amazing how often wealth doesn't come into it though. I'm sure Messi or Ronaldo haven't signed on apprentice terms even though both are as rich as croesus. Good for him actually sacrificing money for lifestyle.
Yeah madness.
Though free transfers generally always get ridiculous wages as clubs save on paying a transfer fee.
Don Fabio would’ve overseen Juve give Aaron Ramsey £400k a week when they got him on a free from the goons!
Hopefully he don’t have any similar brainfarts here!
The money in football is simply mental.
I have never understood the "I am worth more" mentality.
Was one of the major reasons I was so anti Danny Rose.
£65,000 per week, plus bonuses, plus image and naming rights, plus TV, radio and newspaper interview money.
Signed that contract 5 years ago. Was on £35,000 per week before that for 2 seasons.
And was apparently on £10,000 per week since 2011.
That means from 2011-14 he got paid £1.5m in total.
From 14-16 he got paid £1.8m
And since 2016 he got paid £18m
That's a total of £21m without bonuses and all the other things yet he complained about his pay ffs.
Same with Kane.
Annoyed cos we over valued him but if he took his current spurs wage of £200,000 per week (£10.4m a year) instead of the £400,000 per he wanted from City they could have used the difference (£60m over 5 years) to pay the fee we wanted.
But he was intent on his bigger wage...even though he has been paid well over £40m so far in his career.
To put these figures into perspective ...
Someone on a brilliant wage of £100,000 per year would earn around £4m in a 40 year career.
Someone earning a very good wage of £50,000 per year would earn £2m over 40 years.
Someone earning the national average wage of £28,000 per year would earn just over £1m over 40 years.
