Why footballers are not on the list of the richest people in the world?
You make much more money being the owner of the business than the person cashing an owner’s check. That’s why footballers and other Professional athletes rarely end up being team owners, because they don’t have enough money. Top athletes make maybe $20,000,000 a year, but they only make that top money for a handful of years – 5 or 10 at most. After taxes and agent fees, they keep less than half of that. It would costs several hundred million to buy a team in the prem, which is more than almost any of these guys make in their career, and that’s if they saved every penny. 50 Cent has made his money as a music producer, a video game producer, and as an owner of the $4 Billion Vitamin Water company. His personal after-tax profit from selling Vitamin Water to Coke was over $100M. Forbes says he is worth over $400M. How many years would Ronaldo have to play to make that kind of money?
