Top 10 Prem Highest Earners

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Just mindboggling. But good luck to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HC6LoyKUg&lis...

[lenandsons]

Hmmm interesting that they all come from 3 clubs ! And arguably the 3 most successful clubs in the last 10 yrs, just goes to show money can and does buy everything :-(

[Cie]

Oh.

[Snollygoster]

The fact that the RVP, Rooney, Falco, and Di Maria's wages alone is over £1million a week, and Dortmund's whole team, subs and reservers wage bill last year was only £100k a week more is crazy.

They should take a leaf out of Germany's books, pay those players less, and charge the fans substantially less on ticket prices.

Edited by Snollygoster on Wednesday 8th October 23:35

[Black can man]

Snollygoster said:

The fact that the RVP, Rooney, Falco, and Di Maria's wages alone is over £1million a week, and Dortmund's whole team, subs and reservers wage bill last year was only £100k a week more is crazy.

They should take a leaf out of Germany's books, those players, and charge the fans substantially less on ticket prices.

& theres me thinking that they just want to play for Manchester united.

It's just obscene isn't it.

[Snollygoster]

Black can man said:

& theres me thinking that they just want to play for Manchester united.

It's just obscene isn't it.

I can fully understand if that is what the industry is worth. But for us in the UK, we pay the most in ticket prices and in TV subscriptions, despite us having the best league on our doorsteps.

With raising football salaries, it seems the like the game keeps moving further away from the general public. Those four players salaries for the year, would get around 52,000 fans season tickets at the highest price point for a 75,000 stadium. Madness.

They get all their money from our Sky bill, shouldn't charge us an arm and leg to watch "your" team live.

[Cheib]

The most staggering thing about that is how much Rooney earns....yes he's a good player but is he the best in the PL ? He's got the best agent!

[TheBear]

There was an article in a paper recently, can't remember which one, which said that 2/3rds of Premier League footballlers have gone bankrupt within 5 years of retirement.

I thought it was a hugely surprising proportion even taking into account the financial temptations that these guys have.

[Thankyou4calling]

Snollygoster said:

I can fully understand if that is what the industry is worth. But for us in the UK, we pay the most in ticket prices and in TV subscriptions, despite us having the best league on our doorsteps.

With raising football salaries, it seems the like the game keeps moving further away from the general public. Those four players salaries for the year, would get around 52,000 fans season tickets at the highest price point for a 75,000 stadium. Madness.

They get all their money from our Sky bill, shouldn't charge us an arm and leg to watch "your" team live.

The top teams don't get anywhere near all their money from Sky or any TV deal. The top teams get a far higher percentage of their income from match day income than lower teams.

[anonymous-user]

A higher percentage yes, but that's because they can charge higher ticket prices. But they all earn far higher sums from Sky/TC/sponsorship/property....

[Thankyou4calling]

had ham said:

A higher percentage yes, but that's because they can charge higher ticket prices. But they all earn far higher sums from Sky/TC/sponsorship/property....

That's not the case at all.

Take Arsenal as an example.

Their biggest revenue stream is matchday income at 40% of total turnover.

Next is television income followed by commercial income.

[Negative Creep]

Cheib said:

The most staggering thing about that is how much Rooney earns....yes he's a good player but is he the best in the PL ? He's got the best agent!

But as any good United fan will tell you, only City and Chelsea buy success




Whilst I agree the amounts can be insane (although so can those of the top earners from tennis, golf, NFL etc) if we were in that position would any of us honestly turn down £200k a week as it's too much?

[Thankyou4calling]

Negative Creep said:

But as any good United fan will tell you, only City and Chelsea buy success




Whilst I agree the amounts can be insane (although so can those of the top earners from tennis, golf, NFL etc) if we were in that position would any of us honestly turn down £200k a week as it's too much?

200k a YEAR! Would do me very nicely.

[anonymous-user]

Thankyou4calling said:

That's not the case at all.

Take Arsenal as an example.

Their biggest revenue stream is matchday income at 40% of total turnover.

Next is television income followed by commercial income.

We are violently agreeing here - for AFC match day receipts are the single biggest item on the 'incomings', but are dwarfed by income from TV/Sky, sponsorship, property, etc combined.

And Arsenal are somewhat unique, due to thieir ticket pricing regime (I should know, both myself and my boys suffer from that) - try looking at someone like Villa....

[anonymous-user]

And here we go with the details;

Arsenal (the extreme)...

Turnover: 2nd highest in league, £283m (up from £245m in 2012)
Gate and Matchday income: £93m
TV and Broadcasting: £86m
Retail: £18m
Commercial: £44m
Property Development: £38m
Player Trading: £2m

And now Villa...

Turnover: 10th in league, £84m (up from £80m in 2012)
Gate and matchday: £13m
TV and broadcasting: £46m
Commercial: £16m
Uefa pool money: £0.5m

[lamboman100]

Only about 10 - 30% of English professional footballers get sustainably rich from professional football. Just a few thousand players every decade at best. Less than 5% of the total get super-rich. The rest have spikes of wealth, but rarely enough to last a lifetime. It is a risky career, with relatively high dropout rates. And few people on Earth have good enough athletic-engines to run the equivalent of a half-marathon every few days, while juggling a ball in front of thousands / millions of harsh critics with zoom-lens cameras. Good luck to them, they deserve their wages.

[Justin Cyder]

Cheib said:

The most staggering thing about that is how much Rooney earns....yes he's a good player but is he the best in the PL ? He's got the best agent!

He's worth every penny. It's a free market, neither party in the contract is obliged either way until they agree.

[Negative Creep]

Justin Cyder said:

Cheib said:

The most staggering thing about that is how much Rooney earns....yes he's a good player but is he the best in the PL ? He's got the best agent!

He's worth every penny. It's a free market, neither party in the contract is obliged either way until they agree.

Although the only reason he is paid so much, despite being the third best striker at the club, is that he threatens to leave every time he doesn't get a raise

[Black can man]

£200k a week !... I guess this little clip explains why the goons didn't buy their fans ex wk bank hero.

[Justin Cyder]

Negative Creep said:

Although the only reason he is paid so much, despite being the third best striker at the club, is that he threatens to leave every time he doesn't get a raise

They could have let him go, but chose differently.