Rugby ace Joe Marler left stunned as ex-footballer and Soccer AM star Jimmy Bullard reveals his biggest wage of career

RUGBY prima Joe Marler was near gobsmacked erstwhile helium recovered retired however overmuch Jimmy Bullard was earning successful his heyday arsenic a Premier League footballer.

Two of the UK's astir fashionable sports, rugby and football, person got drastically differing wages.

Marler, who retired from planetary rugby this month, has played for 1 of rugby union's apical teams, Harlequins, for his full career.

But contempt ever being astatine the apical of his sport, helium was shocked to larn however overmuch mid-table journeyman Jimmy Bullard was pocketing arsenic a Premier League footballer.

Bullard, 46, spent his vocation playing for the likes of Hull City, Fulham and Wigan Athletic.

But erstwhile asked by Marler however overmuch helium was earning successful his heyday, Bullard revealed a stunning number.

Speaking connected Marler's Things People Do podcast, helium said: "My biggest declaration was £50k-a-week".

Marler was successful disbelief astatine the hefty salary, that would person meant Bullard was earning £2.6MILLION per year.

Bullard was asked to springiness an estimation connected what benignant of wealth a "top Premier League footballer" would beryllium earning these days, with the erstwhile midfielder retiring successful 2012.

He said: "I'd person to accidental a fewer of the Man City boys indispensable beryllium connected £350k a week".

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Football wage tract Capology claims that Man City duo Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland are the Prem's 2 apical earners.

It's said that De Bruyne is pocketing a whopping £400,000-per-week, portion Haaland makes £375,000 each week himself.

By comparison, erstwhile England skipper Owen Farrell is the existent highest-paid rugby national subordinate successful the world.

Farrell is understood to beryllium earning £1.2MILLION-per-year astatine Racing 92, the equivalent of £23,077-a-week.

That means Kevin De Bruyne earns Farrell's yearly wage each 21 DAYS.