{"id":291022,"date":"2023-09-03T21:09:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T21:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=291022"},"modified":"2023-09-03T21:09:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T21:09:24","slug":"ben-foster-opens-up-about-his-weekly-wage-at-west-brom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/ben-foster-opens-up-about-his-weekly-wage-at-west-brom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Foster opens up about his weekly wage at West Brom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ben Foster reveals his weekly wage when he signed for West Brom &#8211; and how much it would have been slashed by if they suffered Premier League relegation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Ben Foster has revealed what his salary was when he played for West Brom<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The former England international says his wage would drop following relegation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Foster recently left League Two Wrexham after making 12 appearances\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ben Foster has opened up about how much money he used to earn while playing for West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The former England international left Wrexham in August and went back into retirement after making 12 appearances for the Welsh club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his Fozcast podcast, Foster revealed what his weekly wage was during the peak of his powers at West Brom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The goalkeeper made 223 appearance for the Baggies between 2012 and 2018, and admitted that he was one of the club&#8217;s best-paid players during that time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Foster said: &#8216;In my first contract in 2012 at West Brom, I think it was \u00a340,000 a week.<\/p>\n<p>My Weekly SALARY at West Brom\u2026 \ud83d\ude31 #westbrom #wba #Premierleague #benfoster <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/02\/12\/74988623-12472963-image-m-11_1693652522345.jpg\" height=\"419\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ben Foster has revealed he earned a weekly wage of \u00a340,000 during his time at West Brom<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was one of the higher earners, I definitely wasn&#8217;t the top earner but one of the higher earners.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old left West Brom to join Watford after the Baggies had been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the 2017-18 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Foster would stay at Vicarage Road for four seasons before announcing his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>He was tempted out of retirement by former club Wrexham, and the one-time Manchester United goalkeeper helped the Hollywood-owned club win promotion back to the Football League last term.<\/p>\n<p>Although Foster suffered relegation during spells at Birmingham City and Watford, he managed to help keep West Brom in the top flight until his final season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/02\/09\/74986727-12472963-image-a-2_1693644862005.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Foster recently left League Two side Wrexham after helping the club to promotion to the EFL<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/02\/09\/74986777-12472963-image-m-6_1693644990350.jpg\" height=\"932\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The goalkeeper is a former England international and spent the majority of his career turning out for Premier League clubs<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that his wage would have dropped significantly had he remained at the club in the Championship if they had been relegated after signing his initial four-year contract in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Foster said: &#8216;I had a clause in my contract. My wages went down to \u00a325,000 if we got relegated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So I would have been in the Championship with West Brom, with three years left on my deal, on \u00a325,000 a week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8216;If we had got promoted again the very next season, they would have gone back up to \u00a340,000 [a week].&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12472963\/Ben-Foster-wage-West-Brom-Premier-League-relegation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Foster reveals his weekly wage when he signed for West Brom &#8211; and how much it would have been <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ben Foster opens up about his weekly wage at West Brom - Sportstons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/ben-foster-opens-up-about-his-weekly-wage-at-west-brom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ben Foster opens up about his weekly wage at West Brom - Sportstons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ben Foster reveals his weekly wage when he signed for West Brom &#8211; 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