Championship wages???

Mr Alan

Me and my mate just having a chat and arent sure wat sort of wages the Championship players get . . . obviously the like of WBA would have players on large wages, but lesser clubs....Sheffield Wednesday for example (the club my mate supports), wat sort of money would these kinda players be on, anyone any ideas or links etc???

leninbenjamin

barrister money for the most AFAIK.

edit: now that i think of it i don't really know either. i do ponder about it a fair bit

mikemac

Wouldn't call Sheffield Wednesday a lesser club, they're one of the biggest club around. Not on the financial side though at the moment.

If you use the Football Manager game as a guide (not sure of accuracy )I'd say the top wage for a club you mention would be 8k-10k per week. Average for a first team squad player is likely to be around 3k-4k per week.

Having said that, it may be drastically higher.

PDN

micmclo wrote:

Wouldn't call Sheffield Wednesday a lesser club, they're one of the biggest club around. Not on the financial side though at the moment.

If you use the Football Manager game as a guide (not sure of accuracy )I'd say the top wage for a club you mention would be 8k-10k per week. Average for a first team squad player is likely to be around 3k-4k per week.

Having said that, it may be drastically higher.

I wouldn't use Football Manager as any kind of guide. It shows some of the full time players at Drogheda United as earning less than they would flipping burgers at MacDonalds. Now, there have been a few times at United Park that I've felt that's all they're worth - but I'm sure that's not the case.

KdjaCL

jason Byrne is on 5 grand a week but Ridsdale is there so not sure if thats the going rate for a 5th choice striker.

Pats offered him 3k and a game and he said no.


kdjac

Joeyjoejoe43

Up to around 15,000 a week id say for the top earners..

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MrJoeSoap

I'd imagine the players who played in the premiership with the relegated clubs are still on quite good money, although I would imagine there was a wage drop clause in most contracts. Apparently "the average basic annual Championship salary is now £195,750, up from £128,000 six years ago, or an increase of 53 per cent."

But the same report claims the highest paid Premiership player is only £22,500 a week, that can't be right at all. It does say the wages can rise by 60 to 100 percent with bonuses, and the survey was conducted between 2000 and 2006. Make of it what you will.

http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/news/article357006.ece

smackbunnybaby

millersangel wrote:

Me and my mate just having a chat and arent sure wat sort of wages the Championship players get . . . obviously the like of WBA would have players on large wages, but lesser clubs....Sheffield Wednesday for example (the club my mate supports), wat sort of money would these kinda players be on, anyone any ideas or links etc???

it is true that sheffield wednesday are in dire financial trouble. so much so that they have lost numerous players to opposition clubs, not in terms of transfer fees (which is another problem), but in terms of wages.
when franny jeffers signed in august there were rumours they had broken dave allens wage structure to accomodate him. this figure was in the region of 10,000 i think.

i have heard rumours that Hartson at WBA was on about 20,000, which i think would have been one of the highest earners in the division, but then of course they were in the premiership the season before.

one of sheffield wednesdays other highest paid players at the time was Steve maclean, who is now gone to cardiff. i think he was on 7,000 a week.

if clubs dont re structure wages when they get relegated they run the risk of doing a sheffield wednesday and Leeds. it is not the easiest division to get out of on first attempt.

Seaneh

Alan Sheehan was offered 8k a week by Leichester last week and turned it down as he wanted a longer deal.

And he is a youth...

aidan24326

It would probably vary alot in that division, depending on the club. The likes of West Brom, Wolves and Sheffield United could have some players earning 12-15K or so, which would be above average for the division. Beattie was on 40K per week at Everton and wouldn't have been prepared to drop his wages too much, so he's sure to still be on 20K+.

While a club like Blackpool or Scunthorpe probably wouldn't be paying much more than 4-5 grand a week you'd imagine.

Whatever report said that the top premiership wage was 22K per week was way off the mark as we know there's prem players earning alot more than that. So it's possible that their average salary of 195K per year for the championship is also wide of the mark. It's probably a little higher, even the smaller clubs would be paying that much.

Though I think alot of those clubs are being a bit more sensible about wage levels now, the Leeds fiasco being a lesson to all. Ridsdale was doling out massive contracts without even asking players what money they wanted (as in the case of Viduka being handed a 40K per week contract when he was only expecting 10-12K!!! Madness).