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The World's Richest Football Clubs - Forbes

Claudius

The Forbes list is interesting if you're a football investor like Kroenke.
For the fans, however, a more informative ranking is one that lists clubs either by total wage bill for playing staff, or the slightly cruder total transfer value of current playing staff.

Biggus

Captain wrote:
Biggus wrote:
We're not the 4th highest spenders Capi, but most sources are consistently showing we are very asset rich.
The other fact is that we are remarkably unsuccessful on the trophy front.
Put them together and we seem to have a portrait of this clubs aims and ambitions.

We're not rich in any sense of the word. We aren't poor either but the 'value' of a club means squat.

The reality is that some of the 'richest' clubs in the world aren't even on that list. The bloke at that Anzhi club that Eto'o signed for is sanctioning £300m for signings this summer. £300 bloody million before wages. You can literally buy at least 15/20 premiership clubs for that much.

But those clubs are essentially starting from scratch and have to invest heavily in infrastructure and players.

Captain

Yes, their situation is different but the point is, we simply do not have £300M to spend on signing players. In fact, we don't even have a quarter of that.

They essentially have unlimited riches (or at least as much as the owner is willing to pump in which, for all intents and purposes, appears to be the same thing).

Rex

Same with PSG, Man City, Malaga, Inter etc, etc.

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