Championship Spending Chart

[Terminally Yellow 2,549]

An interesting chart showing spending to be pretty low across the board when it comes to the Championship, particularly given the fees spent in the Premier League....

[Terminally Yellow 2,549]

Seen that it is out of date - Swansea have bought Blackpool's Jerry Yates and Rotherham have spent money on a player too. 

[Ulfotto 673]

Fair to say the league as a whole is in negative transfer spend looking at those figures.

[Terminally Yellow 2,549]

Another showing fees received. Outdated again as it doesn't include our sale of Bali Mumba, but goes to show that Championship clubs are typically spending £1 for every £2 received. 

[Branston Pickle 3,769]

Only problem with is is that it only gives one side of the story: for instance Leicester have lost a number of their star players, Coventry were only spending a portion of the sale for their star striker.

Edit: was typing that when you were posting the second table!  That puts a bit more context.

Edited July 24, 2023 by Branston Pickle

[Hook's-Walk-Canary 213]

1 hour ago, Terminally Yellow said:

An interesting chart showing spending to be pretty low across the board when it comes to the Championship, particularly given the fees spent in the Premier League....

Is there a chart that presents undisclosed fees? 😃

[Nuff Said 5,293]

Wages are a huge part of the equation though. We don’t get to see those.

[Channon’s Windmill 344]

8 hours ago, Terminally Yellow said:

Another showing fees received. Outdated again as it doesn't include our sale of Bali Mumba, but goes to show that Championship clubs are typically spending £1 for every £2 received. 

Ours should have the money from Maddison’s move?

[Bert 236]

A better chart would be contributions , goals, assists, clean sheets etc per £ spent 

[KeiranShikari 1,493]

Would imagine we've given out some fairly hefty signing on fees already though.

[essex canary 522]

1 hour ago, Bert said:

A better chart would be contributions , goals, assists, clean sheets etc per £ spent 

if that was applied to our record in recent times the rightward movement on the chart presented here for NCFC would be minimal. 

[TIL 1010 4,839]

How reliable are any of those figures as to me i suspect a fair bit of conjecture has gone into them which if posted enough times becomes internet fact ?

Edited July 25, 2023 by TIL 1010

[GMF 757]

11 minutes ago, TIL 1010 said:

How reliable are any of those figures as to me i suspect a fair bit of conjecture has gone into them which if posted enough times becomes internet fact ?

Sounds like a job for the chairman of the audit committee to thoroughly review, if you ask me…

[Badger 2,421]

12 hours ago, Terminally Yellow said:

An interesting chart showing spending to be pretty low across the board when it comes to the Championship, particularly given the fees spent in the Premier League....

Surely net spend is the key figure (i.e. purchases minus sales)? In this case Leicester would be net spenders of minus £64.75 million. 

In other words they have taken a team that got relegated and sold its best players - not that unusual. 

Southampton would be minus £9.8 million5; Coventry minus £10.75 million etc

 

[Midlands Yellow 4,165]

10 minutes ago, Badger said:

Surely net spend is the key figure (i.e. purchases minus sales)? In this case Leicester would be net spenders of minus £64.75 million. 

In other words they have taken a team that got relegated and sold its best players - not that unusual. 

Southampton would be minus £9.8 million5; Coventry minus £10.75 million etc

 

Agreed, like fans on here claiming we had a spend of £60m 21/22 season but conveniently forgetting the Buendia sale. 

[essex canary 522]

1 hour ago, Midlands Yellow said:

Agreed, like fans on here claiming we had a spend of £60m 21/22 season but conveniently forgetting the Buendia sale. 

Absolutely.

[Captain Holt 522]

The Championship won't recover from COVID for a long, long time. It was heading that way until a major guaranteed income (gate receipts) got wiped out for 18 months.

League's One and Two are even worse. Sad. The gap widens.

[Flying Dutchman 744]

4 hours ago, Bert said:

A better chart would be contributions , goals, assists, clean sheets etc per £ spent 

Kind of like an 'Xg cross-reference with fees'

Imagine the meltdown on here.

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 3,939]

8 hours ago, Nuff Said said:

Wages are a huge part of the equation though. We don’t get to see those.

This. All clubs spend considerably more on wages than transfer fees, yet so many view only transfer fees as a measure of how much a club is spending on players.

[ZLF 286]

Number of players leaving and in is also key.   

[BigFish 2,001]

1 hour ago, Captain Holt said:

The Championship won't recover from COVID for a long, long time. It was heading that way until a major guaranteed income (gate receipts) got wiped out for 18 months.

League's One and Two are even worse. Sad. The gap widens.

I can't see the Championship ever recovering. Aside from those clubs with parachute payments it is more a question of the least poor clubs rather than the richest. All relative, I just listened to the Price of Football podcast and the budget of the Villa team that became European Champions really does show how the game has changed.

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