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

  • 09-05-2008 06:04AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭green123


    are these figures before or after tax ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭delija_sever029


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,878 ✭✭✭✭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?

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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,810 Mod ✭✭✭✭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??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭delija_sever029


    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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,956 ✭✭✭CHD


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

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Bears no relation to this list, so :confused:

    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,235 ✭✭✭iregk


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭jameshayes


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    jameshayes wrote: »
    Michael Owen €107,100!!!! Fúckr doesn't deserve €700
    Well, when he's fit he does.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 526 ✭✭✭LuckyCharms


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,585 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭Loomis




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Dun laoire


    It cost me 5euro a week to play football.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,825 ✭✭✭Charlie


    jameshayes wrote: »
    Michael Owen €107,100!!!! Fúckr doesn't deserve €700

    :confused::confused::confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,985 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    This whole thread is BS


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭Mad_Max


    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 :D


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