Interesting article re: Wagebill

[Canton Kev]

16k a week for an academy player is ridiculous for the championship, that's basically a top championship player salary range. some clubs don't have anyone on that much

I don’t think 16k a week has been a “top championship player salary” for a while now.

Wolves had someone on 100k a week when they went up and that was nearly 7 years ago.

Whilst that is no doubt an exceptional outlier, I wouldn’t be surprised if top end championship players are in the 30k-50k a week range.

[Rjk]

I don’t think 16k a week has been a “top championship player salary” for a while now.

Wolves had someone on 100k a week when they went up and that was nearly 7 years ago.

Whilst that is no doubt an exceptional outlier, I wouldn’t be surprised if top end championship players are in the 30k-50k a week range.

I know for a fact that a middling championship team had to push the boat out a couple of seasons ago to prevent their best 2 players leaving on a free, and they increased their highest salary to 17.5k to keep them.

outside the parachute payment clubs 16k is still a high wage for the championship