Mick: Are Jamie Carragher and John Terry Really World Class Footballers?

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10 Reasons John Terry is Worth £135,000 a Week
Published 7/28/2007 by Daryl at The Offside
... - every week - until 2012. A few amateurish prods at my calculator make that £7million (plus £20k in spare change) as an annual salary, or a whopping £35million (plus £100k extra he could lose down the back of the sofa) over five years. In other words, he s rich, bee-atch. JT is now the highest paid player in the Premiership ever, and the highest paid defender in the history of planet earth. But to paraphrase Jennifer Aniston, is he worth it? In realistic terms no. Because no one is really worth £135,000 per week, especially not when it takes normal folk years to earn the same amount. It s even been argued (though not 100% successfully) that as basically a big head it and kick it away centre half sitting behind the human shield that is Claude Makelele, John Terry may be a little overrated. . Whatever. In the hyper-insane over-inflated ...