The 50 fattest football pay packets in the world!
Cristiano Ronaldo = Minted
In certain walks of life, it’s considered to be at the very height of bad taste to reveal your salary. Such information can lead to bitterness, resentment, and can often result in murder.
When someone else reveals it, however, it’s totally fine. So a big doff of the cap to the Portuguese marketing agency, Futebol Finance, who (as reported in today’s Mirror) have drawn up a list of the fifty players on the biggest salaries, not including outside earnings.
You can enjoy them after the jump. Bobby Zamora fans, prepare to be shocked (where is he?)…
Futebol Finance’s 50 highest paid players in world football
1 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid, £11.3million)
2 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Barcelona, £10.4million)
3 Lionel Messi (Barcelona, £9.1million)
4 Samuel Eto’o (Internazionale, £9.1million)
5 Kaka (Real Madrid, £8.7million)
6 Emmanuel Adebayor (Manchester City, £7.4million)
7 Karim Benzema (Real Madrid, £7.4million)
8 Carlos Tevez (Manchester City, £7million)
9 John Terry (Chelsea, £6.5million)
10 Frank Lampard (Chelsea, £6.5million)11 Thierry Henry (Barcelona, £6.5million)
12 Xavi (Barcelona, £6.5million)
13 Ronaldinho (AC Milan, £6.5million)
14 Steven Gerrard (Liverpool, £6.5million)
15 Daniel Alves (Barcelona, £6.1million)
16 Michael Ballack (Chelsea, £5.6million)
17 Raul (Real Madrid, £5.6million)
18 Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United, £5.6million)
19 Kolo Toure (Manchester City, £5.6million)
20 Wayne Rooney (Manchester United, £5.2million)21 Robinho (Manchester City, £5.2million)
22 Iker Casillas (Real Madrid, £5.2million)
23 Victor Valdez (Barcelona, £5.2million)
24 Frederic Kanoute (Sevilla, £5.2million)
25 Deco (Chelsea, £5.2million)
26 Didier Drogba (Chelsea, £4.8million)
27 Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus, £4.8million)
28 Francesco Totti (Roma, £4.8million)
29 Luca Toni (Roma, £4.8million)
30 David Villa (Valencia, £4.8million)31 Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich, £4.8million)
32 Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich, £4.8million)
33 Ashley Cole (Chelsea, £4.8million)
34 Fernando Torres (Liverpool, £4.8million)
35 Gareth Barry (Manchester City, £4.8million)
36 Patrick Vieira (Internazionale, £4.8million)
37 Charles Puyol (Barcelona, £4.3million)
38 Andres Iniesta (Barcelona, £4.3million)
39 Sergio Aguero (Atletico Madrid, £4.3million)
40 Andreas Pirlo (AC Milan, £4.3million)41 Willy Sagnol (Bayern Munich, £4.3million)
42 Frank Ribery (Bayern Munich, £4.3million)
43 David Beckham (AC Milan, £4.3million)
44 Wayne Bridge (Manchester City, £4.3million)
45 Lassana Diarra (Real Madrid, £4.3million)
46 Dimitar Berbatov (Manchester United £4.1million)
47 Andrei Arshavin (Arsenal, £4.1million)
48 Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea, £4.1million)
49 Ryan Giggs (Manchester United £4.1million)
50 Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus, £4.1million)
6 responses so far
kurac // February 17, 2010 at 12:11 pm
didnt sagnol retire lol
Part-time Pundit // February 17, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Where’s Fabregas in all this? He should be in the top half. I wouldn’t be surprised if this list is the final straw in the whole Barcenal saga taking place. At least there he’ll be making big-boy money.
CHARLES // February 17, 2010 at 5:50 pm
I need to hire Adebayor’s agent because he most be very good to get Adebayor that deal. Or Citeh must be insanely stupid to be paying all the average players they have in their squad silly amount of money. Adebayor, Barry, Toure, Bridge e.t.c.
Huy // February 17, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Shouldn’t Beck’s income include MLS duty?
Ollie // February 22, 2010 at 10:33 am
I dont really care about the list as it doesnt concern me…but just wanna make some comments. First of all, this list is just an approximate and unofficial guess…the website (futbol finance) itself said it (I used google translation). Second, there were some strange things in this list. Is it really possible Drogba got paid so much lower than Lampard and Terry? It’s also hard to believe that Schweinsteiger topped Munich salary (with Robben) over players such as Gomez, Klose and in particular Ribbery…also why Sagnol still listed?
At the end of the day, this list doesnt concern ordinary football fans who needed to work hard day-in day-out just to have a decent living like you and me…however, I do find that this is just another publication based on little facts and plenty of guessing(yes, they admitted it was based on a approximates) that was made just to boost the website…
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