How long have our players been at Reading?

[Clyde1998]

Someone fancy whipping up QPR's, I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than 100m

I'll have a go

This is using the players on this list, plus a couple of players that QPR have sent out on loan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Pa ... team_squad

GOALKEEPERS
Player - Price - Running Total
Robert Green - £0 - £0
Radek Černý - £0 - £0
Brian Murphy - £0 - £0
Júlio César - £0 - £0
TOTAL - £0

DEFENDERS
Player - Price - Running Total
Armand Traoré - £1,200,000 - £1,200,000
Christopher Samba - £12,500,000 - £13,700,000
Clint Hill - £0 - £13,700,000
Yun Suk-Young - Unknown - £13,700,000
Nedum Onuoha - £4,100,000 - £17,800,000
José Bosingwa - £0 - £17,800,000
Fábio - ON LOAN - £17,800,000
Tal Ben Haim - £0 - £17,800,000
Anton Ferdinand - £1,000,000 - £18,800,000
TOTAL - £18,800,000

MIDFIELDERS
Player - Price - Running Total
Samba Diakité - £3,500,000 - £3,500,000
Shaun Derry - £0 - £3,500,000
Park Ji-Sung - £6,000,000 - £9,500,000
Adel Taarabt - £1,000,000 - £10,500,000
Shaun Wright-Phillips - £4,000,000 - £14,500,000
Esteban Granero - £9,000,000 - £23,500,000
Jermaine Jenas - £0 - £23,500,000
Junior Hoilett - £3,300,000 - £26,800,000
Andros Townsend - ON LOAN - £26,800,000
Stéphane Mbia - £5,250,000 - £32,050,000
TOTAL - £32,050,000

STRIKERS
Player - Price - Running Total
Andrew Johnson - £0 - £0
Jamie Mackie - £500,000 - £500,000
Loïc Rémy - £8,000,000 - £8,500,000
Bobby Zamora - £6,000,000 - £14,500,000
Jay Bothroyd - £0 - £14,500,000
DJ Campbell - £1,200,000, - £15,700,000
Djibril Cissé - £4,000,000 - £19,700,000
TOTAL - £15,700,000

Goalkeepers - £0
Defenders - £18,800,000
Midfielders - £32,050,000
Strikers - £19,700,000
OVERALL - £70,550,000
AVERAGE - £2,351,666.67

Source: Transfermarkt, Soccerbase or News Articles

[DandyRoyal]

Less than I thought it would be. However the wages on that pile of past it mercenaries, underachievers and sicknotes must be obscene.

Strikers:
Johnson - always crocked, old
Mackie - A trier, nothing more
Remy - Looks a good finisher, probably on big wages. Will be offloaded for sure.
Zamora - old, crocked. Could do well in the Champ tbf if he stays.
Bothroyd - Crap IMO, terrible goalscoring record apart from one season @ Cardiff
Campbell - Getting on a bit, good Champ player.
Cisse - Old, headcase, won't play in the Champ.

There is so much overpaid deadwood at their end of their careers in the squad, hope they are stuck with them for years as they coast out their bloated paychecks in perpetuity

[Vic_Flange]

How long is simple.

Last season as we celebrated promotion - not long enoough
This season as we go down - far too long

Feel free to copy and paste for future seasons

[St. Brynjar]

Someone fancy whipping up QPR's, I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than 100m

I'll have a go

This is using the players on this list, plus a couple of players that QPR have sent out on loan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Pa ... team_squad

GOALKEEPERS
Player - Price - Running Total
Robert Green - £0 - £0
Radek Černý - £0 - £0
Brian Murphy - £0 - £0
Júlio César - £0 - £0
TOTAL - £0

DEFENDERS
Player - Price - Running Total
Armand Traoré - £1,200,000 - £1,200,000
Christopher Samba - £12,500,000 - £13,700,000
Clint Hill - £0 - £13,700,000
Yun Suk-Young - Unknown - £13,700,000
Nedum Onuoha - £4,100,000 - £17,800,000
José Bosingwa - £0 - £17,800,000
Fábio - ON LOAN - £17,800,000
Tal Ben Haim - £0 - £17,800,000
Anton Ferdinand - £1,000,000 - £18,800,000
TOTAL - £18,800,000

MIDFIELDERS
Player - Price - Running Total
Samba Diakité - £3,500,000 - £3,500,000
Shaun Derry - £0 - £3,500,000
Park Ji-Sung - £6,000,000 - £9,500,000
Adel Taarabt - £1,000,000 - £10,500,000
Shaun Wright-Phillips - £4,000,000 - £14,500,000
Esteban Granero - £9,000,000 - £23,500,000
Jermaine Jenas - £0 - £23,500,000
Junior Hoilett - £3,300,000 - £26,800,000
Andros Townsend - ON LOAN - £26,800,000
Stéphane Mbia - £5,250,000 - £32,050,000
TOTAL - £32,050,000

STRIKERS
Player - Price - Running Total
Andrew Johnson - £0 - £0
Jamie Mackie - £500,000 - £500,000
Loïc Rémy - £8,000,000 - £8,500,000
Bobby Zamora - £6,000,000 - £14,500,000
Jay Bothroyd - £0 - £14,500,000
DJ Campbell - £1,200,000, - £15,700,000
Djibril Cissé - £4,000,000 - £19,700,000
TOTAL - £15,700,000

Goalkeepers - £0
Defenders - £18,800,000
Midfielders - £32,050,000
Strikers - £19,700,000
OVERALL - £70,550,000
AVERAGE - £2,351,666.67

Source: Transfermarkt, Soccerbase or News Articles

Their average is around 7 times ours right? Bloody hell that's poor.

[Clyde1998]

Their average is around 7 times ours right? Bloody hell that's poor.

Yeah, which is why it's good we didn't spend like QPR (and last) this season. QPR could be in a lot of trouble when they go down.

[Clyde1998]

AVERAGE COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE
Squads using TransferMarkt unless stated
1 - Man City - £347,300,000 / 24 = £14,470,833
2 - Chelsea - £331,575,000 / 24 = £13,815,625
3 - Man Utd - £297,350,000 / 26 = £11,436,538
4 - Liverpool - £182,852,500 / 23 = £7,950,109
5 - Arsenal - £172,542,000 / 24 = £7,189,250
6 - Tottenham - £138,950,000 / 24 = £5,789,583
7 - Everton - £78,061,500 / 23 = £3,393,978
8 - Sunderland - £75,550,000 / 23 = £3,284,783
9 - Stoke - £73,210,000 / 24 = £3,050,417
10 - Aston Villa - £80,430,000 / 28 = £2,872,500
11 - Newcastle - £78,288,000 / 28 = £2,796,000
12 - QPR - £70,550,000 / 30 = £2,351,667 (Using Data on this page)
13 - Southampton - £46,950,000 / 23 = £2,041,304
14 - Wigan - £36,550,000 / 25 = £1,462,000
15 - West Ham - £31,950,000 / 25 = £1,278,000
16 - West Brom - £31,680,000 / 25 = £1,267,200
17 - Fulham - £31,900,000 / 26 = £1,226,923
18 - Swansea - £24,825,000 / 22 = £1,128,409
19 - Norwich - £23,350,000 / 25 = £934,000
20 - READING - £13,320,000 / 48 = £277,500 (Using Data on this page)

[blueroyals]

TOTAL COST OF SQUAD COMPARED TO CURRENT LEAGUE POSITION
1 - Man City - £347,300,000 1 POSITION DIFFERENT
2 - Chelsea - £331,575,000 2 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
3 - Man Utd - £297,350,000 2 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
4 - Liverpool - £182,852,500 3 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
5 - Arsenal - £172,542,000 2 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
6 - Tottenham - £138,950,000 1 POSITION DIFFERENT
7 - Everton - £78,061,500 1 POSITION DIFFERENT
8 - Sunderland - £75,550,000 6 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
9 - Stoke - £73,210,000 6 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
10 - Aston Villa - £80,430,000 7 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
11 - Newcastle - £78,288,000 5 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
12 - QPR - £70,550,000 7 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
13 - Southampton - £46,950,000 1 POSITION DIFFERENT
14 - Wigan - £36,550,000 4 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
15 - West Ham - £31,950,000 5 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
16 - West Brom - £31,680,000 8 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
17 - Fulham - £31,900,000 6 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
18 - Swansea - £24,825,000 9 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
19 - Norwich - £23,350,000 6 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
20 - READING - £13,320,000 0 POSITIONS DIFFERENT

No real surprises there. If you divide the total cost of all the squads in the league by the amount of points won by all clubs (extrapolated to 38 games rather than 34 currently played) you'd see that each point costs an average of £2,100,000. Say you need 40 points to avoid relegation and that's a total of £84,700,000.

[Clyde1998]

TOTAL COST OF SQUAD COMPARED TO CURRENT LEAGUE POSITION
1 - Man City - £347,300,000 1 POSITION DIFFERENT
2 - Chelsea - £331,575,000 2 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
3 - Man Utd - £297,350,000 2 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
4 - Liverpool - £182,852,500 3 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
5 - Arsenal - £172,542,000 2 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
6 - Tottenham - £138,950,000 1 POSITION DIFFERENT
7 - Everton - £78,061,500 1 POSITION DIFFERENT
8 - Sunderland - £75,550,000 6 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
9 - Stoke - £73,210,000 6 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
10 - Aston Villa - £80,430,000 7 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
11 - Newcastle - £78,288,000 5 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
12 - QPR - £70,550,000 7 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
13 - Southampton - £46,950,000 1 POSITION DIFFERENT
14 - Wigan - £36,550,000 4 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
15 - West Ham - £31,950,000 5 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
16 - West Brom - £31,680,000 8 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
17 - Fulham - £31,900,000 6 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
18 - Swansea - £24,825,000 9 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
19 - Norwich - £23,350,000 6 POSITIONS DIFFERENT
20 - READING - £13,320,000 0 POSITIONS DIFFERENT

No real surprises there. If you divide the total cost of all the squads in the league by the amount of points won by all clubs (extrapolated to 38 games rather than 34 currently played) you'd see that each point costs an average of £2,100,000. Say you need 40 points to avoid relegation and that's a total of £84,700,000.

Agreed - there are no major surprises there.

With your workings out of £2.1m per point - we've saved £37.08m in reaching 24 points.

It's evident that you if you spend huge amounts of money, you'll be near the top. But, the five sides above us on this table have done at better - five places higher is the lowest. From 8th to 19th - it's close. It's what you send the money on. And if you spend nearly nothing - you'll be bottom.

[Hoop Blah]

AVERAGE COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE
Squads using TransferMarkt unless stated
1 - Man City - £347,300,000 / 24 = £14,470,833
2 - Chelsea - £331,575,000 / 24 = £13,815,625
3 - Man Utd - £297,350,000 / 26 = £11,436,538
4 - Liverpool - £182,852,500 / 23 = £7,950,109
5 - Arsenal - £172,542,000 / 24 = £7,189,250
6 - Tottenham - £138,950,000 / 24 = £5,789,583
7 - Everton - £78,061,500 / 23 = £3,393,978
8 - Sunderland - £75,550,000 / 23 = £3,284,783
9 - Stoke - £73,210,000 / 24 = £3,050,417
10 - Aston Villa - £80,430,000 / 28 = £2,872,500
11 - Newcastle - £78,288,000 / 28 = £2,796,000
12 - QPR - £70,550,000 / 30 = £2,351,667 (Using Data on this page)
13 - Southampton - £46,950,000 / 23 = £2,041,304
14 - Wigan - £36,550,000 / 25 = £1,462,000
15 - West Ham - £31,950,000 / 25 = £1,278,000
16 - West Brom - £31,680,000 / 25 = £1,267,200
17 - Fulham - £31,900,000 / 26 = £1,226,923
18 - Swansea - £24,825,000 / 22 = £1,128,409
19 - Norwich - £23,350,000 / 25 = £934,000
20 - READING - £13,320,000 / 48 = £277,500 (Using Data on this page)

Not that it makes a great deal of difference, but if you're going to say the likes of Man City or Swansea only have 24 and 22 players respectively, then you'd need to exclude 20 of our squad who aren't really in our first team squad and are bringing that average down by a good 30 to 50% (total guesstimate).

It's not really a shock to see that our squad, assembled on the cheap and having only been in the Premier League for the shortest amount if time, comes out as the lowest costing squad!

[Clyde1998]

AVERAGE COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE
Squads using TransferMarkt unless stated
1 - Man City - £347,300,000 / 24 = £14,470,833
2 - Chelsea - £331,575,000 / 24 = £13,815,625
3 - Man Utd - £297,350,000 / 26 = £11,436,538
4 - Liverpool - £182,852,500 / 23 = £7,950,109
5 - Arsenal - £172,542,000 / 24 = £7,189,250
6 - Tottenham - £138,950,000 / 24 = £5,789,583
7 - Everton - £78,061,500 / 23 = £3,393,978
8 - Sunderland - £75,550,000 / 23 = £3,284,783
9 - Stoke - £73,210,000 / 24 = £3,050,417
10 - Aston Villa - £80,430,000 / 28 = £2,872,500
11 - Newcastle - £78,288,000 / 28 = £2,796,000
12 - QPR - £70,550,000 / 30 = £2,351,667 (Using Data on this page)
13 - Southampton - £46,950,000 / 23 = £2,041,304
14 - Wigan - £36,550,000 / 25 = £1,462,000
15 - West Ham - £31,950,000 / 25 = £1,278,000
16 - West Brom - £31,680,000 / 25 = £1,267,200
17 - Fulham - £31,900,000 / 26 = £1,226,923
18 - Swansea - £24,825,000 / 22 = £1,128,409
19 - Norwich - £23,350,000 / 25 = £934,000
20 - READING - £13,320,000 / 48 = £277,500 (Using Data on this page)

Not that it makes a great deal of difference, but if you're going to say the likes of Man City or Swansea only have 24 and 22 players respectively, then you'd need to exclude 20 of our squad who aren't really in our first team squad and are bringing that average down by a good 30 to 50% (total guesstimate).

It's not really a shock to see that our squad, assembled on the cheap and having only been in the Premier League for the shortest amount if time, comes out as the lowest costing squad!

If I bring the total down to 20 for Reading it's still only £666k per player (in fact we would need 14 players bought for £13.32m to be higher than Norwich).

[Hoop Blah]

I wonder if that's why I put the bit about it not making that much if a difference....

[Clyde1998]

I wonder if that's why I put the bit about it not making that much if a difference....

I know. I just worked it out for anyone who wanted to know (probably none though).

[SCIAG]

No real surprises there.

You have teams finishing 9 places out of a possible 20 away from their predicted position and the correlation is weak.

I suspect wage spend would fit the data better, we're closer to our rivals in that regard because of the players we signed on free transfers and big wages (Pogrebnyak, Guthrie, Roberts, now Federici).