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http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/football/article.html?in_article_id=73705&in_page_id=43

Imagine taking that home each month.

Fuckin' hell.

He's not worth that much  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Look at th PAYE amount, is that £55,500?

Imagine taking home that much for a whole bloody year!

OH MY GOD! and they wonder why women chase after premiership footballers!!  :shock:

Good to see a £65 deduction for meals though, he'll pay his own way...

Suprised he doesn't have a student loan or tax credits, what with livingon the breadline like that.

fucking ridiculous money paid to players.no wonder ticket prices are so high

Ticket deduction? He still has to pay for his own tickets?  :D

im suprised the cheeky sod doesnt just pay off his student loan in one! I wonder what he studied?

Fashion tips for gingers? (*cue axs  :D )

Next time he complains that the offer of a new contract is too low, it should fall on deaf ears.

for a start don't wear a bloody red shirt. should have gone to Everton.

it's a fake look at his NI contrabitons it's to high there is a cap on NI contrabtions! fake

GFM you're talking shit my friend.

Just been on a NIC calculator website which has confirmed someone on that monthly wage would definitely pay that level of tax.

Gross is about £35k per week. Gerrard is allegedly paid at least 3 times that amount .

Good to see that Liverpool don't appear to offer a company pension scheme ! He also doesn't have too many mates by the look of the ticket deductions. The £250 points bonus seems pretty trivial.

Damn Neville I was hoping you had come up with a pun  :(

Good to see he's keeping most of Liverpool on the dole

You sure that is his, could be the Fat Controller's!

He;s only on 1.44Million a season

Just imagine what the payslip for someone like John Terry would look like  :shock:

That one week is like an entire year's rolling contract. I'd have to indulge in cigars and buy lots of sandals. I get plenty of socks from the Mrs at Christmas.

Why is everyone acting like it's a massive shock he's on this much, loads of premiership footballers are on more than £35k a week.

What do you do with all that money though?

You can only buy so many supercars and mansions.

Money loses all value.

Thought he was bankrupt?

there was a similar story like this about lee hendrie a couple of years ago i think?

GO SHOPPING!!  :shock:

Take my friends shopping, take my mum shopping....... repeat to fade!

I would've thought he would take more than that home also.  Not much really a month compared to others I expect.

Fair play that he pays the tax, a lot of the footballers have their earnings paid offshore to avoid tax.

Get a boat - you'll soon piss through that amount and be looking for more :(

I think he was a few months back to ensure liabilities back in Norway couldn't catch up with him.  Wonder if it's linked.

like fuck it does, its ace.

Agreed, what can you get bored of! And why lose value

So fake it's now on BBC site and reported in the times

"John Arne Riise was left with a face as red as his Liverpool shirt when copies of his payslip ended up on the internet. It was revealed that the defender is paying more than £50,000 a month in tax. (The Times) "

I get a bit pissed off when people go on about footballers wages.

The old argument that nurses, doctors, police, soldiers, etc, etc don't get anything like it is a bit stupid, maybe if 70'000 people paid to see an operation they'd get more.

It's a free market and they get what their business thinks they're worth.

The lucky bastards!

I agree hertab, I'd rather the players made the money rather than some greedy majority shareholder.

The players are the ones that earn the success on the pitch and should be rewarded for it, especially if their club is worth 100s of millions of pounds.

It's all Trevor Francis's fault. First million pound transfer.

Fiar enought I was only relying what I was told!

Key workers should get more. My mrs is a nurse and she gets paid pittance for what she does. She works in SCBU, and has been to uni for 4 years. She saves life's. Surely she worth more than 19k a year??

I agree with Sippo. We get paid fuck all in the Fire Service.

Yeah, I'm working at the hospital at the moment on a 3 month contract verifying data and I'm on the same money - seems daft to me.

I agree. I never said they shouldn't get more than what they currently earn, I just said it was stupid to compare their salary to that of a footballer.

Footballers earn more than anyone don't they? Whilst at Real Beckham was earnign more than the queen!! Yet when they did the nurse thing where footballers coughed up a days wages there were still some that haven't paid!!

Theyre tight bastards sippo.

Perhaps Mr Riise should invest in a shredder?

I thought that firemen got paid quite well??

£19k rising after 5 years. I dont think its enough, but thats my opinion.

Join the police force. £21k basic, rises after 7 months and again after 2 years.

Fuck me Paramedics get paid £16k plus unsociable allowance. Thats fuck all  :shock:

£19k rising to play Theme Park on a nightshift sounds reasonable...  :P

Not forgetting FM08.  8)

my mrs is also a nurse working on EAU.  i'm on 10k a year more than her and i work 9 - 5 at a desk.

totally underpaid and undervalued

pay more taxes, wages for public services go up, easy

I'm not denying that key workers deserve more, but they all knew the score when they were training so they dont really have anyone to blame but themselves.

The trouble with paying one group of key workers more is that all public sector workers start going for similar increases, and before you know it taxes are going up again

Does it though?  :roll:

no.

i was making a sweeping generalisation

It's about time he had a pay Riise ?

(that's just for you Lady)

I'm not paid enough.

Don't care what any of you think  :)

It's Jimmy (the chin) Hill's fault. He was the one who campaigned for the end of player's wage capping.

When you're out on a shout that's fair enough. But let's be honest, other than that if you're not washing the Fire Engines or training during the day, you're being paid for playing snooker or cards.

And what other emergency service gets to 'work' nights and sleep all their shift if they're not called out ? I have total respect for what you do and I'm not having a go here, just giving it some perspective.