‘ Championship Squad Values ‘

Leeds United, Fulham, Nottingham Forest and West Brom's squad transfer values and how Cardiff City and Swansea City compare

Are the Bluebirds and Swans underachieving or overachieving?


By Glen Williams


Wednesday 9th October 2019




Which manager in the Championship is overachieving with his squad?

Are the Bluebirds and Swans underachieving or overachieving?

The Championship 2019/20 season is proving to be one of the most competitive in recent times.

Already we’ve seen several league leaders with West Brom currently sitting top of the pile after 11 matches on goal difference to Nottingham Forest.

Swansea City have made a superb start to the campaign and were, prior to the surprise defeat against Stoke City on Saturday, top of the pile.

Preston North End and Leeds United have also all made strong starts, with Bristol City making up the top six.

Cardiff City have been slower out of the blocks but are still relatively well placed in the standings.

We have now taken a look at the squad values of each Championship side to find out which teams are overachieving so far this campaign.








Based on squad value according to Transfermarkt , Fulham have the most valuable squad but they are currently in seventh.

See the full list of squad values below.

Fulham - £122.40m (place in table 7th)

Stoke City - £94.95m (24th)

Huddersfield Town - £81.81m (21st)

Leeds United - £81.00m (5th)

West Bromwich Albion - £73.22m (1st)

Cardiff City - £68.76m (11th)

Nottingham Forest - £63.95m (2nd)

Middlesbrough - £53.51m (20th)

Bristol City - £50.76m (6th)

Derby County - £47.52m (13th)

Swansea City - £43.92m (4th)

Brentford - £42.75m (17th)

Reading - £41.90m (22nd)


Sheffield Wednesday - £40.66m (8th)

Hull City - £38.97m (16th)

Blackburn Rovers - £36.41m (14th)

Birmingham City - £34.16m (12th)

Queens Park Rangers - £27.68m (9th)

Preston North End - £25.74m (3rd)

Wigan Athletic - £18.56m (19th)

Millwall - £17.82m (15th)

Luton Town - £15.08m (18th)

Charlton Athletic - £14.22m (10th)

Barnsley - £7.79m (23rd)

What this shows is that morale in the camp (as per our promotion years) is worth more than player values!

It also shows that we are at present underperforming, whereas the Jacks?

So we are not the financial minnows we like to make out.

Swansea squad

Baston - £15.5M
Ayew - £20m
Celina - £4m
Van Der Hoorn - £2m
Carroll - £4.5m

There's £46m there - I appreciate they wouldn't get that for them but the figures are bit finger in the air - but you'd believe their purchase value has a bearing on their transfer value especially as these guys are still quite young

Hull squad valued at £38.97m - I'm sure they rate Bowen over £25m. That kid at Birmingham is rated as a potential £20m player and the M'Boro centre half youngster (Dael???) apparently Man City are sniffing around at £25m (He was garbage against us)

I'd summarise that this fine piece of journalism took him 15mins to write

They are lifted straight from the website transfermarkt.com which is notoriously inaccurate. Its cheap journalism for people to click it and get views by posting on websites such as this.

For example they have Borja Baston listed at 1.5m.

Completely subjective and in no way should be reflective of anything.

This could never be used in any way, shape or form.

More relevant would be prices actually paid for players.

Hoilett £0
Etheridge £0
NML £0
Bamba £0
Bennett £0

That’s just five players.

So we are not the financial minnows we like to make out.

Not relevant as the list is subjective.

They are lifted straight from the website transfermarkt.com which is notoriously inaccurate. Its cheap journalism for people to click it and get views by posting on websites such as this.

For example they have Borja Baston listed at 1.5m.

It’s a ridiculous site. Just had a proper look.

How anyone can use this as a stick to beat NW with I have no clue.

Warnock is a good manager, nobody should be slagging him off at all.

Having said that, it probably is time for a change, his style has become dated now there is an increase in quality filtering down. Not a slight on him, that's just football.

Same with Toshack, there is a reason Real Madrid wouldn't take him in this day and age. He hasn't become a bad manager, it's just the game doesn't suit his style, ideas or experience anymore. It's even happened to the likes of Mourinho.

Warnock is a good manager, nobody should be slagging him off at all.

Having said that, it probably is time for a change, his style has become dated now there is an increase in quality filtering down. Not a slight on him, that's just football.

Same with Toshack, there is a reason Real Madrid wouldn't take him in this day and age. He hasn't become a bad manager, it's just the game doesn't suit his style, ideas or experience anymore. It's even happened to the likes of Mourinho.

Mourinho will get another big job soon.

Huge problems at Manure he couldn’t fix but he gave it a better go than others.