CPFCSaturn
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Deloitte recently published their 'Football Money League' for the 24/25 season.
Other than really highlighting the ever-growing gap between the big boys and the rest, I think there's takeaways for us in both the 'Revenue' and the 'Wages' chart;
On wages; we are clearly very, very conservative - ranked 16th out of 17 in terms of the teams not just promoted into the division. I'd imagine that may have ticked up slightly for this season, but it does support the narrative that we are fairly unambitious in our recruitment and retention work. I think it also puts a fantastic perspective on just how good a job Glasner has been doing for the last few years - wage bill is by far the biggest correlator in football as to your success, and we're probably the best outperformers of it in the league over the last few seasons.
On the revenue side, the picture is far more nuanced than the prevailing narrative suggests. We sit much closer to the middle of the pack than many assume. Taken together, the two graphs don’t really support the argument that a lack of revenue is what fundamentally limits our competitiveness in the transfer market. Several clubs with comparable — or even lower — revenues appear willing to take on significantly more risk in how they allocate their spending, rightly or wrongly.
In short, our approach feels less like a structural revenue problem and more like a strategic choice about risk appetite, which makes Glasner's ongoing frustration more understandable to me.
Other than really highlighting the ever-growing gap between the big boys and the rest, I think there's takeaways for us in both the 'Revenue' and the 'Wages' chart;
On wages; we are clearly very, very conservative - ranked 16th out of 17 in terms of the teams not just promoted into the division. I'd imagine that may have ticked up slightly for this season, but it does support the narrative that we are fairly unambitious in our recruitment and retention work. I think it also puts a fantastic perspective on just how good a job Glasner has been doing for the last few years - wage bill is by far the biggest correlator in football as to your success, and we're probably the best outperformers of it in the league over the last few seasons.
On the revenue side, the picture is far more nuanced than the prevailing narrative suggests. We sit much closer to the middle of the pack than many assume. Taken together, the two graphs don’t really support the argument that a lack of revenue is what fundamentally limits our competitiveness in the transfer market. Several clubs with comparable — or even lower — revenues appear willing to take on significantly more risk in how they allocate their spending, rightly or wrongly.
In short, our approach feels less like a structural revenue problem and more like a strategic choice about risk appetite, which makes Glasner's ongoing frustration more understandable to me.
