That’s the “goal bonus” sticking out… perhaps
Of course, Premier League players take it all for granted. Just look at Joe Cole and Shaun Wright-Phillips – both recently reported to be kicking up a fuss because they only get about £80,000/week for occasionally playing a bit of footie.
But, [...]
Read moreLegal battle dishes dirt on footballer’s ridiculous spending habits…
A court battle between ex-Newcastle striker Obafemi Martins and his former management company has revealed he was regularly skint … despite earning £75,000 a week.
NVA Management, who are suing for £300,000, have accused the “25-year-old” of regularly drawing [...]
Read moreManchester Utd star justifies professional footballers’ inflated remuneration packages
Those who watched last week’s episode of Mock The Week may have noticed David Mitchell’s angry diatribe on the concept of a society that gives footballers hugely disproportionate salaries for doing a job that essentially “doesn’t matter”. It’s [...]
Read moreGreedy Cameroonian demands 15 per cent share of transfer fee
Barcelona may have hoped they had seen the last of Samuel Eto’o when they offloaded him to Inter Milan in exchange for a massively-overrated-yet-currently-free-scoring Swede, but the Cameroonian striker is causing more headaches in Catalonialand.
Read moreIt’s FC Bunyodkor’s Gene Hackman look-alike Luiz Felipe Scolari!
Since arriving in Italy, Jose Mourinho’s €11m salary has cemented his status as the best paid manager in the world. This morning, however, it has been revealed that The Special One’s huge remuneration package has been eclipsed [...]
Read moreThe Spanish capital’s escort agencies won’t know what hit them
C-Ron is now so wealthy that he employs someone to ‘flip him from six to midnight’
According to our Spanish friends at Marca, Real Madrid are all set to make Cristiano Ronaldo the highest [...]
Read moreCould a Big Four side really go down the pan?
As the Tesco Value teabags and “one square of loo roll per visit rule” at Spoiler towers demonstrates, the nation remains in the grip of a financial apocalypse.
Throughout the crunchy credit crisis, the Premier League [...]
Read moreTop teams may agree to curb crazy spending
Yesterday, the European Club Association (the latest incarnation of the G-14 super happy fun club) sat down to discuss capping the amount clubs can spend on wages and transfers.
In order to put a stop to the sort of [...]
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