>The highest paid player in the world is Ezequiel Lavezzi

>>75860049
Pretty sure Pogba's on more

two years and he can buy pogba as his house slave

>>75860085

source?

>>75860085

He only makes like 170k a week. There was a leak recently, even with all his add-ons he doesnt make 41 mill a year

>>75860085
>whatever you say +1

>>75860430
>He only makes like 170k a week

based pocho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hLMJ1pymh0

lmao

Will chink money destroy European footy?

>>75860557
Sure, by signing scum.

It can only destroy arab and usa leagues and their seniors.

>>75860557
Not really, they'll just use them as a dumping ground to get silly money for overrated shit players.

imagine being carted wheelbarrows of money because you jumped on the football in china train at just the right moment

>>75860049

I don't believe this at all. He would bite their hand off if they offered half of this. The Chinese can't be that retarded. And they are notoriously tight in negotiations

>>75860049
The president is a massive football fan. So the club owners can curry his favour, by spending a shitload on football clubs. Which leads to them getting the big government contracts. Spending under 50m a year is worth it to get a few billion a year or two down the line. There's probably some money laundering involved as well though

>>75860557
it's going to have an impact for sure, the chinese will soon understand they could be getting top players for the money they are spending

diego costa is 28 and one of the top strikers in the premier, if he ends up in china it means they are starting to get the best players in their prime

>>75860557
They'll attract a lot of washed up and bit part south Americans like Oscar, but overall no. Brazilians move to Europe for the money so why wouldn't they go to China if they're offering more. I'd be surprised if any top level Europeans move.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdMQWMrUJEo

what's his fucking problem?

>>75860710
This it depends on the mindset. Some want the quality of life in Europe, and some don;t find the money so significantly more that it matters.

At the end of a day there's a bigger difference between 20k a year and 1m a year, than 1m a year and 10m a year, 20m a year and 40m a year.

Lavezzi is based

He always performs for the national team in important games

>yuros sports over paying players to kick a ball

We're pretty tame in comparison with our athletes

>>75860756
theres no mindset. south americans and such already go to europe only because of the money. its only some europeans that have this weird view about "doing things the right way". and the south americans that have that view are already playing for the top teams anyway so its easy to score extra points by saying some nonsense about how prestigious the champions league is cause they're already filthy rich anyway. what you euros dont understand, especialyl brits, is that english league IS the "Retirement League" you call other countries league. it just happened to be in england and all its tradition that you can get paid more.

>>75860796
honestly curious, what do some of the NBA or NFL stars like Kobe or Brady get per year? I always imagined it would be like 10m burgers?

is Lavezzi richer than Donald Trump?

>>75860820
think QB's make like 30m+/yr, in NBA 25m/yr

>>75860820
Brady's contract is complicated he keeps taking pay cuts to open the salary cap for the Patriots team

Kobe was about 25 million a season

>>75860820
>>75860847
a lot of NFL contracts arent guarantees tho.
MLB is where some of the contracts can get real crazy because no caps.

>>75860809
You have no idea what a retirement league is. It's signing washed up players past their prime on stupid wages.

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>>75860430
>He only makes like 170k a week

just wanted to point out that aaron ramsey and theo walcott are on £110,000 a week

>>75860867
This players get $250 million+ contracts

>>75860049
I'm fairly certain Lavezzi is "only" on £220k a week. The highest paid footballer is Tevez on about £615k a week.

>>75860085
Pogba is on £290k a week.

>>75860911
It's because they are HG players and the pool of HG players to choose from is pretty small, so you have to pay mediocre HG shitters lot's of money if you wanna do well in PL/CL

ibra is on over 300k

>>75860430
>295k was reported at the start of the season
The agent didn't get 40m. He got 20% of the transfer fee which is about 20m. Then I can't see the agent fee being more than 10m. That leak just doesn't make sense. It's almost like some powers made up some shit just to have a discussion about agents and how much they're being paid.

>>75860820

This is all public info

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/contract-value/

How come Americans never complain about their athletes getting paid too much? In fact it is the opposite. They are obsessed with contract details but in favour of the players getting as much as possible.

You always hear people saying how footballers are so overpaid.

>SPORT ARE TROOPS
>GIB SOLJERS FOOTBALLER WAGES

burger here

who makes the most a week in soccer/footy?

>>75861001
Because a lot of American superstars are underpaid compared to their true market value because of salary caps

Lebron makes like $25 million a year? Could probably make double that without max contracts, and triple that with no salary cap.

>>75861043
lavezzi does

this is literally what the thread is about

>>75861043
>making us look even dumber

>>75861001
Americans do talk about it a lot, but as someone pointed out, it's a bit dulled because salary caps keep dough in the owners pockets

>>75860557
Hopefully all the stupid foreners with their skills and tricks can fuck off to slant land and we can get back to ENGLISH lads kicking the ball properly, playing 4-4-2 and not messing around

>>75860049
Most of the richest clubs are money laundering schemes nowadays.

>>75860796
>We're pretty tame in comparison with our athletes

Ok, here's a somewhat extreme example but in 1997... long before superstar wages took over European soccer, Michael Jordan was earning $634,000 a week (in 1997 USD)..... and that was just his team salary.

>>75860879
EPL is a "retirement league". No matter what it is, bad or good, old or young, people will go there because they can get more money playing for Burnley than they can get playing for a actually prestigious, historic club. That may not be retirement league, but that is something equally as bad.

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How has no one posted this yet

>>75861467
Burnley has a lot of history man if you're gonna insult someone then insult mk dons or something like that

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>they bought gervinho

>>75861467
Burnley was founded 1888
America was founded in 1776
So this football club is literally only ~100 years younger than your entire nation
How could you even dare to speak to a proud englishman about history?

>>75861278
This, if you are gonna be a continental failure anyway at least do it paying your countrymen

>>75860710
>>75860756
I wonder if we'll see a major shift as the quality of life in China continues to improve. Once life in Shanghai is on par with life in London, what will make South American players choose England over China? Most of them never bother learning the language anyway so it's all the same.

>>75860796
>We're pretty tame in comparison with our athletes

Not really. In MLB, Clayton Kershaw has a $210 million contract (30 per year over 7 years). If you look at the top 10 sports teams with the highest average salary, they're all American except Man United and Real Madrid.

>>75861513
>>75861509
I think he's saying that Burnley doesn't have much prestige. Players all over the world want to play for clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona, nobody really gives a shit about Burnley outside of Burnley.

>>75861489
LMFAOOO this nigga is so ignorant. Literally money can't buy class.

>>75860557
they recently put the brake on these ridiculous transferts, actually

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/chinese-government-announces-re-think-on-transfer-fees-after-foreign-player-u-turn-a7536256.html

>>75862815
Wait, so the Chinese government was the one signing the players? How on earth is that allowed?

>>75860430
>He only makes like 170k a week.
Shit, I make more than that.

>>75861489
OMG

>>75861512
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>>75862833
I suggest you to read the article

Costa will surpass that

>>75860557
like it priced out canadians in vancouver and toronto

>>75860430
What a pleb. I make that and it all it takes me is 10 years.

>>75860575
They aren't affecting MLS at all by much. Most retiring european footballers would still rather live in LA, NYC or fucking Chicago over living in a smog shithole like Beijing in a sea of noodle niggers.

>>75861489
ABSOLUTE MADMAN

Chinese girls love latin americans
Lavezzi is the pinnacle of beauty over there

>>75861489
Anyone have the one of Lavezzi touching a fat chink kids manboobs and laughing at him?

>>75864174
10 times more salary and 99% of them are eating dog the day after. It might not affect to top elite players, but second rand will go there. They even played in India

>>75860964
Can you explain me this home-grown players shit?

>>75864307
I agree but even when comparing our two leagues, MLS ironically enough has more "prestige" than the chink league
>Schweinsteiger spoke to Beckenbauer about playing in America and Beckenbauer recommended that he go and play there since he had fun times playing for the New York Cosmos.

>>75864350
Come on, if Shanghai or whatever other team came in offering Schweinsteiger the money they offered Tevez he would be in China right now.

>>75864350
In the other hand, chinese club actually have a chance of playing the cwc

>>75860580
he probably makes more money in a year than most of his family/people he grew up with make in a lifetime

>>75861489

what a bro

>>75860049
That's not how it works. Money laundering would be buying players to get rid of the dirty money and then selling them to get fresh money, just like Monaco did for Hamez.

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>>75861489

>>75864621
>CWC
Who fucking cares about a meme cup? Chink clubs aren't even the best in their region despite the hundreds of millions they've been throwing around.

>>75861489
>CHINKS BTFO
I always thought East Asians weren't too sensitive about race and such, but they bitch when I insult them in online games

>>75864862
Well, europeans seems to care since they always send their A teams and ask for their FA's to hold them matches so they don't lose the pace. It seems like it really gives either money, best sponsorship deals, international recognition or continental and FIFA privileges.

> Chink clubs aren't even the best in their region despite the hundreds of millions they've been throwing around
They have already won two ACL in the last four years, and that's before the millionaire contracts boom.

>>75864962
East Asians are perpetually ass-blasted. They're even worse than Europe's butthurt belt desu.

>>75864621

>cwc

lmao

>>75861489
Is he /ourguy/?

>>75864862
I do care. It's funny to see when europe gets our best players and still manage to lose...

>>75860049
You know the Chinese are busy drilling oil and mining diamonds in Africa right?

>>75866554
Well yeah because south americans are insecure about their shit leagues and clubs being small time compared to European clubs so they use the tournament as a way to prove they are equal even though the European clubs who participate really dont care.

Honestly couldn't give a shit. I just want good football and if China keeps getting more good players they'll have just that. And hopefully it becomes a good solid global product and they start producing good home grown players who crave European football experience

>>75860663
Stop reading the tabloids, Costa isn't fucking going to China. He might not be staying at Chelsea, but he won't go to chink-land if his biggest issue at Chelsea is that he doesn't like living in London.

If you were a professional football player would you rather play in Europe making good money, fame, playing against the best players of the World or would you rather go in China to make gorillions?

Tough choice when you think about it

>>75860430
>He only makes like 170k a week.
Shit must be comfy

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>>75861489
>Copying Pato

>>75867028
Europe tbeh because the glamour is worth it, and China only during my waning years assuming theyd still be paying untold chillions for hasbeen stars.

Perhaps, if you're good enough youll earn more than enough assuming you play for a top 30 club in Europe. Playing China when you're young is only for those who can't quite cut it among Europes elite but are still good enough to fool Chinese teams intoll paying them fortunes.

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>>75861489
What is it with South Americans?

>>75861278
When you say English you don't mean Delle Alli do you?

>>75867028
Europe first, then selling out to a meme team later

>>75866665
> because south americans are insecure about their shit leagues and clubs being small time compared to European clubs

there is no insecurity tho, europe has the money coming from four different continents, they just have more money, there is no speculation, it's just like that.

> even though the European clubs who participate really dont care
then why they always send their A teams?

>>75867551
Unlike Europe and USA, we don't have racial tension here, we are just racists.

When will the chinks realise, that its better to just buy the clubs instead, then loan the players back to china?

>>75870914
lmao this is so true

Han Chinese are ugly pigdogs who need to be cleansed from the earth

>>75860809
this tbqh, once chinese football clubs realise that they can genuinely get top talent for the ludicrious wages they offer, football is fucked

africans and south americans dont give a fuck about 'footballing culture' or 'living in the greatest city in the world' which europeans and arsenal fans for the latter believe. they just want to get paid so they can syphon as much as possible back to their 20 kids and baby mama's in the favelas in brazil.

many of these spics have entire communities depending on them. they're not going to choose manchester or madrid for a quarter of the money because of MUH HISTORY

>>75860809
>south americans and such already go to europe only because of the money
This is bullshit, >we pay a lot of mediocre South Americans a ton of cash, the ones there aren't so mediocre prefer to transfer to Europe even for less pay, and in second rate clubs/leagues.
Look at chícharito, he could be making bank in Chivas, America or Tigres, but he rather stay in Lelerkusen.

>>75871327
money alone didn't catch sudaca players to go to europe but neither was the "football/city" culture. Players nowadays wants to be considered elite and have international success, which you can't obtain by playing in best paying leagues like the arabs. Sudacas are just gonna follow the elite, if your european promises don't move, then ours will stay there.

Is he performing at least?

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http://talksport.com/football/transfer-window-spending-summer-2016-every-premier-league-club-ranked-least-most-money

>Ezequiel "literally who even gives a shit mate, I barely even know who you are" Lavatory earns more per season than the entire Tottenham Hotspur spending over the entire 2016 season

This whole "Chinese football" meme has to die, it's becoming harmful to our memes.

>>75871536
Your league sucks tbqh.

>>75873196
he started playing like just two weeks ago, wasn't even in the bench for months since he arrived

>>75871327
>many of these spics have entire communities depending on them

Maximum kek

>>75862667
Are there several days a year in London where you cant go outside due to air quality being that bad?

>>75874115
Yeah.

They all happened in the 50s though.

>>75871327
>south americans dont give a fuck about 'footballing culture' or 'living in the greatest city in the world' which europeans and arsenal fans for the latter believe. they just want to get paid
Europeans believe that south american players want to play in europe because "living in a great city" or "play champions league"? They go for the money, if the wages were the same in south america and europe you would get like the 10% of our players only. Would you think that an argentinian player would leave boca, river, estudiante, rosario, etc to play for atletico madrid, chelsea, bayern, etc.? the same for Uruguayans who play in Peñarol or Nacional or brazilian players in big teams. We have our "footballing culture" we don´t need yours.

>>75874161
This tbqh, South Americans love their local clubs, unless you have situation like Messi where the European club basically raised him, they're in it for the cash.

If, tomorrow, the United States decided that we cared about soccer and started offering South Americans the same contracts we offer our local baseball players ($200 million+), all the South Americans would happily come play for Atletico Club Real United de Los Angeles.

>>75860796
>Kyle Lowry on pace to get a 35-40 mmillion dollars contract over the next 4 years

>W-WE DUNT OVERPAY NUTHING

>>75860796
Howard gets 20 million and doesnt even get double digit rebounds or points, what the fuck are you talking about?

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>>75861489
B A N T E R

>>75861512
kek hiding that atrocious hairline, I got you senpai.

>>75865017
I mean they care in the same way that they care about the local cup competitions, if they're in it they might as well try and win, but it's nowhere near the top priority. It's probably 4th priority after the CL, League and national cup.

Haha China is take over everything soon. In Europe we invest money as I speak. Sports, movies, advertisements, governments, infrastructure, we buy everything. And then we get your women lmao. I see more and more how women love the BCC.

>>75871327
>dont give a fuck about 'footballing culture'
Because ours is better, why would our players care about your inferior one.

>'living in the greatest city in the world'
A rich person lives better in Brazil than in the UK. Have you seen your shit weather?

>because of MUH HISTORY
There are plenty of south american teams that have just as much history.

Until the 90s every south american player would rather stay in south america that play in europe, in the 90's it became a bit more normal and after the 2000s europeans got much more money so everyone started going there.

It wasn't the norm for players to go to europe before

What would you choose? 150 a week in the USA or 400 a week in China?

>>75879436
400(thousand) in China for 2 or 3 years then a comfy retirement in any MLS team not in NYC or LA

>>75867028

Playing in Europe will earn you enough to have a great house/car and shit so there's no point in going to China unless you want enough to buy an entire country

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>>75860049
>Are those chinese clubs literally money laundering schemes for the Triads?
Most of the time yes. But occasionally they buy a player to help with their supersoldier breeding programme.

>>75879436
Depends of the city, but if it's a big modern one then 400 a week in China no doubt.
With that kind of money you can do everything and chinese do have a developped luxury industry ready to take care of you

>>75879436
400k in China, definitely.

>>75877304
well of course, it's the same way here. Saying CWC is more important than the continental cups is like saying that about Confederations Cup, it works the same way but people really don't feel same about it, they are just expanded supercups.

DIfference is that while Germany actually sends their B team to the confed cup, european teams send their main team and people still pretend that "they don't care"

>>75871053
>>75870914
I wouldn't call it racism, but race related jokes or stuff like that doesn't make people go full SJW and nobody gives a shit. Except Mexicans, for some reason they get triggered easily.

>>75861489
i bet chinese people think this is funny

if they could squish their eyes together and make themselves look like normal human beings they'd do it all the time

And Tévez is the 2nd highest paid player

Why do chinks love overrated argies so much?

>>75879436

Depends. If I am am Zlatan then I won't waste my time in fucking china when I already have a gazillion euros in the bank.

But if I am Oba Martins then...

>Obafemi Martins’ move to China hasn’t always been smooth, but it has been undeniably lucrative and it’s about to get even more so.

>The former Seattle Sounders forward has reportedly signed a contract extension that will keep him at Shanghai Shenhua through 2017 and net him about $9 million. If Martins were still playing in MLS he’d need to be paid about $12-15 million in order to net that much, almost double what the highest paid players in the league get. It’s enough to put him safely in the Top 10 among the top paid players in the English Premier League.

>>75867551
Here it isn't "wrong" to point out racial features, we call black people black without feeling guilty

And it should be that way, there is literally nothing wrong with being asian or black, they shouldn't feel insulted by getting called that way, that's just what they are

>wasting your life away playing in some Chinese league with no fresh air for miles
>making 1/5 of the money but can breathe outside, be surrounded by people with Western sensibilities, and can actually speak with you

Second option every time. Anyone can live comfortably on 100k a YEAR, let alone a week. Also, I feel like these soccer players want to go somewhere they won't be recognized, but also somewhere that isn't a cultural waste -- the US fits the bill

>>75886560
Fucking this. Based tico.

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>>75867551
>>75861489

I wonder how Recoba would feel about this

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>>75887207
>Alvaro Xinhua Fujiang Recoba.png

>>75887207
le crap man

>>75884014
Don't lie, the South American teams that win it brag about it for years, I've seen it on Brazillian news articles on globo and stuff, they constantly bang on about winning it. I've literally never seen a European fan brag that they won the Club World Cup.

>>75887567
Well winning against a team that has multiple times their budget sure is meritory, but Libertadores is still more desired than cwc.

How much is that in real money?

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>>75876947
not even his final form

>>75887712
167m R$

>>75887567
It's a deal because it's so fucking hard to win for us

Ronaldo's wage is higher than 50 times a whole Libertadores winner squad, of course you will celebrate if you defeat Real Madrid

>>75874248
This guy gets it. Its all about the money.

>>75874248
Elite players like Messi will never play for non-European clubs, that's where the real competition is

Even if some Chinese/Arab/English club offered him 5 times what he makes at Barcelona he won't leave

>>75864846
Is it really racist?

>>75886826

>look like normal human beings

lol retard

>>75860049
Yes, it is blatant money laundering.

There are a lot of capital controls in China at the moment and, in fact, it's been getting a lot worse lately.

So a few imaginative Chinese conmen realized, after Xi Who Must Be Obeyed declared that he wants China to be better at soccer, that their clubs were useful ways to get money out of China.

After all, the banks may be being told "keep an eye on Dollar outflows and refuse wherever possible", but they can't stand in the way of Xi's plan, right?
>and yes business in China really is that retarded

So a bunch of high profile players were bought from shady characters like Chelsea's Abramovich and South American clubs.

There's no doubt in my mind that the money was paid, but part of the deal is that some of that money is then passed back to the Chinese people paying it, into a nice tax haven and away from the eyes of China's government. Definitely some quid pro quo somewhere. And there are very plausibly understandings like this involving players' wages too. And if the players suddenly decide they don't like it, well, it's China - there's no real rule of law - and the Chinese owners will just stop paying the salary like Shanghai Shenhua did for Drogba and Anelka.

Seems that the authorities in China are wise to it now though and I doubt we'll be seeing more of these ridiculous fees.