Astonishing Championship wages: Burnley,Blades,Mackems,Watford,Stoke,Boro [Wigan Today]

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The astonishing weekly wages of the Championship's highest paid players and the Burnley, Sheffield United, Sunderland, Watford, Reading, Stoke City and Middlesbrough stars who make the rich list


The Premier League might be the recognised home of fame and fortune in England — with players pocketing tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of pounds per week to fund their uber-lavish lifestyles.
By Dan Black
1 hour ago

But it isn’t just the top flight where players can earn millions of pounds per year to fund a celebrity lifestyle filled with cars, houses and high-fashion clothing.
Data produced by specialists at Salary Sport [ https://salarysport.com/] suggest there are also plenty of Championship stars raking in seven-figure annual salaries.
Their website, if accurate, indicates that 81 players in the second tier are earning in excess of £1million, with many others earning just short of that milestone.
According to their calculations, the top 100 football players in the Championship earn a combined £2,673,000 per week and £138,996,000 per year.
Here are the top 25 highest earners in the division, according to Salary Sport, in ascending order.


*Some players featured on the Salary Sport database are on loan*
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Its beyond "astonishing" with some of these salaries enough to paper a whole house.
Not surprising - 7 Norwich players are in the highest earners - since they spent unsuccessfully to stay in the Premiership.
Parachute payments may cover the extortionate salaries for now, but teams like Norwich are never going to get back what they paid for players if they dont go back up. Ben Gibson is reportedly earning £2,236,000 per year and second top Championship earner is Zak Steffen on £80,000 per week - £4,160,000 per year!

Some surprises: Baba Rahman is earning £89,000 a week alongside Jeff Hendrick £50,000 week and Liam Moor £30,000 week - at Reading! A club reportedly sailing close to the wind when it comes to FFP?

Top Burnley scorer - Jay Rodrigues takes £33,000 a week and Dwight Gayle picks up a paltry £37,000 a week at Stoke! Thank goodness Wilder didnt get his way! At middling club Birmingham, Harley Dean pockets £1,664,000 a year.

Basically these Championship salaries are obscene and unsustainable.
Those clubs with parachute payments are clearly being handed a step up the ladder, meaning the likes of Boro, Blackburn, Sunderland and others vying for promotion, are starting a step behind.

One more point - Sheffield United appear to be stretching resources, considering they were relegated in 2021, so need to return to the Premiership asap if they are to retain the likes of Sander Berge [£33,000 week] and Rhian Brewster [£1,760,000 yr].

Lets not forget, there are other players on below £30,000 a year who arent in this list. How can clubs seriously sustain whopping salaries without eventually hitting a financial brick wall?


Heres the list:


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Amad Diallo (Sunderland)​

Weekly wage: £28,000. Annual salary: £1,456,000.


Max Aarons (Norwich City)​

Weekly wage: £29,000. Annual salary: £1,508,000.

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Okay Yokuslu (West Brom)​

Weekly wage: £29,000. Annual salary: £1,508,000.


Liam Moore (Reading)​

Weekly wage: £30,000. Annual salary: £1,560,000.

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Ashley Barnes (Burnley)​

Weekly wage: £31,000. Annual salary: £1,612,000.


Gabriel Sara (Norwich City)​

Weekly wage: £31,000. Annual salary: £1,612,000.


Grant Hanley (Norwich City)​

Weekly wage: £31,000. Annual salary: £1,612,000.


Imran Louza (Watford)​

Weekly wage: £31,000. Annual salary: £1,612,000.

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Harlee Dean (Birmingham City)​

Weekly wage: £32,000. Annual salary: £1,664,000.


Dimitris Giannoulis (Norwich City)​

Weekly wage: £32,000. Annual salary: £1,664,000.

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Sander Berge (Sheffield United)​

Weekly wage: £33,000. Annual salary: £1,716,000.


Jay Rodriguez (Burnley)​

Weekly wage: £33,000. Annual salary: £1,716,000.


Rhian Brewster (Sheffield United)​

Weekly wage: £34,000. Annual salary: £1,768,000.


Dimitrios Pelkas (Hull City)​

Weekly wage: £35,000. Annual salary: £1,820,000.

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Dwight Gayle (Stoke City)​

Weekly wage: £37,000. Annual salary: £1,924,000.


Ismaila Sarr (Watford)​

Weekly wage: £40,000. Annual salary: £2,080,000.


Isaac Hayden (Norwich City)​

Weekly wage: £41,000. Annual salary: £2,132,000.


Ciaran Clark (Sheffield United)​

Weekly wage: £42,000. Annual salary: £2,184,000.

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Ben Gibson (Norwich City)​

Weekly wage: £43,000. Annual salary: £2,236,000.


Teemu Pukki (Norwich City)​

Weekly wage: £47,000. Annual salary: £2,444,000.

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Jeff Hendrick (Reading)​

Weekly wage: £50,000. Annual salary: £2,600,000.


Kortney Hause (Watford)​

Weekly wage: £50,000. Annual salary: £2,600,000.


Hamza Choudhury (Watford)​

Weekly wage: £61,000. Annual salary: £3,172,000.

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Zack Steffen (Middlesborough)​

Weekly wage: £80,000. Annual salary: £4,160,000.

* Whatever we pay him now (?) we do not know.
Some fans have suggested signing him.
For me - hes worth nowhere near that.
Cheerio(n)


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Baba Rahman (Reading)​

Weekly wage: £89,000. Annual salary: £4,628,000.
 
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Suppose it depends on the point of the article but unless it shows what % of a loan players salary a club is paying then I don't really see how it's relevant what they're paid as premier League players. It's a different world (although City paying a reserve goalie £80k a week is madness).

Some of the none loan player salaries are still eye watering.
 
Only one organisation inside football knows the contract salary arrangements for Every Player and thats the PFA - a copy of all contracts has to be deposited with them - its one of the reasons i dont understand why players use & pay agents to negotiate a deal - the PFA offer the same service as part of their subscription and know every payment level, clause and bonus scheme that is in place..

each club board/ chairman would know the details of players top to bottom at their own clubs.

each player knows their own contract value - but not each others.

everything else is conjecture and guess work - its a form of abuse and a smear on the player to be publishing such numbers in the press and media.

of course social media hang on to it and the abuse starts.
 
Salaries alone don't even tell the full story in terms of value. If you pay £10k per week but spend £2.5m that's £5m over 5 years but if there is no fee then you can pay them £20k for the same £5m. Players know that you get better salaries if you leave on a free.

Teams like Man City and Chelsea being able to pay their 3rd/4th choice keepers that amount of money shows the disparity between the PL and the Championship. Norwich have players there that have played as much PL football as Championship football for them so if those are their highest paid players it shows why they have struggled to stay up when they are paying half for their top players that other teams are paying for their players they don't even give squad numbers to.
 
Dont blame the messenger.

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* Figures are the latest available.
Some players no longer at club.

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Salaries are never a flat figure, there's always triggers and penalties and even before you account for this I'm not sure the article is in any way reliable.
 
Utter BS.

Salary info isn't public. These salary websites just make numbers up to generate traffic.

Does anyone really believe Sonny Finch is on £180 a week, as that Salary Sport website claims? Why bother signing for Boro if we don't even pay living wage?
It does say latest figures available(y)

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Dont blame the messenger
Yeah, sorry if that came across as a dig at you - totally didn't mean it that way. That's what happens when I post pre-coffee.

Please note we only accept salaries from:

- Team/player press releases

- Confirmed by widely circulate articles from top tier publications

- Industry experts & team insiders


- Accurately and reliably sourced encyclopedias & databases
They have figures for every Boro player. Every single one. There is simply no way that the figures they have for every single player can be traced back to one of those four sources, unless "industry experts" really means "temp we've paid to guess random numbers to fill in the blanks" and the "databases" are, as @TheYorkshireTerrier says, just computer games.
 
I doubt if anyone takes the figures as being completely accurate, but I believe they are reasonable ball-park figures despite some perhaps being way out. Overall they probably give a good idea of what the average player in various categories/divisions is earning.
 
A few of those players are on recently relegated clubs, so I assume that they'll be still on Premiership wages - in Gibson's case, probably from two Norwich sessions in the Premiership ago. Harlee Dean astounds me though.

Looking at the Boro, even with say 25,000 (it's not) season ticket holders all paying £500 (it's not) a year, and ignoring Steffan who I assume City are still playing, you couldn't put out a full team on season ticket receipts alone. 54 ST holders per week, to pay for Chuba. No wonder the game is so in hock to the gambling companies who are the only ones willing to pay for this.

It's all utter lunacy. You look at Sky wetting themselves over the transfer window, and Chelsea paying another £30-40m on another attacking midfielder to sit on the bench. If we get promoted, how the heck can we compete with the big clubs simply scooping players up for twice as much as we've ever paid for a player?
 
there's no way Steffen and Rahman are being paid their full chelsea wages. So Isuspect Choudhury is the highest paid player in the champ. Got to Say Norwich, WTF. If accurate they are spending over 250k a week on just 7 'stars' (circa 13m/year) to be a borderline play off side. That's incredible.
 
It's all utter lunacy. You look at Sky wetting themselves over the transfer window, and Chelsea paying another £30-40m on another attacking midfielder to sit on the bench. If we get promoted, how the heck can we compete with the big clubs simply scooping players up for twice as much as we've ever paid for a player?
Regrettably, unless your club is backed by a limitless cash supplier, you're only there to survive.
It sort of makes promotion pointless if you haven't got the finance. Parachute payments might be ok if you get back straight away, but as we've seen time and time again, it doesn't work every time.
 
Yeah, sorry if that came across as a dig at you - totally didn't mean it that way. That's what happens when I post pre-coffee.


They have figures for every Boro player. Every single one. There is simply no way that the figures they have for every single player can be traced back to one of those four sources, unless "industry experts" really means "temp we've paid to guess random numbers to fill in the blanks" and the "databases" are, as @TheYorkshireTerrier says, just computer games.
No problem.(y)
These sort of figures are sometimes plucked out of thin air, but we know the likes of Gayle, Rodrigues and Steffen are going to be towards the top end of the list.
I reckon some of our recent ex-players were worth less than 3/-6d a week:love:
 
Regrettably, unless your club is backed by a limitless cash supplier, you're only there to survive.
It sort of makes promotion pointless if you haven't got the finance. Parachute payments might be ok if you get back straight away, but as we've seen time and time again, it doesn't work every time.
Yep. I really don't give a monkey's about being promoted as I dislike the Premier League as it's structured, so have already decided to bale out if we go up.
 
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