see.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

Shocked at the low-wage economy some of you cowboys are running. Pay a decent whack like we do, even if we didn't get a decent day's work out of it too often.

 

[shoddycollins]

Doesn't look legit to me. Looks way too low for a number of clubs

I figure they've taken the club's own wage budget from their most recent accounts and divided it by the number of professional players they have. Would be heavily skewed towards players who make very few appearances and can be affected different clubs offering contracts to different numbers of first year pros, but since you don't know the salaries of individual players, not sure you'd be able to work out the average for just the first team. Still though, no huge surprises with the top and bottom, just in the middle there's probably not a lot you can read into it.

We'll presumably be much lower in this next season, maybe more in the Cambridge - Cheltenham region.

The fans' weekly pay seems a bit strange. In what world can you earn more living in Crewe than you can in Nottingham? It's probably done using boundaries that includes the Golden Triangle in Crewe's average.

 

[Vanni]

Playing budget includes the manager and his assistants right? Then our players on 900 smackers looks legit to me(1) as I'm pretty sure that absolute bellend Sh**n De**y was on some serious dough (2)

(1) not really (2) yeah, really

Ps - I wonder if Kenneth E End could be arsed to share his thoughts with the rest of us. What do you make of all this Kenny?

 

[AdamStag]

Things like this are always dubious.

Our chairman did say in January that our wage bill were very similar to Coventry and Lincoln though, which is matched by this. Again it’s swings and roundabouts whether it’s the case or not.

 

[Kenneth E End]

Playing budget includes the manager and his assistants right? Then our players on 900 smackers looks legit to me(1) as I'm pretty sure that absolute bellend Sh**n De**y was on some serious dough (2)

(1) not really (2) yeah, really

Ps - I wonder if Kenneth E End could be arsed to share his thoughts with the rest of us. What do you make of all this Kenny?

My thoughts are why is someone doing my job for me?!

 

[Guernica]

Things like this are always dubious.

Our chairman did say in January that our wage bill were very similar to Coventry and Lincoln though, which is matched by this. Again it’s swings and roundabouts whether it’s the case or not.

 

[Kenneth E End]

Think these are numbers are a bit simplistic. Is it just basic wage, include bonuses (because that’ll never be consistent), promotion bonuses, then relocation and termination fees. Plus you have NI and pension contributions. Are you including genuine first teamers or academy graduates too? Then you have transfer fees, agent fees, staff costs. The term “football budget” is probably a lot broader than most expect.

Probably a better indicator is income v spend.

Oh and if this is anywhere near accurate, there should be an investigation as to why there’s a humongous leak at EFL headquarters.

We undoubtedly had the highest budget in the division - I’m going to guess at somewhere not far off £4m including transfer fees.

 

[Chris FGR]

Clearly bollocks, just look at our squad. At most 5 or 6 are on more then £1.3k a week. And they wont be far over that. The rest are below that, quite a few way below. For example our no.1 keeper cost us nothing in wages. So no way is that average correct.

Plus I heard from a pretty reliable source that our budget is actually a lot less then a lot of sides in this league, especially Lincoln. We're nothing like the moneybags people try and claim.

 

[Imp in Branston]

Clearly bollocks, just look at our squad. At most 5 or 6 are on more then £1.3k a week. And they wont be far over that. The rest are below that, quite a few way below. For example our no.1 keeper cost us nothing in wages. So no way is that average correct.

Plus I heard from a pretty reliable source that our budget is actually a lot less then a lot of sides in this league, especially Lincoln. We're nothing like the moneybags people try and claim.

So that's why we have beaten FGR the last four times on the trot, we have a much bigger budget than them!

 

[Chris FGR]

So that's why we have beaten FGR the last four times on the trot, we have a much bigger budget than them!

FACT.

 

[Indian Dan]

I don’t give a shit how high a club’s budget is or how much they pay. If they’ve got it good luck to them.

 

[Imp in Branston]

FACT.

 

[MaineRoad_96]

Clearly bollocks, just look at our squad. At most 5 or 6 are on more then £1.3k a week. And they wont be far over that. The rest are below that, quite a few way below. For example our no.1 keeper cost us nothing in wages. So no way is that average correct.

Plus I heard from a pretty reliable source that our budget is actually a lot less then a lot of sides in this league, especially Lincoln. We're nothing like the moneybags people try and claim.

Reassuring to know that if us Lincoln fans need to know the ‘FACTS’ on our budget we can ask some bloke in Gloucestershire.

 

[EricSabin]

The League 1 version had ours as one of the highest in the league which I can believe, with Van Veen; Pierre; Crooks and O'Donnell etc. Considering we had 30 odd players it's pretty shocking the level of performance we got in return!

Prepare to be blown away by the Cobblers juggernaut

 

[Douglas_Valley_Reds]

I figure they've taken the club's own wage budget from their most recent accounts and divided it by the number of professional players they have. Would be heavily skewed towards players who make very few appearances and can be affected different clubs offering contracts to different numbers of first year pros, but since you don't know the salaries of individual players, not sure you'd be able to work out the average for just the first team. Still though, no huge surprises with the top and bottom, just in the middle there's probably not a lot you can read into it.

We'll presumably be much lower in this next season, maybe more in the Cambridge - Cheltenham region.

The fans' weekly pay seems a bit strange. In what world can you earn more living in Crewe than you can in Nottingham? It's probably done using boundaries that includes the Golden Triangle in Crewe's average.

The golden triangle is nearer to Macc and Manchester than Crewe. You can earn a fair wedge on various railway jobs, and don't forget Bentleys pay reasonable wages, what do they make in Nottingham, fucking lace or something?

 

[George Reilly's Hairpiece]

Is the fans average wage what is earned, or what we tell the tax man?

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

I figure they've taken the club's own wage budget from their most recent accounts and divided it by the number of professional players they have. Would be heavily skewed towards players who make very few appearances and can be affected different clubs offering contracts to different numbers of first year pros, but since you don't know the salaries of individual players, not sure you'd be able to work out the average for just the first team. Still though, no huge surprises with the top and bottom, just in the middle there's probably not a lot you can read into it.

We'll presumably be much lower in this next season, maybe more in the Cambridge - Cheltenham region.

The fans' weekly pay seems a bit strange. In what world can you earn more living in Crewe than you can in Nottingham? It's probably done using boundaries that includes the Golden Triangle in Crewe's average.

Might be a small town compared to Nottingham but as a previous poster said, Bentley Motors, Railway Jobs and might I add Mornflake and a huge industrial and business complex where many national companies have HQs such as Bargain Booze and Ryman is just a stones throw away from the ground with further expansion set to take place before HS2 comes to town. If you included the Golden Triangle (which is 20 miles away from us) it'd be even higher, what with Astra Zeneca and the like up there.

Our location and transport links are the best in the country for a town with a population of less than 100,000 and despite the battered and bruised centre of town (scheduled for redevelopment), the suburban areas are desirable commuter belt territory for London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. So it's no surprise as to why we're so high, but obviously most fans of other clubs will have ventured no further than Nantwich Road when they come to us (unless they go to the decrepit town centre) hence their surprise.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Great thread

 

[AdamStag]

Might be a small town compared to Nottingham but as a previous poster said, Bentley Motors, Railway Jobs and might I add Mornflake and a huge industrial and business complex where many national companies have HQs such as Bargain Booze and Ryman is just a stones throw away from the ground with further expansion set to take place before HS2 comes to town. If you included the Golden Triangle (which is 20 miles away from us) it'd be even higher, what with Astra Zeneca and the like up there.

Our location and transport links are the best in the country for a town with a population of less than 100,000 and despite the battered and bruised centre of town (scheduled for redevelopment), the suburban areas are desirable commuter belt territory for London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. So it's no surprise as to why we're so high, but obviously most fans of other clubs will have ventured no further than Nantwich Road when they come to us (unless they go to the decrepit town centre) hence their surprise.

Lots of places earn more than Nottingham. It was the poorest city in the uk a few years back (let’s wait for the oh so inevitable retorts about Mansfield)

 

[Youpies]

List is definitely not legit when Barnet is not the highest average wage.

 

[Moomin]

We have a massive squad which I think is why ours looks quite low as an average.

I can’t believe that Moxey, Stockley, Boateng, Holmes etc are on less than 1.5-2k per week.