Football (Soccer) Thread

[FunkMonk]

Drogba's pay next year in China is £200.000. What. The. Fuck.

 

Is that more than The Russian was paying him?

[Liep]

Drogba's pay next year in China is £200.000. What. The. Fuck.

 

Is that more than The Russian was paying him?

I forgot to add per week.

[FunkMonk]

Yeah, I figured that was understood.

[Liep]

I thought that would've been the highest paid footballer ever... but apparently only highest in China. This is more crazy than I could imagine, Messi gets over half a million pounds a week.

[Sheilbh]

I thought that would've been the highest paid footballer ever... but apparently only highest in China. This is more crazy than I could imagine, Messi gets over half a million pounds a week.

Isn't Eto'o the highest paid footballer for some Russian team in Dagestan?

[Liep]

Isn't Eto'o the highest paid footballer for some Russian team in Dagestan?

He could be, I'm just baffled about the wages as I hadn't any clue they had risen so high.

[katmai]

Isn't Eto'o the highest paid footballer for some Russian team in Dagestan?

He could be, I'm just baffled about the wages as I hadn't any clue they had risen so high.

The top stars are coming to same lvl as American team sports, yet they all still trail Boxers, Golfers and Tennis players

[The Larch]

I thought that would've been the highest paid footballer ever... but apparently only highest in China. This is more crazy than I could imagine, Messi gets over half a million pounds a week.

Isn't Eto'o the highest paid footballer for some Russian team in Dagestan?

Yup, Eto'o is the highest paid player in the world, 20 million € per season.

Btw, I always get confused with footballers' pay being declared as weekly. That makes no sense whatsoever.

[Zanza]

What happens if a year has 53 weeks?

As far as I know you also pay your landlord weekly rates in England, no? Do you get your salary weekly as well?

[The Larch]

What happens if a year has 53 weeks?

As far as I know you also pay your landlord weekly rates in England, no? Do you get your salary weekly as well?

I was told that it's a holdout from the times of industrialization, as factory workers were paid weekly, but I'm not sure how true it is.

[Zanza]

I was told that it's a holdout from the times of industrialization, as factory workers were paid weekly, but I'm not sure how true it is.

That seems to be quite stressful for payroll accounting.

[Warspite]

What happens if a year has 53 weeks?

As far as I know you also pay your landlord weekly rates in England, no? Do you get your salary weekly as well?

Eh, we pay monthly and get paid monthly.

[Josquius]

Yeah, I only encountered weekly payments when I was temping as a labourer. And collecting the dole. Usually monthly.

[Gups]

It anachronistic.

It used to be that if you were in a manual job you got paid weekly and if you were in a clerical or professional job, monthly.

Professional football was a working class job and so was always paid on a weekly basis. That's the story in England anyway, not sure why other countries do the same.

[The Larch]

It anachronistic.

It used to be that if you were in a manual job you got paid weekly and if you were in a clerical or professional job, monthly.

Professional football was a working class job and so was always paid on a weekly basis. That's the story in England anyway, not sure why other countries do the same.

But are footballers really paid weekly or is it just the way it is traditionally reported by the press? AFAIK player's wages are only quoted as weekly in England, I guess it's the same in the rest of the UK.