As is tradition, I've wrote up my ante-post betting tip for the upcoming Premier League season:
http://www.gmfootball.com/2011-2012/Shaming-Primate-Ryan.html
The all-in-one consolidatory football thread Page 248
I don't know if anyone can help with this.
I need to know
1. What the average wage of a Premier league footballer is
2. The approx number of hours a week they "work"
I've done a Google and come up with figures for the first one, but they are old articles and reports. Can't find anything after 2009.
Can't get anything for the second one.
I'm thinking 4 hours a day 6 days a week??? Training, Games, Travelling, Media commitments etc?
Quote: bigfella @ June 28 2011, 6:55 PM BSTI don't know if anyone can help with this.
I need to know
1. What the average wage of a Premier league footballer is
2. The approx number of hours a week they "work"I've done a Google and come up with figures for the first one, but they are old articles and reports. Can't find anything after 2009.
Can't get anything for the second one.
I'm thinking 4 hours a day 6 days a week??? Training, Games, Travelling, Media commitments etc?
I might know someone who MIGHT know - stay tuned...
Unfortunately he had no specific figures but I did see this...
£676,000: The average salary of a Premiership footballer in 2006
The average basic salary of a footballer in the English Premiership is £676,000 a year, or £13,000 per week, according to an exclusive survey of professional players by The Independent. That figure typically rises by between 60 and 100 per cent when performance-related bonuses, including for actually playing, are added.
The basic pay represents an average rise in earnings of 65 per cent since 2000, the last occasion that a large-scale study was done. The average then was £409,000 a year, or almost £8,000 a week.
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OK, those figures are five years out of date but you will notice the increases over the previous six years are noted so it is possible to come up with new figures 'if the trend continued'.
Taking clubs like Man City into account I suspect they will probably counterbalance any drop seen by other teams because of the recession.
Using a bit of mental math I'd estimate the following...
BASIC
£19,000 per week
£988,000 per year
WITH BONUSES (75%)
£33,250 per week
£1,729,000 per year
If you are looking for headline figures I'd say that the AVERAGE Premiership salary is around £20k per week and around £1 million per year...WITHOUT BONUSES!
Thanks Tuumble.
I also did a similar calulation and used £30,000 as the figure I used in my draft.
I also assumed 20 hours a week of "work" hence £1500 an hour.
I knew a Palace player in the 90s and on training days he had to go in for 2-3 hours. A typical week was Monday-training; Tuesday-off; Wednesday-match; Thursday-off; Friday-training; Saturday-match; Sunday-off. This routine was always open to change, however, with injuries, Tuesday/Sunday games, disciplinary actions etc.
Quote: bigfella @ June 28 2011, 8:06 PM BSTThanks Tuumble.
I also did a similar calulation and used £30,000 as the figure I used in my draft.
I also assumed 20 hours a week of "work" hence £1500 an hour.
I think £30k is a lttle high as an average if I'm honest. There might a few like Toure at Man City on £200k a week but squads are of about 25 players so to go for £30k might be a bit misleading. There will be plenty of those on subs benches on about £5k or even less.
The work thing depends on your definition of work - it's more about time. You have overnight stays away from the family, European travel in some cases, visiting hospitals and community projects, media commitments etc so it's more than just matches and training.
Quote: Tuumble @ June 28 2011, 10:20 PM BSTThe work thing depends on your definition of work - it's more about time. You have overnight stays away from the family, European travel in some cases, visiting hospitals and community projects, media commitments etc so it's more than just matches and training.
I'm filling up at the thought . . poor dabs.
Quote: Oldrocker @ June 29 2011, 12:46 AM BSTI'm filling up at the thought . . poor dabs.
I'm not saying it's tough 'work' but more that it's a bit tricky define what they do. The actual acts of training and playing probably end up being quite a small proportion of their contracted hours.
This stuff about the Hearts player being all illegally pervy.......
In 1999 Graham Rix was the assistant manager at Chelsea. In that year he was sentenced to 12 months in the big house for underage sex/indecent assault against a 15 year old. Immediately upon his release he was given his job back at Chelsea. In the years after, he managed Portsmouth, Oxford and, weirdly, Hearts.
He was given 'a second chance' by football.....but this 20 year old isn't? And Marlon King went to prison for sexual assualt and he's now at the biggest club he's ever played for!
Taken from the BBC Sport website, is this a candidate for 'worst sentence ever written'..?
Former Portsmouth striker Dunijel Subotic will stay with St Johnstone as they continue their pre-season in Dublin after the trialist against Arbroath on Monday and is joined by Marcus Haber, the forward who was released by West Brom afte his loan with the Saints. (the Herald)
I was sent this today about Liverpool's transfer policy - worryingly accurate I feel...
Brilliant goal Jill Scott!!!!
Nail biting stuff but could teach the men something.
F**k!!!!!!!!!
Extra time it is.
Bad managerial decision. Too early for those substitutions.