League Two Salaries 2023/2024

[Conker]

10k p/w Christ

I imagine Flint will be our highest paid player, JR did give Clough what he wanted this summer so the budget I reckon has ticked up a notch.

 

[Conker]

It actually works slightly different as our CEO discussed this, clubs get a list which shows where their club is in the rankings but it doesn’t show where any other club is.

Yeah this is true, I think they get it half way through the season and near the end.

 

[Gi Dalor]

You have a link for this?

This is what Sparks said;

“We have incredible financial power delivered by our supporters and (commercial) partners,” says Bradford chief executive Sparks. “But we are up against teams who have that and much, much more.

“When Bradford were last promoted from this division, the wage bill was somewhere between £1.7million and £1.8m. Now, we are looking at maybe another million on top of that (at Valley Parade this season).

“According to the benchmarking study that came out recently (from the EFL), some squads are on £4million (this season). That makes for an incredibly competitive market.”

 

[chief]

10k p/w Christ

I imagine Flint will be our highest paid player, JR did give Clough what he wanted this summer so the budget I reckon has ticked up a notch.

Our top earners probably aren't too far off. McClean was among Wigan's top earners and Evans has dropped from the championship. £10k might be a stretch but reckon around £8k isn't mental to suggest. There'll be some hefty incentive bonuses flying about too.

 

[Son of Cod]

Looks like a fairly accurate list to me with the only notable mistake being that Notts should be higher. This is basically a reflection of the Going For It™ league table I produced at the start of the season.

Absolutely astonished by some of the numbers in this list, if it's even remotely true. Our budget would put us <20th in this league! Forest Green and Mansfield 3.4m, surely not?!

Bit higher than 20th I reckon. Think you're few hundred k higher than that looking at your squad. You've got a better strikeforce than a lot of teams in this division, that won't have come cheap at NL level.

 

[Conker]

Absolutely astonished by some of the numbers in this list, if it's even remotely true. Our budget would put us <20th in this league! Forest Green and Mansfield 3.4m, surely not?!

Stay in the non-league lane Spireite because ya chattin shit

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Nice to see clubs such as Accrington, Crewe, Morecambe, Notts, Barrow all operating within their means and to match their attendances/incomes and more importantly all punching above their weight.

This little group are currently the little engines that could in League Two.

 

[F!RTHY]

This is what Sparks said;

Thing is, this disappoints me.

I have very good recollection for supporters board minutes and I can assure you, our playing budget in 2012/2013 wasn’t £1.8m. It might’ve been set at £1.8m before the season began, but it didn’t finish at that number. Purely due to cup success and Jan window additions.

In fact, in 2008/2008, our playing budget was originally set for £1.9m, but we went over that (£2.1m). The same year Mark Lawn loaned the club £1m, providing he claimed £60k back per annum in interest. Imagine if Rupp did that now - but we won’t talk about that.

 

[BarraMatt]

Has Stocky cross referenced this against his spreadsheet?

 

[spireite]

Looks like a fairly accurate list to me with the only notable mistake being that Notts should be higher. This is basically a reflection of the Going For It™ league table I produced at the start of the season.

Bit higher than 20th I reckon. Think you're few hundred k higher than that looking at your squad. You've got a better strikeforce than a lot of teams in this division, that won't have come cheap at NL level.

Our budget is about 1.6m, possibly slightly higher but not a lot, it was 1.8m when we were in L2, and I think at the time that was a reasonable top half budget! The spending in this league must have gone insane over the last 5 years.

 

[Conker]

Our budget is about 1.6m, possibly slightly higher but not a lot, it was 1.8m when we were in L2, and I think at the time that was a reasonable top half budget! The spending in this league must have gone insane over the last 5 years.

The last time price of football tweeted about your accounts you were spending £113 for every £100 of income and had a £2.5m+ budget in 2020.

So some serious cloth cutting.

 

[F!RTHY]

Our budget is about 1.6m, possibly slightly higher but not a lot, it was 1.8m when we were in L2, and I think at the time that was a reasonable top half budget! The spending in this league must have gone insane over the last 5 years.

The increase in solidarity payments has helped. I believe all clubs in L2 now receive circa £1.1m, whereas during your time in L2, it was set at £470k.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

I do hope Chesterfield come up this season, as champions. Don't want to put those fans through another potential Wembley heartache again after last season.

Would be a good addition to the league.

 

[Master D]

Has Stocky cross referenced this against his spreadsheet?

That's the real spreadsheet.

 

[spireite]

The last time price of football tweeted about your accounts you were spending £113 for every £100 of income and had a £2.5m+ budget in 2020.

So some serious cloth cutting.

I mean possibly total budget, belt and braces included, our annual accounts under the Trust are 'detailed' lets say. And this data is playing budget only, right? The playing budget was confirmed last years AGM as being 1.6m, by the head honcho. With the incomings this season it's possibly gone up a bit helped by increased gates, but we've had some outgoings on big wages out the door, too, although probably still losing money overall. I just question the accuracy of this data, it feels like a lot of guesswork. Forest Green working off a 3.4m playing budget with a grand total of 2k average attendance?! The financial fair play guys must be having kittens

(Firthys post goes some way to explaining, I was unaware of that, even more incentive to get promoted!)

 

[WilsdenBantam]

This is what Sparks said;

Cheers, knew I’d not imagined it. I think it’s a solid if unspectacular budget, but certainly been wasted by those in charge of recruitment. I suspect that these wages are best guess rather than accurate, a bit like Transfermarket. I’m sure individuals wages are protected data, although I maybe wrong. So I doubt the EFL just pass this info out, regardless of what they might say. Still if it’s on the internet it must be true…

 

[Bottega Don]

Thing is, this disappoints me.

I have very good recollection for supporters board minutes and I can assure you, our playing budget in 2012/2013 wasn’t £1.8m. It might’ve been set at £1.8m before the season began, but it didn’t finish at that number. Purely due to cup success and Jan window additions.

In fact, in 2008/2008, our playing budget was originally set for £1.9m, but we went over that (£2.1m). The same year Mark Lawn loaned the club £1m, providing he claimed £60k back per annum in interest. Imagine if Rupp did that now - but we won’t talk about that.

Might be the least surprising thing I have ever read

 

[Son of Cod]

I mean possibly total budget, belt and braces included, our annual accounts under the Trust are 'detailed' lets say. And this data is playing budget only, right? The playing budget was confirmed last years AGM as being 1.6m, by the head honcho. With the incomings this season it's possibly gone up a bit helped by increased gates, but we've had some outgoings on big wages out the door, too, although probably still losing money overall. I just question the accuracy of this data, it feels like a lot of guesswork. Forest Green working off a 3.4m playing budget with a grand total of 2k average attendance?! The financial fair play guys must be having kittens

(Firthys post goes some way to explaining, I was unaware of that, even more incentive to get promoted!)

Haven't you signed Naylor, Grigg and Colclough since then? Easily an extra 400k I'd have thought?

 

[Son of Cod]

I do hope Chesterfield come up this season, as champions. Don't want to put those fans through another potential Wembley heartache again after last season.

Would be a good addition to the league.

Definitely, looking forward to having them back up here.

That's the real spreadsheet.

Yep, we'll have to wait and see what Stocky says on the mattter.

 

[Gunit]

Think ours very skewed here by 4 loan players, stats would read better without them or averaging them out to squad level. I can’t see us being anywhere near as high as that. Last accounts I have before they stopped sending them (18/19) our playing/management spend was circa £700k! Fair to say it’s increased a little since then.

 

[spireite]

Haven't you signed Naylor, Grigg and Colclough since then? Easily an extra 400k I'd have thought?

We have yeah. I cba to work out what 400k works out each salary at p/w, but I imagine Naylor and Grigg could be 4k a week, our top earners for sure (although Naylor is a bargain at twice the price, baller). Colclough less. We have moved earners like Oyeleke, Danny Rowe and Asante recently though which helps offset. Maguire too will be on a chunk, although I haven't scoob what the terms of his loan are at Crawley. Budget is probably up a bit but I think helped by us budgeting crowds of 5k and getting around 8k (edit: I think the recent Kettering FA Cup qualifier hurt this, although we are expecting a sellout tomorrow to watch us get pumped by Barnet). My point was really though I don't think this list is to be believed. Feels like someone stuck a wet finger in the air (ooh matron) and went for it. The few figures they have for NL feel largely just made up.

 

[Gladders]

We have yeah. I cba to work out what 400k works out each salary at p/w, but I imagine Naylor and Grigg could be 4k a week.

Divide by 52 then divide by 3, works out about 2.5k a week each.
But for 2 players on 4k a week is over 400k

 

[ForzaCounty]

You're not very rattled at all by me calling Stockport fans defensive over wages yesterday.

I'm not surprised at all that we're put at the top tbh, it was always going to be between ourselves and MK Dons with Stockport slotting in 3rd. Our revenue is far greater than anyone else at this level so I'm at peace with us spending ridiculous amounts.

Imagine what your revenue would be if you started charging us rent

 

[spireite]

Divide by 52 then divide by 3, works out about 2.5k a week each.
But for 2 players on 4k a week is over 400k

Strong maffs! I bet Danny Rowe wasn't far off £4k a week himself, not that we saw much for our money. Asante was a lot, Oyeleke reasonable amount. All presents left by the sex pest manager we had. The fact that website has Will Evans at Scunny earning £400 a week though is hilarious. He left Boreham Wood for more money to go to Scunny, there's no way he's getting paid less than the national living wage.

 

[AdamStag]

Mansfield fans will be absolutely furious that they're spending more than us. Ours is more or less bang on to be fair, top third of the league but nowhere near the biggest.

Tbh too busy in a race for promotion, completely forgot gillingham Joe.

 

[AdamStag]

I think especially after last seasons issues with squad depth we’ve got pretty good players across the board and in-depth rather than necessarily the best players for each position - though the defence led by aden flint is proving far better than expected to date. To have conceded 3 home goals by mid-november says it all.

the gripe at present would be how wasteful we are upfront. Radfords aim was always for us to run at a profit - given attendances and backing from businesses in the town i believe we’re doing that from conversations with 1 of the board members.

 

[chief]

Imagine what your revenue would be if you started charging us rent

You're the one who called me out.

 

[Who Needs Mourinho]

It’s very obviously all just complete and utter guesswork and not very good guesswork at that.

To suggest that our back up keeper is on over 3k a week and more than our first choice keeper is ludicrous.

Then that the first choice keeper is on more than Camps and Collar just doesn’t make any sense along with lots of other things.

 

[Who Needs Mourinho]

You're the one who called me out.

Because you’re chatting shit.

You posted the other day how we are defensive over Powell’s wage when every County fan on here knows he’s on 7k a week and thinks it’s ridiculous.

Our current first choice 11:

Hinchliffe - With us since the NLN
MSH - signed for free after a NL loan spell at Hartlepool
Horsfall - free but big wages getting him Northampton
Wright - free - signed from NLN York
Pye - signed as a released teenager from Rochdale
Croasdale - free - just been relegated to the NLN
Collar - free - not wanted by Hamilton
Bailey - loan - not wanted by Salford
Sarcevic - free but big wages
Wootton - free from the NL but big wages
Tanto - 200k fee from Millwall


We’re all aware we spend stupid money (and a lot of it on marquee players that don’t work out) we’re just not prepared to pretend that we’re spending more than you guys.

 

[EnglishRed]

Imagine what your revenue would be if you started charging us rent

you need that money for plane hire.