Championship playing budgets league table

[Bozza]

Where do you think we would sit in a playing budget league table in the Championship?

1 Cardiff 30 21 64
2 Hull 31 9 56
3 Leicester 30 26 53
4 Watford 31 18 53
5 Crystal Palace 31 15 52
6 Middlesbrough 31 4 50
7 Brighton 31 9 46
8 Blackburn 31 4 44
9 Burnley 31 1 43
10 Derby 31 3 42
11 Leeds United 31 -7 42
12 Millwall 31 -2 41
13 Nottm Forest 31 -4 41
14 Blackpool 31 4 40
15 Charlton 31 -2 40
16 Birmingham 31 -7 38
17 Bolton 30 -1 37
18 Huddersfield 31 -18 37
19 Sheff Wed 31 -9 36
20 Ipswich 31 -19 35
21 Wolves 31 -8 34
22 Barnsley 31 -11 34
23 Bristol City 31 -14 31
24 Peterborough 30 -12 30

 

[Icy Gull]

9th behind Cardiff, Hull, Leicester, Blackburn, Birmingham, Bolton, Wolves and Blackpool

 

[Sussax]

8th.

 

[Simster]

Somewhere between 8th and 12th I think but it's largely an irrelevance: At least two clubs (Cardiff & Leicester) have gone shit or bust and the three clubs coming down will have big wages to pay because they were in the Premiership, but they are lumbered with paying Premiership wages for players proven to be not good enough for the top flight.

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

About 13th for me - Leeds, Forest, Cardiff, Bolton, Blackburn, Wolves, Leicester, Hull, Watford, Middlesbrough and Derby all probably have higher wage bills than us for starters and have more money in the kitty.

 

[Taybha]

7th

 

[LamieRobertson]

13th

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

14th

 

[Icy Gull]

Somewhere between 8th and 12th I think but it's largely an irrelevance: At least two clubs (Cardiff & Leicester) have gone shit or bust and the three clubs coming down will have big wages to pay because they were in the Premiership, but they are lumbered with paying Premiership wages for players proven to be not good enough for the top flight.

In the same way as we would struggle big time with the current squad in the Premier League though. Aren't parachute payments for 3 years? That puts us way down the list and can't be considered an irrelevance given the fact that that puts at least 9 teams in front of us for wages, assuming all 9 clubs are spending on players, meaning that they will probably get first dibs on players.I have no idea if this is the case though.

 

[Black Rod]

Cardiff and Leicester are obviously out in front, then would come the three relegated teams. Only Blackburn of them have spent anything since relegation really but they have all kept their squads pretty much intact with the possible exception of Wolves.

Throw in Birmingham whose desperation to slash their wage bill suggests they must have some decent earners, and I'd put us around fifth or sixth

 

[JBizzle]

Twelfth for me. Behind Cardiff, Hull, Leicester, Watford, Middlesbrough, Blackburn, Leeds United, Blackpool, Birmingham, Bolton, Ipswich, and Wolves.

 

[MattBackHome]

12th or 13th?

 

[HenryC]

I think I heard that we are 14th...

 

[Insel affe]

So what are Palace then they aint spent much although they are paying Muzza more than we wanted to.

 

[supaseagull]

This season we are about 9th

 

[Philzo-93]

I seem to recall Gus saying last season that we have the 17th biggest budget in the league:

...so if we finish higher than that it's an achievement for us

Correct me if I am wrong, but nonetheless our budget has not really changed that much over the past 18 months or so.

 

[ees complicated no?]

12th, 13th or 14th Id say

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12th, 13th or 14th Id say

 

[Weststander]

Bozza. Player budget .. Do you mean annual payroll costs, and net transfer spend?

This would have to be for season 2011/12, but would involve some estimating as many clubs will file their accounts late.

Guess. 6th.



Crucially, we won't know the Wolves, Bolton and Blackburn Championship figures for another year.

 

[TerryT]

14th

 

[PHCgull]

Amazed there are no palace trolls on this thread...