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BigBarryBoozer

Bristol City are different though.

them and Cardiff on the conveyor belt for the next big USA or middle east billionaire take over, both clubs have potential if managed right.

Wardy

Birmingham submit 24/25 accounts when the club was promoted from League One. 🔑 figures
⚽️Revenue £36.5m ⬆️ 36% (record for non parachute club in L1, as are most of these figures)
⚽️Wages £38.9m ⬆️ 9%
⚽️Wages 107% of revenue
⚽️Employees 358 ⬆️76
⚽️Ave weekly wage £16,500… pic.twitter.com/l1O5mVQC8A

— Kieran Maguire (@KieranMaguire) April 8, 2026

Been looking at his tweets for the previous couple seasons and I believe our wage to revenue is actually moving in the right direction. Thought I'd share as a few seem worried about the 107% but...

In 23/24 is was £117 wages for every £100 revenue
In 22/23 it was £147 wages for every £100 revenue
Might have helped if he'd used a little down arrow like he did the previous season to indicate that it was actually lower.

Our revenue is way higher though and I thought we’d signed a lot of players who wanted to join us for success rather than the wage.
A 16.5k average weekly wage in league one is mental. Let’s be honest about it

I thought we’d signed a lot of players who wanted to join us for success rather than the wage.

It's both.

Players are people and they absolutely will take the highest wage they can get.

I do worry now what we’re paying BOS, Kyogo, Neumann, Gray and that bastard Robinson

Rab C Nesbitt

I do worry now what we’re paying BOS, Kyogo, Neumann, Gray and that bastard Robinson

It is worrying when only 1 of them players is deemed good enough for a promotion push. I wouldn't be bothered if any of them left bar Gray.

Nat

I don't want to pretend I know much about PSR, other than I know that generally the thing is leftist corporatism and for the good of football the whole thing should be scrapped. I'm not going to pretend I know the ins and outs of how likely in future years we are likely to breach PSR regulations if current projections are maintained.

Wages being 107% to revenue is a big concern though. That is simply unsustainable.

I used to hate PSR, but then the DvBs started to whine about it nonstop so it definitely has its benefits and when we are eventually in the Powerhouse PSR/SCR/FFP or whatever iteration it is by then will be a problem for other clubs to worry about.

Have no time for those sorts of regulations.

Beuracratic authorities telling businesses what they can and can't spend didn't work for the Labour Government of the mid to late 70s and doesn't work in football now.

I’m not a massive fan of them either and I don’t think they’re effective and only serve to protect the big boys, though it should be noted that it was the clubs that voted this in themselves as opposed to any governing body

Gavlaaa40

Nat

I don't want to pretend I know much about PSR, other than I know that generally the thing is leftist corporatism and for the good of football the whole thing should be scrapped. I'm not going to pretend I know the ins and outs of how likely in future years we are likely to breach PSR regulations if current projections are maintained.

Wages being 107% to revenue is a big concern though. That is simply unsustainable.

I used to hate PSR, but then the DvBs started to whine about it nonstop so it definitely has its benefits and when we are eventually in the Powerhouse PSR/SCR/FFP or whatever iteration it is by then will be a problem for other clubs to worry about.

Witton are one of the clubs who have constantly voted against any financial restrictions or guidelines in the PL .

ForeverFrancis

Gavlaaa40

Nat

I don't want to pretend I know much about PSR, other than I know that generally the thing is leftist corporatism and for the good of football the whole thing should be scrapped. I'm not going to pretend I know the ins and outs of how likely in future years we are likely to breach PSR regulations if current projections are maintained.

Wages being 107% to revenue is a big concern though. That is simply unsustainable.

I used to hate PSR, but then the DvBs started to whine about it nonstop so it definitely has its benefits and when we are eventually in the Powerhouse PSR/SCR/FFP or whatever iteration it is by then will be a problem for other clubs to worry about.

Witton are one of the clubs who have constantly voted against any financial restrictions or guidelines in the PL .

And they are acting as Man City's Trojan horse, given that both of their billionaires are tight with Abu Dhabi (one lives there, the other has $2bn of AD investment in his fund).

Le Mod

I’m not a massive fan of them either and I don’t think they’re effective and only serve to protect the big boys, though it should be noted that it was the clubs that voted this in themselves as opposed to any governing body

Not the first time turkeys have voted for Christmas.

IIRC the thought about these sorts of regulations before they were launched is that they would increase sporting competition. The opposite has actually happened, as you say.

Another strain of thought is that these sorts of regulations would stop clubs getting into shit financially, that hasn't happened either. In fact I'd argue that clubs in this country are now less self sufficient now than pre-PSR.

Le Mod

I’m not a massive fan of them either and I don’t think they’re effective and only serve to protect the big boys, though it should be noted that it was the clubs that voted this in themselves as opposed to any governing body

If there were no regs it's likely that King/Dong et al would have done even more damage than they actually did.

Also TW/KW might possibly have been less likely to have got involved because without the regs the Saudi/Emirati owned clubs would be now just be blowing everyone else away - at least with limits in place there's some hope of competing eventually.

So maybe we've actually benefitted from the regs a little bit.

I've heard this theory before, but I really don't see arch capitalist American hedge fund bosses being attracted to something by increased regulation.

Surely they’d welcome it. What’s likely to increase profits? Spending caps would be number one. It’s how American sports work…