Original title: Rui Sports: Manchester City-Liverpool = 270 million pounds, who is the most embarrassed to burn money?Manchester United cry
Football is a money game, but in the end it still plays on the numbers on the standings. As the 2021-2022 Premier League season draws to a close, let’s take a look at who’s getting the most bang for their buck?
Premier League clubs have spent hundreds of millions of pounds building these teams, and in some cases the giants have cost close to a billion pounds to build. According to the official accounts of 20 teams, the total expenditure of Premier League clubs to build teams is as high as 7.84 billion pounds.
How many of these teams are “earned”? Is it Liverpool? Compared with those other giant teams, the answer for the latter is a resounding “yes”!
According to data provided by football finance expert Kieran Maguire, author of the book “The Price of Football”, according to the club’s latest financial accounts, Liverpool’s team cost of 709 million pounds.
This figure can only rank fourth among the 20 powerhouses in the Premier League, and there is still a big gap compared with the top three Chelsea (£959 million), Manchester City (£975 million) and Manchester United (£980 million).
Taking into account that Manchester City and the Red Army are currently in the championship, let us calculate their cost difference. The cost difference between Manchester City and Liverpool is 270 million pounds. This difference even exceeds the total cost of West Ham of 259 million pounds, Manchester City-Liverpool = West Ham + 11 million pounds. Compared with Aston Villa’s total cost of 272 million pounds, it is 2 million pounds lower, Manchester City-Liverpool = Villa – 2 million pounds.
At the same time, the difference between Manchester City and Liverpool is also higher than Norwich (52 million pounds), Brentford (68 million pounds) and Burnley (122 million pounds) combined, Manchester City-Liverpool> Norwich + Brentford + Burnley.
Guardiola might be embarrassed by this, because his team is always berated for being bought with huge sums of money. But he’s by no means the most embarrassing one, because Manchester City are not the leader on this cost list – the real cost kings Manchester United, they overpay the players who are not performing, and their team costs are as high as £980m, at the same time, they are sixth in the Premier League table, maybe they can play in the Europa League next season, maybe not.
This is the basic cost data, so how do we calculate the input-output ratio of each club? Quite simply, take this set of cost data and subtract their points this season, and it’s easy to draw conclusions regarding who’s spending the wrong money.
Liverpool have spent just over £8.2m per point this season, while Manchester City have spent a little over £10.8m per point. Chelsea, currently third in the standings, spends 13.7 million pounds per point, which is slightly embarrassing.
It may sound like Chelsea would be better suited to the ‘Golden Dollar Football’ hat than Manchester City, but this all happened before they had a new boss, and following this summer, everything will be different.
As for the fourth-placed Tottenham, they have a very good input-output ratio, and they spend 7.1 million pounds per point, which sounds like good value for money. Especially if you consider how close they are to the Champions League next season.
They are obviously not the most worthy of showing off. The most worthy of showing off is West Ham. The Hammers only need to spend 4.6 million pounds per point, but they are currently seventh in the Premier League standings – considering that they are in front of them. The conventional BIG6 If so, in fact, they may turn over to Manchester United in the final round.
Well, they cost 73% less per point than Manchester United. The ratio of the Red Devils’ inconceivable financial expenditure to points is that each point earned will cost a full £16.9 million, more than twice that of Liverpool and nearly four times that of West Ham.
In addition to Chelsea, there is another one at the other end of the standings that can compete with them. Everton cost 451 million pounds to build the team. They have only scored 36 points in the dismal competitive competition this season, which means that they £12.5 million was spent on each point.
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