Saints 7th most expensive squad in Premier League

[manina-pub]

i suppose that kind of reflects our league position last season......

 

 

http://talksport.com/football/most-expensive-squads-premier-league-where-does-your-side-rank-150904165507?

[SaintBobby]

These tables are meaningless if based just on transfer activity.

 

A measure of what you're spending should be something like (not saying it's perfect, but it's closer to perfect):

 

1. Transfer fee paid divided by years of contract (so VvD counts as £2.3m a year for 5 years on cost side)

2. Player wage bill. If you sign your entire squad on free transfers, but pay them all £150,000 a week, you aren't the cheapest squad in the league

3. Transfer fees received divided by years that were left on the player's contract (so, I think that's £12m this year for Clyne, £12m this year and next year for Morgan)

[Batman]

7th most expensive and finished 7th with a manager that is something like the 5th or 6th highest paid too.

 

seems about par really

[Whitey Grandad]

7th most expensive and finished 7th with a manager that is something like the 5th or 6th highest paid too.

 

seems about par really

 

Ain't that the truth.

[Bucks Saint]

This must be wrong, plenty on here keep complaining that we just have not invested enough and should have spent much more

[SaintBobby]

7th most expensive and finished 7th with a manager that is something like the 5th or 6th highest paid too.

 

seems about par really

 

That's not wholly unfair. But making a net profit of, what, £30m on the transfer market while doing so is pretty impressive.

 

Whether that can be repeated ad infinitum...well, let's less certain.

[tajjuk]

Haven't we also sold like £150 million worth of players?

 

So that 'expense' is not really correct.

[DuncanRG]

Haven't we also sold like £150 million worth of players?

 

So that 'expense' is not really correct.

 

It is correct, because the players we've sold aren't in our squad.