In the last accounts declared it was £41m a year more for Leicester
Leeds wages last year in the Champ were £78m including a £20m promotion bonus. Albions wage Bill when promoted was £40m (in 16/17) including the £9m bonus.
Palace have 4 more points than Albion tonight. We’d have only 1 fewer if we’d got in the way of Benteke that time. We’d be thinking about this season completely differently with 5 games to go. Safe with a real chance of overtaking that lot for once. It really is fine margins.
In our last 3 seasons from our last 7 games :
2017/18: 6 points - DLDDWLL
2018/19: 3 points - LLDLDDL
2019/20: 8 points - LWLLDDW
and yep. we've never lost 7 in a row. Worst sequence so far is 4 in the EPL.
The fewest points Albion have ever have accumulated from a 7 game run in the EPL in the last four years was 2 points - twice under Hughton in 2018/19.
That rather bleak scenario would leave us on 35 and leave Fulham with 3 wins from their final 5 to overtake us and reach 36.