Ozil 350k per week

[Slaphead in Qatar]

Always known footballers paid way too much but I didn't realise amounts had got this high.

Outrageous salary.

And in Ozils case he hasn't exactly set the world alight at Arsenal.

[KJS]

His contact relates to the cost of having to replace him in the window, his wages = approx. £55 million over 3 years which is cheap when you would most likely have to pay a transfer fee of £60 million to replace him with wages on top of that = another £40 million.

Yes you are right it is crazy but that's football at the moment (I am just waiting for the implosion)

[@jolslover]

Ozil is a top footballer no doubt

[mrmicawbers]

Footballers wages are a bit like House prices in London.Your thinking they can't go up anymore surely and they do the.Not saying this is a good thing by the way

[Ed]

Most people are paid monthly, and think in monthly terms money wise. Wages are generally quoted in annual salaries.
Except footballers whose wages are nearly always quoted per week, the lowest amount for publicity purposes. £350K per week sounds better than £1.5 mil per month or £18 mil per year. Players, clubs, agents, FA do their best to camouflage the the ridiculous amounts being paid to blokes for kicking a football about, from the supporters. Investment Bankers rue their school days when instead of swotting inside at maths now wish they had been in the playground kicking a ball about. 

Physiologically it does work. Next time you hear a footballers weekly wage, work the sums out yourself.

[Slaphead in Qatar]

Most people are paid monthly, and think in monthly terms money wise. Wages are generally quoted in annual salaries.
Except footballers whose wages are nearly always quoted per week, the lowest amount for publicity purposes. £350K per week sounds better than £1.5 mil per month or £18 mil per year. Players, clubs, agents, FA do their best to camouflage the the ridiculous amounts being paid to blokes for kicking a football about, from the supporters. Investment Bankers rue their school days when instead of swotting inside at maths now wish they had been in the playground kicking a ball about. 

Physiologically it does work. Next time you hear a footballers weekly wage, work the sums out yourself.

Meanwhile arsenal fans many of them working men/ women have to pay ever increasing tickets prices.

[grandad]

We can´t complain about these vast salaries as it is the humble fan who is funding it all. Sky subs, BT Sport subs & all the other pay to view sites fund the rights to view games.

[Burt]

Little did Jimmy Hill know when he worked to get the £100 cap overturned that it would all get so stupid.

Ozil's new salary per week is the same as the annual wages of 10 nurses...

[twang]

Ozil is a top footballer no doubt

In a team that's performing he truly is ace. But he isn't the kind of player who takes a club/team out of a rough patch.

[copthornemike]

I suspect that his former team mate Sanchez is earning considerably higher
The real problem is that the explosion in transfer fees and wages has worked it way down to so all players in the Premiership can demand (and probably get) stellar wages
The real culprits I have an issue with are the agents

[Holders]

1/52nd of that should be quite enough for a top footballer.

[grandad]

Who would you pay £350 k a week to apart from a footballer? Cardiac surgeon, brain surgeon, cancer specialist. All of them apart from a footballer.

There must be a wage cap at some point. The bubble will surely burst soon.

[alfie]

Players have no say in transfer fees, although their agent probably does. If clubs refused to pay these prices things eventually will change. It is also an issue with supporters who demand clubs spend big money, its no different at Fulham we buy a player for £1mill and we get comments we should be paying £10mill.

[vagrant]

Players have no say in transfer fees, although their agent probably does. If clubs refused to pay these prices things eventually will change. It is also an issue with supporters who demand clubs spend big money, its no different at Fulham we buy a player for £1mill and we get comments we should be paying £10mill.

Exactly.

Because we have a billionaire owner some of our supporters seem to want us to pay stupid money and outrageous salaries. Do we really want our club to go down that road. Not for me thanks.

[YankeeJim]

Professional athletes are a commodity. At some point they will price themselves out of business or more likely just implode. Just as the NFL is doing over here. Prices have gotten so high and the corresponding arrogance of the players and coaches has just turned people off. There are too many Berbatovs' at the top level. Fantastic skill and a joy to watch but with the heart, soul and loyalty of a rock.