Where Burnley FC's best paid player from 10 years ago is right now | OneFootball

Burnley were a Premier League side 10 years ago, and you may be surprised to learn what their best paid played from back then is up to now

Rewind the clock 10 years and Burnley were a Premier League club, albeit a struggling one who ultimately succumbed to relegation in 2014/15.

Getting back to the top flight remains the ultimate goal of the current crop of Clarets, who are certainly making a good fist of doing so as they find themselves firmly in the promotion race as the season enters the home straight.

While it's Scott Parker in charge at Turf Moor currently, it was club legend Sean Dyche 10 years ago – the man who brought Burnley in from the cold and took them into the Premier League against all odds.

He did so largely on a shoestring budget, with his side having nowhere near the riches that their competitors had, and it was a minor miracle that he was able to help the Clarets compete at the top level for as long as they did.

The circa £10m war chest Sean Dyche had in his first top-flight season in 2014/15 season was a far cry from the roughly £100m one Vincent Kompany was handed last season, but Dyche was certainly much more prudent with his finances.

Here, we look at who Burnley's biggest earner was estimated to be 10 years ago and what they're up to now.

George Boyd was one of Sean Dyche's summer recruits

Burnley's transfer activity in 2014 was fairly limited, with Dyche largely taking punts on proven players in the top flight, one of whom was George Boyd, who had played in the Premier League with Hull City before the Clarets poached him.

Ironically, Burnley ended up being relegated alongside Hull that season and then promoted alongside them in the following campaign, so Boyd was still fairly accustomed to the Tigers after leaving.

When Boyd swapped Humberside for Lancashire, he came straight in as Burnley's top earner, with Capology estimating he was scooping £20,000 per week in the 2014/15 season.

Capology's estimate means that Boyd was the only person at Turf Moor back then to be earning a wage in the £20,000's, with the next nearest player to him, Kieran Trippier, estimated to be on £18,000 per week.

It would be fair to say that Boyd went some way to justifying his hefty wages in that campaign, as he played 35 out of Burnley's 38 games, with the only three he missed coming before he put pen to paper on his Turf Moor deal.

George Boyd is now a non-league star and financial tycoon

For most ex-Premier League players, careers come to an end and they stay within the game in some capacity, whether that be in coaching, media, agency or scouting, but Boyd has taken a wildly different approach.

The former Clarets man is now an ambassador for Jacobi Asset Management, dealing with creating wealth for people's futures after he feels he was ill-advised earlier in his career, investing in property and stocks rather than cryptocurrency.

Boyd now works as an advisor and is believed to be a huge Bitcoin fan and he claimed he is trying to create "generational wealth" for his family.

Aside from his financial work, Boyd does still play football too, turning out for Wythenshawe Town in the Northern Premier League, despite initially retiring from football in 2021.

It's a peculiar way for Boyd to bring the curtain down on what was a glittering career, but he'll always be remembered fondly by Burnley fans.