Degen, Poulsen, Konchesky, Jovanovic, Cole

can you imagine. 80k per week which is about 44 grand after tax and nic being deposited into your account every week.

Mr Chelsea (U3579) i know but whats even worse is the reported wages are generally after tax, lol!

and thats if they are even paying tax, most have flashy accountants who wire money all over rooney pays a penny to the pound in tax or close to that figure, and hes by far not the only one

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347677/Top-footballers-like-Wayne-Rooney-dodge-millions-tax-cashing-loophole.html

After tax?

So that means one weeks wage of 80k costs a club around £154,000 per week in this country.

Ridiculous.

Mr Chelsea (U3579) well all depending on if they are paying the true tax figures which as shown above is normally not the case, imagine if me or you were to do that, we would be in jail.

the wealthy are always protected, just look at the financial melt down those who allowed it to happen and makde massive amounts of money from it kept the lot while we paid for the disaster, a film every one should see in inside job.

The article said. Whatever their salary is. That will get taxed at 50% income tax rate

What these footballers are doing is setting up their own companies and diverting all their other income sponsorships, image rights etc etc into this company and only getting taxed at 28%.

Theres much worse cases out there though. Take a look at that slimeball Phillip Green .Everything in his wifes name? Whos resident of monaco?

Would you go and do the same job for less money?
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Well in a way its not the same job. Sitting on the bench and earning cr@p loads is not the same as playing week in and week out at another club for less wages. But I guess it does depend on what type of person the footballer is? Ambitions, etc.

Mr Chelsea (U3579) true, but they are often takig out loans on these image companies meaning they only pay 2% tax

>>Would you go and do the same job for less money?

many surveys have said anywhere from 66-80% people would be willing to take a pay cut if there new job had a better working environment, job enjoyment and work life balance.

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