£100k-a-week: Stoke City’s highest earner from the last 8 seasons (Estimated)
FLW takes a look at Stoke City’s highest earning player from the last 8 seasons
Since relegation from the Premier League in 2018, Stoke City have found life in the Championship to be more difficult than expected.
Many people thought the Potters would coast to promotion during the 2018/19 season, but they struggled badly, and nearly six years on, the club are battling to remain in the division.
Despite being backed by the wealthy Coates family, Stoke have been unable to mount any semblance of a promotion push since relegation from the Premier League, and they have shown that spending large sums of money on player wages doesn’t always equate to success.
With that in mind, using Capology, we looked at Stoke City’s highest earning player over the past 8 seasons.
Wilfried Bony is Stoke’s estimated highest earner over the past 8 seasons
It must be stressed that Capology uses estimates rather than being 100% accurate, but it still gives us a good insight into player wages.
According to Capology, Wilfried Bony’s weekly wage of £100,000 makes him Stoke’s highest paid player over the last 8 years.
Bony joined the Potters on loan from Manchester City for the 2016-17 season, so it remains to be seen how the wages were split, but regardless of how much Stoke contributed, they certainly didn’t get value for money.
The Ivorian striker’s move to the Bet365 Stadium came with high expectations after a spell at Swansea City which saw him become one of the best strikers in English football.
His time at The Etihad had seen him used sparingly, but that was understandable given the quality and their disposal and there was still excitement at Stoke when his signing was announced.
