Compared with last season’s ninth finish on 52 points, the 2024-5 season end at [West Ham](https://www.claretandhugh.info/badly-let-down-west-ham-wingers-comments-reveal-false-promises/) will certainly prove a disappointment, both to those of us who pay to be entertained and amongst the club’s money men.
A report out today has suggested each club’s likely earnings from Premier League prize money at the end of this season and it is not good news for the Hammaers.
Last year’s ninth finish earned West Ham a total of £147 million, made up of prize money, merit payments, tv appearances, shared international payments and commercial del shares.
It ls looking likely that this season West Ham’s poor early season performance will come at a huge financial cost to the club: [_football365.com_](https://www.football365.com/news/premier-league-prize-money-table-tv) have run the numbers and projected that the shortfall owing to poor performance will cost West Ham some £23 million in lower prize money from finishing 16th. Difficult to be exact as to how much each place in the Premier League is worth but _“For the 2023/24 season, the difference in prize money was around **£2.8m per position**.”_
The report calculates that the Hammers, if they finish 16th, are likely to earn a total of ££124.2m, nearly twenty three million less. Of course the PSR ramifications are huge and are another factor for the club being cautious about summer spending, knowing that a shortfall over last season’s ninth place is in the pipeline.
It does put an interesting ‘spin’ on the Monday night Premier League fixture: – with Spurs and Manchester United both drawing today, West Ham could climb above both with three points at home to Newcastle United in what could be dubbed – more or less- a ‘six million pound game!’