Liverpool handed Glen Johnson £139,000-a-week deal!!

It has emerged that Liverpool are paying Glen Johnson a staggering £139,000 a week.

Eyebrows were raised when the Reds splashed out £17million on the Portsmouth right-back this summer but his salary will leave fans gobsmacked.

The sum must make him the best paid full back in the world - even after Chelsea defender Ashley Cole agreed a new £120,000-a-week deal to stay at Stamford Bridge.

Even Manchester City, who have spent an incredible £118million on players this summer, will pay latest signing Joleon Lescott only a reported £94,000 a week.

Spiralling wages in the Barclays Premier League have reached such a crazy level that Liverpool, so desperate to ensure Chelsea would not beat them for the signature of Johnson, were forced to offer a huge contract.

Desperate!!

Courtesy Daily Mail

getting ridiculous money for any player

And Benitez moans about not getting enough money to spend!! The plum!
Maybe he should stop buying a load of average players who never even play in the first team then selling them after a year or two for less money and after paying their wages for all that time!!

thats how he earns his wages

i doubt that fellas, don`t always believe wot you read,try nearer 80, he would never have gone back to chelsea after the way he was treated, oh we were owed 7 mill for crouch.

thats u all over mooley kicking us when we ar down man u tru and tru bad 2 the bone

shreks on 89 grand and 15 grannys a season.

Ah yeah dee but he is proven class!
Now jc if I was like that and kicked you lot every time your down I'd be on here all day every day slagging you lot off!

p.s. I notice all the annual 'It's our year' has gone very quiet.

shrek scores alot of goals mooley each season nop.