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I'm using Transfermarkt's summary of their 2022/23 transfer fees (https://www.transfermarkt.com/serie-a/transfers/wettbewerb/IT1 https://www.transfermarkt.com/s

by smcl 4y ago

I'm using Transfermarkt's summary of their 2022/23 transfer fees (https://www.transfermarkt.com/serie-a/transfers/wettbewerb/IT1 https://www.transfermarkt.com/serie-a/transfers/wettbewerb/I... for Serie A, https://www.transfermarkt.com/premier-league/transfers/wettbewerb/GB1 https://www.transfermarkt.com/premier-league/transfers/wettb... for the Premier League). It's not perfect but nothing is. Brighton & Hove Albion - €55.73m Milan - €48.67m Inter - €38.90m Stretching things out over multiple seasons and netting the expenses off makes things look a bit better, but only obscures the fact that they did spend big, they're just operating in a big-spending league. It's no small feat to compete in that league, but to say they have "conquered" the transfer market after half a season having splashed out what they did is declaring victory a bit prematurely. It's a little bit harder to compare by looking at Brighton's wage bill in GBP but Milan's in EUR. After conversion to EUR we get: Milan - €169m Brighton - €123m So a team currently who have never finished higher than ninth in the Premier League have a wage bill that is 72% that of the reigning Serie A champions (not to mention seven-time European Cup winner who have won their domestic league nineteen times). They may not (yet? these figures are from 2021) have a higher wage bill than a current giant of the European game, but they're certainly within the same ballpark.

bwing 4y ago
Oh, transfermarkt is perfectly fine, and your general point about EPL money is definitely right -- just don't think it makes any sense to count pure transfer outlay without taking into account player sales. You aren't "spending big" if you're spending 55m out of player trading revenue of 130m; you are (maybe) if you're spending 50m out of player trading revenue of 15m.
- smcl 4y ago
  Yeah I just wanted to show how despite being a smaller club punching above their weight locally, they still had a chunk of resources to spend that would put them among the elite even in the big five European leagues. I don't know if net player spend is a particularly good way to look at that either, but the wage bills you posted were pretty interesting. I didn't think that kind of info would be easily accessible. It's nice to encounter people who want to talk football on HN though :)

by smcl 4y ago

bwing 4y ago

Oh, transfermarkt is perfectly fine, and your general point about EPL money is definitely right -- just don't think it makes any sense to count pure transfer outlay without taking into account player sales. You aren't "spending big" if you're spending 55m out of player trading revenue of 130m; you are (maybe) if you're spending 50m out of player trading revenue of 15m.

smcl 4y ago
Yeah I just wanted to show how despite being a smaller club punching above their weight locally, they still had a chunk of resources to spend that would put them among the elite even in the big five European leagues. I don't know if net player spend is a particularly good way to look at that either, but the wage bills you posted were pretty interesting. I didn't think that kind of info would be easily accessible. It's nice to encounter people who want to talk football on HN though :)