It pays to be an Average Player in the English Premiership

By: Bob | May 31st, 2007

Forget studying business or law, if you want to make the mondo bucks you need to major in football. A new report by the number crunchers at Deloitte shows that the average player in the English Premier League will earn £1.1million next year. That should do wonders for the auto industry.

The report also details things that you already know including how fabulously rich the Premiership has become. It is interesting to see how it compares to the other big leagues in Europe in terms of revenue. The numbers from last year:

1. England – £1.4 billion
2. Italy – £1 billion
3. Germany – £800 million
4. Spain – £800 million
5. France – £600 million

Overseas clubs also did fairly well for themselves, receiving net transfers from English clubs of £187 million. That is before Manchester United shot their £50 million load Wednesday.

Not everyone is jumping for joy about the Premiership’s wealth. The chairman of League Two club Barnet puts the league in the same category as leukemia, spoiled milk and Milli Vanilli.

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Jan

I think I read in some article about the Deloitte report that Italy is likely to be taken over in overall revenue by Spain or Germany next year since they really had a rocky season with all the scandals, fan troubles ... But it's overall a development that's really worrying me. As it stands the other "top 4" leagues can't keep up with the EPL not to mention the smaller Portugese or Dutch league.
Deloitte also predicts that smaller Premiership clubs might probably able to close the gap to the top 4 (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manu) since the extra money from the huge new TV deal will allow them to compete with other European top clubs for the best players. Now, I doubt that professional football players nowadays are really all about the money. I bet they still want to be able to win trophies, play in the Champions league etc. And no matter what the EPL won't get more CL or UEFA Cup spots. So the CL/UC spots of other leagues might become valuable commodities for the local clubs in the race for top players.