Premier League SCR head-to-head
Fulham vs Brentford
Side by side
Fulham
- Estimated revenue (football) reported £194.8m
- + Player trading profit/loss (3-yr average) +£27.7m
- Latest single season was +£41m not used alone
- = Adjusted revenue (SCR basis) £222.5m
- 85% SCR limit £189.1m
- Estimated squad cost estimated £198.7m
- Player wages £128.2m
- Player amortisation £61.5m
- Agents' fees £9m
- Squad cost = player wages + player amortisation + agents' fees. Composed estimate — no club discloses the SCR split.
- Headroom vs 85% limit −£9.6m
- Red Threshold (115% of adjusted revenue) £255.8m
- Headroom vs Red Threshold +£57.1m
For reference, Transfermarkt's current squad market value is £281.5m (source) — a transfer-market valuation, not the same thing as squad cost. It's shown purely as a sanity-check on the scale of the composed wage/amortisation figure above, not as an input to the SCR calculation itself.
Brentford
- Estimated revenue (football) reported £173.1m
- + Player trading profit/loss (3-yr average) +£19.3m
- Latest single season was +£27.2m not used alone
- = Adjusted revenue (SCR basis) £192.4m
- 85% SCR limit £163.6m
- Estimated squad cost estimated £146.2m
- Components not itemised — squad cost is anchored to a published analyst estimate rather than composed from wages, amortisation and agents' fees.
- Headroom vs 85% limit +£17.4m
- Red Threshold (115% of adjusted revenue) £221.3m
- Headroom vs Red Threshold +£75.1m
For reference, Transfermarkt's current squad market value is £484m (source) — a transfer-market valuation, not the same thing as squad cost. It's shown purely as a sanity-check on the scale of the composed wage/amortisation figure above, not as an input to the SCR calculation itself.
What drives the difference
Neither club has an owner top-up to lean on: Premier League SCR is 85% of adjusted revenue, full stop, with a 30% allowance above it that shrinks after any breach. Adjusted revenue nets in profit on player sales averaged over three seasons — Fulham +£27.7m, Brentford +£19.3m — so a club that sells well buys itself headroom without touching its wage bill.