From Sheffield United to Derby County: How much less money Rhian Brewster now earns | OneFootball

FLW takes a look at how much money Rhian Brewster is earning at Derby County compared to his time with Sheffield United

Rhian Brewster spent five seasons at Sheffield United between 2020 and 2025, and would join Derby County on a free transfer following the expiry of his contract with the Blades, where his pay packet would take a significant decrease.

Having spent much of his youth career in the academy of Chelsea, Brewster would switch blue for red in 2015, swapping London for Merseyside to join Liverpool.

The Englishman would never make a single league appearance for Liverpool during his five-year stay with the club, after a loan to the EFL Championship with Swansea City in January 2020, where he scored 11 goals in 22 games in his first consistent taste of first-team football, which alerted the attention of Sheffield United.

The Blades forked out a cool £23.5 million for the then-20-year-old, with Chris Wilder hoping that his signing would help them kick on in the top flight following an impressive ninth place finish the season prior.

Brewster signed a five-year deal at Bramall Lane, with Liverpool inserting a buy-back clause in the contract should he hit the heights that had been expected of him, but as it transpired, his time in South Yorkshire would not go the way that he or the club would have hoped, and he would join Derby in the summer of 2025 following his contract expiry, taking a massive pay decrease to move to the Rams.

Rhian Brewster took a massive wage hit when leaving Sheffield United for Derby County

Upon signing for Sheffield United in 2020, according to Capology, Brewster's wages increased to around £27,500-per-week, making him the club's third-highest earner behind only Phil Jagielka and Sander Berge, and equal with David McGoldrick.

After three years, his wage increased to £35,000-per-week, making him the joint-second highest earner at the club, alongside both Hamza Choudhury and Ben Brereton Diaz, with only the on-loan Harry Souttar ahead of him at £40,000-per-week.

As the Blades narrowly lost out in the Championship play-off final to Sunderland in 2025, the Englishman's ambitions of playing Premier League football for the following season took a massive dent, and with his contract expiring, he would join Derby at the end of the season.

The Blades had offered the former England youth international a contract extension with the club, but he would ultimately turn it down to move to Pride Park, where his wages would drop to £20,000-per-week.

Signing a two-year deal with Derby, his wages make him the joint-second highest earner at the club alongside Lewis Travis and Matt Clarke, behind only former teammate Brereton Diaz and captain Carlton Morris.

In his five years with Sheffield United, Brewster never justified the fee paid by the club to sign him from Liverpool, nor the wages that were afforded to him on a weekly basis.

An Under-17 World Cup winner with England, Brewster made 119 appearances for Sheffield United across all competitions, scoring just nine goals and grabbing four assists during his stay, as his time with the Blades was marred by fitness issues and failing to find form.

Despite this, Wilder was keen to keep Brewster at the club beyond his initial five-year deal, likely on reduced terms, and would choose to join Derby instead.

Brewster remains as Sheffield United's record arrival, and will likely stay as such unless the Blades can once again secure a place back in the top flight and be willing to break that record, with the forward never able to justify the money that was spent on him.