What started as messy Excel sheets became charts, then power bi dashboards, and now a full platform valuball .co It’s a bit surreal to be at this point to be honest. Ive poured hours into Excel sheets and Power BI over the years, so this platform’s really been built out of love of this stuff (banter lol 😂). And honestly, who better to build it with than @KieranMaguire someone who’s already led the way on the accounts side. Here’s what you’ll find on the platform 📊 30 years of Premier League club accounts 🔁 10 years of sourced transfer data 🏟️ 105 clubs from the Prem to League Two 📈 10 dashboard types including simulators, comparisons, league views 💼 20 financial metrics per club like wages, revenue, amortisation and more 📝 Blogs, blogs more blogs (🔜) And much more to add as well Would love any feedback to help us get this kicked off🙏

Elliot Anderson is the straw that broke the camels back I guess? Below is the highest base fees - based on the below were probably due to spend £100m

The last few days on #9320player 📲 🎙️The Market w / @lloyd_scragg on Anderson 🎙️Here We Go w / @lukestanley03 & @_adammonk 🎙️Alternative Awards w / @SteTudor123 Plus loads of other content! Download the app listen for free linktr.ee/9320pod

Here is another peak at the upcoming squad details update This shows the real squad impact of a transfer window covering both incoming and outgoing player movements. Chelsea below is a good example with ~40 player movements in 1 season While Chelseas sales in 25/26 added up to roughly £274m in base fees their profit on the sales was really low due to high remaining book value per most sales in some cases the sale can even create a negative accounting impact. The tool below helps break all of this down with users able to see the live impact during a window or season. Chelseas example shows the reduction in costs across the board during the 25/26 season. These numbers will also feed into our SCR dashboard ☺️ *Wages below are estimates from 2024/25 accounts with NI,Pension, bonuses, and loyalty included as its cost to club **still a work in progress with data points being adjusted

The last week on the #9320player 📲 🎙️ @spbajko on Pep, Maresca, and transfers 🎙️The Market w/ Ahsan & @georgecockburn_ 🎙️ Season review w/ @_adammonk 🎙️Player review w/ @SteTudor123 🔗 Download the app linktr.ee/9320pod

Didn’t expect this sneak peak to go so viral thank you to all new followers and words of encouragement it’s spurning us on to get this out sooner! Yes our website is NOT up to date as the below is a WIP! The major update is coming soon - iOS and android app - increase in financial data points - increase in transfer data accuracy - major improvement to mobile navigation (naturally) - pdf and CSV data extraction of major data including financial data from 1993 to 2025 - new branding 👀 Follow us or sign up to stay in tune for when this update drops!

Penalty box entries per game for Manchester City during the 25/26 PL season. Numbers went through the roof for the team during the final months of the season.

Get them to guess Palace's wages. We know their player wage cost. We know around 13% blended is social security and pension so that is £95m of gross salary to wages. 90% min is first team. So say £86m across Squad players (*Home grown) 1 Chalobah, Trevoh Tom* 2 Clyne, Nathaniel Edward* 3 Doucoure, Cheick Oumar 4 Eze, Chimaechi Nwodim* 5 Eze, Eberechi Oluchi* 6 Francis, Christopher Lucius* 7 Guehi, Addji Keaninkin Marc-Israel* 8 Henderson, Dean Bradley* 9 Holding, Robert Samuel* 10 Hughes, William James* 11 Kamada, Daichi 12 Lacroix, Maxence Guy 13 Lerma, Jefferson 14 Mateta, Jean-Philippe 15 Matthews, Remi Luke* 16 Mitchell, Tyrick* 17 Moulden, Louie Paul* 18 Munoz Mejia, Daniel 19 Nketiah, Edward Keddar* 20 Richards, Christopher Jeffrey 21 Sarr, Ismaila 22 Schlupp, Jeffrey* 23 Turner, Matthew Charles 24 Ward, Joel Edward Philip*

It’s funny how so many people think players are being paid low amounts. When clubs are paying £200-400m in wages guys the players are being paid big money. Lyons accounts showed Rayan Cherki getting a 200k euro package in Ligue 1! Can you imagine what he is on at city? The formula we use on Valuball is 73% of the annual reported wages then stripping out NI and pension. This gives you a rough estimate of what an average squad gets paid. We work with the data we got and combine it with contract renewal timelines and player profiles. The quoted photo off the website was our initial test data and beta version New wages calibrated to roughly below (we’re using less than the 24/25 reported accounts because Chelsea did sell and release some big paid players) If you’re a Chelsea fan and would like to help us adjust give us some pointers 👌

Sneak peek of our totally new and built from the ground up player profiles and squad details. This dataset has been worked on for weeks along with whole new account data set up - increasing our datapoints from about ~40,000 to around ~300k 🥵 - Accurate contracts, extensions and movements for EVERY active player - Amortisation and book value calculated on contract and base reported transfer fee - Wages estimates from accounts and redistributed based on take home pay per player - Transfer timeline and history - Full list of homegrown/academy/foreign So much coming in this app soon on iOS and Android Our first version will have squad data for Premier League and the Championship in time for the 26/27 season 🙏

There will be plenty of comparisons this summer between the final season of Guardiola and Ferguson for how well the squad looks for the next manager. In reality, they are worlds apart. United had yet to churn out the older players in Evra, Carrick, Ferdinand, Vidic, Scholes, and Giggs (R15). City has already worked through most of them, outside of Silva, for this summer, and is in pursuit of Elliot Anderson. As well as that, the difference in quality is stark between the two squads. In the following two seasons, Rafael, Kagawa, Evans, and Cleverley would never become starters and eventually depart. By 2015, only de Gea (24), Rooney (29), Carrick (34), Young (30), Valencia (29), Smalling (25), and Jones (23) remained from the 12/13 title-winning team. Outside the T15 for City includes Guehi, Marmoush, Ait-Nouri, and Savinho. Without mentioning Vitor Reis and the others out on loan.

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Not taking the loss well I see.

My most boring article to date. Enjoy 👇

Big congrats to you Kieran !

🤓These two/others like them have often over the years misrepresented my statements about auditors and/or straw manned arguments on this point so let me try again. This is not an exhaustive response - there are many points but I don't have the time or inclination to write up the position yet again. These two are blocked but not because we disagree - a common lie. I never block anyone just because they disagree. On to the substance: 1. Auditors are not responsible for nor find all fraud. Nobody would ever suggest they were or did. I do not suggest I am expert on audit (I am a lawyer by training) but I do have much expertise on being subject to audits, the fall out from faulty historic audits in high profile situations and an understanding of how it can happen. 2. My argument is not that big 4 consultancies (he means auditors) found no issues although it is true that the accounts of all of the companies involved have always been given unqualified audits by the full range of auditors (the companies involved all have different firms - some Big 4, City BDO). 3. It is very concerning that an apparent CEO and a regulated accountant appear to believe it is "extremely easy" for a group of companies plus a middle man to engineer long term fake £300m sponsorships. I disagree. On the contrary, this kind of conspiracy is rare and is not easy for obvious reasons. It needs contracts to be signed, lawyers to be involved, multiple internal operatives to comply, finance people at all levels involved to comply and then represent to the auditors, shareholders, debt providers and other stakeholders that all was legitimate. It needs express, outright lies and, importantly in this situation, for those parties to all double down and lie again when put to them in investigations and under oath. The fact that Enron happened is not a counter argument - major accounting fraud happens but the fact we know the handful of names tells you how rare it is. 4. A cursory look at Etisalat, Etihad, CFG, their directors, their auditors, lawyers, banks, advisors, investors, debt providers and each of their respective regulators will tell you instantly that these are not the most likely co-conspirators to fake agreements worth £10ms year after year before, during and after UEFA, Der Speigel, PL, and media allegations. 5. Even if BDO could not identify any issues prior to 2018 (and given a lot was laid out well before 2018, I doubt BDO never asked any relevant questions about CFGs biggest and obviously highly material contracts and counter parties), once 2018 and the various investigations and charges were laid, BDO would have had no option but to ask difficult questions relating to the charges, documents, allegations, media commentary, maybe even MHs forensic document analysis etc. The local audit team would have, in all likelihood, been asked by their superiors whether they were sure they were not sitting on a time bomb and what procedures had satisfied them as auditors. The idea an auditor could not ask questions about allegations of off book payments or disguised equity is just not true. In the face of the allegations, professional scepticism if nothing else demands it. So at least 5 (its more but stick with 5) full audit processes have taken place with these allegations (the ones MH says are blindingly obvious) in full sight and with the PL in particular providing a catalogue of questions for the auditors. The same concerns could also have been raised at some of the alleged co-conspirators (we know Etihad's CEO expressly dealt with the allegations in interviews). Questions of related party issues will also have been dealt with multiple times. 6. Of course, people like these two believe City's directors and all the other alleged co-conspirators lied originally so would simply keep lying for a decade to cover up these conspiracies. Presumably they also think that all of the formal director's representations to auditors and all other parties that asked questions related to these matters were also all lies - year after year including after the documents became public and after formal investigations were launched. They are entitled to that view (although it may turn out to libellous), but it all seems rather unlikely to me as I have explained all the way through this. It is true that accountants like MH are adamant that accountants are not capable of asking difficult questions to uncover wrong doing and believe that I am naive for believing they can. A lot of accountants seem to have a dim view of their fellow professionals which is concerning but my experience in 30 years of professional life is that people and systems generally work, that people aren't generally idiots and don't generally outright lie. This is also any tribunal's starting point. Where it lands, we will see soon enough. As ever, if there has been a multi-year, huge conspiracy, with outright dishonesty, the punishment will be severe.

Gotta laugh when people get got by fake accounts lol

Yeh 2 of those seasons was on the back of a treble and winning 4 in a row then a full rebuild of the team. One of those seasons city lost their best player for the season and proceeded to have their worst season in 10 years on the back of 4 titles in a row. From that treble team only 3 players remain (5 if you can count 2 that will be sold/let go this summer) Arsenals team right now is in their “peak”. You’re not rebuilding its built. As for spending we don’t have the 2025/26 numbers yet and I expect Arsenal to be really close to City. City’s rebuilt multiple times and this team now is close to go again.

genuinely the nicest thing i’ve ever seen watching football i was in tears

Peps so insane if you see below there is 6 out of his 9 seasons (25/26 not mapped yet). All sit in the top 25 all time seasons performance wise from 1969/70 to 2024/25. (Performance score is a massive formula using a ton of data to map out each and every season to compare them against each other in a meaningful “success score”)