Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Harry Kewell is On £76k a Week!

Click on the image to enlarge. This is a list of the Top 40 footballers in the world by the amount they earn a week. Seven of the top 10 play in England. The two most surprising are Sol Campbell who is paid £105,000 a week by Portsmouth and Harry Kewell who is on a whopping £76,500 a week despite rarely playing because he is always injured. Nice work if you can get it!

UPDATE: All this info comes from FutbolFinance.com, who originally published it on 20 March. I got it all in an email this morning so didn't know the original source. Happy to point people to their SITE as it has even more fascinating player salary figures.

42 comments:

Flora said...

It just shows what a genius Arsene Wenger is!

Anonymous said...

Be more interesting if the amount of IT and NI each paid could be shown

Anonymous said...

Beckham??

Anonymous said...

Darren Bent - 94k!?

Anonymous said...

Darren Bent on 94 grand a week!!!

Paul Linford said...

The entire list is an obscene indictment of the kind of society we have become and the things we now value. No doubt John Hutton would disagree.

Anonymous said...

And another reason you wouldn't do Big Brother is no Upton Park, not to mention no blackberry and no blog.
You couldn't prance about in a leotard without your Raison d'etre.

Bob said...

It is utter bollocks.

Darren Bent is on 35/40 not what is listed.

Old BE said...

Iain, this kind of envy politics is the kind of thing you expect to read on leftie blogs!

Anonymous said...

where is becks?

Alex said...

Darren Bent earns more than Giggs, Essien, Totti or Eto'o! Now that's funny.

Anonymous said...

What is the source of this?

Scipio said...

Schadenfreude?

Sorry - who are these people and what do they actually do that is of any great value to anyone other than their agents?

This is a sad indictment of who we value in society, and who we don't. When a stupid footballer can earn three times as much in a week than a nurse earns in a year....god help us all!

When you think that until recently international rugby players were not paid anything except their travel expenses, and they all had full time jobs off the pitch, it just goes to show how far off the scale these pointless people are!

These international rugby heroes were often forced to sell the complimentary bottles of beer they were given to raise a few shillings to buy new boots!

Mark Hanson said...

Its a shocker. He was particularly badly advised when he allowed MTV to feature him and his wife's pad in Footballers Cribs.

Not a great idea to flaunt your wealth to fans who pay your wages for not playing.

Anonymous said...

Wot no West Ham players?!

Anonymous said...

And how often do you hear Labour Ministers castigating Football's Fat Cats?

strapworld said...

I cannot see the Manchester United Players being very happy about this list.

Was it published on 1st April Iain??

Old BE said...

Half the story:

Don't be so sure - when you read about wages in the papers they are quoted as net, so when you read that someone is earning £35k a week the actual cost to the club may well be double that.

Anonymous said...

There are constant rumours that Kewell is after a move to my team, Hull City. On those wages I think we'll manage very well in the Premiership without him.

See you at Upton Park next season, Iain. (I think it's safe to assume the Hammers won't get relegated ...)

Anonymous said...

So what?

Ed Balls

Anonymous said...

It's called market forces.

I think your source was a leaked e-mail - are you sure you aren't liable to prosecution for broadcasting it?

Anonymous said...

Fascinating. The world's going crazy. And talking of stupid payments, good blog by Conservative MP Brian Binley this week: http://cornerstonegroup.wordpress.com/. He's always a good read!

Anonymous said...

No Arsenal Player in the top 50-now that makes me proud :o)

Anonymous said...

These guys are in the entertainment industry these days, their wages actually pale alongside some TV/Movie Stars !

Bî-bi said...

Don't be so proud of Wenger, loads of names are missing!

Just take Liverpool or Chelsea: Where are Riise, Alonso? Where is Drogba?

And where are names like Totti, Figo or Ronaldo, Crespo?

Don't tell me they earn less than £60 000! What a joke!

Anonymous said...

Why did my comment explaining this not get published?
It includes their signing-on fees spread over the duration of their contract which explains the positions of messrs Campbell and Bent.

And Judith, I believe Gerry Sutcliffe did just that.

Anonymous said...

There's no source - where does it come from?!?

It's very difficult to assess how genuine this list is, though it looks accurate at first sight.

Tom said...

That is utter BS and unless you can attribute the source to anyone other than your own good self it will of course be treated with the derision it rightly deserves. The credibility of the document is undermined further by the absurd claim that Bent earns so much - farcical nonsense!

Anonymous said...

i know for sure a certain player who earns £80,000 and the name is not on the list. i guess the source has not been mentioned, so obviously no credibility although the wages seem right.

asquith said...

Absolutely repulsive. We should be celebrating inventors, technicians, educators, writers, and wealth-creating businessmen, not these lowlife. But I suppose if people are idiotic enough to give them money, it can't be stopped.

Anonymous said...

No wonder Arsenal haven't won anything. They're too tight to spend money on players to win trophies and cream the fans for extortionate season ticket prices. Scandalous.

Bob said...

edland, I am totally aware of what bent is on. I know people connected to his family. he turned down 60k a week from the spammers to join spurs.

Anonymous said...

The original list: http://www.futebolfinance.com/salarios-dos-jogadores-de-futebol-0708-v11/

Anonymous said...

Frank 'Tory' Lampard is at #3. I'm looking for regular donations to our cause Frankie.

Anonymous said...

Without a source this just looks like a made up pile of shite

Darren Bent on £94k? I think you let your imagination run a bit wild on that one Iain.

Utter nonsense

Bob said...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/04/02/ufnpaylist102.xml

made the torygraph

Anonymous said...

Getting paid for not doing much? Sounds like a bunch of MPs to me.

Anonymous said...

Imagine what they would earn if they were literate.

asquith said...

Steve, if they did a worthwhile job they'd struggle to make 1% of what they're on now! But then, that's the contempt that the John Huttons and Caroline Flints of this world feel for nurses, teachers, scientists, small businessmen etc.

Anonymous said...

KUMB covered this story back in MID_MARCH!!:

http://www.kumb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=101234

Anonymous said...

Well, I suppose we have to take this with a pinch of salt, but still quite astonishing to see how much rarely uninjured Michael Owen is coining in at Newcastle - hardly a club which is going to trouble the competition for the UEFA cup / Champions League next year.

Anonymous said...

I'm remember that list next time I see one of those overpaid idiots running to the fans while kissing the badge on his shirt...