United pay the most

LONDON: Manchester United pay the highest wages in world football, according to the latest edition of the Global Sports Salaries Survey. Average basic first-team pay at the Premier League club has been calculated at £5.77 million (R104 million) per year or £110 962 per week. United are ranked fourth in the overall sporting pay league behind the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, which pay an average annual salary of $8.7 million (R124 million), baseball’s New York Yankees ($7.68 million) and the LA Clippers ($7.65 million). The survey is based on the reported pay of almost 10 000 sportsmen at 333 teams in seven sports and is published on sportingintelligence.com