Samuel Eto'o ...

[ichkeria]

will now be the world's highest paid player at £364,500 per week. It would be interesting to compare his salary with the average wage of the local fans of his new club FC Anzhi - those with jobs, that is. Still, it's all good, clean, honestly earned money no doubt :-)

[Mugget]

How much! *&%$" &^%*(£ per week &*^%$%^^&^$!!! enough said.

[mightyWBA]

It's a disgraceful amount really when you consider how many of his fellow Africans are starving to death.
Wonder if he'll chip in to the next red nose day.

[ichkeria]

In fairness to Eto'o, for all we know he may be planning to donate large wads of it to the folks back home in Cameroon. What makes me uneasy, apart from anything else, is the fact that the club he's joined is in such a poor, conflict-torn country. You can't help feeling that the money would be better spent by the club's owner - allegedly a top philanthropist - on his own people, particularly given Eto'o is on the wrong side of 30, and Roberto Carlos, another recent big-money signing, nearer 40 than 30.

[T&S]

I wouldn't mind being his agent!

[mightyWBA]

I'm not knocking Eto'o really, the people who are paying such an obscene amount for someone to kick a ball about are to blame.
As you say FC Anzhi are from a poor part of the world..Wonder what all those old communists would have made of it!
Worlds gone mad.

[Arksided]

Who wouldn't take that kind of money to play football. I do wonder though (not knowing the team, or heard of them before) Is it like a Man City/Chelsea deal as in loads of money? by the owners trying to buy a team?

I have nothing against the player but a red nose day (type) contribution would be great from him.

[ichkeria]

I don't blame Samuel Eto'o at all. Like you say, what fool would turn down that sort of money. The owner (Suleyman Kerimov, who's a local Dagestani made "good") is plainly trying to build a team, but with no realistic chance of succeeding, I'd have thought, in taking Anzhi to the heights of, say, Champions League success. Although he is a very, very wealthy man, I doubt if even he could persuade younger players of the delights of Makhachkala and Moscow in sufficient numbers, and certainly not at that price.