The World's Highest-Paid Athletes 2016

[PeteC]

http://www.forbes.com/athletes/list/#tab:overall
Rank Name Pay Salary/Winnings Endorsements Sport
#1 Cristiano Ronaldo $88 M $56 M $32 M Soccer
#2 Lionel Messi $81.4 M $53.4 M $28 M Soccer
#3 LeBron James $77.2 M $23.2 M $54 M Basketball
#4 Roger Federer $67.8 M $7.8 M $60 M Tennis
#5 Kevin Durant $56.2 M $20.2 M $36 M Basketball
#6 Novak Djokovic $55.8 M $21.8 M $34 M Tennis
#7 Cam Newton $53.1 M $41.1 M $12 M Football
#8 Phil Mickelson $52.9 M $2.9 M $50 M Golf
#9 Jordan Spieth $52.8 M $20.8 M $32 M Golf
#10 Kobe Bryant $50 M $25 M $25 M Basketball

11 to 100 at link. Pete

[GLCQuantum]

A sickening list highlighting a problem the world has.

[pharvey]

Ridiculous IMHO - 4-5 million a year, are you having a giraffe? Sorry, but nobody is worth that money.... let alone Wendyballers such as Ronaldo.

[JD]

I think you missed the point pharvey, he is on 176 million dollars a year by the above stats. He earns 4-5 million just lacing his boots every day during training.

[pharvey]

I think you missed the point pharvey, he is on 176 million dollars a year by the above stats. He earns 4-5 million just lacing his boots every day during training.

Yep - sorry, meant £4-5 million a month rather than year, but even that was wrong.....

[barrys]

I think you missed the point pharvey, he is on 176 million dollars a year by the above stats. He earns 4-5 million just lacing his boots every day during training.

I think you'll find the 2nd and 3rd figures are a breakdown of the 1st figure into pay/winnings and endorsement, so he's "only" getting 76 mil in total

[JD]

Well spotted, so 88 million dollars is about 60 million pound, which is 5 million pound a month. Sorry pharvey, you was spot on.

[Dannie Boy]

As somebody inferred before, the worlds gone mad - it's difficult enough to contemplate a sportsman being worth £5m a year, but a month?....... It's more than crazy, it's downright immoral.

[GLCQuantum]

NHS doctor's Salary - 27,000 up to 102,000 pounds a year.

Radamel Falcao (at Man U) Salary - 285,000 pounds A WEEK to walk around a field of grass doing, well, not much really.

[pharvey]

Radamel Falcao (at Man U) Salary - 285,000 pounds A WEEK to walk around a field of grass doing, well, not much really.

Yes, I read that the other day, but it was per YEAR, not per week - though still not a bad salary! Also rumour has it she's just walked away with a £5 million settlement for being "insulted" by Mourinho.......

[EDIT] Apparently she had been offered her job back on several occasions, but had made some incredible demands including a salary rise to £400,000 a year.

[Zidane]

ph,
Falcao was a Colombian striker (I use the term "striker" loosely here )who played for a season for both Manchester United (where he earned around 285k a week) and Chelsea.
At both clubs he was absolutely pathetic.I doubt if he scored 5 goals in the two seasons ??

I think,somehow,you are getting confused with the ex Chelsea club doctor,Eva Carneiro ,who recently settled a Court case with the club at around 1 million pounds.

Both their hairstyles were similar,so maybe this is where the confusion has arisen ?

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[aragon]

I think,somehow,you are getting confused with the ex Chelsea club doctor,Eva Carneiro ,who recently settled a Court case with the club at around 1 million pounds.

It was stated openly that Chelsea offered Carneiro £1.2M to walk away before the case went to court, so doubtless the final confidential settlement will have been well in excess of that; some estimates put it at anywhere between £2-5M,

[pharvey]

ph,
Falcao was a Colombian striker (I use the term "striker" loosely here )who played for a season for both Manchester United (where he earned around 285k a week) and Chelsea.

Oops.... sorry - I do indeed get confused when talking "Wendyball" - thanks for the correction. .