What do the latest club financial results tell us?
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Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW📺Choose the Sky Sports push notifications you want! 🔔Sky Sports' reporters go through all the club accounts to reveal what we can learn from each club...Man Utd need the Champions League ASAPMan Utd profit/loss 2024-25 season: £33m lossMan Utd's overall revenue: £666.5m (increase of £4.5m)Manchester United's latest accounts show how important it is for the club to get back into Europe. That's down to record revenue of over £700m.In summary, during Liverpool's 20th league title winning season:Media revenue increased by £60m to £264mMatchday revenue rose to £116m from £102mCommercial revenue went up to £323m - a rise of £15mOverall revenue increased by £89m to £703mProfit after tax went up by £8mMedia revenue had the biggest uplift largely due to Liverpool reaching the last-16 of the Champions League compared to the quarter-finals of the Europa League the previous year, as well as winning their Premier league title success.
These costs have more than doubled since the accounting period 2016/17 and are now higher than Manchester City's (£408m).These figures do not take into consideration Liverpool's £450m summer spending on the likes of Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong - so expect those costs to go up in the next set of accounts.Vinny O'ConnorChelsea aren't earning as much as their rivalsChelsea's profit/loss 2024-25 season: £355m loss (before tax)*Chelsea's overall revenue: £511m** According to UEFAChelsea's record loss was for a season when they won the UEFA Conference League and qualified for the Champions League.Two months after the end of the 2024/25 season they also earned up to £90m by winning the expanded Club World Cup in the United States. In the short term, their priority has to be qualifying for the Champions League again.Champions League participation is more important now than ever - even though Chelsea are convinced their finances are improving.Kaveh SolhekolArsenal in a healthy spot - but can they sell players better?Arsenal's profit/loss 2024-25 season: £1.4m lossArsenal's overall revenue: £691m (increase of £75.2m)Arsenal are certainly on the way up in terms of finances.
Image: Arsenal have announced a club record revenue Deloitte data says Arsenal's commercial revenue has increased by a world-football high of 104 per cent since 2021 - nearly twice as much as the average commercial growth of the rest of the so-called 'Big Six'.Matchday revenue also increased to £154m, partly due to the men's team's Champions League run to the semi-finals which also impacted broadcast revenue - that rose to £272m last season.Given Arsenal are in the Carabao Cup final, the latter stages of the FA Cup and have a nice route to the European semi-finals once again, that figure could well grow in the forthcoming campaign. They are in a healthy spot.Sam BlitzWest Ham need to sell players - will that include Bowen?West Ham's profit/loss 2024/25 season: £104.2m loss (before tax)West Ham's overall revenue: £228m (decrease of £42m)West Ham recorded over £100m in losses for the financial year 2024/25.Regardless of what happens after the season finishes, they say they'll have to sell players to generate income.