Please discuss this list of the world's 50 highest paid footballers

19 Darren Bent Tottenham Hotspur £94,669 £4,922,775
45 David Trezeguet Juventus FC £71,719 £3,729,375

39 Harry Kewell Liverpool FC £76,500 £3,978,000

lol

39 Harry Kewell Liverpool FC £76,500 £3,978,000

... my mind just exploded

xpost!

Is there a list for managers as well?

Lol Campbell more like.

Darren Bent is INSANELY high considering a) there are no other Spurs players in the list b) he is two places above WORLD CUP WINNING CAPTAIN FABIO CANNAVARO and c) David Beckham of all people is only at #44.

Actually I'm concluding that Dom put Darren Bent in there for a joke.

15 Sol Campbell Portsmouth £105,188 £5,469,750

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beckham gets mad image rights, he's paid much more than that by agreement with the club. maybe doesn't go down as salary.

bent is obviously the jkoke of the list, but lampard in third??!!

nigel reo jkoke

LOL @ Michael NoGoals Newcastle Utd £107,100 £5,569,200

arsenal are the richest club in the country yet none of our/their players make the list. players are all about the love. (i hear theooooo's on minimum wage)

can't help but enjoy that just a little. definitely lol at all those other lols.

Lampard in third makes sense, he's one of the most senior players at the most ostentatiously wealthy club in the world.

Speaking of which, I bet someone at Chelsea is forwarding this list to Lionel Messi's agent as we speak.

Lampard is officially #23 in the list, his pie allowance raises him to an artificially high position.

lampard is fat lol

I'd received a stern letter informing me that someone was legally obliged to make that joke on this thread.

drogba gets paid less than shevchenko in chelsea. no wonder he wants to leave

50-100 would probably be more lolsome, what with lucas neill and the like.

darren bent though, jesus.

pauleta on 75k seems pretty risible given that no one outside of france would touch him with a bargepole. is he even that good over there, i thought psg were battling relegation or something

He's one of those Trezeguet-like players, utterly irredemably shit yet scores tons of goals

... tho at least Trezeguet scores against good teams occasionally

How come Ronaldo, Gerrard and Henry are all paid exactly the same amount? Do they share an agent?

I wonder who the highest-paid player at Goodison is? Back in the old days, it was Ronnie Goodlass (£36.40) but he used to lose half of that to Bruce Rioch at dominoes.

must be johnson or yakubu? until arteta gets to the table

oh god it's probably 60k phil neville though

Until 2005-06, it was Big Dunc, I believe. Somewhere around £35-40k. Astonishing for a man barely able to run in his last two seasons for Everton.

But, yeah, Howard and Neville could well have been earning the big bucks at OT and probably didn't take much of a pay cut.

I can't recall if Yak's £90k fine was couched in terms of weekly earnings (i.e. two weeks?).

(Apparently AJ became EFC's top-earner upon signing in 2006 - £38k/wk).

no way is yakubu on 90k, that's almost a full bent!

xpost i think neville is on 60k

lol phil neville is ugly

how much were/are you paying Gravesen - he was reportedly on £40k when he signed for Celtic?

Neville was apparently on a mere £28k at OT and EFC* matched that. Not sure about Tommy G - took a pay-cut to move from Real to Celtic so perhaps he's on a bit less again back at Goodison.

(* - almost used the Royal Blue "we" there but it seems particularly daft when talking about players' wages)

I thought Darren Bent rejected a supposedly higher wage from West Ham to join Spurs? What exactly must West Ham have been offering?

I wonder who the highest paid Arsenal player actually is? Jens Lehmann or Gallas I assume?

Surprised Maldini isn't up there as well.

42 Pedro Pauleta Paris SG £73,440 £3,818,880

Not bad for a side doing about as well as Reading.

oh sorry he's already been mentioned by r|t|c

The thread is worth it (say £28k a week) just for Mike's dominoes line. (Come to think of it, are those games mentioned in My Father and Otehr Working-Class Football Heroes? There is a funny line in that book about the players' wives forming a perfect midfield in the players' lounge, but perhaps that's a different era again.) Not to mention the Royal Blue We (not to be confused with the waff druggy Glaswegian chancers who mercifully split up as soon as gullible Swedes started acclaiming them).

But Bent's appearance *is* a joke. You've all started talking like it isn't. I'm sure I heard not long ago that Keane was the highest paid at Tottenham, on £40k and of course they'll be breakatoving the bankatov for Berbatov if he wants them to. Bent is a bit of a Bent herring amid that scenario, and ought to be napping offside with the fishes.

be fair- we all acknowledge wholeheartedly bent's appearance, (let alone placing in the top 20) as a joke of the highest degree.

yeah but i want to believe that spurs are that stupid.

they were stupid enough to pay the same as Henry for him, so it's not that far-fetched that they might may him almost as much.

yeah i seem to remember the papers saying west ham were offering daz bent a 70-odd wedge before he came out with that noble quote?

http://www.wansteadandwoodfordguardian.co.uk/mostpopular.var.2083935.mostcommented.spurs_flop_bent_cashing_in_at_the_lane.php

http://www.futebolfinance.com/salarios-dos-jogadores-de-futebol-0708/

tbh la bent aside this list is kind of meaningless when it doesnt take into account random elano types in russia who are on like 4 grand a week on paper with quarter of a million pound bonuses in their offshore account if they win the derby or sweep the owner's front yard or whatever

be fair to 'em though, these oligarchs have pretty big front yards

Yakubu's agent claims he's on 45k a week but it's more like 30.

The ignominy of it

Do you mean joke as in "Dom's playing a fun jape" or "Spurs are dumb-asses"?

Original list in portugese: http://www.futebolfinance.com/salarios-dos-jogadores-de-futebol-0708/

http://www.futebolfinance.com/salarios-dos-jogadores-de-futebol-0708/

-- onimo, Thursday, March 6, 2008 12:29 PM

lol @ blueski :)

got it the wrong way round tho. DAMN.

I don't believe that Bent is paid more than Keane or Berbatov, or others for that matter.

lol how come soccer players dont get more i thought this was the most popular sport in the world - arod gets like $25m a year

Who is Arod?

These wages are just basic, Rodriguez is on $21.6 including bonuses, right?

A-Rod = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Rodriguez

I keep thinking people are talking about Andy Roddick though.

Never heard of him. My mum likes baseball though.

spurs are definitely paying bent more than berbatov and keane.

obviously berbatov will require a massive rise this summer though.

Which he will get when he joins Man Utd

And presumably the people running MLB are totally screwing him on image rights and the like...

Don't really think Berbatov has the right image for the MLB anyway, unless baseball fans like dudes that look like SS Officers.

re: berbatov to united

then we can spend his current wages on bench warmer saha. joy.

They play music at baseball, right? If they get some moody synthesiser shit going on they can just turn his entire career into one long tribute to the bits in Scarface where Tony Montana looks at people who are trying to fuck his sister.