JUST IN : How much does Coventry City spend on wages per week on average?

Coventry City’s players have received a lot of flack in the recent week.

Following Mark Robins’ dismissal and the comeback draw against Sheffield United, Chris Wilder chastised the Sky Blues’ playing staff for their lack of effort for the previous manager, claiming that if they had worked as hard as they did against the Blades for Robins, he would still be in a job.

“I’ve been debating whether to say this or not, but maybe if they ran around a little bit more like that today, the manager might still be in his job, because they’ve got a really talented group of players,” Wilder told Sky Sports after the thrilling 2-2 draw.

Based on their performance over the last few seasons, this Coventry team is clearly underperforming at the moment. There is still plenty of time for that to alter, and the arrival of a new manager could be the catalyst.

The money the club has generated from selling players like Gus Hamer and Viktor Gyokeres has also allowed them to go out and spend a lot of money, with millions of dollars going toward their salary bill.

But what does their wage bill look like?

City is estimated to pay £212,731 per week in salary. That sum – the amount paid to the entire squad – is not very large when compared to the weekly wage of a decent Premier League footballer, and it is nowhere near some of the Championship’s bigger costs.

According to Capology, Coventry has the fifth lowest weekly wage bill in the English second tier. The only clubs trailing the Sky Blues in this regard are two recently promoted sides (Oxford United and Portsmouth), Plymouth, and Queens Park Rangers. Leeds United, naturally, leads the league in terms of money paid to players every seven days, with an estimated hebdomadal wage of £708,000 – a 333% increase over what Doug King pays.

According to Capology, if you multiply Coventry’s weekly salary over a year, the result is £11.062 million, which is how much they pay their players annually. This is once again dwarfed by those at the top of the league, whose players earn collective salary of £30 million or more, as in the cases of Leeds and Burnley.