[Denver]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...0-week-7387091

World's top 10 highest paid players after tax.

1) Cristiano Ronaldo - Real Madrid - £288k pw

2) Lionel Messi - Barcelona - £275k PW

3) Wayne Rooney - Man U - £250k pw
Zlaton Ibrahimovic - PSG - 250k pw

5) Robin Van Persie - Fenerbache - £240k pw

6) Asamoah Gyan - Shanghai SIPG - £227k pw

7) Ezequeil Lavezzi - Hebei China Fortune - £222k PW

8) Sergio Aguero - Man City - £220k PW
Yaya Toure - Man City - £220k pw
Neymar - Barcelona - £220k pw

[Alf]

It gives you a great feeling inside that while people are starving to death in the World, these guys are taking home a quarter of a million every single week for playing football, repeat playing football, something most people do for a hobby/past-time.

Why is this happening? it makes no sense.

[Shaun]

You'd only argue 4 of them are in the top 10 players in the world right now.

[Drew.]

These lot earning 100k more than the best playmaker in the world, somethings not right here

[Locke.]

Money well earned for most of them.

[Mystic Mock]

Tbf I wouldn't turn it down if it was offered to me.

I do think that there needs to be a cap on how high the wages can go soon though before the whole Sport goes bankrupt.

[James]

About 6 of them are amongst the top names just now.

[Alf]

It's the mugs that pay £50, £60, £70 to go and watch their local team who are reason.

Then there's the merchandise, a new home and away strip every season, which you just have to purchase, or you might not fit in with the crowd.

They're being exploited by people who don't care for the team, they're just there to profit of peoples loyalty to their club.

Like everything else in life, the game has been hijacked for profit for greedy B'stards.

[Mystic Mock]

That's true Wannashag, it's just that if people thought like that you'd never buy anything because every product (especially in the entertainment industry) is all about ripping people off so they make a bigger profit.

[alex_front2]

Toure and Gyans agents deserve a medal. How can Yaya earn the same as team mate Aguero and world #3 player Neymar? Looks like the birthday cake threat wasn't so daft after all.

Wayne Rooney is just taking the p*,ss but I blame that on Moyes. Fergie would have told him to feck off. He needs flogging to China. Now.

Meanwhile Mahrez gets £35k a month

[alex_front2]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...eep-along.html

• Last season, first-team average salaries were around £1.7million a year

• Average basic pay in the Championship was £324,250 per player per year

• Figure dropped to £69,500 in League One and £40,350 in League Two

• Manchester United's wage bill almost 100 times bigger than Shrewsbury