This one quote made me smile as they just change their tune to suit the mood:
we've got players in that side on 40k a week? Think he's been reading owlstalk
I'd imagine that a few are pretty close to 40k, so i quickly googled a few players:
Fletcher on "in excess of 30k a week"
https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foo...d-wednesday-striker-steven-fletcher-1-9252331
Tom Lees "a new deal worth £25,000 a week in a bid to ward off interest from Burnley, Derby and Fulham."
https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foo...nesday-star-and-other-soccer-gossip-1-8055164
Forestieri, Hooper, Bannan, Abdi, Reach and Rhodes are all on more than £30k because they all came in when they were spending high and bringing in players from the Premier League. With no recent success, they had to go higher with basic wages when the risk of earning performance related bonuses and promotion bonuses was almost none existent.
Wednesday wage bill is was reported as £21 Million to May 2017, to contrast with this, our wage bill was £10 Million for the same period.
Whether their players are actually on £40k is missing the point, they're paid much more than our players so you'd expect them to be better.
For a side filled with expensive signings and big reputations to come to their local rivals for the biggest game of their season (given that they're closer to relegation than promotion positions) and play such a negative formation with no intention to try and win the game, just play for a 0-0 (which was accepted by their own Dom Howson) is frankly embarrassing.
Personally i thought that Wilder went easy on them, but made his point about our own performance very well