Getting paid 6 years worth of wages in 1 week....

Xavi6

Just came across this list of how much players earn per week.

It'd take me about 6 years to earn what Kaka does in a week! :eek:

Most shocking name on the list? Darren Bent at number 19. What a joke that he gets that much. An absolute spoofer of the highest order.

green123

are these figures before or after tax ?

Xavi6

Pretty sure they're before tax but the website I took it from didn't specify.

Marq

Xavi6 wrote: »

Most shocking name on the list? Darren Bent at number 19. What a joke that he gets that much. An absolute spoofer of the highest order.

yeah a total joke. earning hundreds of thousands more than berba, keane or king each year and barely getting a game. must be laughing all the way to the bank.

delija_sever029

Well i would be happy to have my yearly salary as their weekly:D

machiavellianme

Why are so many players tied on the same amount? (C. Ronaldo, Henry and Gerrard for instance) Is there a set wage structure that all clubs must adhere to or something?

Keano

IMO the biggest joke on the list is Harry Kewell - I would love to know how many games he has played in the last 4 years??

delija_sever029

machiavellianme wrote: »

Why are so many players tied on the same amount? (C. Ronaldo, Henry and Gerrard for instance) Is there a set wage structure that all clubs must adhere to or something?

Yeah,i wanted to ask same

CHD

maybe there all have same agents/agency that works to certain structures when working pay deals?!?!?

dunno was thinking why aswell...........

Mr. Presentable

Bears no relation to this list, so

http://www.thepicky.com/sports/highest-paid-football-players-in-the-world/

Also, that some players in the UK (Sterling area) show an identical amount to ones in the Euro area is a bit odd.

Mr Alan

I'd imagine its cause whoever compiled the site info, isnt exactly 100% sure so there was a certain amount of guesstimating involved.

Just looking at it there. Its inaccurate too.

iregk

Keano A Legend wrote: »

IMO the biggest joke on the list is Harry Kewell - I would love to know how many games he has played in the last 4 years??

A liverpool fan this morning told me it was 81 games since he signed in 2003 and apparently 30 of those were his first season.

jameshayes

Michael Owen €107,100!!!! Fúckr doesn't deserve €700

Sherifu

jameshayes wrote: »

Michael Owen €107,100!!!! Fúckr doesn't deserve €700

Well, when he's fit he does.

LuckyCharms

Kewell has cost liverpool something in the region of 200k per game that he has played for the club

patmac

Most depressing thread ever, best not dwell on it everyone vastly overpaid but Kewell and Bent wtf, still if they get away with I suppose you can't blame them. It's the players that are getting paid foo feck all that's as annoying. I remember clubs like Leeds paying Seth Johnston 40k a week long after he stopped playing for them.

grames_bond

typical, 4 of the top 7 are chelski players! some of those wages are just astronomically rediculous!

Chardee MacDennis

I dont belive this list is in anyway accurate - it looks like some of those fugures were plucked out of the air.

1: Torress took a pay cut to come to Liverpool and he was on £110,000 at Atletico.
2: Do you really think that Darren Bent could ask for that much with a straight face and anyone would be stupid enough to pay it.
3. If DB was being paid that much do you really think he would be on at least 20,000 more than Keane, Berbatov or Woodgate

EDIT: Dont Real have a pay structure where all their top starts are on the one salary to keep them all happy.

Loomis

Not including bonuses for scoring etc...

"Manchester United's players will reportedly pocket £250,000 each if they win the Premier League and Champions League double."

kaizersoze1980

Biggest farce of all time that Kewell is on that money.
If I was a liverpool supporter Id be majorly pissed off.
That money could pay the wages of a very good player.

I see he rejected his latest contract offer, which would give reduced wages so looks like he's out this season. Good riddance. He hasnt played a good game in the last 6 years

Xavi6

kaizersoze1980 wrote: »

Biggest farce of all time that Kewell is on that money.
If I was a liverpool supporter Id be majorly pissed off.
That money could pay the wages of a very good player.

I see he rejected his latest contract offer, which would give reduced wages so looks like he's out this season. Good riddance. He hasnt played a good game in the last 6 years

Kewell was/is a very good player. He's just had a hell of a lot of injuries. Nothing he can really do about that is there? Do you feel the same about Damien Duff?

Dun laoire

It cost me 5euro a week to play football.

Charlie

jameshayes wrote: »

Michael Owen €107,100!!!! Fúckr doesn't deserve €700

gucci

Was reading an article in FIFA magazine earlier (i was on a plane) the real ronaldo (as in the washed up guy) was earning....sorry collecting 500k per month with AC milan....and he still can only afford ugly man-hookers

leninbenjamin

Ferdinand on 95k according to the list... i'm pretty sure he commands more than that. i thought 120?

estebancambias

What a ****ing joke....nobody deserves this much money for doing something which probably comes naturally to them.

Actors IMO deserve their money, its very tough, footballers do not.

leninbenjamin

estebancambias wrote: »

Actors IMO deserve their money, its very tough,

lol, stage actors maybe... but film actors, getting paid millions to play the same characters over and over again. lol

:rolleyes:

zAbbo

This whole thread is BS

estebancambias

leninbenjamin wrote: »

lol, stage actors maybe... but film actors, getting paid millions to play the same characters over and over again. lol

:rolleyes:

Its much harder to break through in movies...the lifestyle is much tougher than a footballers life.

Have you seen a footballers daily schedule? even Keane pointed out the ease of it. In at 10, home at 2. Easy.

gustavo

Footballers get paid massives wages , Who'd have thought it!

Mad_Max

estebancambias wrote: »

Its much harder to break through in movies...the lifestyle is much tougher than a footballers life.

Thats why colin farrel gave up football and went to films

tdv

How come Messi isnt on the list?

patmac

Almost as annoying is the like of Sonko fined 2 weeks wages 50k for refusing to play for the reserves then appeals on the grounds that his head isn't right to play in the reserves. 25k a week ffs.

kaizersoze1980

estebancambias wrote: »

Its much harder to break through in movies...the lifestyle is much tougher than a footballers life.

Have you seen a footballers daily schedule? even Keane pointed out the ease of it. In at 10, home at 2. Easy.

What about the fact that footballers have at best 10-13 years of a career?
Actors can work for their entire lives

Or the sacrifices they have to make, no drinking, watching what they eat, not allowed take up any risky hobbies etc.

I think its deserved.

King John V

Its crazy money but lets not forget how globalised soccer has become. Like any globalised business a worker's pay is relative to how indespensible they are to the company. If Kaka costs Milan £7.6m per year you can be damn sure Milan are making a few million more off him in replica shirt sales etc.

That doesn't mean I agree with the scale of the pay though .

Jazzy

Keano A Legend wrote: »

IMO the biggest joke on the list is Harry Kewell - I would love to know how many games he has played in the last 4 years??

cost liverpool something like £150,000 per game he played. ty Houllier

LuckyLloyd

The value of money is relative. Paying attention to what people in an entirely different profession to you earn is going to be a waste of your time most of the time.

CantGetNoSleep

I think the most surprising on that list is Sol Campbell on £105,000 at a small club like Portsmouth

JPA

That list has been dismissed as crap.

Kimbot

Sure didn't Carra and Gerrard get the same wage deal last time?? Carra isn't even on the list.

Mr Alan

carra doesnt get quite as much as gerrard afaik, but there is not a lot in the difference and he would definately feature on the list.

the list is bull**** lads, some loser just made it up.

Juan Pablo

That list doesn't look right, I thought Luca Toni was one of the highest paid players on around €200k per week pre tax due to the very high tax rate in Germany?

bucks73

Jazzy wrote: »

cost liverpool something like £150,000 per game he played. ty Houllier

Yeah there was an article in one of the papers last week that said the total amount Liverpool have laid out on Kewell, including transfer fee, wages and bonuses, was €25 million.

This equates to roughly €200 grand per game played.

SantryRed

bucks73 wrote: »

Yeah there was an article in one of the papers last week that said the total amount Liverpool have laid out on Kewell, including transfer fee, wages and bonuses, was €25 million.

This equates to roughly €200 grand per game played.

He's gone at the end of the season though isn't he?

Esse85

Marq wrote: »

yeah a total joke. earning hundreds of thousands more than berba, keane or king each year and barely getting a game. must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Well King hardly gets a game either, bent has deserved his wages ahead of King this season.