Carlos Tevez has signed for Shanghai Shenhua to become the highest-paid footballer in the world

Carlos Tevez has left his boyhood club Boca Juniors to sign for Shanghai Shenhua.
Shanghai, coached by ex-Brighton boss Gus Poyet, are reported to have agreed a deal worth £40m for Tevez including a salary in excess of £310,000 a week.


Boca Juniors said: "Good luck Carlitos. You will always be in our hearts."

Tevez played for seven years in the Premier League and won the title with both Manchester clubs.

The former Juventus, Manchester City, Manchester United, West Ham and Corinthians striker is now the world's highest-paid footballer on £615,000 per week.

That means he will earn around £2,723,000 per month. That's £31,980,000 per year. And £63,960,000 over his two-year contract.The crazy numbers don't stop there.

Tevez's mind-boggling wage works out at roughly:

 *£87,857 a day, £3,660 an hour, £61 a minute, and £1 a second.

*To put it another way, if you combined the £250,000 weekly wages sought by Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil in their contract stand-off with Arsenal, you would still have enough left over to hand Harry Kane his £100,000 Friday pay cheque.

*Or you could pay all three of arguably the best creative talents in the Premier League: Eden Hazard (£220,000 p/w), David Silva (£200,000 p/w) and Kevin De Bruyne (£170,000 p/w).

*And if you combined the wages of the Premier League's two highest-paid players, Paul Pogba (£290,000 p/w) and Wayne Rooney (£260,000 p/w), there would still be £65,000 left in loose change from Tevez's wage.


So much money for a 32-year-old who no longer earns a place in the Argentina squad.