{"id":320183,"date":"2026-02-27T14:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/320183\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:13:09","slug":"liverpools-title-win-last-season-fuelled-by-premier-leagues-highest-wage-bill-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/320183\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool\u2019s title win last season fuelled by Premier League\u2019s highest wage bill | Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool had the highest wage bill in the Premier League when winning their 20th league title<\/a> last season, the club\u2019s latest set of accounts have revealed.<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s wage bill increased by \u00a342m to \u00a3428m in the year ending 31 May 2025, when a Premier League title triumph in Arne Slot\u2019s debut season as head coach and a return to the Champions League increased revenue to a record \u00a3703m. The club\u2019s wages-to-revenue ratio stood at a healthy 61%. It was the biggest wage bill in the division, ahead of Manchester City on \u00a3408m, and included bonuses for the record-equalling title triumph.<\/p>\n

Commercial revenue increased by \u00a315m to \u00a3323m and matchday revenue by \u00a314m to \u00a3116m. The figures contributed to an increase of \u00a389m in revenue for the highest-ranked Premier League club in the Deloitte Football Money League. But the rise in wages, which pushed administrative costs up by \u00a357m to \u00a3657m, resulted in a relatively modest post-tax profit of \u00a38m. Liverpool had a \u00a357m loss in 2023-24 after failing to qualify for the Champions League.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe make no secret of our desire to run and operate a financially sustainable club, to grow revenue streams, and to do all we can off the pitch to help bring more success on it,\u201d said Liverpool\u2019s chief financial officer, Jenny Beacham. \u201cThe 2024-25 season is a great example of how this can work, with record revenues alongside the men\u2019s team winning our 20th league title.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe club does face significant cost challenges, including rises in administrative, staffing and operational costs, alongside the need for us to compete at the highest level of the game, across our men and women\u2019s teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s latest set of published accounts do not include last summer\u2019s record spend of almost \u00a3450m on new players, including the British record signing of Alexander Isak for \u00a3125m<\/a> from Newcastle. Slot said recently that failure to qualify for the Champions League would be unacceptable for Liverpool this season and the competition \u201cdoes have an enormous impact on the way this club is run\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Friday Slot insisted it was not difficult to resist the clamour to start Rio Ngumoha because the level-headed teenager had not been carried away by the hype. The 17-year-old made a huge contribution to Liverpool\u2019s late win at Nottingham Forest<\/a> last weekend after his 77th-minute introduction, especially after switching wings to replace Mohamed Salah on the right. That has prompted calls for Ngumoha to start against West Ham on Saturday, when Florian Wirtz will again be absent through injury, but Slot will continue to develop the youngster carefully.<\/p>\n

Rio Ngumoha made a big impact for Liverpool from the bench against Nottingham Forest. Photograph: Nick Potts\/PA<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s totally not difficult because of how he is,\u201d Slot said of putting Ngumoha on the bench. \u201cAnd that is something special for a 17-year-old who has been hyped like he is throughout his whole career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been a lot of talk about him because we can all see how special he is and his talent. He is handling that situation really well, which is a big compliment to him but also to his parents, who raised him that he is down-to-earth, works really hard, keeps going and doesn\u2019t lose his head because a few pundits have given positive feedback about his game. If you start believing how special you are after a few comments from pundits, that is probably not the way to become the player he wants to become.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to keep his special quality and that is beating players in one-v-one. That is not 10 out of 10 times working, and it doesn\u2019t have to be, but he has to keep trying. There are not many players in modern football that can take on one-v-ones on a regular basis and beat their opponents a lot of times. That is a special quality and that is why we want to take such good care of him because we have a lot of belief in how special he is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool had the highest wage bill in the Premier League when winning their 20th league title last season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-320183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}