Blackburn Rovers Salaries 2025/26

Championship

Top Earner: T. Cantwell (€1.9M)

Lowest Earner: I. Tyjon (€12K)

T. Cantwell

Top Earner

I. Tyjon

Lowest Earner

Player Salaries

Estimated yearly salaries.

Salary Insights

Key takeaways from the wage structure.

Left-Backs Command Higher Salaries

There is a significant wage disparity between the club's full-backs. The two left-backs, Harry Pickering and Yuri Ribeiro, have a combined salary of over €1.7M, while the two right-backs, Lewis Miller and Ryan Alebiosu, combine for just over €1M.

Midfielder Out-earns Top Defender

Despite being the highest-paid player in the entire defense, centre-back Sean McLoughlin (€935K) is narrowly out-earned by the club's second-highest-paid midfielder, Ryoya Morishita (€936K).

Cantwell's Salary Beats Goalkeeping Squad

The club's highest earner, Todd Cantwell, single-handedly earns more with his €1.9M salary than the entire goalkeeping unit's combined wage bill of €1.1M.

The €936K Salary Twins

Attacking midfielder Ryoya Morishita and secondary striker Augustus Kargbo are on identical contracts, with both players earning exactly €936K per year.

The €690K Salary Pair

A wage cluster exists further down the pay scale, with attacking midfielder Axel Henriksson and right-winger Ryan Hedges both earning the same annual salary of €690K.

Blackburn's Clear Wage Tiers

The squad has a distinct wage structure. An elite tier above €1M is occupied by just two players, Todd Cantwell and Oladapo Afolayan. Below them is a large core group of nine players earning between €600K and €940K, followed by a group of six players on salaries between €300K and €600K.

Top Earner's 160x Pay Gap

There is a vast difference between the top and bottom of the wage bill. Top earner Todd Cantwell's €1.9M salary is nearly 160 times greater than that of the lowest earner, 18-year-old forward Igor Tyjon (€12K).

Afolayan Leads The Forward Line

The highest-paid player in the attack is right-winger Oladapo Afolayan, whose €1.1M salary makes him one of only two players at the club to earn over the million-euro mark.

McLoughlin Is The Defensive Top Earner

Centre-back Sean McLoughlin is the highest-paid player across the entire defensive line, earning an annual salary of €935K.

Cantwell Is The Club's Marquee Earner

Attacking midfielder Todd Cantwell is the highest-paid player at Blackburn Rovers, with an annual salary of €1.9M, making him the only player earning over €1.5M.

Transfer rumour salaries: Ben Gibson

Latest reported salary figures for players linked with a move to the club.

It was reported that Ben Gibson's significant wages, estimated at £35,000-per-week, would likely be covered by Blackburn Rovers in a loan deal.

15d ago

Potential wage savings if Todd Cantwell and Harry Pickering depart

Potential departures and their salary impact.

Todd Cantwell, currently earning €1.9M/year, is linked with moves to Rangers, Wrexham, or Derby County. Harry Pickering, with a salary of €925K/year, is rumoured to be moving to Oxford United. Ryan Alebiosu, earning €468K/year, could depart for Genoa. Igor Tyjon, who earns €12K/year, is linked with moves to Polish clubs such as Widzew Lodz, Jagiellonia Białystok, or Legia Warszawa.

15d ago