Jed Wallace would have slashed his wages for more football at Wolves
Jed Wallace has revealed he'd have halved his own wages if it meant playing regularly for Wolves.
The 23-year-old this week made a permanent switch to Millwall, ending a two-year spell at Molineux in which he only made 23 appearances.
Wallace enjoyed two successive loan spells with the Lions, helping them win promotion to the Championship in the League One play-offs last month.
And the attacking midfielder said that despite substantially increasing his pay packet when joining Wolves from Portsmouth in 2015 he'd have rather earned less and played more, with money the 'least important part of it'.
He told website News at Den: "It was always if Millwall got promoted then 90 per cent I was going to sign here. n my head it was 100 per cent, I just had to tick the boxes for the club and play well.
“I said to my family this week what a relief it was after [the play-off final]. Otherwise I would have had to go back to Wolves and it would have been all over the place with all the other lads, trying to get flogged.
“There are always different ways of looking at things. I moved from Portsmouth to Wolves and my wages went up a lot, but I wasn’t happy because I wasn’t playing.
“Over two years I realised that wages are the least important part of it. If you’re playing football and enjoying it and improving then that’s the most important thing.
“There was a point at Wolves when I would have taken half the money to be playing every week rather than being paid and sitting in the stand. The last two years there were frustrating but thankfully that’s out of the way now and I can hopefully look forward to playing 40 games this season.”
“I played over 100 games with Portsmouth before I went to Wolves, so I understood the pressures of football. Wolves is a big club as well and every time I got the chance to play I knew I had to play out of my skin or I wouldn’t play the next game.
“So the pressure is always there in football. We had that pressure on us at Wembley and we’ll have it at Forest away and Ipswich at home, every game will be a massive game.
“That’s especially true in modern-day football when everything is so reactive. [Jose] Mourinho went 15 games unbeaten but because they drew eight of them he’s under pressure. You can lose two games in a row and suddenly everyone is doubting the squad, which was the case here last season. That’s the nature of football now.
“You can’t really look past the next game and the most important thing for me was to play football, which didn’t happen at Wolves.”
