[Ryan57]

Originally Posted by Jesus.H.Christ

I don't think that's correct. Image rights are paid by the club, because it will have to be taken from use of his image. He will have a separate deal with Nike, who are his sponsors.

Any deals incorporating image rights, are taken from the club.

If I find 10 links from websites saying he's on 250k/week will that mean that I'm right? Because I could go and do that.

Your key piece is resting on image rights, and if that is any way related to Nike, then he has 2 deals with Nike? Doesn't make sense.

I could be wrong, I'm not too sure about image rights.

Have just seen this:

Image rights allow a club to pay a portion of a player’s wages in exchange for using their image to promote the club and their sponsors. Payments are made to a separate company, often based offshore, and taxed at a lower rate or not at all.

Seems it is the club then. Hold my hands up, I was wrong. However, if we really trawled the internet for 2010 articles about Rooney signing a new deal we'd see it's £150k a week.

The media said £150k themselves. Those same websites that said it was £150k and rising, by whatever means, also say £250k as that's the media for you. Do you honestly think we're paying a player £250k a week? Why would we refute Hazard's demands?

Believe what you like.