who is the most expensive player in the world?
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Zinedine Zidane, £46m.
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Now Ronaldinho\nAll the years Pele
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On paper I would say Chelsea. They have the best and most expensive players. They bring 20 million dollar subs off the bench. They have dominated Premier League. But the best team on paper, and the best players don't always mean the best team as we saw with Real Madrid the past few years.
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you have to add marketing incomes and other resources. For the forbes magazine David Beckham was the best paid soccer player. Ronaldo, Zidane, Ronaldinho, Totti (AS ROMA), Owen, Lampard and others follow David Beckham in the list.\nFor the france football magazine Ronaldinho is the best paid with E 23 millons based on salary, advertising incomes and other incomes. He is followed by Beckham, Ronaldo, rooney, Christian Vieri, Zidane, Del Piero, Lampard, Thierry Henry and John Terry.
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By far, I think Ronaldinho from Brazil is the best player in the world. Not just because he is productive, but also he elevates soccer to a new level.
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Definetly Ronaldinho. He is at his max and hes practicly untouchable. ronaldo has a chance and so does beckham
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At the moment the world record for a football transfer is £47 million, which was paid by Real Madrid to Juventus in 2001 for Zidan who will be at the World Cup after coming out of internation retirement.
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It depends what you mean by best footballer \n\nI would say Roy Keane as he is probably the most gifted player to be currently playing in the SFL - However players like Nakamura, Petrov, Buffel even Maloney & Riordan would command a higher transfer fee currently and probably possess more skill than Keane but Keane is by far a better all round player than all these.
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Ronaldinho is the best player in the world.  He got the player of the year award for 2004 and 2005 and he might get it for this year too.  In 2004, Henry got second place and Shevchenko got third.  In 2005, Lampard got second and Eto'o got third.
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nope, he is currently the worlds richest sportsman by a long way and is currently worth more than 700 million+.
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I say Italy. Look at playes like Chovchenk, one of the richest playing in AC Milan. Italian Players are also the most expensive. Brazil sucks
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the most expensive ones
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If you are talking about the tournament's all-time top scorer, it's Ronaldo. If u r talking about the current leading scorer for 2006 WC, it's Miroslav Klose.
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Wanye Rooney or Thierry Henry because of their playmaking skills. Wait I forgot my main man Ronaldo. AND NO HE IS NOT FAT!!!
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Well as for 1991 the number one player in the world earned (just tournamnet play):\n\n#1  Stefan Edberg ------------ $2,363,575 USD\n#10 Emilio Sanchez ----------- $672,071 USD\n#50 Jim Grabb ---------------- $243,346 USD\n#100 Slodoban Zivojinovic ---- $150,361 USD\n#150 Danilo Marcelino -------- $91,120 USD\n#200 Sandon Stolle ----------- $56,884 USD\n#250 Byron Talbot ------------ $36,591 USD\n#300 Steve Guy --------------- $23,848 USD\n#500 Greg Rusedski ----------- $4,505 USD\n#750 Ikponwonsa Amandin ------ $835 USD
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okay whoever is saying zidane... he plays in la liga, not the premiership, don't answer questions you know nothing about...\n\nas for highest paid footballer... i'm pretty sure its lampard at 140 thousand pounds per week.
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Buffon, he is the best, and the most expensive!!