SAMMY'S SPENDING SPREE Will C, 08/09/11
It's a well-known fact that footballers earn a lucrative amount of money in the modern game. Even a lower league player can earn a six figure salary for playing their beloved sport. However, not many earn as much as Anzhi Makhachkala's new signing Samuel Eto'o. In fact the Cameroon striker is now the highest paid player in the world after signing a staggering £350,000 a week contract with the Russian Premier League side.
To many, this amount of money is completely unimaginable and even Eto'o himself will struggle to come up with ways in which to spend his fortune. So here on Fresh Air Football, we thought we'd give the confused Cameroonian a bit of help. So here is a collection of things that he could buy with his wages:
To many, this amount of money is completely unimaginable and even Eto'o himself will struggle to come up with ways in which to spend his fortune. So here on Fresh Air Football, we thought we'd give the confused Cameroonian a bit of help. So here is a collection of things that he could buy with his wages:
- Every second, Samuel Eto'o earns a diminutive 57 pence. In the current climate, that's about three Freddo bars, with a few pence change.
- Every minute, our Sammy earns £34 which could buy him a brand new Football Manager game for his PC. What else is there to do in Russia? Especially in winter.
- Every hour, Mr. Eto'o earns an astonishing £2,083, more than most people in a whole month. This sum of cash could buy the Cameroon international a top of the range, state-of-the-art Apple Mac to run his Football Manager game on.
- Every day, Sam earns a whopping £49,992, nearly double the average UK annual income. Enough to buy an Audi R8 - every single day! But with Eto'o in his thirties, he may need to start thinking about his future appearance. A day's work could fund a hair transplant; they look great, just ask Wayne.
- Every week, £350,000 finds its way into Sammy's account. To put his earnings into context, a person earning the minimum wage in the UK would have to work for thirty years to match the former Inter Milan man's weekly wage. This sum would pay for him to go around the world 332 times.
- Every month Sam earns the small matter of £1,400,000, enough to buy a Bugatti Veyron 16.4, currently the most expensive street-legal full production car in the world. But it may not suit the snow covered roads of a Russian winter.
- Every year Eto'o earns a staggering £18,200,000. That's enough to buy an 143ft luxury yacht. If he sticks around for five years, he’ll have enough to buy Christiano Ronaldo, not that he'd want to though.
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