{"id":448833,"date":"2025-09-24T21:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/448833\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:20:16","slug":"leeds-united-avoid-financial-blunder-amid-dominic-calvert-lewin-wage-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/448833\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United avoid financial blunder amid Dominic Calvert-Lewin wage claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Junior Firpo was someone who Leeds United wanted to keep going into this season. But Gabriel Gudmundsson is so far proving to be an upgrade.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Junior Firpo<\/a> was one of the stars of last season for Leeds United<\/a>. The Dominican international played a starring role in the second half of last season eventually featuring 32 times in the Championship, scoring four and assisting 10.<\/p>\n

Inevitably, his future was a huge talking point. His contract expired last summer and whilst Leeds United offered Firpo a new contract<\/a>, reported for big money, he clearly fancied a move elsewhere.<\/p>\n

In the end, Firpo signed for Real Betis on a free transfer<\/a> and he\u2019s since featured four times in La Liga, with one assist to his name. Whilst a loss for Leeds United, summer signing Gabriel Gudmundsson is doing a fine job in Firpo\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n

\"LeedsPhoto by Robbie Jay Barratt \u2013 AMA\/Getty ImagesJunior Firpo was actually earning more at Leeds United than Dominic Calvert-Lewin<\/p>\n

During the summer transfer window, Leeds United spent \u00a3100million on new players<\/a>. Dominic Calvert-Lewin<\/a> though signed on a free, but the 49ers<\/a> are investing heavily in the 28-year-old who was a big-earner at Everton beforehand, and is no doubt a big-earner at Elland Road<\/a> now as well.<\/p>\n

Some reports have suggested that Calvert-Lewin is earning \u00a3100,000-a-week at Leeds United<\/a>. Speaking to Leeds United News, chief transfer correspondent Graeme Bailey has suggested that the \u00a3100,000-a-week suggestion isn\u2019t too inaccurate, adding that Calvert-Lewin is actually earning more than Firpo was at Leeds.<\/p>\n

Bailey revealed: \u201cI don\u2019t know what he\u2019s on. I don\u2019t imagine that\u2019s [\u00a3100k-a-week] too far wide the mark. England international who signed on a free transfer. Any player Leeds sign will have a relegation clauses. He\u2019s on less than Junior Firpo was. Bear that in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Firpo not signing a new contract now seems like Leeds have dodged a huge bullet, especially considering how much better Gudmundsson looks in the Premier League compared to how Firpo looked.<\/p>\n

\"JuniorPhoto by Rene Nijhuis\/MB Media\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

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What was Junior Firpo earning at Leeds United?<\/p>\n

Leeds have certainly taken a gamble on Calvert-Lewin. His injury record is patchy to say the least, so too his goals record in the last few seasons. But Daniel Farke<\/a> has handed him a three-year contract and Calvert-Lewin scored his first goal for Leeds United in the win against Wolves last time out, so there\u2019s hope that he prevails.<\/p>\n

But it may be safe to assume that he\u2019s not earning as much as he was at Everton beforehand, and per a previous report from The Athletic<\/a>, every player\u2019s wage will drop by around half if the club are relegated this season anyway.<\/p>\n

Per Capology<\/a> though, Firpo was earning an incredible \u00a360,000-a-week at Leeds United last season, which for a Championship club is crazy, and for a player who wasn\u2019t exactly a ringer in the side is also crazy.<\/p>\n

So Calvert-Lewin is surely earning somewhere between that \u00a360,000-a-week mark and the \u00a3100,000-a-week. But if he can score the goals that keep Leeds up this season then it doesn\u2019t matter how much he\u2019s earning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Junior Firpo was someone who Leeds United wanted to keep going into this season. But Gabriel Gudmundsson is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,33761,393,4884,12414,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-448833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dominic-calvert-lewin","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-junior-firpo","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115261369571234506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}