These days footballers get paid an absolutely ridiculous sum per week to play for their respective teams. Bayern Munich's Thomas Muller is one of the few players to come out and say that the money in football is 'absurd' and players are treated like 'commercial goods'.
China is one of the worst for paying crazy amounts for players and their wages, just one example being Carlos Tevez who currently earns £615k-per-week playing forShanghai Shenhua.
In a very revealing and honest interview with German OutletGQ,Muller spoke about the silly amounts of money thrown around in modern day football:
"The figures that are being paid these days are absurd. No human being is worth that kind of money, Modern day football players are like commercial goods. But this should not affect us.
"You are only going to put yourself under a lot of pressure if you start thinking about a high transfer fee." Muller himself has been subject to apparent £85m bids from Manchester United.
The German International explained it as like being in a large circus:
"I am quite relaxed under all this. It is all about having fun on the pitch for me, to help your team-mates and to win things. But you have to realise that you are part of a business when you are a football player.
"You are part of one big circus. You cannot let this get to you or it will drive you crazy as a human being."
The 27-year-old went on to say that he hopes he has retired by the time they install television cameras into dressing rooms:"Cameras in the dressing room would be too much for me.
"I hope to have retired before that happens. A camera misses nothing in the dressing room. A team lives in the dressing room, what happens there is of no interest to anyone else.
"Cameras in the dressing room would be a no-go for me."