Porkie

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1 Ricardo Kaka AC Milan £143,438 £7,458,750
2 Ronaldinho Gaucho FC Barcelona £135,788 £7,060,950
3 Frank Lampard Chelsea FC £130,050 £6,762,600
4 John Terry Chelsea FC £130,050 £6,762,600
5 Fernando Torres Liverpool FC £126,225 £6,563,700
6 Andriy Shevchenko Chelsea FC £124,313 £6,464,250
7 Michael Ballack Chelsea FC £124,313 £6,464,250
8 Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester Utd £122,400 £6,364,800
9 Thierry Henry FC Barcelona £122,400 £6,364,800
10 Steven Gerrard Liverpool FC £122,400 £6,364,800
11 Didier Drogba Chelsea FC £117,619 £6,116,175
12 Wayne Rooney Manchester Utd £116,663 £6,066,450
13 Iker Casillas CF Real Madrid £114,750 £5,967,000
14 Michael Owen Newcastle Utd £107,100 £5,569,200
15 Sol Campbell Portsmouth £105,188 £5,469,750
16 Raul Gonzalez CF Real Madrid £102,319 £5,320,575
17 Ruud Van Nistelrooy CF Real Madrid £102,319 £5,320,575
18 Rio Ferdinand Manchester Utd £96,581 £5,022,225
19 Darren Bent Tottenham Hotspur £94,669 £4,922,775
20 Carlos Tevez Manchester Utd £93,713 £4,873,050
21 Fabio Cannavaro CF Real Madrid £93,713 £4,873,050
22 Luca Toni Bayern Munique £87,975 £4,574,700
23 Robinho CF Real Madrid £87,975 £4,574,700
24 Francesco Totti AS Roma £87,019 £4,524,975
25 Arjen Robben CF Real Madrid £85,106 £4,425,525
26 Ryan Giggs Manchester Utd £83,194 £4,326,075
27 Michael Essien Chelsea FC £80,325 £4,176,900
28 Adriano Lima Internazionale £79,751 £4,147,065
29 Zlatan Ibrahimovic Internazionale £79,751 £4,147,065
30 Patrick Vieira Internazionale £79,751 £4,147,065
31 Gianluigi Buffon Juventus FC £79,751 £4,147,065
32 Samuel Eto´o FC Barcelona £79,751 £4,147,065
33 Charles Puyol FC Barcelona £79,751 £4,147,065
34 Sergio Aguero Atletico Madrid £79,751 £4,147,065
35 Oliver Kahn Bayern Munique £78,795 £4,097,340
36 Edwin Vandersar Manchester Utd £77,456 £4,027,725
37 Fernando Morientes Valência £77,456 £4,027,725
38 Alessandro Del Piero Juventus FC £76,500 £3,978,000
39 Harry Kewell Liverpool FC £76,500 £3,978,000
40 Djibril Cisse O,Marselha £76,500 £3,978,000
41 Joe Cole Chelsea FC £74,588 £3,878,550
42 Pedro Pauleta Paris SG £73,440 £3,818,880
43 Juninho Pernanbucano O,Lyon £72,675 £3,779,100
44 David Beckham LA Galaxy £71,719 £3,729,375???(dunno about that-maybe minus all bonuses etc?)
45 David Trezeguet Juventus FC £71,719 £3,729,375
46 Sidney Govou O,Lyon £71,719 £3,729,375
47 Deco FC Barcelona £71,719 £3,729,375
48 Gianluca Zambrotta FC Barcelona £71,719 £3,729,375
49 Petr Cech Chelsea FC £68,850 £3,580,200
50 Antonio Cassano Sampdoria £66,938 £3,480,750

first figure is a week, second per year obviously. Excludes all sponsership and endorsements obviously....

Some stinkers in there! Darren Bent springs to mind!

Fudgey

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i think ive heard of about 5 people off that list

p17fld

£94k a week

Sol cambell £104k a week? WTF, that must be a misprint!

Maria.

I need to find a footballer....

Ad4m RST

Jesus wept....

DanCossie

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lived a sheltered life then Dan lol some of the best known footballers in the world

DanCossie

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doesnt Lee play football??????

Fudgey

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no, its just that football sucks more cock than rainbird

Benni

You're never happy...

GiRO

6 Andriy Shevchenko Chelsea FC £124,313 £6,464,250

worth every penny

Charlie Chalk

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Same here, Think it could turn me!

Porkie

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exactly! there are only 3 I don't know!

Drogba doesn't earn that according to The Sun today... so dunno how accurate that list is. Or maybe Sun is wrong?

Maria.

Yup... yup he does!

Fiddy

Gerrard is liverpools highest paid player, so im pretty confident the torres one is wrong, unless that includes sponsorship deals etc.

Fudgey

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ok, i have heard of a few more that 5, but if you stood all of them in a line, i would only recognise rooney, giggs, beckham, owen and Thierry Henry!

Fiddy

Sol Campbell £105k a week, where the f*ck are portsmouth finding that much money

RC4

ronaldo aint even on and he,s just signed a massive new contract with utd,as for becks ???????

opps-edit i must read slower

GARETH T

i wouldnt get out of bed for some of those wages LOL LOL

dojj

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i'd be asking for a refund there mate

can't believe he's worth more a week than both keane and berbatov together

Coldo

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

WTF! Pompey paying Campbell £105k a week!

Moonie

Far overpaid for what they do when you consider jobs like doctors and surgeons who are saving peoples lives on a daily basis will only get paid a fraction of that.

dojj

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docrots and nurses only seem to have 3 or 4 fans

these people play in front of packed out stadiums around the world

it would be better if they were paid for teh amount of minutes they were on the pitch though, that would make peole want to play more rather than sit on the sidelines pretending they's stubbed their toe

c.fogarty

WTF ??????

No way Bent is Spurs top earner !!!

Rod-Tarry

Blimey!! I heard Footballers were well paid but obviously not judging by that list, seems very reasonable for kicking a ball about a grass field remember these guys have a god given ability to go down like they have been hit by a sledge hammer when an opponent gets within 10 yards of them. Worth every penny.

pollocks

hows harry kewell worth that money too strange world we live in

Fiddy

He got good wages because we held leeds to ransom with his transfer fee, leeds were in dire straights and liverpool took advantage, think we paid about £3.5 million for him, which at the time, was about a quater of what his value was, unfortunatly, since he came to liverpool, he's proved to be worth about 3.5 pence

bud-weis

i'd say quite a few are wrong tbh.

Sol Campbell would not be getting paid that much at Pompey, no chance!
Torres also took a pay cut to join LFC ( wages in Spain are higher due to tax reasons i believe?)

Shevchenko must be laughing all the way to the bank...literally!!

as you say though, there are some stinkers on that list, but most do actually earn that money back in either Performances or shirt sales etc.

RobL

darren bent on 94k a week and berbatov and keane arent to be seen on the list

steviecossie

overpaid twats

and they arent better people for it the cash makes them big headed dickheads who think they can do whatever they want

skeg

To be a doctor you don't have to play and practice since you're a young child or maybe have some natural ability. Even then some footballers don't make it. Rooney was already scoring goals at 16/17/ against teams whilst those doctors were not even on the chosen course. Ronaldinho would have been sharpening his front teeth on the curbs american history x style whilst waiting for the other kids to get ready for a barefoot game on the street.

You pay for the talent and demand of it. I don't hear people saying film or rock stars are overpaid. If thousand of people pay ££ for tickets and tv subscriptions then the players should get it. How much do average private operations cost/earn in comparison?

c.fogarty

Premiership wages are massively out of sync' with the rest of the country's workforce................................

But...

Surely though, with today's huge ammount of cash coming into all the Prem' clubs, through T.V/Sponsers/Merchandise etc. Due to the high quality/class of player/depth of competition and standard of football.

Who else deserves the rewards/cash, more than the the actual players out on the park???

hunterlaar

footballers wages are just stupid now!! just think what they could be in 5 years time?????
yes they have talent.....but there agents are the ones pocketing alot now, getting gready!

steviecossie

so do footballers go out and save peaople lives each day like doctors may do when there at work DO THEY FUCK

or do they go out every week and work there arses off to bring home a wage, ok they go to training during the week and play a game once a week but for fuck sake theres no way they desrve the wages they recieve. and most of them are thick as shit and couldnt put a nut in a monkeys mouth, they prance about as if there gods gift as if they can do whatever the fuck they want,

hunterlaar

hit the nail on the head there mate!

swerv

i take it you love football then

who cares about anything else and what people deserve, generally in life you dont get what you deserve anyway.

IMO the top players get that much money because they bring a lot of success to their clubs, bring a lot joy to their fans, and a lot of them give back as well.

i do have a problem with the shit ones earning decent money though, i mean how the fuck did darren bent end up with a wage like that

if someone gave you a shit load of money for doing a job you love you wouldnt say no would you, or would you?

not sure about the list though

Big G

List is definatly iffy,
Scholes at the swamp is on the £80k a week band along with Gormless Neville.

c.fogarty

No-Brainer that other professions are far more vital and do jobs deserving of far better earnings in comparison to in the basic terms is merely an entertainer.

But imagine being cosseted & pampered from age 14+ Never doing a day's graft, and (for the top 20%) payed mega dough' when turning pro'

No life exp' loadsa' willing fanny, celeb status, more cash than you can spend, best of everything & loads of spare time. It's a wonder that more scandal/stories are reported

swerv

just noticed no arsenal players on that list

also would like to see a list after c.ronaldo sorts his contract extension with manu , as real are putting the pressure on and his wages will smash the NO 1 spot.

chelsea have 8 in the list

skeg

You totally missed the point. Never said they worked hard i just stated that they get rewarded for their life long dedication to it since children. Teachers, doctors, firemen, armed forces don't have to spend all their lifes on it.

Its the same for a Snooker player, guitarist or racing driver like Lewis Hamilton. If it was simple to be that good then every fucker would be but they aren't and that why they get rewards. How physically hard or 'draining' it may be compared to other every day jobs means fuck all.

Got no idea how old you are, 10 or 60 but i tell you what, you go and be a premiership footballer then and earn that money. Go on i will give you 20 years to do it. Let me know when you do. (never). That is why they get paid that much. It's the whole picture not just what they do on the Saturday.