Talk:List of largest sports contracts

message: I see no reason under the deletion policy to delete this article.  It is a little awkward but still contains interesting information. Moomot 19:14, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Clayton Kershaw  signed a 999 trillion dollar deal for 7 years, the largest ever for a pitcher on January 15th, 2014.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.107.253.43 (talk) 21:40, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Clayton Kershaw

message: Ryan Braun's contract needs adding
:  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.91.239.10 (talk) 20:08, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This says he signed a one-year $33-36 million contract in 1997. This says he signed an eight-year, $25 million contract in 1988. His 2001 contract with the Wizards was for the veteran's minimum. I might be missing one, I don't know, but it doesn't seem like any of his could be above $100 million. Recury 18:53, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ryan Braun

message: KEK  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.34.10.226 (talk) 19:41, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: not a message board, as you well know. Quadzilla99 02:30, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We need any article on sports and their payouts. This could be the start of a critism section...--Viridis 03:25, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

text: It's a little concept called 'Supply and Demand', which exists in the free market economy. You might want to look that up. Feudonym (talk) 07:03, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The human race has fracked up priorities

message: This is an American only article isn't it?
* No - This article is international.  It's just that American sports franchises are in the business of shelling out long term, high-paying deals, whereas in UEFA, franchises usually only sign players for up to 4-5 years.  I think Ronaldinho's contract is around 85 million USD, which doesn't make the cut on this list. Whoppersnapper 03:06, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Transfer (association football) has a good list of highest transfer fees but I don't know of one specifically for soccer contracts. Recury (talk) 18:55, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: American Only

message: Los Angeles Galaxy, not New York.
Please note Beckham's salary is NOT $50 million a year, that is his expect total earnings, after endorsements, etcetera []. Do not insert it into the article.
--Spirit2112 21:23, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the question one has to ask is -- was the contract value $250 million?  Did it say on paper that he'll eventually have $250 million -- guaranteed?  Therefore, I'd think he did sign a contract for $250 million and it would be #1.  But, I do find some of the information about his contract to be lacking and I honestly don't understand how much he'll actually make when it's all said and done.The Invisible Man 22:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If they do, hit them with this link  it's not even $10 million a year. SirFozzie 23:58, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I'm aware, his contract is worth $100 million. He get's $10 million a year salary, and $10 million a year in club profits. $20 million in one year; $100 million in the five years, which puts him joint 24th on the list. BBC News. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 144.173.6.66 (talk) 21:38, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

text: The Soccernet link said the offer two weeks ago was 9 mil per, 4-year contract. It's been well publicized the deal was a five-year deal, which even the Soccernet link acknowledges. 71.146.42.248 17:32, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Beckham

message: Anyone want to find more sources on this?  I'm not sure how long Alonso's contract is, but his pay is right up there w/ Schumacher's.
[] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.206.215.18 (talk) 14:40, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This and this say about $40 million per year, which would corroborate your source. This article from 2005 says his contract is for "a maximum of" 4 years, which would put him on the list. I'd wait until we get something a little clearer about his contract length before adding him though. Recury 15:19, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Formula 1 Drivers

message: It would be nice to see a list of all-time largest sports contracts, adjusted for inflation. But it would be extremely difficult to find that information, and I'm not sure if that list would be substantially different than this one. I can't help but noting that all but four of these were signed in 2000 or later. What would be doable though is also listing the salaries averaged per year, or a seperate chart for largest (average) salary per year. A lot of these look really huge but are actually over 10 or 11 years, and I can think of players signing one and two year deals for $20M or soething. PolarisSLBM 18:04, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This list is the largest contracts, not the largest yearly value. I wouldn't have a problem with a second list on this page for that, though. However, I don't think a weekly value list should be included, because of possible conflicts (NFL players are only paid for 16 weeks a year excluding playoffs, for example, making their weekly salary much higher even though the yearly value is similar) and redundancy (if the conflicts were eliminated, it would just be the yearly / 52). --SodiumBenzoate 22:04, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

text: There are many links on the web for converting dollars into values adjusted for inflation. For example, this link at cgi.money.cnn.com allows you to plug in a dollar amount at today's value and choose a year to revalue it to. Few of the contracts in this article need adjustment, but note that US$1 is US$0.82 in 1996 dollars (or, equivalently, US$1 in 1996 = US$1.22 in 2005). Perhaps adding a single "Adjusted Amount" column or a parenthetical amount would suffice. — Loadmaster 00:48, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  All-Time Adjusted 

message: We need to get a highest annual salary list. Also Beck's contract is misleading because it includes endorsements which virtually no other contract does. Jordan was making $35 million a year in salary alone and should be #1 all-time. He also made $80-100 million a year in endorsements I believe. However he signed single year contracts. Quadzilla99 02:30, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm saying start a list of highest single season salaries and also highest average yearly salary. Quadzilla99 08:43, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Annual Salaries

message: I'm going to bed :P SirFozzie 07:37, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Why is the main page even linking to this article?  People keep adding Beckham in because of they expected to see him in the #1 or #2 slot with the $250M package that has been widely reported on the news.  --Kralizec! (talk) 17:48, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Someone else's turn to catch everyone putting Beckham in

message: is it redundant to have an asterisk next to a retired player's team?  I think it's quite obvious that the player no longer plays on that (or any) team. Im.a.lumberjack 21:52, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  * and retired players 

message: Peyton Manning should be on this list.  He's the highest paid NFL player in history.  167 million dollar contract, 91 million signing bonus, 19 million in incentives (which I'ms ure he got after winning the Super Bowl).  He makes more than Vick and Palmer.
:Yes, you're right. I've added him. Recury 13:11, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, Vick is the highest paid player in NFL history with a $130m contract and $37m in signing bonus. Alldaiallnite 02:41, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Peyton Manning

message: Might it be useful to create another column, with the salary per year?  it may make comparison easier for contracts with different lengths. just a thought. - Im.a.lumberjack 21:53, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another column 

message: Made 95 cents in his whole NFL carerr the stuff below this is not real its super fake so only read this
Can someone explain how Vick is listed above 5 people who have larger contracts than he? Jfiling 23:55, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone probably was just messing with his numbers. The reference says his contract was $167,000,000 not $137,000,000. I fixed it. Recury 13:54, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless I'm reading it wrong, the reference states that his contract is $130,000,000, with $37,000,000 guaranteed in the form of bonuses. Other sources I find say the same. I just don't want to edit unless there is clear proof one way or the other, but it seems to me he should rank 8th on the list Jfiling 22:16, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Like it says in the first paragraph of the article, we would count a bonus like that as part of the contract. I think the idea is to eliminate optional money like player options or performance-based incentives, which makes sense to me. Recury 23:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael Vick 

message: He is on the list twice, does anyone know why?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.198.88.62 (talk) 02:35, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone changed Mike Hampton's entry to Todd Helton. The link for that entry is mostly about Helton's contract, but has info about Hampton's too, so I think that's probably what got confused. I changed it back. Recury 13:15, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Todd Helton 

message: He recently signed a contract rumoured to be worth $138 million over 5 years.  But until more concrete details are available, they shouldn't be added to the list. --Madchester (talk) 17:02, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Lewis Hamilton

message: His salary numbers are wrong.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.108.100.88 (talk) 06:48, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rashard Lewis 

message: If everyone thinks having the list go by the most money per year is better than I am fine with that. Until then, please follow the inclusion criteria so the list doesn't spiral out of control. If we decide to change the list, then a rename and a change of inclusion criteria are probably in order too. We could also have two separate lists, but that would be harder to maintain. Recury (talk) 16:53, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I feared one day this list would grow too large.  Perhaps an entry encompassing the entire breadth of sports salaries is a better reflection of what is really out there.  "Largest Sports Salaries" or "Highest Earnings by Athletes" could represent the entire article.  Then sub-titles could include: (1) largest contracts (this article); (2) highest annual earnings (but is this measured before or after signing bonuses?); (3) highest career earnings.  All endorsement deals should be excluded.  I also think per-game earnings is useless.  We're talking a major overhaul and very lengthy research to bring it all together.Whoppersnapper (talk) 01:16, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  The best paid athlete of all times was a charioteer named Gaius Appuleius Diocles.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.69.57.191 (talk) 19:55, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'd definitely prefer a yearly list. Also, it would be nice to split the lists up by sport, European sports contracts are absolutely dwarfed by the insane American contracts which are generally much (2 to 3 times) longer. More importantly, some sports like auto racing and boxing are considerably more dangerous or intense and as such they kind of don't fit in here at all. KarstenO (talk) 13:03, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most expensive contracts per year 

message: Joey Votto Just Signed a 10 Year $0 Million contract  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.7.48.175 (talk) 00:05, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joey votto 

message: Cristiano's contract value in 2009 is written as 102M$ when the source states 80M£.
The conversion is not correct. Changing it would make him go up in the table, and I don't know how to do it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.81.255.130 (talk) 19:47, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cristiano Ronaldo 

message: So I just looked at the source that was quoted, 2 of them are from 2012, and one of them is from 2014.
The CBC source from 2014 claims "The 26-year-old Messi will earn a reported $27 million US per season with further incentives able to drive the deal up to $34 million per year until the contract ends in 2017-18 ". Some quick math says that from 2014-2015 season to the 2017-2018 season (3 seasons) at 27 million comes down to 81 million? I don't see how they got the 400 million number, none of the sources mentioned it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.151.148.240 (talk) 00:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  How did Messi's contract start in 2008? 

message: The source for the figure in the chart (http://www.totalsportek.com/f1/sebastian-vettel-ferrari-contract-worth-240-million/) posted a correction that puts the contract at 3 years, 110 million or up to 130 million if he hits all of the bonus requirements. ElBurroGrande (talk) 15:55, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Figure for Sebastian Vettel is incorrect 

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message: Why is Lebron James not on this list? His 4 year $154,000,000 should be included.
Jay Starz (talk) 12:14, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: LeBron James

message: Dear eds, always keep in mind that the same amount of money of two numerically equal contracts is not the same financially per non-stop inflation. 176.37.192.236 (talk) 14:56, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inflation 

message: Do we list the current organization the player is with under the record contract, or the one they signed the contract with? Jspace727 (talk) 05:34, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orginazation 

message: Hello, 
Mbappe signs a 3 years deal with Psg (2022-2025) hard to have official numbers, in France "serious media" speak about 100M/year (including or not signature bonus ... we don't really know) 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinbirnbaum/2022/10/07/the-worlds-highest-paid-soccer-players-2022-kylian-mbapp-claims-no-1-while-erling-haaland-debuts/?sh=a6790a9629d1 
I think we should investigate on this contract, he clearly deserves a place in this top 100 93.23.4.67 (talk) 18:48, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kylian Mbappe  

message: Ohtani's contract needs adding (700 million/10 years) 129.64.0.36 (talk) 20:34, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It can be added when it's signed. All we know is what Ohtani "decided to choose". We don't know if legalese will impact the agreement. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:36, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  OHTANI TIME 

message: Change Messi’s spot to Ohtani. Shohei Ohtani just signed a 700 million dollar contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers 2603:9001:5508:CF98:59C6:99A9:4F31:A574 (talk) 04:20, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: And Neymar’s 2 year $300 million contract? He’s not even mentioned in the topic 2600:8800:1596:7F00:68F8:E929:DFF:760C (talk) 07:09, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:54, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-contract-with-dodgers 147.105.254.55 (talk) 14:21, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

text: Ohtani has yet to sign anything. Neymar? Bring a source. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:55, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

text: would the deferral affect ohtani's potential listing here? i'm honestly a little confused about his contract Mephistoscafe (talk) 01:59, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The defferal means he's getting $2 million for the next 10 years then $68 million in the 10 years following that. He will still get paid the full $700 million for the 10 years of service. 147.105.254.55 (talk) 13:04, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not accurate. Due to inflation, the value of the contract is more like $460 million. Getting $100 in 2024 and $100 in 2034 is not the same amount of money. 2601:147:4701:6D00:F2EC:9BC2:B0BC:AE2E (talk) 17:38, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: He is not getting interest added to the payments after 2034. See https://theathletic.com/5129913/2023/12/11/shohei-ohtani-massive-deferrals-dodgers-contract-explained/ 2601:147:4701:6D00:F2EC:9BC2:B0BC:AE2E (talk) 17:41, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

text: No, it is accurate. If you want to add inflation depreciation it should be a seperate column. The current list does not account for this between any of the contracts. 147.105.254.55 (talk) 17:46, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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