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20th May 2015

Graphic: These are the top ten best paid teams in global sports

We're not jealous, we're not jealous at all

Conor Heneghan

It’s a real pity our budding football career was ended because of injury.

Most kids with a passing interest in sports dream of becoming a professional one day.

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.

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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, particularly if you play for one of the world’s elite teams.

Eight of the top 12 highest paid sports teams in the world are football teams and four of those eight teams ply their trade in the Premier League.

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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.

Nice work if you can get it alright.

Major League Baseball sides the LA Dodgers, the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers are also richly rewarded, while the Brooklyn Nets are the only NBA team to make the top 12.

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.

Just an advance warning: It may provoke feelings of extreme envy.