SEAN DYCHE admits “I’d have been a right berk” earning a modern player’s salary after revealing his first-ever pay packet.
The manager returned to his boyhood club last month as a replacement for Ange Postecoglou.
Sean Dyche admits he’d have been a ‘berk’ earning a modern footballer’s salary early in his careerCredit: Shutterstock Editorial
The ace’s first contracts were worth just pennies compared to his current earningsCredit: Getty
has since guided them to two wins, two draws and one defeat in his first five outings.
And with the ship steadied, the former and man is now charging full steam to get Forest back up the table.
Owner Evangelos Marinakis is certainly expecting to see results improve further, having pumped a significant amount of money into the club.
As well as splashing out on several expensive signings in the past few years, Forest have also seen their wage bill expand significantly.
Big names like Morgan Gibbs-White and Chris Wood are reportedly pocketing wages of around £80,000-a-week.
While Dyche himself is thought to be earning nearly £4million a year on a contract running until 2027.
It marks a huge turnaround in his personal fortune, with the 54-year-old’s first money in football also coming at Forest.
Dyche was just a trainee when he bagged his first ever wage at the City Ground.
However, that was worth just a paltry £28.50 a week.
That rose to £35 a week in Dyche’s second year at Forest.
And when he finally secured his first pro deal in 1990 at Chesterfield, Dyche’s wages went to £160 a week.
He admits that it wasn’t a lot of money to live on.
But the humble salary made him determined to work harder, with Dyche claiming had he been on a modern player’s earnings, he would “have been a right berk” instead.
Dyche told The Times : “I don’t mind telling you my first-ever wage, when I started as a trainee in the late Eighties.
“I was on a Youth Training Scheme and I got £28.50 a week, then £35 a week in the second year.
“And in my first year as a professional I was paid £160 a week in 1990.
“Life’s been a little more generous since then.”
On the risks of players earning huge sums these days, Dyche added: “I work with a lot of young players who are suddenly earning crazy money.
“I try to offer advice but thats not always possible with their families or agents about.
“I try to say, ‘Slow yourself down’. But if I’m honest, If I earned the money some of them were earning when I was 20, I’d have been a right berk.
“I’m not going to stop them from being a little bit outlandish because that’s human nature.
“But you need to take stock when you get to a point where you’re no longer representing your own life. That’s when they need a bit of education.”
