Graphic: Top ten best paying sports teams in the world

Oh to be a professional footballer...

You get the play at the highest level. You get adored by millions of fans. You get to mix with famous people. And you get rewarded with lots and lots of cold, hard cash. But which teams are the most handomsely rewarded? Who has the most mazuma in the bank? The results have been revealed in a study by journalist Nick Harris on his excellent Sporting Intelligence website and it only reaffirms the perception that being a footballer is an extremely lucrative career move. Eight of the top 12 highest paying sports teams in the world are football teams and four of those eight teams ply their trade in the Premier League. None of them can quite match the paying power of French giants PSG, mind, who pay their squad an average of $174,692 (approximately €157,000) per week. The breakdown of the best paid teams is just one nugget of information from a fascinating study which we encourage you to visit in greater detail here.