Championship wages 2021/22

[blueandwhitehalves]

Been saying I'd do this for a while, so finally done it. Most recent accounts were from the season before last (where we finished 8th under Mowbray). We're slightly higher up than I thought in 13th, but Mowbray still clearly overachieved. Think I'll post this on the dark side too, expect it'll go down well

Fulham (1st)	90.4​
Bournemouth (2nd)	61.4​
Notts Forest (4th)	58.6​
Stoke (14th)	47.9​
West Brom (10th)	42.4​
Sheff Utd (5th)	42.1​
Birmingham City (20th)	31.1​
Middlesbrough (7th)	28.4​
QPR (11th)	27.6​
Swansea (15th)	27.6​
Reading (21st)	25.3​
Preston (13th)	24.6​
Rovers (8th)	24.4​
Bristol City (17th)	23.8​
Millwall (9th)	22.3​
Cardiff (18th)	22.2​
Huddersfield (3rd)	20.3​
Luton (6th)	17.8​
Coventry (12th)	15.7​
Barnsley (24th)	13.1​
Hull City (19th)	12.7​
Blackpool (16th)	11.6​
Peterborough (22nd)	9.1​
Derby (23rd)	Couldn't find, were going into administration so a right mess

 

[steve w]

Good work B&W but for clarity and context - would it be more instructive if the finishing positions were in brackets after the teams?

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

Thanks Steve. Yeah good call, have added them in.

Thread already blocked on BRFCS because I said Rovers fans were demanding I mean christ, they have a category button when you start a new thread, so I chose "Opinion". If "Rovers fans are demanding" is a banned opinion, the mods clearly haven't changed from their power-mad woke censorship days where they threw a load of us off.

No wonder they're asking people to sign up to their premium version. Things tend to run out of money fairly quickly once you only allow input from one clique.

 

[Barmitzvah Boy]

Thanks for this B&WH . Does this also include non playing staff salary costs? A number of Rovers staff (I was told a few weeks ago) have not had a pay rise for 9 years even though inflation over that period tops 30%……that in effect is one hell of a pay cut.

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

Thanks for this B&WH . Does this also include non playing staff salary costs? A number of Rovers staff (I was told a few weeks ago) have not had a pay rise for 9 years even though inflation over that period tops 30%……that in effect is one hell of a pay cut.

Yeah on the clubs accounts they all just have "staff costs" so it'll be everyone. But as you mention, I'd imagine in the modern age every club has squeezed its non-playing staff cost dry. I suppose the Board-level people will be on decent money, so maybe subtract 10% from each figure to get the playing squad.

 

[steve w]

We all know it to be true - but this highlights it - money talks!!
The odd exception plus and minus but it confirms where we sit on the pyramid
I have a feeling we will be sliding down soon with the cost cutting. This season - with a decent,young and hungry squad, might be our last realistic shot at promotion

It has always annoyed me what the basic staff get paid - I had a good friend who worked there for years on a very basic/average wage, but was expected to look after ego maniac players who earned more for a week than he got for a year

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

Yeah I think what stands out for me is how there's kind of 3 tiers. The jump between Sheff Utd as 6th highest and Birmingham 7th is £11m, but then there's only £6.2m separating 9 clubs between Boro and Huddersfield. And then there's some real small fry down at the bottom, I'd say Barnsley's spending and below guarantees a relegation battle.

Plus it explains why Fulham were destroying teams that season. Mitrovic alone scored 43 in the league but I wonder what he was on, probably a quarter of Rovers whole squad.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Thanks Steve. Yeah good call, have added them in.

Thread already blocked on BRFCS because I said Rovers fans were demanding I mean christ, they have a category button when you start a new thread, so I chose "Opinion". If "Rovers fans are demanding" is a banned opinion, the mods clearly haven't changed from their power-mad woke censorship days where they threw a load of us off.

No wonder they're asking people to sign up to their premium version. Things tend to run out of money fairly quickly once you only allow input from one clique.

I really don’t know why you bother.

 

[1SimonGarner]

Don't question the fans over there BAWH, you should know better. I still read the odd thread over there and chuckle to myself at the astounding lack of positivity from 90% of the posters, it's fecking suicide watch for most of them. Without wishing to upset some of our more mature posters, I think it's an age thing, I reckon the average age of posters on that site is about 102. Forget dirty 30's, Naughty 40's and Filthy 50's, over there it's miserable Millenniums!

Fans are great, club is shit is the basic theme, coming from most who see themselves as paying customers being offered a service not blind fanatics that do it for the love of the club. I would also say this is a more common theme among the modern football fan, brought about in no small part by the general disconnect between over payed players and the fans, but among the Rovers support it's a bleeding epidemic.

COYB.

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

Pretty much totally agree 1SG, although I don't think its an age thing, there's plenty of youngsters about who grew up watching Rovers in the 00s and think that's what they're entitled to.

In terms of the negativity over there though, it sums it up that my thread got locked because I criticised Rovers fans having "high expectations" as the moderator put it. High expectations leads to criticism when they're not met, which leads to constant negativity when they're repeatedly not met. High hopes maybe, but reasonable expectations based on the resources we have, is what creates a decent atmosphere.

But I despair at times, have made the joke before but I'm starting to think Rovers could drop into the Conference North and some fans would still be droning on to their Chorley counterparts at Victory Park about why we should be in the Premier League with our history.

 

[1SimonGarner]

Just read an interesting article on the abolition of the maximum wage in 1961. The maximum any player was allowed to earn before this was £20 per week and almost immediately after it's abolition, Fulham paid one of their players 100 quid a week.

This was undoubtedly a significant moment in the shift of power towards the big city clubs with their bigger support/revenue and ability to pay the top players more money - the days of players like Douglas and Clayton sticking with their hometown clubs were probably numbered.

I've posted this on here because it's interesting to note that the Rovers fortunes since this inception have noticeably waned. We managed to hang on to our 1st Division status for another 5 years, but after getting relegated in the 65/66 season we had 25 years of 2nd and 3rd division football before we got our "leveller" in the form of Jack. It's not hard to imagine that if he had not invested when he did, we could easily have been in a situation were we had not tasted top flight football for knocking on 60 years!

So as BAWH has rightly said, the entitled fans that still see the Rovers as a top flight club in turmoil, need a big reality check. In the modern game where the have not's are at an even bigger disadvantage with the appearance of Sky and multi billion pound owners, we have to acknowledge that we as a club would be over achieving if we managed to get to the promised land.

That's not to say we should accept our position or not strive to get there, but for every Brentford or Brighton, there's a Sheff Wed or Sunderland. Dreaming and striving to achieve what we all want is absolutely correct, but expecting it as somehow our rightful place because we had a "false" (for want of a better word) period of competing with the best for a while 30 years ago, is what leads a fan base to be entitled and negative.

That sums up a big chunk of our support I'm afraid.

 

[steve w]

Spot on - as usual

Looking back I wonder if the late 50s Early 60s fans has that same entitled outlook when we slid into the 3rd Division?

If I could change anything it would be the size of Ewood - Our ground screams Premier League, when in reality, we are probably slightly punching above our weight in terms of our actual standing (as some of your posts have brilliantly described)

A ground like Rotherhams New York stadium would be perfect for atmosphere and re-building that 70s "brotherhood"

Or am I just deluded, and need to accept TV/Sky have killed the game - I have reached the point of not even watching Match of the Day! and my only interest in football is Rovers

 

[Alan]

Spot on - as usual

Looking back I wonder if the late 50s Early 60s fans has that same entitled outlook when we slid into the 3rd Division?

If I could change anything it would be the size of Ewood - Our ground screams Premier League, when in reality, we are probably slightly punching above our weight in terms of our actual standing (as some of your posts have brilliantly described)

A ground like Rotherhams New York stadium would be perfect for atmosphere and re-building that 70s "brotherhood"

Or am I just deluded, and need to accept TV/Sky have killed the game - I have reached the point of not even watching Match of the Day! and my only interest in football is Rovers

There are a lot like you. I too have little interest in football if it is not about Rovers.

 

[Drog]

Don't blame me, I have never paid a penny to Sky or BT or anyone.

btw SG the first £100 pw player was Fulham's Johnny Haynes

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Don't blame me, I have never paid a penny to Sky or BT or anyone.

btw SG the first £100 pw player was Fulham's Johnny Haynes

Dodgy box?

 

[Drog]

I don't have one ..... or are you referring to and old girlfriend of yours?

 

[Drog]

The poorer the player the higher the wage if this is anything to go by.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/the-highest-paid-blackburn-rovers-player-in-each-of-the-last-10-championshipseasonslist/#dickson-etuhu---2013-14---pound-32-000

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

I don't have one ..... or are you referring to and old girlfriend of yours?

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

The poorer the player the higher the wage if this is anything to go by.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/the-highest-paid-blackburn-rovers-player-in-each-of-the-last-10-championshipseasonslist/#dickson-etuhu---2013-14---pound-32-000

Again I wouldn’t give too much credibility to that site who get their figures from something called capology! Bradley Dack was certainly paid considerably more than Hirst.

 

[Dunnfc]

Hyam is not on that his mother used to live near me in Oxfordshire. He's not even worth half that weekly. Still not sure he'd start if we kept ayala