5 Dec 2012 足球隨筆 阿仙奴薪酬開支！
5 Dec 2012 足球隨筆 阿仙奴薪酬開支！
去晚，因工作關係避逼停留在嚴寒的國內一晚。當我在酒店內準備收看奧林比亞高斯 vs 阿仙奴的比賽，我不停在遙控器尋找那一個台直播，結果找了接近半小時也不到，惟有放棄選擇睡覺，沒有收看直播。當我回港之後，第一時間在公司看了的精華片段，但我沒有辦法只看了十分鐘左右的精華，憑天馬行空寫整場的「賽後評論」，所以今次暫停一次。
當我在網上找了一篇有關阿仙奴的新酬開支，我嚇了一跳，點解同一薪酬，一些就要經常上陣搏殺，一些沒有傷病也不用比賽呢？這點較易理解，雲加都不想簽入「廢」人，有時買人要講運氣。或者；預備組的薪酬與一隊最少待遇也相距13倍? 最離譜就是薪酬最高的人與他的助手相差27倍週薪？
以下是從外國網站轉貼阿仙奴的薪酬（預測）：
I gave estimated figures of Arsenal’s wage bill, citing the huge amount of money Wenger had wasted on (a) flops, and (b) overpaid youngsters he couldn’t get off the wage bill.My overall assessment was that, contrary to popular opinion, Arsenal’s failure to compete with the heavy spenders in the Premier League has nothing to do with how much money is available for Wenger to spend, rather how he chooses to spend the considerable resources made available to him.
Yet, while the sum total of my wage bill estimate added up mathematically, the breakdown lacked accuracy and I’ve long been meaning to perfect it. So, armed with further information - and recent access to Arsenal’s full-year accounts, the below update should be a little more accurate an estimate of how Arsenal’s current £143.4m wage bill is made up.
FIRST TEAMWAGE (pwk)
Lukas Podolski£107,000
Tomas Rosicky£80,000
Per Mertesacker£80,000
Andrey Arshavin£78,000
Santi Carzorla£70,000
Mikel Arteta£70,000
Thomas Vermaelen£70,000
Theo Walcott£60,000
Olivier Giroud£60,000
Gervinho£60,000
Bacary Sagna£60,000
Marouane Chamakh£60,000
Andre Santos£60,000Jack Wilshere£60,000
Abou Diaby£60,000
Denilson£60,000
Laurent Koscielny£60,000
Johan Djourou£50,000
Kieran Gibbs£50,000
Nicklas Bendtner£50,000
Sebastien Squillaci£50,000
Aaron Ramsey£50,000
Wojciech Szczesny£50,000
Lukasz Fabianski£50,000
Ju Young Park£50,000
Vito Mannone£30,000
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain£30,000
Carl Jenkinson£30,000
Emmanuel Frimpong£30,000
Francis Coquelin£30,000
Ryo Miyaichi£18,000
Ignasi Miquel£10,000
Joel Campbell£10,000
RESERVES
Alex Iwobi£750
Alfred Mugabo£750
Anthony Jeffrey£750
Arinse Uade£750Austin Lipman£750
Benik Afobe£750
Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill£750
Chuba Akpom£750
Chuks Aneke£750
Conor Henderson£750
Craig Eastmond£750
Damian Martinez£750
Daniel Boateng£750
Deyan Iliev£750
Elton Monteiro£750
Glen Kamara£750
Hector Bellerin£750
Nicholas Yennaris£750
Isaac Hayden£750
Jack Jebb£750
James Shea£750
Jernade Meade£750
Jon Toral£750
Jordan Wynter£750
Josh Rees£750
Josh Vickers£750
Kristoffer Olsson£750
Kyle Ebecilio£750
Leander Siemann£750
Martin Angha£750
Nigel Neita£750Philip Roberts£750
Reice Charles-Cook£750
Samir Bihmoutine£750
Samuel Galindo£750
Sanchez Watt£750
Sead Hajrovic£750
Serge Gnabry£750
Tarum Dawkins£750
Thoma Eisfeld£750
Tom Dallison£750
Wellington£750
Zachari Fagan£750
Zak Ansah£750
FIRST TEAM STAFF
Manager
Arsène Wenger£135,000
Assistant to Manager
Boro Primorac£7,500
Steve Bould£5,000
Coach
Gerry Peyton£1,300
Neil Banfield£1,300
Tony Colbert£1,300
Tony Roberts£1,300
Paul Johnson£1,000
Marcus Svensson£1,000
James Collins£1,000Ben Knapper£1,000
David Wales£1,000
Physio/Medical
Colin Lewin£1,000
Gary O'Driscoll£1,000
Simon Harland£1,000
Kieran Hunt£1,000
Darren Page£1,000
Danny Flitter£1,000
Kit
Vic Akers£600
Paul Akers£600
Scouting
Steve Rowley (Chief)£1,000
Gilles Grimandi£600
Tony Banfield£600
Danny Karbassiyoon£600
Sandro Orlandelli£600
Pablo Budner£600
Everton Gushiken£600
Bobby Bennett£600
Francis Cagigao£600
Jurgen Kost£600
Peter Clarke£600
RESERVES STAFF
Liam Brady£3,200
David Court£1,000Roy Massey£1,000
Terry Burton£1,000
Steve Gatting£1,000
Lee Smelt£1,000
Carl Laraman£1,000
Steve Leonard£1,000
Craig Gant£1,000
Dennis Rockall£1,000
Lewis Manning£1,000
Richard Goddard£1,000
Alastair Thrush£1,000
Kwame Ampadu£1,000
BOARD
Ivan Gazidis£39,423
Ken Friar OBE£10,980
Peter Hill-Wood£1,500
Stanley Kroenke£481
Sir Chips Keswick£480
OTHER COSTS
Pension/social security£387,500
Player bonus pool£192,307
Peripheral staff£160,000
Total£2,756,771 (pwk),£143,341,116 (pyr)
(Note to other websites: please link to this weblog rather than publish salary statistics as the figures are being constantly revised)
The wage bill has risen by 19% from last season and is currently only £19m less than Manchester United’s and £25m behind Chelsea. All clubs trail behind Manchester City, although just because Man City have a wage bill of £174m doesn’t mean you need a wage bill of £174m to compete for the Premier League.
Money will get you so far in competing for the Premier League, but paying ridiculously over-inflated salaries to beat off the competition is not necessarily a true reflection of a squad’s overall ability or the ultimate route to success. The missing link is a management team’s ability to convert that financial outlay into trophies.
Basically, Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal have much fewer resources than Man City, but still have more than enough to field a world class first team + bench that is capable of outstripping the rest of the Premier League and winning consistently enough to mount a title challenge.
This notion can be further assessed by looking at the spend of a team such as Tottenham, who competed with Arsenal for a place in the top four despite spending £30m less in wages, while Newcastle finished just 5 points behind Arsenal despite spending £110m less in wages! The Northern club has halved its wage bill from £74m to £34m over the past two seasons, yet still managed a top four challenge.If Newcastle can compete with Arsenal notwithstanding a £110m wage deficit, why can’t Arsenal compete with Man City, Chelsea or Man Utd for the title when the wage gap, in relative terms, is far smaller?
This evidence re-establishes the fact that Wenger’s inability to challenge for the title has little to do with being unable to compete financially, but everything to do with inefficient wage spend allied to poor player purchases and rank bad management.
Based on my salary estimates above, we can better view Wenger’s horrendous cash wastage by examining the salary spend on the following distinctly average players over a 4-year period.
Vito Mannone £6.2m
Kieran Gibbs = £10.4m
Ju Young Park = £10.4m
Wojciech Szczesny = £10.4m
Lukasz Fabianski = £10.4m
Aaron Ramsey £10.4m
Johan Djourou £10.4m
Sebastien Squillaci = £10.4m
Nicklas Bendtner = £10.4m
Denilson £12.4m
Abou Diaby £12.4m
Andre Santos £12.4m
Marouane Chamakh = £12.4m
From that list, Wenger has, or will have by the time their contracts expire, blown £139.3m on wages. Add another £24.6m in transfer fees = a total expenditure of £163.9m. In fact, the cost is actually considerably higher as some of those players have been at the club far longer than 4 years - up to 7 in some cases. Some might bemoan my choice of targets to pick on, but it would only make for worse reading if I chose to include some of Wenger’s other grave disappointments such as Theo Walcott and Andrei Arshavin. Many might want to add a prize dud like Gervinho to the list, or judging by Arsenal’s abysmal defending, Mertesacker, Vermaelen or Koscielny.
The jury’s also out on new signings Giroud and Podolski, who so-far have only 3 goals between them in 10 Premier league games. Early days, but that £24m outlay doesn’t look like coming good either.
The players mentioned in the above two paragraphs have cost the club a further £86m in transfer fees, and over a 4-year contract Arsenal has either spent, or is committed to spending, at least £119.6m in wages on those players.
The question is, how many of these Wenger purchases have proven to be the absolute top quality required to sustain a title challenge or compete for the Champions League? The total expenditure on wages and salaries for all of the above players combined amounts, or will do by the time their contracts expire, to £369,500,000.
Sorry, but the idea that Arsenal is a club unable to compete due to lack of finances is utterly preposterous.
Now that we can take Wenger’s resources out of the equation, we can focus on the real reasons Arsenal has been unable to challenge for trophies going on 8 years, such as the obscene amounts of money Wenger wastes on average players, his total failure to coach defence, fundamentally flawed tactics and clear inability to motivate the squad.
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去晚，因工作關係避逼停留在嚴寒的國內一晚。當我在酒店內準備收看奧林比亞高斯 vs 阿仙奴的比賽，我不停在遙控器尋找那一個台直播，結果找了接近半小時也不到，惟有放棄選擇睡覺，沒有收看直播。當我回港之後，第一時間在公司看了的精華片段，但我沒有辦法只看了十分鐘左右的精華，憑天馬行空寫整場的「賽後評論」，所以今次暫停一次。
當我在網上找了一篇有關阿仙奴的新酬開支，我嚇了一跳，點解同一薪酬，一些就要經常上陣搏殺，一些沒有傷病也不用比賽呢？這點較易理解，雲加都不想簽入「廢」人，有時買人要講運氣。或者；預備組的薪酬與一隊最少待遇也相距13倍? 最離譜就是薪酬最高的人與他的助手相差27倍週薪？
以下是從外國網站轉貼阿仙奴的薪酬（預測）：
I gave estimated figures of Arsenal’s wage bill, citing the huge amount of money Wenger had wasted on (a) flops, and (b) overpaid youngsters he couldn’t get off the wage bill.My overall assessment was that, contrary to popular opinion, Arsenal’s failure to compete with the heavy spenders in the Premier League has nothing to do with how much money is available for Wenger to spend, rather how he chooses to spend the considerable resources made available to him.
Yet, while the sum total of my wage bill estimate added up mathematically, the breakdown lacked accuracy and I’ve long been meaning to perfect it. So, armed with further information - and recent access to Arsenal’s full-year accounts, the below update should be a little more accurate an estimate of how Arsenal’s current £143.4m wage bill is made up.
FIRST TEAMWAGE (pwk)
Lukas Podolski£107,000
Tomas Rosicky£80,000
Per Mertesacker£80,000
Andrey Arshavin£78,000
Santi Carzorla£70,000
Mikel Arteta£70,000
Thomas Vermaelen£70,000
Theo Walcott£60,000
Olivier Giroud£60,000
Gervinho£60,000
Bacary Sagna£60,000
Marouane Chamakh£60,000
Andre Santos£60,000Jack Wilshere£60,000
Abou Diaby£60,000
Denilson£60,000
Laurent Koscielny£60,000
Johan Djourou£50,000
Kieran Gibbs£50,000
Nicklas Bendtner£50,000
Sebastien Squillaci£50,000
Aaron Ramsey£50,000
Wojciech Szczesny£50,000
Lukasz Fabianski£50,000
Ju Young Park£50,000
Vito Mannone£30,000
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain£30,000
Carl Jenkinson£30,000
Emmanuel Frimpong£30,000
Francis Coquelin£30,000
Ryo Miyaichi£18,000
Ignasi Miquel£10,000
Joel Campbell£10,000
RESERVES
Alex Iwobi£750
Alfred Mugabo£750
Anthony Jeffrey£750
Arinse Uade£750Austin Lipman£750
Benik Afobe£750
Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill£750
Chuba Akpom£750
Chuks Aneke£750
Conor Henderson£750
Craig Eastmond£750
Damian Martinez£750
Daniel Boateng£750
Deyan Iliev£750
Elton Monteiro£750
Glen Kamara£750
Hector Bellerin£750
Nicholas Yennaris£750
Isaac Hayden£750
Jack Jebb£750
James Shea£750
Jernade Meade£750
Jon Toral£750
Jordan Wynter£750
Josh Rees£750
Josh Vickers£750
Kristoffer Olsson£750
Kyle Ebecilio£750
Leander Siemann£750
Martin Angha£750
Nigel Neita£750Philip Roberts£750
Reice Charles-Cook£750
Samir Bihmoutine£750
Samuel Galindo£750
Sanchez Watt£750
Sead Hajrovic£750
Serge Gnabry£750
Tarum Dawkins£750
Thoma Eisfeld£750
Tom Dallison£750
Wellington£750
Zachari Fagan£750
Zak Ansah£750
FIRST TEAM STAFF
Manager
Arsène Wenger£135,000
Assistant to Manager
Boro Primorac£7,500
Steve Bould£5,000
Coach
Gerry Peyton£1,300
Neil Banfield£1,300
Tony Colbert£1,300
Tony Roberts£1,300
Paul Johnson£1,000
Marcus Svensson£1,000
James Collins£1,000Ben Knapper£1,000
David Wales£1,000
Physio/Medical
Colin Lewin£1,000
Gary O'Driscoll£1,000
Simon Harland£1,000
Kieran Hunt£1,000
Darren Page£1,000
Danny Flitter£1,000
Kit
Vic Akers£600
Paul Akers£600
Scouting
Steve Rowley (Chief)£1,000
Gilles Grimandi£600
Tony Banfield£600
Danny Karbassiyoon£600
Sandro Orlandelli£600
Pablo Budner£600
Everton Gushiken£600
Bobby Bennett£600
Francis Cagigao£600
Jurgen Kost£600
Peter Clarke£600
RESERVES STAFF
Liam Brady£3,200
David Court£1,000Roy Massey£1,000
Terry Burton£1,000
Steve Gatting£1,000
Lee Smelt£1,000
Carl Laraman£1,000
Steve Leonard£1,000
Craig Gant£1,000
Dennis Rockall£1,000
Lewis Manning£1,000
Richard Goddard£1,000
Alastair Thrush£1,000
Kwame Ampadu£1,000
BOARD
Ivan Gazidis£39,423
Ken Friar OBE£10,980
Peter Hill-Wood£1,500
Stanley Kroenke£481
Sir Chips Keswick£480
OTHER COSTS
Pension/social security£387,500
Player bonus pool£192,307
Peripheral staff£160,000
Total£2,756,771 (pwk),£143,341,116 (pyr)
(Note to other websites: please link to this weblog rather than publish salary statistics as the figures are being constantly revised)
The wage bill has risen by 19% from last season and is currently only £19m less than Manchester United’s and £25m behind Chelsea. All clubs trail behind Manchester City, although just because Man City have a wage bill of £174m doesn’t mean you need a wage bill of £174m to compete for the Premier League.
Money will get you so far in competing for the Premier League, but paying ridiculously over-inflated salaries to beat off the competition is not necessarily a true reflection of a squad’s overall ability or the ultimate route to success. The missing link is a management team’s ability to convert that financial outlay into trophies.
Basically, Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal have much fewer resources than Man City, but still have more than enough to field a world class first team + bench that is capable of outstripping the rest of the Premier League and winning consistently enough to mount a title challenge.
This notion can be further assessed by looking at the spend of a team such as Tottenham, who competed with Arsenal for a place in the top four despite spending £30m less in wages, while Newcastle finished just 5 points behind Arsenal despite spending £110m less in wages! The Northern club has halved its wage bill from £74m to £34m over the past two seasons, yet still managed a top four challenge.If Newcastle can compete with Arsenal notwithstanding a £110m wage deficit, why can’t Arsenal compete with Man City, Chelsea or Man Utd for the title when the wage gap, in relative terms, is far smaller?
This evidence re-establishes the fact that Wenger’s inability to challenge for the title has little to do with being unable to compete financially, but everything to do with inefficient wage spend allied to poor player purchases and rank bad management.
Based on my salary estimates above, we can better view Wenger’s horrendous cash wastage by examining the salary spend on the following distinctly average players over a 4-year period.
Vito Mannone £6.2m
Kieran Gibbs = £10.4m
Ju Young Park = £10.4m
Wojciech Szczesny = £10.4m
Lukasz Fabianski = £10.4m
Aaron Ramsey £10.4m
Johan Djourou £10.4m
Sebastien Squillaci = £10.4m
Nicklas Bendtner = £10.4m
Denilson £12.4m
Abou Diaby £12.4m
Andre Santos £12.4m
Marouane Chamakh = £12.4m
From that list, Wenger has, or will have by the time their contracts expire, blown £139.3m on wages. Add another £24.6m in transfer fees = a total expenditure of £163.9m. In fact, the cost is actually considerably higher as some of those players have been at the club far longer than 4 years - up to 7 in some cases. Some might bemoan my choice of targets to pick on, but it would only make for worse reading if I chose to include some of Wenger’s other grave disappointments such as Theo Walcott and Andrei Arshavin. Many might want to add a prize dud like Gervinho to the list, or judging by Arsenal’s abysmal defending, Mertesacker, Vermaelen or Koscielny.
The jury’s also out on new signings Giroud and Podolski, who so-far have only 3 goals between them in 10 Premier league games. Early days, but that £24m outlay doesn’t look like coming good either.
The players mentioned in the above two paragraphs have cost the club a further £86m in transfer fees, and over a 4-year contract Arsenal has either spent, or is committed to spending, at least £119.6m in wages on those players.
The question is, how many of these Wenger purchases have proven to be the absolute top quality required to sustain a title challenge or compete for the Champions League? The total expenditure on wages and salaries for all of the above players combined amounts, or will do by the time their contracts expire, to £369,500,000.
Sorry, but the idea that Arsenal is a club unable to compete due to lack of finances is utterly preposterous.
Now that we can take Wenger’s resources out of the equation, we can focus on the real reasons Arsenal has been unable to challenge for trophies going on 8 years, such as the obscene amounts of money Wenger wastes on average players, his total failure to coach defence, fundamentally flawed tactics and clear inability to motivate the squad.
阿仙奴-華麗的夢想＠https://www.facebook.com/ARLHK
亨利大帝