It is no secret that athletes, the best one, make, compared to the ordinary man, insane amounts of money. Media in United States, prone to statistics, published a list of clubs that are most generous when it comes to paying their players. Surprise or not, but first place in this list is held by Barcelona and Real.

In their, already traditional study, Sporting Intelligence made a list of sport clubs that in no sense save when it comes to paychecks of their athletes. Football, as the most popular sport in a global scale, takes the lead among ten most generous clubs. The research compared paychecks of 278 clubs in 14 different leagues, I 7 different sports in 2012. It includes four strongest football leagues of the world (Spain, Italy, England and Germany), four most popular North American sports (baseball, basketball, American football, and ice hockey), Scottish and American football championship, cricket in India, baseball in Japan and football in Kenya and Australia. We are talking about basic paycheck that mean the income which does not include premiums, and other incomes from advertisement and sponsors. According to this statistics, renowned European football clubs pay the best, and baseball and basketball clubs in USA.