Articles tagged with "salaries"
Highest Paid Footballers (and Guess Which MLS Star is #1?)
By Laurie | May 2nd, 2008The numbers are out. Guess who the #1 highest-paid footballer is? You'll never guess. I'll give you a hint. Plays in MLS. Has a "pop-star" wife. Made an estimated $49 million last year, of which only $12 million came from actually playing t ...
2008 Portland Timbers Salaries: A Guestimate
By Bob Kellett | April 15th, 2008One of the better things the MLS Players Union has done the past couple of seasons is publicly list the salaries of all the players in MLS. By displaying just how pathetic some of the salaries are in MLS they have earned the sympathy of fans and in ...
Updated Galaxy Salaries. And Who the Heck are Scott Bolkan and Vito Higgins?
By Laurie | April 12th, 2008The updated salary list is out. It includes salaries for Alvaro Pires, Josh Tudela, Josh Wicks and Bryan Jordan. And...um...Scott Bolkan? And Vito Higgins? Scott Bolkan? Apparently he's a midfielder? And Vito Higgins, who's apparently a goalke ...
Wingert to Deseret News: Pay scale 'a little bit unfair' toward U.S. players
By Fitz | April 9th, 2008I want to begin with a quote from Real Salt Lake wing fullback Chris Wingert, who spoke to James Edward of the Deseret News for a story in that paper about MLS salaries, and addressed the issue of pay for American players vs. foreign players: ...
The 20 Highest Paid Players in France - Lyon Once Again Dominate
By Inara | April 8th, 2008This year, 13 of the 20 highest paid footballers in Ligue 1 are from Lyon. Last year, there were only 11. Which is strange because I could swear Aulas wanted to bring down Lyon's payroll. Of course, only a handful of players appear on the list of the ...
Top 50 Football Player Salaries in the World
By Inara | February 27th, 2008Today, a Portuguese financial website published the top 50 highest earning footballers in the world. I don't know whether to be reassured or disappointed that Lyon have only two players on the list. Or the fact that Marseille and PSG each have a player ea
Putting the Pay Scale in Perspective
By Laurie | May 6th, 2007From the LA Times: At his current salary, it would take Galaxy rookie Ty Harden, who has played every minute of every game this season, 367 years to match the amount his soon-to-arrive teammate David Beckham will earn in one year. And also: The
Quick Parsing of Crew Salaries
By Jeff | May 4th, 2007As damn near everyone knows by now, the Major League Soccer players' union released the salaries of every player in MLS - and I feel dirtier by degrees with each passing minute I dig around this stuff. Apparently, I have a tolerance for muck because I
Money Money Money Mo-ney!
By Martha | May 4th, 2007In a switch from its previous policy of secrecy, the players' union just released its salary list, so we can see for ourselves which players are steals and which are making out like bandits (apart from the Beckham guy, that is). As one might expect, th
The 20 Highest Paid Players in France
By Inara | April 20th, 2007Technically, this is Sam's territory, but I couldn't help bringing this up since eleven of the top twenty are at Lyon. Some of them definitely have the "wtf factor" associated with them. Obviously, these numbers are puny when compared with La Liga, Se
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