Chinese soccer teams are richer than I thought!

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$ 500,000 ior 6 month contract? The Chinese (some at least) apparently have some spending money.

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At current exchange rates $500,000 US is about £270,000.

Jancker was therefore earning (OK being paid) a little over £10,000 per week. In European football this would be pretty small potatoes.

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[QUOTE=Chez Guevara]
In European football this would be pretty small potatoes.
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In the Premiership, sure. But Chinese football hardly has comparable income. How many players in, say, League One are on that kind of money?

I suspect that this is a case of a team having one well-paid high-profile western player, and that the rest of the squad are on peanuts.

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[QUOTE=GorillaMan]
In the Premiership, sure. But Chinese football hardly has comparable income. How many players in, say, League One are on that kind of money?

I suspect that this is a case of a team having one well-paid high-profile western player, and that the rest of the squad are on peanuts.
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For a Chinese club, it’s a good chunk of the payroll.

Still, as a former German international playing in increasingly sports-mad China he probably brought in much more revenue than any five Chinese players might.

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[QUOTE=GorillaMan]
In the Premiership, sure. But Chinese football hardly has comparable income. How many players in, say, League One are on that kind of money?
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You are more correct than I at first thought.

I can’t find much data on the subject but one site gives the average salary for a Premiership player for 2005 (I think) as £900,000 per annum, or a touch over £17,000 per week.

I was surprised the figure was so low. Also one has to bear in mind that even this figure is distorted by the Chelsea wage bill. Obviously salaries in League 1 will be substantially lower.

More details on salaries, especially in the lower leagues, would be welcome. I trust this is relevant to the OP.

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[QUOTE=Chez Guevara]
More details on salaries, especially in the lower leagues, would be welcome. I trust this is relevant to the OP.
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Here’s one which is relevant even though not about the players themselves:

http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2005/03/23/28798/Managers+at+the+bottom+of+the+league+when+it+comes+to.html