It is undeniable that banking came out badly from the 2008 crash, which revealed astonishing levels of recklessness and greed. 1905: The first £1,000 transfer fee is paid when Middlesbrough sign Sunderland's Alf Common. 1979: Nottingham Forest pay the first £1million fee, signing Trevor Francis from Birmingham. What I believe is that an average footballer gets paid £50,000 or more whereas doctors get paid £22,076 to £30,002 per week. 1961 saw the wage cap scrapped and the first £100-a-week player. If big business and banking – and football – won’t put their houses in order – then the taxman must surely intervene. It's incredible to think £25,000-a-week could spark such an uproar just 21 years ago. 1961: New PFA new chairman Jimmy Hill finally wins abolition of maximum wage. Paul Marshal, whose son Winston is busy making a fortune of his own playing the banjo in the hit-band Mumford & Sons, trousered over £100m as half of the managing duo running the fund Marshal Wace. EARLIER this week, SunSport brought you the evolution of transfer fees in world football... With staggering results. Back in 1879, Lancashire outfit Darwen were found to be paying two of their players - Scottish duo Fergie Suter and James Love. 40 years later, that was ONE THOUSAND times higher.

"The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. As the trend of big-money moves continued, the league bumped up the weekly wage to £8 in 1922 - but only £6 through the summer when the season had ended. My solution is, the player must have a good education since their young age. In today's money that is the equivalent of about £75,000 - the kind of salary a GP or senior manager would earn but also the amount that many average Premier League players would earn in a week. Sir Martin is not so much the Harry Kane as the Gareth Bale of British business (Bale, you might recall, is paid £600,000 a week, before tax, by Real Madrid and could end up worth as much as £250m by the time his contract expires in 2022).
1996: Newcastle smash the transfer record, signing Alan Shearer for £15million from Blackburn. Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, Paul Pogba could be on his way to Manchester United for a remarkable £100m, Fergie Suter became famous after it was alleged he was paid to play, Former Portsmouth captain Jimmy Guthrie helped revolutionise wages, Johnny Haynes was the first player to ever hit the then huge £100-a-week barrier, Dennis Bergkamp stunned the Premier League with his £25,000-a-week wage, Man United's Roy Keane broke through the £50,000-a-week barrier in 2000, Carlos Tevez became the world's first £1m-a-week player when he joined Man City, Ezequiel Lavezzi swapped PSG for China to earn an outrageous £400,000-a-week, the evolution of transfer fees in world football, to Manchester United for an eye-watering £100million, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). The rules of the market economy are clear. Manchester City's Carlos Tevez is reputed to earn more than £250,000 a week - making him the first £1million a month footballer. Plutocrat celebs, like Bono or Russell Brand, who speak out against inequality and injustice, are placed in a different category, rich almost in spite of themselves, with honorary life-membership of the working class. Jeremy Corbyn would not last five minutes in a City boardroom; this does not stop him regarding bankers as wankers. They are gifted entertainers whose careers are over by the time they are 35.

If we object to footballers earning absurd amounts, why not complain about Paul McCartney, who makes more from his back catalogue each year than most of his fans in a dozen lifetimes? But £200,000 a week? Outside of the Square Mile, Britain’s top execs pulled in an average, in salary and bonuses, of £4.53m in 2016. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Johnny Haynes becomes first £100-a-week player. And it's a similar tale with wages. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. The Everton striker, who this season returned to his boyhood club after 13 years with United, is reported to be worth something like £100m and can expect to earn a further £25m or so before he hangs up his boots. But these are truly standout performers, rather like Cesc Fabregas or Philippe Coutinho, no more representative of the sector than Ronaldo as a footballer if Real Madrid were bizarrely drawn against the journeymen of Accrington Stanley.
Or is it all about money as a means of keeping the score? 1995: The Bosman ruling allows out-of-contract players free transfers and therefore higher wages. It would appear the turn of the millennium was the turning point in wage-bill history. THE MAXIMUM WAGE AND FOOTBALL'S MONEY TRAIL. At the helm of Lloyds, the Portuguese Antonio Horta-Osorio had to scrape by on a measly £5.5m after a downturn in the bank’s fortunes and unwelcome publicity arising from an extra-marital affair. And just a year later, Arsenal signed Dennis Bergkamp - with the world going beserk for his 'staggering' wages of £25,000-a-week. Live sport is back in business and busier than ever, Reaction Digital Media Ltd is a registered private limited company in England & Wales.

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