Messi leads football earner charts on £570,000 a week!
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David Beckham toppled by Lionel Messi as Barcelona star leads football earner charts on £570,000 a week!
Magician: Lionel Messi toys with the Zaragoza defence
Lionel Messi earned a staggering £29.7million in the last year, replacing David Beckham as the world's highest-earning footballer.
A study by France Football magazine found that the England midfielder had finally been toppled after two years on the top spot, though he stays above Cristiano Ronaldo in second place.
The £200,000 a week after-tax deal that Ronaldo signed when he left Manchester United for Real Madrid makes him the biggest earner by football salary, but Messi's burgeoning commercial deals and a £3.6m bonus for winning six trophies with Barcelona put him out in front.
The 22-year-old signed a new contract at the Nou Camp before Christmas guaranteeing him take-home pay of at least £180,000 a week, but extras pushed his earnings to more than £570,000 a week last year.
United star Wayne Rooney (right), arguably the best player in the world today, does not reach the top 10, but his former team-mate Carlos Tevez makes No 7 on the list.
The Manchester City forward apparently earned £13.8m last year - £266,000 a week - while Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard was just behind on £12.8m.
Jose Mourinho is the highest earning coach, with the Inter Milan boss picking up £11.7m, while last year's No 1 Luiz Felipe Scolari fell to third with £8.5m after Chelsea finally stopped topping up his gold-plated contract with Uzbekistan side Bunyodkur.
Roberto Mancini jumped to second on £10.8m after taking the Manchester City job in December.
FOOTBALL'S TOP EARNERS
Club Annual pay in £m
1 Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 29.7
2 David Beckham (LA Galaxy) 27.3
3 Cristiano Ronaldo (R Madrid) 27.0
4 Kaka (R Madrid) 16.9
5 Thierry Henry (Barcelona) 16.2
6 Ronaldinho (AC Milan) 15.5
7 Carlos Tevez (Man City) 13.8
8 ZlatanlIbrahimovic (Barcelona) 13.0
9 Frank Lampard (Chelsea) 12.8
10 Samuel Eto'o (Inter Milan) 12.4 -
they might as well make Messi a shareholder of Barcelona................cheaper !
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its scary to see how much footballers are earning these days..
just look at the average pay of singaporeans, if you're better off, maybe 6k per month..
if they are better off.. 100k(euros) per week, add up to 400k euros per month,
which is around 1million sing dollars already man.. -
when Depression comes..............TV and sponsorship and attendence will crash...........so will their pay...........
can you imagine how people like Maradona feel ? he must be cursing for being born so early.............
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recession happened, footballers treated it like nothing.. they are earning so much. even a 15 year old playing football for a living in a big club, like arsenal, can at least earn 5k a week.
this world is going crazy..