Wayne Rooney is probably the world’s highest paid 23-year-old, more than RM3 million a month
Not many 23-year-olds have this much in cash. Probably even on-paper 24-year-old youngest billionaire in the world, Mark Zuckerberg does not get to hold this much paper money.
Stark details of Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen’s income were recently made public due to the company which represented them (Proactive Sports Management) suing for unpaid commission & credit card bills. The company has been representing them since 2002.
Basic salary
GBP90,000 per week salary as a footballer with Manchester United i.e. GBP360,000 per month, GBP4.32 million per year
Image rights
GBP1.52 million a year for image rights, paid by Manchester United (including the amount that goes to his agent)
Endorsement deals
GBP1 million a year from Nike for advertisement
GBP118,689 every 6 months from computer game makers Electronic Arts Sports, with which he has appeared on 4 straight UK-version covers of the company’s FIFA series from 2005 to 2008 i.e. about GBP240,000 per year
GBP600,000 from Coca Cola for a four year deal. He also has deals with Nokia, Ford and Asda. I’d assume
Books
GBP3.55 million for 12 books. On 9th March 2006, Rooney signed the largest sports book deal in publishing history with HarperCollins, who granted him a GBP5 million advance plus royalties for a minimum of 5 books to be published over a 12-year period.
For simplicity’s sake, I won’t include the money from Coca Cola & the books.
Still, it still adds up to GBP7.08 million a year.
Assuming GBP1 equals RM5, that means RM35.4 million a year, or RM2.95 million A MONTH.
His wife’s income was also revealed, and even though she makes much less than Rooney, some are really eye-popping, not bad for a former supermarket checkout girl, like the fact that she’s being paid GBP41,667 every month (GBP500,000 per year) for her column in OK! magazine, indirectly making her one of the most highly paid journalists in the United Kingdom.
The Rooneys live in a GBP4.25 million mansion. They also own property in Florida, USA.
Yep, should they ever it, those would buy a lot of top weight loss pills…
