Clubs with a bigger budget

[cjpieman]

So we are told by sky we have the 10th biggest budget and by the club (at the fans forum) that we are slightly above middle…

Well my list goes :-

Stockport
Wrexham
Mansfield
Bradford
Gillingham

After that I’m struggling to see a club with a bigger budget than notts ?? Maybe Swindon ? But can you seriously name more ?

[thefulltenyards]

Yes MK Dons and Salford and I'm being serious.

[queenslandpie]

Nobody on here can name more as they don't know what the budgets are and I am struggling to see how anyone without inside knowledge can accurately calculate them. You've just gone off what is generally thought. Perhaps relegated MK Dons and Swindon have a decent budget and that would then put us 8th which is slightly above middle if the case. In any event it is not the budget that matters it is how you use it and Notts should know that better than anyone with the vast sums wasted on rubbish over the years. We are lean and mean but generally good quality and good bang for buck. With the income streams into the club clearly increasing with the gate sizes and flow on effect that has I think you will find that our budget is only going to go one way though but like all things radar slow and steady wins the race.

[Elite_Pie]

So we are told by sky we have the 10th biggest budget and by the club (at the fans forum) that we are slightly above middle…

Well my list goes :-

Stockport
Wrexham
Mansfield
Bradford
Gillingham

After that I’m struggling to see a club with a bigger budget than notts ?? Maybe Swindon ? But can you seriously name more ?

This site, which might be a load of bollux puts us 11th:

2023/24 League 2 wage bills in millions of pounds:

1. Wrexham 5.221
2. MK Dons 4.040
3. Stockport 3.752
4. Bradford 3.637
5. Forest Green rovers 3.425
6. Mansfield 3.386
7. Gillingham 3.163
8. Colchester 2.982
9. Salford 2.811
10.Doncaster 2.493
11. Notts County 2.395

https://salarysport.com/football/league-two/wrexham

[marky]

This site, which might be a load of bollux puts us 11th:

2023/24 League 2 wage bills in millions of pounds:

1. Wrexham 5.221
2. MK Dons 4.040
3. Stockport 3.752
4. Bradford 3.637
5. Forest Green rovers 3.425
6. Mansfield 3.386
7. Gillingham 3.163
8. Colchester 2.982
9. Salford 2.811
10.Doncaster 2.493
11. Notts County 2.395

https://salarysport.com/football/league-two/wrexham

Apart from Forest Green and possibly Colchester that looks about right.

[Notts78]

Apart from Forest Green and possibly Colchester that looks about right.

Why apart from them 2? Forest Green relegated from L1 - both areas expensive parts of England to live, so would have to pay players a bit more?

[thefulltenyards]

Why would MK Dons budget not be bigger than ours? The question was posed and I gave my two answers. MK Dons is the obvious one.

The bigger the budget obviously helps matters but agree it is more what you do with that budget, how and who you spend it on. Like all clubs we know this to be true.

[countygump]

Why would MK Dons budget not be bigger than ours? The question was posed and I gave my two answers. MK Dons is the obvious one.

The bigger the budget obviously helps matters but agree it is more what you do with that budget, how and who you spend it on. Like all clubs we know this to be true.

I suppose you really have to factor in that we keep such a small squad as well, that would drive us down the comparison list. Are there any other clubs in L2 that have a smaller or similar size playing staff to us?

[slack_pie]

Apart from Forest Green and possibly Colchester that looks about right.

I was going to say the same.

[TSANHO]

May have dreamt it but I saw somewhere Morecambe have a hefty wage bill?!