All Whites striker Chris Wood has leapt into the Kiwi sports rich list with his move to English Premier Leage club Burnley on a four year deal.
Burnley, whose manager Sean Dyche is regarded as the hot property himself, has paid a club record fee of $26.4m which could rise to nearly $30m to snare Wood from championships side Leeds.
Dyche played down the record talk, telling The Mirror: "Ten years ago, people used to say, 'He's signed for a record fee - it must be really hard.' Every player has a record fee now. You ring about any player and they go, '£20m.' Everyone is £20m. So everyone's got a price tag on their head."
In New Zealand sports wage-earning terms though, Wood is on extreme money. But he is well short of the pacesetter, NBA star Steven Adams of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Steven Adams (Oklahoma City Thunder - NBA)
US$432,152 a week
US$22,471,911 a year NZ$30.67m
Scott Dixon (Motor racing)
