Dai Little

The estimated League Two wage bills for 2026/27 make for VERY interesting reading. 👀 Salford City are way out in front on an estimated £6.85m a year, with Port Vale and Rotherham next. At the other end, York City and Barnet are operating on just over £2m.

The player wage bills of League One clubs for the 2026/27 season. 💰⚽ Leicester City are reportedly spending a staggering £35 MILLION a year on player wages, almost FOUR TIMES as much as the next highest spenders, Luton Town (£9.6m). At the other end of the scale, Bromley are estimated to spend just £2.88m annually. The financial gap between clubs in the same division is absolutely enormous. 🤯

Marcelo Bielsa on modern football: “I am sure that football is in a process of decline. “It is becoming less and less attractive because what made it the best game in the world is not there anymore. “If you let a lot of people watch football, but you don't protect the pleasure of what they watch, that favours business, because the business is that a lot of people watch football. “For me, the introduction of technology like VAR does a lot of harm to football. “This sport has a particularity: when it becomes completely predictable, it loses its appeal. “As time passes, as fewer and fewer footballers are worth watching and as the game produced is less and less enjoyable, this artificial increase in the number of spectators will be interrupted.” Good to see people like him calling it out 👏