Reported wages at the club

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

Isn't Ruben Loftus-Cheek not meant to be getting some sort of crazy wages and bonuses despite not playing a competitive game?

[Johnny Kills 164]

I'm sorry but this just seems like a big waste of time. It's impossible to use the horrific media as sources for ANYTHING football related. How often do we see discrepancies in transfer fees? Almost always, and these are widely reported once a transfer goes through. Now let's discuss something secretive like players' wages, it's impossible to be accurate. I wish there was transparency, but there is not and this has not helped anyone understand the truth.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

It's because there is no transfer involved. (First off, I don't buy these numbers anyway). Because the transfer fees are counted in step with the length of the contract, having no transfer fee means you can afford much higher wages. For example, Terry at 175K a week would actually be significantly cheaper per year than Willian at 85K because Willian's transfer costs 123K a week or so whereas Terry costs 0 additional money (Willian is actually probably our 2nd or 3rd most expensive player overall). By keeping existing players, you save a lot of money, even paying higher contracts. Even a small transfer (for Chelsea) of 10M pounds on a maximum 5 year deal, is still an additional 38K+ a week. You could pay an existing player 100K/week as opposed to 65K for the new player and you'd still save money.

That's definitely a factor, but I don't think it makes sense to just add the fee because obviously the player has nothing to do with what the club paid for him. Schwarzer is on peanuts even though he came on a free, for example.

[different level 1,056]

On hindsight, after 2 years what he has achieved, seeing him earning that amount right now is obviously . But back when he joined, 67k p/w wages look reasonable.

Yup. When Mata joined he was considered a talented young player, but if his wages went beyond 100k p/w it'd have been far too much for his status at the time. Now he's established himself as one of the best playmaykers in Europe and I can see him sign a new contract soon.

Hazard is another example. He has almost triple the wages of Mata, but when he joined last summer he was (and still is) considered among the top attacking midfielders in Europe and it makes sense for him to earn that much.

[IkE 267]

Hold on one sec, Demba BA 80.000 while Oscar 40k and Mata 67k?

We are nuts.

[Sheva. 5,373]

Essien 70k. And he'll never play

[Ramires7 32]

the amount josh and chalobah are getting are ridiculous if this is true... damn english players always asking for more money

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Essien 70k. And he'll never play

Count your blessings, Benayoun was one something like 100k

[Mart 29]

No way is Hazard on 185k. I thought it was in Terry's contract that he had to be highest or equal highest paid player anyway as part of his status as our leader. I seem to remember it was the main stipulation of his contract that he insisted on when he was briefly chatting shit about a transfer to City, so if Eden is on 185k then surely Terry would be as well. But imo its simply not true, he's probably on 110-120k.

[Bacika 188]

These wages are from Jake Cohen. They are as accurate as it gets. He's put in a lot of effort. You can find them here and the reasoning he gives behind the numbers - http://www.weaintgotnohistory.com/2013/9/4/4659496/chelsea-player-wage-database

This is simply not true. I saw in this report Alex was on 100k, Anelka 150k, new boy Stipe Perica 15k, Hazard 185k., and then I stopped reading it...

[Jase 43,479]

No no no no no no NOOOO !!!

It's £110.000.(Source Belgian and French media)

Exactly! It pisses me off when people are just so gullible to believe any wages reported by the English media. Even know some idiots on Twitter who thinks Cole is on 200k p/w wages because of 1 news published by The Sun when he renewed his contract last year!

[Stingray 9,441]

Mmmmm. Interesting :-)