Comments on: Frank Lampard is Now the Premier League’s Top Earner

By: Ak

Ak — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:51:57 +0000

Laurie: me too! I think it is.

By: Ak

Ak — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:44:06 +0000

Yeah, I surprised myself with how cogent it appears!

Oh, and Charles here’s a quick maths trick: to multiply by 50 (which is close enough to 52), just half the number and add two zeros.

So, for 90,000/week: half of 90 is a 45, and two more zeros on the three at the end makes 4,500,000/year. Simple…er.

Actually, after a while, you don’t even need to worry about the zeros because you know what ballpark the answer is going to be in. So, for 110,000/week: half of 11 is 5.5 so it’s 5.5m/year (because 55m/year sounds too high, and 0.55m/year sounds too low).

Next week on “calculators are for chumps”: multiplication by 11…

By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:39:49 +0000

Which begs the obvious question, which I’ve always felt I should know the answer to but was never sure about: That weekly salary is for a full 52 weeks per year, is it not?

(What can I say? i’m an MLS fan, where the players make $12,200 a year. This is not an issue in MLS.)

By: Daryl

Daryl — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:20:38 +0000

Ak, I’ve got nothing to back that up but it makes perfect sense to me.

By: Ak

Ak — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:04:36 +0000

Charles, that’s a good question actually. It’s not really a European thing, but a football thing. I guess (and this is only a guess) is that it’s a throwback to the days when footballers had regular jobs when the season was over, and contracts that talked of wages per week made more sense.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:17:06 +0000

Why are soccer salaries always reported as X number of dollars per week? Is it a European thing? Do Europeans negotiate salaries by how much they make a week instead of per year? Why don’t they just say how much he’s going make per year?

By: Aravind

Aravind — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:54:20 +0000

A lot more badge-kissing will be required to heal the wounds…..

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:38:33 +0000

The trouble is, with Roman’s millions it doesn’t matter if he is any good at 34, because they can afford to just have him on the bench.

But I do like Lampard, I think he’s a valuable football especially to Chelsea – although quite how Scolari is going to fit Deco, Lamps and Ballack in the same side is a mysetery to me.

By: Heebees

Heebees — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:57:26 +0000

I would like to have seen Lampard in an Inter shirt, it would have been a good move for him. But fair enough, for now he has shown he is willing to be loyal to Chelsea (until Mourinho comes back with a bid this time next year).