Why hasn't a black kid from the US taken over soccer yet?

[5010]

Geez... Bale makes $12m before taxes (in dollars, not pounds). You don't even bother looking up. A scrub like Delly almost is making as much as a soccer star like him.

Messi and Ronaldo are outliers. No other soccer player makes more than $10m after taxes. Rooney is third highest-paid and only makes $13m before taxes (which are 45% in Britain).

Conley signed a 5-year, $153m contract. Kobe made $27m last season. Joe Johnson made $25m! Lebron made around $25m and is about to get over $30m.

And Spanish taxes are no joke either

You clearly don't even follow the sport. Google is burying you. Just stop.

Rooney is the 3rd highest paid soccer player? He isn't even the highest paid player on his own TEAM. Pogba is.

Zlatan, Pogba, Neymar, Suarez, Yaya, Bale, Aguero... they all clear 10m a year, and that's just off the top of my head. There's others. The numbers have already been taxed.

But I know you lack comprehension skills beyond a 3rd grader, so... whatever you say, champ. Go fetch some more lists off Google and confuse yourself even more.

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[superunknown23]

@INTER
None of those players clear $10m after taxes. And the tax rate is 45% in Britain. Only Messi and Ronaldo do.
You keep making dumb statements and offer nothing to back them up
This moron is delusional.

Top 15 Highest Paid Footballers In The World (2016)

 

[5010]

@superunknown23

Paul Pogba to Manchester United: £105m Frenchman ‘agrees personal terms’ on £220,000 five-year contract with United AFTER TAX

There you go, chief.

Pogba’s salary before the tax man, a reported £400,000 a week, just shades team-mateWayne Rooney for him to become the highest earner at Old Trafford. Rooney is believed to be paid around £19.9m a year, with Pogba’s deal equalling close to £21m in his wages per year. New signing, the mercurial Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic, gets a reported £18m for his one-year deal at United.

 

[superunknown23]

@superunknown23

Paul Pogba to Manchester United: £105m Frenchman ‘agrees personal terms’ on £220,000 five-year contract with United AFTER TAX

There you go, chief.

Pogba just signed his contract today. So he joins Messi and Ronaldo, congrats to him then.
That's £11m net, under what Joe Johnson made last year.
Romney is fourth but only makes £13mil before taxes, that's about £7.5m in net salary.

TOP 10 PREMIER LEAGUE EARNERS
1: PAUL POGBA (MAN UNITED)

£290,000 a week until 2021 with a further year's option

2: WAYNE ROONEY (MAN UNITED)

£260,000 a week until 2019

3: ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC (MAN UNITED)

£250,000 a week until 2017

4: SERGIO AGUERO (MAN CITY)

£240,000 a week until 2019, talks over new deal ongoing

5: YAYA TOURE (MAN CITY)

£240,000 a week until 2017

6: EDEN HAZARD (CHELSEA)

£220,000 a week until 2020

7: DAVID SILVA (MAN CITY)

£200,000 a week until 2019

8: MESUT OZIL (ARSENAL)

£190,000 a week until 2018, talks over a new deal ongoing

9: DAVID DE GEA (MAN UNITED)

£185,000 a week until 2019

10: RAHEEM STERLING (MAN CITY)

£180,000 a week until 2020

All estimated figures pre-tax.

Pogba the highest-paid player in the Premier League ahead of Rooney

Tax rate is 45% in Britain...

Still not "on par" with NBA salaries.

 

[Thierry Henry]

Y'all boys still arguing about salary?

Just let it go man

The USA for some reason hates young people going pro

in football you can turn pro at 16

And from what I've read the US just doesn't have the infrastructure. Out of the 24(?) MLS teams only 4 have academies that promote homegrown talent into their first teams.

 

[superunknown23]

in football you can turn pro at 16

And from what I've read the US just doesn't have the infrastructure. Out of the 24(?) MLS teams only 4 have academies that promote homegrown talent into their first teams.

Competition from football, baseball and basketball play a big role (even hockey too).
Plus, there's just no culture of it here.
Just as there's no real culture of baseball in Europe. You wouldn't expect them to pick it up easily either.

 

[J Money]

How are y'all counting these guys salaries though? They make a lot of money outside their wages as well though, like I remember reading an article stating Rooney makes a crazy amount of millions more from Nike and other sponsorships etc

Edit: well he doesn't make a massive amount but quite a few million more outside his normal wage

 

[5010]

Y'all boys still arguing about salary?

Just let it go man


in football you can turn pro at 16

And from what I've read the US just doesn't have the infrastructure. Out of the 24(?) MLS teams only 4 have academies that promote homegrown talent into their first teams.

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How are y'all counting these guys salaries though? They make a lot of money outside their wages as well though, like I remember reading an article stating Rooney makes a crazy amount of millions more from Nike and other sponsorships etc

Edit: well he doesn't make a massive amount but quite a few million more outside his normal wage

It's just base salary. Of course they might have bonuses, investments, endorsements, etc. Nobody goes off it because it's seldom reported.