List of the highest paid footballers.
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List of the highest paid footballers.
Cristiano Ronaldo might be the favourite to be crowned World Player of the Year but, according to new figures published in a blog, he is currently down in eighth place on a list of the highest paid footballers.
The table, posted on Iain Dale's Diary as a photocopied list, is topped by AC Milan's Kaka on £143,438 per week, or just under £7.5m a year, while Ronaldo's weekly wage is said to be just over £20,000 less on £122,400. Last night, Ronaldo scored his 36th goal in Manchester United's 2-0 win against Roma of what has been a remarkable season.
If United reach the Champions league final and he scores in each of the club's remaining matches he stands to equal Denis Law's Manchester United record of 46 goals in a season which was set in 1964.
Ronaldo, though, is still behind the likes Ronaldinho, Frank Lampard, John Terry, Fernando Torres, Michael Ballack and also Andriy Shevchenko in the list.
Indeed, there are seven Premier League and four Chelsea players in a top ten that is completed by Thierry Henry and Steven Gerrard. Shevchenko has not started a match for Chelsea since Boxing Day and has scored eight goals in 30 Premier League starts since his £30m move from AC Milan almost two years.
Surprising names in the league-table of footballers' wages include Portsmouth's Sol Campbell, who is placed 15th and is said to earn more than £105,000 a week, Tottenham's Darren Bent whose salary is put at £94,669 and Liverpool's Harry Kewell in 39th place on an estimated £76,500.
Worringly for David Beckham, who celebrated his 100th England cap last week, according to the list he earns a mere £71,000 per week with new club LA Galaxy, behind Joe Cole who played on the opposite flank in the Stade de France.
Beckham's salary puts him at only 44th in the table, although his projected earnings over five years in Major League Soccer could actually rise to £128 million, or over £25 million pounds a year, but his weekly income has still decreased from the reported £120,000 he was earning at the Bernabeu for Real Madrid.
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Beckham earns more from ads then football.
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beckham is over the hill already.
71k is too much.
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Its not that important cos his big pay comes from his image and marketing rights which he now has 100%. He used to get only 20 or 30% when he was at Real Madrid but now he gets everything.
Thats why many expect Real's profits to drop a bit from this season onwards... He may be getting 71k per week or £25 million pounds a year or US$250 million in 5 years... But he will probably still earn 3x more than what Kaka makes in 5 years...
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Darren Bent is one lucky bastard ... No. 19 -
wahlau Petr Cech so little,...shld kbkp get into the TOp 10 LOL
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No arsenal players in the top 50.
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Originally posted by HyuugaNeji:
No arsenal players in the top 50.
They used to have, Henry... -
Originally posted by HyuugaNeji:
No arsenal players in the top 50.
Wenger don't want to break the club's wage strudture. -
Originally posted by KrU:
Wenger don't want to break the club's wage strudture.
Or it could also be because they have got rid of their high earners... Namely Henry, Sol Campbell and Vieira... Now they only have youngsters that have yet to re-new their contracts... We have already seen Flamini rejecting their $50k per week offer... as he is one of those that is expecting more...How about Adebayor, now gunner's top scorer... He is going to expect more also. Then there is Rvp and Hleb... Helb is rumoured to be wanted by AC Milan or something... and unless they give him an improve contract, he may want to go too...
Then finally there is Fabregas... said to be the "star man" of the team... with Real and Barce interested in him... sooner of later they will have to give him a rise to a top 20 pay packet or he could walk away...
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lol.. high pay but break leg, tear ligament that time money oso not much consolation.. eduardo.. ouch..