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    nine nine nine
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      With the news that Raheem Sterling allegedly wants a £100k per week rise in order to commit to a new contract at City and Chelsea being prepared to increase Eden Hazads’s wages by £100k per week in order to entice him to sign a new contract are players wages now spiralling completely out of control?

      Current highest earners list. (Daily Mail 15/09)

      1 Alexis Sanchez Manchester United £350,000
      2= Harry Kane Tottenham Hotspur £300,000
      2= Mesut Ozil Arsenal £300,000
      4 Paul Pogba Manchester United £290,000
      5 Kevin De Bruyne Manchester City £280,000
      6 Romelu Lukaku Manchester United £250,000
      7 Sergio Aguero Manchester City £220,000
      8= Mohamed Salah Liverpool £200,000
      8= David de Gea Manchester United £200,000
      8= Eden Hazard Chelsea £200,000
      8= Riyad Mahrez Manchester City £200,000
      12 Virgil van Dijk Liverpool £180,000
      12= Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Arsenal £180,000
      14 Raheem Sterling Manchester City £175,000
      15 Alexandre Lacazette Arsenal £170,000
      16 David Silva Manchester City £160,000
      17= Cesc Fabregas Chelsea £150,000
      17= Alvaro Morata Chelsea £150,000
      19= Daniel Sturridge Liverpool £150,000
      20 Ross Barkley Chelsea £150,000

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      #26331
      Doc
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        A fair number of those players are earning far too much. Just think Sicknote Sturridge that amount of money for doing very little and only 10000/week below David Silva unbelievable.

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        #26332
        Big Jim
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          Ozil Barkley and Sturidge are the ones who have a lot of to be thankful to their agents for.

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          #26333
          nine nine nine
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            Totally agree with you Jim. But of course no one forces the club’s to pay those salaries the most inflated often come from end of contract situations which allows players to negotiate much more that they are really worth.

            Sturridge when he negotiated that contract was hot not as then injured and apart from Gerrard Liverpool’s star man.

            I wouldn’t be unhappy to see Hazard sign a new contract on £300k per week even though I think we are all paying the players too much but I guess that’s the selfish football fan in me.?

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            #26334
            Editor
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              I’d say only DDG deserves to be on that list from Utd in relative terms. Some ridiculous wages there. But then again, if the money wasn’t going to these players, it would go to the chairmen and the rest of the men in suits.

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              #26335
              sean the sailor
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                It’s just crazy crazy money when you think of it.

                Like 300k a year is a fantastic wage so a week is like winning the lottery

                It’s just absolute maddness the money in football. It’s realky mind boggling

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                #26336
                Big Jim
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                  Agree Ed it certainly wouldn’t filter down to the fans that’s for sure. Always the last in line for everything. That’s my biggest gripe about football.

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                  #26337
                  Mikus LFC
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                    It’s no longer a club game now, but a players one. Clubs are so paranoid about losing out to players abroad or to their rivals, they’ll pay them whatever it takes. And the players know this so they can name their price and they’ve got the club over a barrel. And the TV revenues are now making all this sustainable. So we’re the mugs that pay for it all because the clubs have got us over a barrel because loyal supporters will have to go along with it if they want to watch it all.

                    It’s a long way from the community football club it all grew out of. Yes, the bar has risen in terms of the quality of play but we’ve traded that off for a vastly higher price whilst also tossing our youngsters (the real heart of a team) aside so promoting a more clinical corporate type club culture as opposed to a community one. The quality may be better but the heart has long gone.

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                    #26338
                    Chucky McChuckface
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                      It was too much the moment a footballers weekly salary topped the yearly salary for the rest of us mugs… and I’m trying to figure out how many decades ago that was…

                      And I’m off down the pub… see you all later… or not!!! 🙂

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                      #26340
                      maverick1973
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                        Ozil and Pogba more than KDB,Lukaku more than Aguero and Salah? Fabregas,Sturridge,and Barkley on £150k?.Are you kidding me?

                        ps:I thought Sanchez was on like £26m a year?lol

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                        #26341
                        maverick1973
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                          Add the likes of Wilshere and Fellaini on over £100k a week,and you get a crazy world.

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                          #26504
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                            The money will never be too much. The players will get paid what they are worth. To norms like you and me, that might seem ridiculous but this is what the market determines they get paid.

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                            #26506
                            maverick1973
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                              To norms like you and me, I m a Klingon!

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                              #26507
                              maverick1973
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                                Ramsey demanding £300k p/w? Fecking madness!!!

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                                #26508
                                Hightown hope
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                                  Chucky – that’s an interesting question as to when a players weekly wage topped the average national annual wage. I remember when John Barnes’ salary was increased to £10k a week i.e. ‘only’ half a million year, and there was an outcry. Now if my memory serves me well, that was only in about 1992, so really the outrageous increases have all actually occurred in only the last twenty years, or maybe even less!

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                                  #26510
                                  Chucky McChuckface
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                                    I reckon half a mill in 1992 could be considered outrageous…

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                                    #26512
                                    Hightown hope
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                                      Do you think? He was, by all accounts, the best paid player in England at the time, and while it is certainly when compared to my salary both then and now, I would argue that it has become far, far more outrageous in the last 10 or 15 years. I’m guessing the avarage salary in the uk in 1992 was more than £10k a year, probably somewhere between £15k and £20k I would guess.. So Barnes’ weekly wage was well short of the average annual wage at the time. In 2016, the average salary in the UK was £27k or thereabouts, and there are plenty of players on 5 or ten times that, or even more, so while £500k a year in 1992 was a very good wage, of course it was, it was also for the one player in the league who was at the top of his profession (arguably!). You don’t have to be at the top of your profession now to earn every week 5 times what the average man earns a year. So in terms of exponential rises, it has gone apeshit in the last 2 decades

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                                      #26520
                                      Brian blue
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                                        Would be nice to see top 10 Agents wages now…..on the other hand, it would make me even more depressed looking at figures like this

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                                        #26612
                                        Chucky McChuckface
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                                          I just discovered with much merriment that our 3rd choice goalie Gazza is earning a paltry 20,000k a week… if that’s not evidence it’s all gone bonkers I don’t know what is!!

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                                          #26614
                                          maverick1973
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                                            Hazard should be paid over £500k p/w I reckon.

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