The Truth About Wages (part three) 💵💵💵

Elite football is a meritocracy: wages = wins. Most of the time

Footballers’ wages are the single biggest expenditure at the majority of clubs, not least in Europe’s ‘Big 5’ leagues. And all things being equal, the more a club spends on wages, the better they will perform – and the higher they will finish in the table.

‘All things being equal’ is doing some heaving lifting there because things are never equal. Some clubs are brilliantly run, paying smart not big, and others are woefully run, spending big not smart. We’ll get to that.

In this conclusion to our three-part series about players’ wages (part one & part two), I’ll try to prove why, as a general rule, salaries dictate success.