This Saturday, the Mirror published the amount of the wage bills of the 20 Premier League clubs. In the lead, Chelsea are ahead of Manchester United and Manchester City. Leader Arsenal is only in sixth place.
Author of a record winter transfer window with no less than 370 million euros spent, Todd Boehly’s Chelsea are logically at the top of the clubs with the largest payroll in the Kingdom.
Chelsea, Premier League club with the biggest wage bill
The British tabloid Mirror unveiled this Saturday the list of all Premier League teams and the weight represented by the salaries awarded to players in February 2023. And the Blues, currently stuck in 10th place in the league, narrowly overtake Manchester United with an estimated wage bill at 240 million euros (239 million for the Red Devils). With 32 players in the squad this season, not counting the eight men on loan who will return at the end of the 2022-2023 financial year, the London club’s board is preparing for a busy summer with a lot of sales to be concluded. .
Most managerial Arsenal among ‘Big 6’, sensations Brighton and Brentford
On the third step of the podium, we find the champions of England in title, Manchester City (207 million euros). But the situation which challenges the English press is that of Arsenal. At the top of the Premier League with five points ahead of Cityzens, the Gunners have a well-controlled wage bill (111 million euros), more than half that of Chelsea or United and the lowest of the famous ‘Big 6’.
Over the past two seasons, under the impetus of Mikel Arteta, the North London club has striven to better regulate salary management by separating from several executives with substantial emoluments (Mesut Özil, Shkodran Mustafi, Sokratis in January 2021 , Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in January 2022…). The extensions of several nuggets (Martinelli, Saka, Saliba) of the club has the lowest average age in the Premier League could however redistribute the cards a little.
Other important elements to highlight, Brighton (40 million euros) and Brentford (34 million euros), respectively 7th and 8th in the championship and revelations of the season in England, have the lowest payrolls. Perhaps the proof that with work and creativity in recruitment, it is not absolutely necessary to heat the checkbook…