Modern day footballers are known for receiving the kind of pay checks which most of us can only dream of.
With some star players earning close to a quarter of a million per week, and even the less iconic still earning extravagant amounts, the number of things they can afford, including the number of luxury cars, is huge.
One potential way of measuring just how incredibly large the amount of money modern day professional footballers receive each week is to use the pricing of current cars. While a lot of car buyers have to save up for months to get a motor that suits their needs, quite a few players in the English Premier League could get a dream motor with just a single week of earnings.
For those intrigued by cars and the money surrounding football nowadays, here’s a look at what sort of cars a modern footballer in England could get if they used their weekly earnings.
There are a lot of reports online that have analysed the earnings of current Premier League footballers, and it’s difficult to establish a precise consensus. However, after studying various data-based reports on the matter, and taking into account figures commonly quoted for the top earners, we’ve established a structure of sorts.
Premier League mega star – About £250,000 a week
The biggest, most talked about names representing top Premier League clubs today can more than afford most of the supercars available nowadays with their weekly earnings.
Players including Wayne Rooney, Paul Pogba, Sergio Aguero, Yaya Toure and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are all believed to be earning nearly £250,000 or more a week.
With just one week of their earnings, players like these could easily get themselves a new Range Rover, Porsche 911 Turbo, a Ferrari 488 or Lamborghini Huracan, if they chose to do so. In fact, they could probably pick up one of these and have enough of their weekly wage left to get a cheaper, but still powerful, sports car in addition.
But what if one of the Premier League mega stars wanted to use up virtually all of a weekly earning on a special motor? Well with approximately quarter of a million in the bank, they could consider something like a special edition Range Rover or maybe a new Rolls-Royce with a long wheelbase.
Squad player for club in top half of Premier League – About £80,000 a week
A lot of the players who are part of teams that compete regularly for the Premier League title, or at least European competition qualification, don’t earn anywhere near as much as the real star names like those mentioned above.
But various reports online suggest that these players still take away very juicy earnings which work out to roughly somewhere in the region of eighty grand a week.
If they relied on only what they earn during a week to get a new car, then they’d struggle to get a supercar, other than maybe a standard Nissan GT-R.
But there are still some appealing luxury and performance models within reach, such as a Mercedes E-Class AMG, Jaguar F-TYPE Coupe, Porsche 911 Carrera, BMW M5 or Jaguar XJ. Not a bad selection at all, eh?
Player in mid-table Premier League club – About £30,000 a week
Based on several reports published online, a player in a team that usually finishes around mid-table in the Premier League earns about £30,000 a week on average.
These are much humbler earnings compared to the regular starters representing big European clubs. So what sort of a car could a player like this buy every week?
The pool of options is much smaller compared to the star players, but most family hatchbacks in their highest trim level would be within reach. What if a footballer wanted something fancier with their £30k?
Well, this is the kind of money you need to afford the most powerful of hot hatches around today. The likes of the Ford Focus RS, Honda Civic Type R and Volkswagen Golf R are just a little below or above the £30k mark.
Championship club player – About £10,000 a week
While many Premier League footballers earn enough in one week for it to add up to a six or seven-figure sum in a whole month, things are on a much smaller scale in the league below.
Various reports from the past few years have indicated that the majority of clubs in the second-tier Championship league give their players around £10,000 a week at the absolute most. Of course, players in this league could save up for a glamorous new supercar or luxury saloon with just a few months’ earnings.
But if these players were trying to buy a car a week based on what they earn in that time period, the options are very limited and modest. Just ten grand is not enough nowadays to buy most popular ‘everyman’ cars like the Ford Fiesta or Vauxhall Corsa.
But a footballer in this tier could opt to buy something like a Volkswagen Up!, Fiat Panda or Hyundai i10 every week. They could even almost afford two new Dacia Sanderos, if they were into that sort of thing.
