Blades wages revealed - who is our biggest earner?

[Lightsoot]

A friend of mine sent me a link to the ‘Salary Sport’ website which lists the wages English football teams supposedly pay their players.

I’d be interested to hear your thoughts as to how accurate you think these figures are. From a Blades perspective, if true, some of them are eyewatering.

Some takeaways:
- Our highest earner is Ciaran Clark on 42K per week

- In contrast, N’Diaye is our lowest 1st team player on 4K per week. Surely not?

- Anel on 18K looks good value compared to Berge & Brewster on 30K +

Sheffield United 2023 Wages | Player & Team totals

Sheffield United's total wage bill per year is £30,338,360 and £583,430 per week | Search the most comprehensive salary and contract database.

salarysport.com

 

[Bladesince59]

A friend of mine sent me a link to the ‘Salary Sport’ website which lists the wages English football teams pay their players.

I’d be interested to hear your thoughts as to how accurate you think these figures are. From a Blades perspective, if true, some of them are eyewartering.

Some takeaways:
- Our highest earner is Ciaran Clark on 42K per week

- In contrast, N’Diaye is our lowest 1st team player on 4K per week. Surely not?

- Anel on 18K looks good value compared to Berge & Brewster on 30K +

Sheffield United 2023 Wages | Player & Team totals

Sheffield United's total wage bill per year is £30,338,360 and £583,430 per week | Search the most comprehensive salary and contract database.

salarysport.com

They simply can't be right. Clark is worth no more than £1,500,000 a year

 

[Sean Thornton]

How much of Clark’s wages are we actually paying?

 

[South Sea Blade]

I read somewhere that we are paying a third.

 

[South Sea Blade]

I've never understood how people can claim to know the salaries of footballers. Surely this is all highly confidential information (as it should be), but that list of salaries probably isn't too far off IMO. Hopefully a large wage increase and certain agreements if we don't get promoted, will encourage Illy to sign a new contract.

 

[Sharrow Snuff Mill]

Ndiaye and Norrington-Davies certainly deserve a boost in wages.

 

[WeareBlades]

Robinson can't be on 20k a week surely

 

[Balti Pie]

Fucking hell - could they cram a few more adverts onto that website?!!!

 

[JT89]

Adam Davies paid more than double Fodderingham and McAtee paid more than Doyle despite both being from Man City and Doyle being further ahead in his development? Do people actually believe these websites?

 

[georgebernardshaw]

A friend of mine sent me a link to the ‘Salary Sport’ website which lists the wages English football teams supposedly pay their players.

I’d be interested to hear your thoughts as to how accurate you think these figures are. From a Blades perspective, if true, some of them are eyewatering.

Some takeaways:
- Our highest earner is Ciaran Clark on 42K per week

- In contrast, N’Diaye is our lowest 1st team player on 4K per week. Surely not?

- Anel on 18K looks good value compared to Berge & Brewster on 30K +

Sheffield United 2023 Wages | Player & Team totals

Sheffield United's total wage bill per year is £30,338,360 and £583,430 per week | Search the most comprehensive salary and contract database.

salarysport.com

“supposedly”

 

[Cappy]

Right at the start:

“Sheffield United play in the Sky Bet Championship, the top tier of English football”

If that is their attention to detail, everything should be doubted.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

They all seem very plausible, to me.

A lot of players are being paid inflated wages because they signed contracts whilst we were in the Prem.

Guys like Ndiaye and RND haven't renewed the deals they signed whilst they were still emerging academy prospects, so are being under-paid relative to their level.

Foderingham was brought in as a free agent third choice keeper. He deserves a boost, if he hasn't already had one.

McAtee is considered the brighter of the two prospects (Doyle being the other) over at City. So again, I'm not too shocked he's been able to negotiate slightly more favourable terms.

The discrepancy between McBurnie & Brewster surprises me somewhat but, at the time, I think we had a free run at Oli.
Whereas there was a little bit of competition for Brewster. Maybe we had to up our offer to attract him.

 

[Stretch]

I would be amazed if Ndaye renewed his contract on 4k per week, young player or not.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

I would be amazed if Ndaye renewed his contract on 4k per week, young player or not.

I'd be surprised if we haven't offered him circa £25-30k / week wages. Doubling upon promotion. He will want to keep his options open.
If he walks on a free or with 12 months to run, he (and his agent) will bag a higher signing on fee.

 

[S64 Blade]

Robinson can't be on 20k a week surely

Started his career at Liverpool, so will have been on a relatively high wage at a young age. Then went to QPR who at the time were paying well. Forest - basket case so will have paid whatever he wanted and then to us, a Premier League team at the time. So I’m not too surprised.

 

[Frank the tank]

I'd be surprised if we haven't offered him circa £25-30k / week wages. Doubling upon promotion. He will want to keep his options open.
If he walks on a free or with 12 months to run, he (and his agent) will bag a higher signing on fee.

He only renewed it under slav

 

[BushBlade]

They all seem very plausible, to me.

A lot of players are being paid inflated wages because they signed contracts whilst we were in the Prem.

Guys like Ndiaye and RND haven't renewed the deals they signed whilst they were still emerging academy prospects, so are being under-paid relative to their level.

Foderingham was brought in as a free agent third choice keeper. He deserves a boost, if he hasn't already had one.

McAtee is considered the brighter of the two prospects (Doyle being the other) over at City. So again, I'm not too shocked he's been able to negotiate slightly more favourable terms.

The discrepancy between McBurnie & Brewster surprises me somewhat but, at the time, I think we had a free run at Oli.
Whereas there was a little bit of competition for Brewster. Maybe we had to up our offer to attract him.

There’s a difference between plausible and true though. I’m quite suspicious of your involvement in this as I kept getting an advert for Captain Morgan’s.

If it is true, then it seems we might have a bit more money spare for the JTW. Our overall income this season must be close to £45m. I suspect they’re no more than educated guesses though.

 

[S64 Blade]

Looking at the figures, I’m guessing we had a 20% relegation wage reduction in a lot of contracts.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

There’s a difference between plausible and true though. I’m quite suspicious of your involvement in this as I kept getting an advert for Captain Morgan’s.

If it is true, then it seems we might have a bit more money spare for the JTW. Our overall income this season must be close to £45m. I suspect they’re no more than educated guesses though.

Yeah of course, I have no way of validating it.
But looking at each one as an individual case, none stand out as being really daft to me. I can make some sense of them all.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

He only renewed it under slav

In which case, am I correct to think he'd barely done anything at first team level? If so, £4k a week would sound about right..

 

[BushBlade]

Looking at the figures, I’m guessing we had a 20% relegation wage reduction in a lot of contracts.

It’s been made public that we’ve had several clauses of that nature. They took a hit when we went down and another this year because we didn’t go up. There was also a clause that they got paid less if we weren’t in the top six last season. I don’t know if that applies this season.
Please don’t ask me for links, I’m not a librarian.

 

[S64 Blade]

In which case, am I correct to think he'd barely done anything at first team level? If so, £4k a week would sound about right..

He’ll have been on the higher 100s before, I’d have guessed, like people such as Gordon are on.

It’s been made public that we’ve had several clauses of that nature. They took a hit when we went down and another this year because we didn’t go up. There was also a clause that they got paid less if we weren’t in the top six last season. I don’t know if that applies this season.
Please don’t ask me for links, I’m not a librarian.

Yeah, I’d seen about the clauses, smart move. I just assumed it’d be a lower %. Guessing the opposite is also true if we go up.

 

[BushBlade]

In which case, am I correct to think he'd barely done anything at first team level? If so, £4k a week would sound about right..

It’s not surprising that we’re not rushing to renew his contract, if that’s what he’s on. We’d have to find about £25k a week more.

 

[Silent Blade]

Clickbait websites are not reliable sources. I wouldnt open the link

 

[CaptainMorgans]

It’s not surprising that we’re not rushing to renew his contract, if that’s what he’s on. We’d have to find about £25k a week more.

I don't know about that.
I think the alternative, not agreeing a deal quickly, is far worse.

Hypothetically, let's say it is an extra £25k / week we have to find. Over the next six months that would cost us around £650k.
But that £650k investment would be protecting against substantial value deterioration of an asset (Ndiaye).

At a guess, we could sell him for at least £5-10m more now, than if we waited until the Summer when he goes into the final year of his deal.

All very round numbers and a lot of guesswork, but just trying to work through the business principle and logic.
Noises from the club suggest we're working very hard to secure ourselves against him running his deal down.

 

[SwissBlade]

Billy not top earner

 

[BushBlade]

I don't know about that.
I think the alternative, not agreeing a deal quickly, is far worse.

Hypothetically, let's say it is an extra £25k / week we have to find. Over the next six months that would cost us around £650k.
But that £650k investment would be protecting against substantial value deterioration of an asset (Ndiaye).

At a guess, we could sell him for at least £5-10m more now, than if we waited until the Summer when he goes into the final year of his deal.

All very round numbers and a lot of guesswork, but just trying to work through the business principle and logic.
Noises from the club suggest we're working very hard to secure ourselves against him running his deal down.

Hope so. I think he’s off if we don’t go up though, whatever we offer him. Personally I’d be offering him as much as we can afford but I’ve got a feeling I’ve said that before about players and then hindsight has proven me to be an idiot. It’s a bit like Wilder, one minute it’s “give him a ten year contract”, next minute it’s “I wouldn’t give him 10p to make a phone call”.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Not even opening the link, it’s bollocks.

 

[itsinyerblood]

If the club wish to hurry along the departure of Ndiaye, not offering a new contract with vastly improved financial incentives would seem the most obvious way for this club to lose arguably it's most prized asset.

Of course, we don't know more than the speculative rumour that so far is all we have to base an opinion on, but if there's even a sniff of accuracy in the suggested wage he's currently receiving then we'll have lost a player with immense potential.

 

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

I don't know about that.
I think the alternative, not agreeing a deal quickly, is far worse.

Hypothetically, let's say it is an extra £25k / week we have to find. Over the next six months that would cost us around £650k.
But that £650k investment would be protecting against substantial value deterioration of an asset (Ndiaye).

At a guess, we could sell him for at least £5-10m more now, than if we waited until the Summer when he goes into the final year of his deal.

If he has a stellar World Cup, we'll be quids in