EPL: Man City tops World highest paid sports club

A new study has claimed that the
Premier League giants are the globe's
biggest paymasters, outstripping Real
Madrid and Barcelona
Manchester City players are the best-paid
sportsmen in the world, according to a new
survey.
The English League Cup winners came in top
of Sporting Intelligence's 2014 Global Sports
Salaries Survey, with their first-team squad
members reported to earn an average annual
wage of €5,864,675 over the course of
2013-14. Real Madrid are football's second
highest paymasters, paying their players
almost €5.5m per year on average, while
Barcelona come third with a mean first-team
salary of just under €5.4m.
The Manchester outfit are the only sports
club in the world paying more than renowned
baseball giants New York Yankees and the
Los Angeles Dodgers, with Madrid and Barca
the fourth and fifth across all sports.
THE PAY LEAGUE | Sport's biggest wage
bills
RANK CLUB SPORT AVERAGE WAGE
1 Manchester City Football €5,864,675
2 New York Yankees Baseball €5,810,543
3 Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball €5,627,073
4 Real Madrid Football €5,488,391
5 Barcelona Football €5,387,198
6 Brooklyn Nets Basketball €4,930,297
7 Bayern Munich Football €4,840,030
8 Manchester United Football €4,751,643
9 Chicago Bulls Basketball €4,381,386
10 Chelsea Football €4,380,101
11 Arsenal Football €4,288,906
12 New York Knicks Basketball €4,245,234
Source: Sporting Intelligence
Bayern Munich are the only other non-
Premier League club to be included in the top
12 of the survey, with their players collecting
the seventh-highest salaries in sport.
Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal also
made the dozen clubs on the list.
While Real Madrid and Barcelona have some
of the world's most well-known players on
their books in the shape of Cristiano Ronaldo
and Lionel Messi respectively, Manchester
City have a string of high-earning stars on
their wage bill. Yaya Toure, Sergio Aguero
and David Silva are all reported to be earning
more than €250,000 per week, bumping up
their first-team average to a weekly wage of
€112,000.