Each season, Portuguese website, Futebol Finance produces a fascinating, but unfortunately, rather blandly presented list of the players it claims to be the top earners in World football.

Each year Visual Evolution pour over the data and try to pull out some interesting facts and figures about the players within the list and the clubs they play for, and essentially try to bring to life the brilliant information they have supplied.

Inspired by their list, in February 2010 Visual Evolution produced an infographic, based on their research, and it has proven to be one of the most popular visualisations we have ever produced, still accounting for a significant chunk of traffic visiting the Visual Evolution website. Recently, they released their figures for 2011, and they have extended the number of players from 50, up to the 100 top earners in World football.

LINK TO GRAPH : http://www.visualevolution.co.uk/infographics/

Arsenal Articles: Visual Evolution's graph is well worth checking in terms of comparing expenditure and success on the field.

Of note, Arsenal does not appear in the Top 10 European spenders (no real surprise there, but it does put Wenger's acheivements in perspective).

More importantly, only THREE Arsenal players in the Top 100 Earners in World Football (namely Robin van Persie, Cesc Fabregas and Arshavin). It again goes to show that based on investment, Wenger is doing a jolly good job putting the club in the Premier League's Top 4 every year and Europe's Top 8 nearly every year.

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