Most of those have recent L1 history, so that's believable.

Once wages go up, it must be very difficult for clubs to reduce (if relegated) as it'll mean dividing your playing squad between old and new contracts and clubs fancy themselves to bounce straight back up anyway.

As it's only based on estimates, I tend not to believe Barrow has a bigger budget than us so that would have us smneaking into the top 10.

Relegated EFL1 clubs (Cambridge Bristol Rovers, Crawley) will always appear with their legacy budgets

MKD biggest spenders for sure, along with Salford

Swindon, Chesterfield, Gillingham seemingly known spenders

Tranmere, Barrow (Barrow compete with the £ with the NW regions

Notts will be amongst most clubs in and around Barrow's budget

I've seen the estimates from that website before. I have no idea what they're based on, but the clubs near the top are the ones I was expecting.

The numbers are fantastical though. If Barrow are spending 4 million on players' wages then I'm Michael Sheen.

MK and Bristol being top isn’t surprising because they are both owned by very rich families from the middle east. I’d have thought just given the size of us, we’d have been in the top 10. I know Chris and Alex have always said that we operate in a way where we want to out-perform our playing budget, but just given how we turnover more money than most teams in League 2 I'd still expect us to be top-half in terms of budgets. 🤔🤷‍♂️

Barrow is an interesting one, having done a bit of digging one of their owners used to be the CEO of a company that is allegedly worth billions, so I’d imagine he isn’t short of money. They’ve also got some players like Tom Barkhuizen, Ben Jackson & Connor Mahoney that played in the Championship before joining Barrow so they will all be on decent wages. It wouldn’t surprise me if they were spending more than what most might think.

If Notts go up, they will have to spend more money on football operations. The wage bill will go up, & they will need new players to compete in League One. Even if they don't go up, Football expenses will increase. It will be fascinating to see if the Club will increase Season Ticket prices for next season.