Ben Redfern

‼️A few extremely important notes to this: 🔺 It is — total wages — payed to all employees. Man City has a very slim organization since they buy different services from City Football Group (which is a general cost, not a wage). Man Utd on the other hand still have a behemoth of an organization with many expensive employees to handle NYSE listing requirements etc. So while City’s wage bill is “just” £140m more expensive than United’s (ie equal to 14 players earning 200k a week) the real difference in player wage bill is closer to £180m. 🔺It is often said that these high wage bills are just bonuses. But this is the wage bill City has when finishing 3rd in the PL and losing in the R16 of the CL. Liverpool played in the Europa League in 23/24, and their wage bill was still £402m. £80m more than United’s last season when United went to the finals of the EL. So this enormous difference between the wage bills of City/Liverpool and United has nothing to do with bonuses. With the exact same results — the gap is £100-150m in player wages. 🔺I have posted about these things for years, because it was getting no coverage. People still thought Utd had high wages due to Capology which is just random guesses. But I still don’t think people realize just how big the difference is. Like last season, the difference between United and City’s player wage bill was literally at least equal to the cost of 15.5 players earning 200k a week. And if you take into account wages for non players, and it’s over 18 players on 200k a week. 200k a week is 10.4m a year. 180m is 18 players on 200k a week. Again — this is when City is finishing 3rd and losing in the “play in” in the CL. I’ll repeat it — their player wage bill exceeded United’s with a cost equal to 15.5-18 players on 200k a week. How many pundits following United/the PL do you guys think have grasped this? I called @AndyMitten out for not pressuring Berrada about this in the interview before the season. How can anyone seriously think United can compete being this far behind financially? They claim that they believe it’s realistic to win a title in two years. 🔺Then people think we have a realistic chance of winning a transfer race for an Antoine Semenyo. Elliot Anderson? I heard Ben Jacobs say that money won’t matter for Anderson, it’s all about the project. Facts are that both these players will earn about 37.5-50m more over 5 years signing with Liverpool or City. That is generational wealth for all your family and relatives… it takes a lot leave that on the table. 🔺Pep sat at a presser like a month ago talking about “net spend”. City Football Group invests many many hundred of millions a year to produce young talent each year that can be sold for 75-100m to bring down Pep’s net spend. Last summer Bobb, McAtee, Couto and Perrone went for 100m. Facts are that it’s simply absurd and purely dishonest by Pep to claim that City doesn’t have 1.5x the resources of anyone else in the PL besides Liverpool.

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✅ "I'd bring in a new rule..." ⛔️ "You miss the next league game if you pull out of international duty!" 😡 "It's a mockery for so many players to pull out!" Gabby says the #AFC stars who withdrew from international duty should be banned for the Gunners' next league game! ❌