My WEEKLY WAGE at West Brom...

[@Kaka-hy4pw]

Lot of respect for Ben Foster. Seems like a genuine nice bloke which is always the most important factor. Shouldn’t judge others by how much money they earn, especially when its well deserved.

[@glenntaylor9144]

Incredibly open about his wages. What a top bloke. From what you’ve done on this podcast, Ben, you’ve brought professional footballer into a state of realism the rest of us can understand.

[@imonahorse]

In a country where we're so judgmental of peoples earnings, this is a really brave move to put this out there. Kudos, Ben.

[@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights]

Really unfortunate that people are so jealous and insecure that any discussion or insight into money is triggering to them

[@Jgarthebeast]

i dont get how you call this a brave move. he's literally making hundreds of thousands a year playing football in these talks. its not like he is earning a normal citizens wage

[@FurioussBear]

So so brave 😂

[@paulie-g]

I get some of the criticism, but these guys are one of a select group (numbering in the several hundreds) of the best in the world in a sport that is highly popular and financially lucrative. People don't give anywhere near the same amount of stick to, say, pretty people (models, actors). Footballers are not the reason the mines closed or the reason people in the NHS aren't making enough. That's not where their money comes from. The only thing I'd say is that I'd like clubs and players to contribute to making the cost of going the game lower now that matchday revenue isn't that significant in relation to TV revenue, although I have no idea how to make sure that doesn't end up in touts' pockets.

[@fraser1237]

How is this brave you absolute lemon. The man is a multi millionaire 😅

[@txg399]

I was indirectly working for West Brom during Ben’s last season. I built the spreadsheet for the club that tracks all the bonuses. It had to track each appearance, how many minutes played and the result of the match. Some players had bonuses that would only trigger if the result was a win and some would get different amounts for win, lose or draw. There were some super-complicated formulas in there and as a nerd I loved building it!

[@mediacenterman8583]

Who does not love if formulas and drop down menus? Hope you never had to print it out though!

[@jonnyharding3646]

Big respect for this. No need to be embarassed about how much you earned, but also respect that you have no obligation to put it out there.

[@maxryan5861]

Madness, big respect. He earned 40K a week ahahahah how embarrassing for him. Or only 25K a week.

[@anandchaudhary1675]

why would anyone be embarrassed when they earn 40k a week that too more than 10 years ago.

[@jonnyharding3646]

@anandchaudhary1675 because for some reason it's fine to have a go at someone for earning a lot of money, but the worst thing ever to criticise someone who makes barely any

[@em8969]

It’s brave because it’s not really talked about by players, it’s interesting for us fans to know all aspects of the game

[@ulissesmendoza8752]

​@@maxryan5861I swear he's only getting half of that 40k tho because of taxes so only 20k no ?

[@jont508]

Foz was worth every penny , West Brom have been blessed with good keepers over the years but i think Foz is deffo up there with the best we have had in our recent history , and in my lifetime, my first game was 1990

[@tomashehir]

Think he was up there as one of the best PL keepers around 2016/2017

[@nethanlock5008]

My mum was a baggies fan so went to a good few games when he was there, remember in the 2011/12 season where I think he was only on loan and he made this amazing triple save against Blackburn where all the fans started chanting "sign him sign him sign up sign him up!"

[@i_know_youre_right_but]

At the time I thought he was better than Joe Hart, I really think he should’ve been England’s no.1 from 2012-2016.

[@nethanlock5008]

@@i_know_youre_right_but he was.

[@liamcoombes2274]

As a West Brom fan I love the content and the way you talk about us. Just like every other club it seems you’ve been to we loved you here to! Legend

[@mboaten8657]

Fair play for sharing this info Ben.

[@Ben-fg2hu]

There is still a huge banner of Ben in the Albion concourse in the Brummie road end. A true hero of our club and loved immensely.

[@lukefisher59]

Great insight. Baggies best goalkeeper of modern times. Shame the current owner has ruined our great club #wba

[@jan-erikkotka159]

Thumbs totally up for being so open about money!

[@Yorkshire-Sauce]

This is why we need big foz the openness the down to earth attitude and actually telling fans information people shy away from

[@tb560]

Peter crouch set pace with this idea, of going through his player contract. Love how foster has followed, super interesting

[@YbcA1]

Scary money, this was 10ish years ago as well😮

[@scottlovell6992]

I find this content super interesting and you shouldn’t be embarrassed about the money. It gives us normals an insight into the world of football. Thanks Ben love it

[@Willsredcar]

I had no idea that Ben was on that sort of money 10years ago, Incredible!

[@samhughes8550]

Just shows you how lucrative football contracts are at the top level, insane amounts of money being thrown around

[@austinberwick4927]

and this is west brom not the big teams like man utd man city and so on

[@tebbisimoX]

Foster was cheap tbh

[@robertanderson6776]

​@@austinberwick4927wba is a big club you probably don't know there history 5 fa cups founder members won top division and league Cup was brilliant in 50s 60s and 70s. 82 seasons in top flight too. Big big club underachieving because of a terrible owner

[@chickenconnoisseursdad2725]

Ben Foster is a real one 💯👊🏿 Always a pleasure to listen to you!

[@jackrogers123]

I'm a west brom and ben foster is the greatest goalkeeper we have ever had lots of love for ben

[@twilliamspro]

You'll always have my Heart as a Birmingham Fan Fozzy you were our boy when we won the Carling Cup

[@hammy019]

Massive respect Ben, finally someone comes out and is honest with how it all works. We know theres loads of money involved no need to be embarrassed or hide it. Hope there's a part two with your next contract

[@markfreshwater2550]

When 99% of people watching this would give there right arm to have 2 weeks of his wages annually after the pay cut - foz still comes across super humble and understands that

[@bradleyhesom]

Really enjoyed listening to the Podcast Fozzy, I have an enormous amount of respect for you. Being a West Brom fan I was gutted when you left like most of us baggies fans. It goes to show what a proper club West Brom were before we got in the situation were in now. I'd certainly like to gauge your thoughts on the situation at West Brom in your next podcast.

[@Jay-wg7ow]

Hope your enjoying retirement fozzy thanks for 2 fantastic spells always be a Wrexham legend remembered for that pen save for generations to come 🧤

[@Do27gg]

This is so interesting, big respect to Ben for this vid

[@theo7945]

Always interested in stuff like this

[@Tdr-jv2nc]

I love your channel and your honesty Ben. As fans we love hearing about the behind the scenes stuff

[@DanielFinton]

This was refreshingly transparent!

[@Jack.P-2000]

As a West Brom fan I adored this man for years always such great representative for the club and best possible compliment I could give a man is seems like a great man to go for pint with

[@Ussmanaziz]

Thank you for this. Interesting stuff. I've never heard you speak but watched your career throughout. Great to listen to a footballer who sounds like a normal person. All the best

[@allnightmike8374]

Fantastic insight here Ben. Kudos for revealing all the details it’s very interesting good luck to you in your future

[@Toms4561]

Great video from an Albion legend and really interesting to hear the behind the scenes knowledge. As a West Brom fan it would be great to hear you do a video on the state of our club at the moment. Us Albion fans are worried that we could lose the club if we don’t get a sale!

[@jimmyjamersonthethird7455]

He didn’t play for brighton

[@cykotronic]

Excellent content. Love how you described everything.

[@Learnwithgrant]

Makes sense why players get to pissed off when they get taken off before the 80th minute 😂😂😂

[@lloydlambert1870]

I'm sorry but you took it each game as is it come ben many don't!! so honest and so insightful !

[@GlasgowLaptops1]

Great piece of honest content - thanks for the insight Ben.

[@h2ohydrox]

This is a great insight for people who don't understand that football really is like any other job.

[@ShoutItWout]

Very cool of you to do this. Makes you think if this is the contract of the starting keeper for West Brom in 2012, what kind of bonuses are in the contracts of Ederson, Onana, Allison or Sanchez, must be obscene

[@jakepeters496]

Great discussion, big ups! Only wondering how you were able to openly discuss this?

[@dennisthickett4941]

Really interesting insight into contract and wage structures. Nice to hear that your kids are baggies too. All the best in your retirement 2.0 👍😊 BOING BOING .....

[@mankydave67]

Massive massive respect to Ben for disclosing his salary back then. I always like him at United very very steady keeper who definitely deserved more chances at United but I suppose at the time he was stuck behind Edwin. Nobody’s fault. Cheers Ben!

[@pauldavenport9427]

Fair play for the honesty. I would have guessed that his basic at a middling prem club at that time was nearer the £25k relegation-reduced amount than £40k but then the TV deals have come a long long way since the original 5-year contract which started in 1992/93 (£304 million or thereabouts in total). Would be interesting to hear what Newcastle offered him last year. Boaz Myhill's daughter evidently thought he was insane to turn it down but he'd clearly made plenty already.

[@ejyounggun08]

£64k a week, if all went well and West Brom stayed in the Prem puts him at £3.3m a year. That'd be nice. I'd take an 1/8th of that.

[@m.p.7075]

I really wasn't expecting West Brom to be paying wages like that 10 years ago and the add ons on top. Fair play to him for being so open. It's a decent years salary coming in every week of the year at a club most likely to be in the bottom 5 in the league every year. I'm off to turn myself into one of those pushy parents 😂.

[@georgewba6245]

Tbf we were a solid mid table prem team when foster was with us

[@josephhall5136]

Love videos like this, i love the nitty-gritty of olayers contracts.

[@mrm5183]

Appearance bonuses are the ones I find wild. Being paid extra for turning up 😂

[@JadePGC]

Guess it's incentive to a tally impress the manager and train hard so you get picked and get more, after hearing this it baffles me how some players down tools, and become bench warmers when you could be earning even more by just actualy trying

[@mrm5183]

@@JadePGC Ye that’s true. Not all players have appearance bonus and some will different to others but I get what you mean. On the whole a striker usually has a goal bonus and a defender a clean sheet bonus which is also a bit wild as that’s their job 😂

[@declangaming24]

​@JadePGCrafted imagine being a number 1 keeper then at 37 -40+ your making more money if you have been a number 1 keeper for years before that

[@LOSTshowfan]

We miss you at Wrexham! Thanks for the time you spent with the team.

[@MrCalculus1989]

Love this. Crazy to think some bankers earn his entire West Brom career earnings in a years bonus!

[@Wor21]

Respect. You could literally get me a brand spanking new car and still have more than i earn a year left that week 😉👊🏿🤯

[@jordanbyford2693]

I always loved ben but i respect him even more to go though a contact like this

[@waynesullivan5786]

Fair play ben, players wages is summat as footy fans that we constantly hear about and something (for some reason) that we are always interested about. His honesty is brilliant and its so interesting to listen to about bonuses etc. As a utd fan i would love to know what his contract was when he was there, mayb a follow up video?

[@em8969]

It’s brave because it’s not really talked about by players, it’s interesting and amazing for us fans to know all aspects of the game, it’s good to know. Ofcourse some insecure people will be weird about it

[@stupitt9411]

Fantastic insight guys!! Great video

[@beaubrummiestuey299]

Good video and Ben Foster top bloke 🤙

[@chrise2329]

Very interesting to hear that.

[@rakachacha5953]

Ben is a down to earth guy.❤❤

[@letrip4542]

Most down to earth normal man footy player ever love this guy from Liverpool fan.

[@MattyBoom]

That was a very insightful clip guys. Thank you 🙏

[@stighelmer1265]

I remember I always hated meeting WBA. Rondon was always scoring late ones against us.

[@dylanwalsh195]

Amazing thanks for the insight Ben!

[@BridgeburyRealEstateNorthLakes]

Found this really interesting. Well done for doing a video on it. No hate here. Great work.

[@shanehumphries5741]

A real genuine bloke 👍

[@TubbyBrewster11]

This is great insight. But, we have to be real here- the level of disconnect between these amounts of money and the average person (even a well-earning person) is absolutely insane. How anyone can argue against a 45% top tax rate is ludicrous to me, it is perfectly valid.

[@DavidGrayy8]

This is the insight into football that I love

[@martinblack5021]

That’s a big numbers. Good luck to him

[@mayanc7498]

Ben is amazing,

[@adrianmoore3118]

I wish he was still our keeper no disrespect to palmer but Ben was superb for us top man and keeper.

[@DeanRTaylor]

Would love to have a peek at citys treble bonuses

[@leegriffendj]

This is Brilliant.

[@66meikou]

I never realised the footballers are treated as self employed. Bit of an eye opener there.

[@BatmanRobin1981]

Just £25k a week!!! My heart bleeds

[@kimjongun2540]

Super interesting, good on Ben explaining this. They get very good bonuses apart from the fantastic wages. Lol it pains me heari g this knowing I ruined my chances to play pro football by pissing about

[@declangaming24]

Ben foster on fifa 18 i signed him to Santos laguna for 1 season for £1.5M then Ben foster said nah I'm taking my go pro and my bike back to west brom and they payed £3M to get him back

[@Isleofskye]

Well Done Ben. Lovely Guy. 64 Bags from The Baggies for that week including a losing game and that does not include the £1,000,000 Bonus paid, annually, in four stages, over the 4 year contract..

[@jfox9327]

We loved ya tho foz! Coyb!

[@liamwood762]

Worth every penny, best keeper we ever had at the Hawthorns. Never been more comfortable than with Fozzy in goal. Enjoy retirement Ben!

[@derekpiggott1050]

Top keeper for west brom well worth the money

[@zakgrainger]

Do you get paid like normal employees do? Like a bank transfer to your account?

[@lewisdowsett8390]

Watching this wondering how i can budget my £300 for the next 4 weeks till payday lol

[@inthahous87]

It's crazy yo

[@dreamjackson5483]

Every body loves hearing about the nitty gritty of the contracts

[@obby2own]

Baggies love ya Ben 🔵⚪️

[@dondamon4669]

No wonder most of the young players lose it after they get there first big contract! The money is insane!!

[@OwenHorton-s9p]

Up the Albion , big love fozzy 👊❤

[@Me-ji2pn]

0:40 so is that 40k a week for 52 weeks a year? Or just while the premiership is on?

[@jerrydandrige1987]

Only 25k a week. I'd struggle with that 😂

[@GENX-GAMING79]

Obscene amount of money to kick a ball.

[@FeisalKassim]

Nice, Ben 🎉

[@MaxWalker-gf7uz]

No wonder teams get in financial trouble. Incredible sums of money been thrown about

[@DesertEagle101]

Hardly. For PL with the amount of money they make this isn’t earth shattering

[@edwardtory1250]

Clubs are spending less than historically on transfers and wages as a % of total revenue.

[@whitewolf5753]

Benny Big bags. Good on you Fozzy

[@iambeyondfake]

Mental money in football. Mental.

[@Jackscaf]

When he said buzzing with that 😂 what a geezer

[@philliphaylor1590]

Oh I could cry for him 😢 pratt😮

[@herbination410]

Best keeper we had

[@Glasgowwill]

Never judge a man for making money, but my gosh £40,000 over 10 years ago - scary money but fair play to him for securing that bag!

[@eoin554]

What you're looking for is 0:39 : He was on 40k a week then went down to 25k after getting relegated

[@nerradnewo6328]

Thanks man. It would have been such a HUGE chore to have to wait through a whole 39 seconds to get to that info. You're a lifesaver bud 👊👊

[@gravy3858]

@@nerradnewo6328I believe you are gay

[@edwardtory1250]

I hate it when videos don't reveal the headline info until nearly 40 whole seconds in.

[@mightystamps]

Worth every penny ❤

[@christophersmith5606]

I know people get stick for how much they earn but honestly, I thought you would’ve earned more. Some people are jealous plain and simple….but if the tables were turned they wouldn’t turn the money away. Earn what you can and enjoy your life.

[@aarondale4883]

Ben do players talk to other players about how much money they make ?

[@DJDilemma1]

40k a week is insane. I would literally see out my 4 year contract and then retire.

[@kirstydouglas3036]

Great podcast, would love to hear what the financial advisers would tell you where to invest his money, thank s