redlandrebel Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Reading how Barcelona's players are the highest paid sports people on the planet - http://tiny.cc/3lmodw - I wondered if, when people talk about footballers earning £XXK per week, that means they are paid that for the week - in the season - but don't get paid in the close season. Obviously it won't make a huge difference but if they're on £100K a week for 40 odd weeks as opposed to 52 weeks that's a difference of around £1 milllion (for Barcelona players). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fat Controller Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Oddschanger @Oddschanger The average wage of a West Ham player is more than Newcastle, Bayer Leverkusen, Athletic Bilbao and Napoli. Underachieving. #WHUFC #NUFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippycar Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 The answer is in the table, average weekly pay = £101,160, average annual pay £5,260,313 (52 times the weekly amount). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Don't Spain have a 20% top rate of tax for sportspersons? While players get more.. the club probably are playing less out than the likes of Man City etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team In Keynsham Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 New York Yankees in value for money shocker: Football: 38 game domestic season 13 game CL season 6 games domestic cup 3,420 minutes GBP5,260,313 GBP1,538.10/minute NBA 81 game regular season 24 games play-offs (assume 6 game series) 48 minutes a game (no overtime) 5,040 minutes GBP3,804,441 GBP 754.85/minute MLB 162 game regular season 12 game regular season (6 game season, and win division) 3 hour games 31,320 minutes GBP3,748,831 GBP119.70/minute And yes, slow work day today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grifty Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Still think how much players in England pay in income tax. I reckon the Man City team pays about £2million a week to the tax man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redlandrebel Posted May 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 The answer is in the table, average weekly pay = £101,160, average annual pay £5,260,313 (52 times the weekly amount). I confess to not having scrolled down to read the table! Now that I have, I see it mentions IPL teams - I thought the IPL only played a few weeks per year. How come then that their weekly wages are scaled up to a much larger annual sum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobodave Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Still think how much players in England pay in income tax. I reckon the Man City team pays about £2million a week to the tax man! You'd be shocked to see how little tax players in England pay..... quite a few are paid via their own "sports companies or limited companies" rather than directly, totally legit tax avoidance schemes that the government now preach as immoral, but note they haven't closed them!! David Beckham & Thierry Henry were fine examples of such schemes (alledgedly) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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