• The Premier League’s best Asian players ranked 

• South Korea leads the way in producing top-flight talents

• Tottenham superstar Son Heung-Min is the continent’s finest export

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Given the continent’s vast size and incalculable number of inhabitants, it surprises how few Asian footballers have lit up the Premier League, especially in comparison to Europe and South America.

Top 10 Asian Players In PL History:

1. Son Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur)

2. Park Ji-sung (Manchester United)

3. Shinji Okazaki (Leicester City)

4. Shinji Kagawa (Manchester United)

5. Sun Jihai (Manchester City)

6. Lee Young-Pyo (Tottenham Hotspur)

7. Maya Yoshida (Southampton)

8. Ali Al-Habsi (Bolton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic)

9. Ki Sung-yueng (Swansea City, Sunderland, and Newcastle United)

10. Seol Ki-hyeon (Reading and Fulham)

Yet quantity perhaps pales to quality when it comes to these ten fantastic talents, who have delighted and impressed having arrived from far flung shores.

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FIRST PUBLISHED: 14th October 2021

• Raheem Sterling has developed into one of England’s most successful footballers.

• His high profile on and off the pitch has led to high wages and numerous sponsorship deals.

• With many years at the top of the sport remaining, Raheem Sterling net worth figures will only increase further.

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Raheem Shaquille Sterling was born in Kingston, Jamaica in December 1994.

Having moved to England at a young age, Sterling overcame a tough upbringing to excel at football, his talent spotted by Queens Park Rangers, where he developed as a youngster for seven years.

Liverpool snapped him up in 2010, and his supreme talent was clear to see, leading to a big money move to Manchester City in 2015.

Since then, he has been a key player for club and country, and his marketability and brave social stances have seen him accrue a large net worth. Premier League odds point towards much more success in the future.

How Much Does Raheem Sterling Earn?

Raheem Sterling is reported to earn £300,000 per week on his current Manchester City contract, which equates to £15.6 million per year.

His current salary was agreed when he signed a three-year extension to his contract in 2018. Despite some indifferent form in 2021, Sterling has seen his stock continue to rise.

His current contract shows just how much Sterling has increased his earnings since his early days, when he was on £2000 a week covering his first contract at Liverpool.

By the time he left Liverpool, this had risen to £35,000 per week. With City offering him £200,000 a week to join them, he was soon one of the top earners in the Premier League, where he has remained.

With this contract due to expire in 2023, there is talk of an improved one that may embellish this figure even further.

Regularly playing, and performing, for one of the most successful clubs in English football, and starring for his country too, should ensure a lucrative new deal soon.

Raheem Sterling Estimated Wealth

According to the Sunday Times 2020 Rich List, Raheem Sterling had wealth totalling £28m, though this has since risen within a year to an estimated £33 million.

The majority of this wealth will have been earned through salaries and bonuses, but his profile has ensured plenty of income off the pitch too.

It is difficult to detail Sterling’s exact worth as he has sensibly diversified much of his earnings, as he looks beyond his football career.

Primarily, Sterling has invested in property, including buying a set of houses in Stockport in 2019. He owns multiple personal properties, with a luxury home on Marbella valued at over £4 million.

He could afford to buy his mother a house in 2016 and it is thought he intends to expand his property empire after retirement. He is driven to success by his tough upbringing and determined to reward those who helped him along the way.

Like many footballers, he also owns a range of expensive cars, including a £500,000 Bentley GTX 700-4.

With much of his career still to come, most Premier league predictions suggest it is a near certainty that Sterling will increase his wealth in the coming years with improved contracts and further sponsorship deals as Manchester City continue to contest for silverware.

Raheem Sterling Endorsement Deals

Raheem Sterling is one of the most marketable players in world football, and he has added to his wealth with considerable endorsements over the past five years and more.

He makes in excess of £5 million annually from sponsorship deals that includes Lucozade, Nike, Gilette, Electronic Arts and Apple.

In 2021, he announced a new boot deal and wider partnership with sportswear brand New Balance.

The details were kept private, but with rumours that Puma were prepared to pay £100 million for a partnership the previous year, it is sure to be highly lucrative.

He is also a prominent face for fashion brand Vita De Lusso, and can sometimes be seen wearing their headwear.

With his extensive charity work, campaigns for equality and social media following, it is not surprising that he is a marketer’s dream. He has 18 million followers on social media platforms, with over 8.5 million on Instagram alone.

On the pitch achievements will ensure such endorsements do not dry up and we can expect Champions League betting offers to include Raheem Sterling for many seasons to come, increasing his attraction to advertisers.

Is Raheem Sterling Married?

Raheem Sterling is not married but is engaged to his long-term girlfriend Paige Milian.

He proposed to her in 2018, with a huge diamond ring, and they planned to marry in England or Jamaica in 2020, but those plans are temporarily on hold. However, it would not be a huge surprise if they become man and wife very soon.

The couple met initially in 2010 as teenagers when Raheem was still at Queens Park Rangers and Paige was working in a sports shop. They dated for a couple of years, separated, but got back together in 2015.

Paige is a highly successful businesswoman, both as a model and an owner of a property development business and has collaborated with Raheem on property deals.

She also manages a sports management group and is a qualified accountant. It is thought that Paige is a calming, steady influence on Raheem, and a devoted mother to their two sons.

The devotion goes two ways and in August 2021, Raheem surprised his fiancée with a lavish party to celebrate her 26th birthday.

Raheem Sterling Children

Sterling has three children, his first born when he was 18, a daughter named Melody Rose with his ex-partner Melissa Clarke.

He has two children with Paige, sons Thiago and Thai who were born in 2017 and 2019. Those who like an online football bet may wish to gamble on at least one of his sons following in his father’s footballers.

Raheem and Paige like to maintain a great deal of privacy around their family life, but Paige regularly posts family photos on her popular Instagram account.

The children can often be seen at games celebrating victories with their father. Raheem has spoken in the past about his pride at being a parent, and his determination to be the father figure to his children that he himself never had.

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• Alex Scott is former footballer turned television presenter and pundit

• Scott starred for Arsenal and England, ranking fourth all-time in caps for the Three Lions

• Read below for more on Alex Scott wealth estimates and her career to date

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If you’re doing some research before placing an online football bet, there’s a good chance you’re already very familiar with Alex Scott.

A former England international, pundit and now presenter, Scott has developed a reputation as one of the best football analysts on television.

A reliable full-back and a star for England and Arsenal in her playing days, Scott featured in women’s football betting tips until she retired in 2018 to take up a career in journalism.

Here’s a look at Scott’s footballing career and her transition to becoming a popular journalist.

Alex Scott Estimated Wealth

There are varying reports of Alex Scott’s net worth. Some websites place Scott’s estimated wealth between £1 million and £5 million. Others believe it’s under £1 million.

The money in the women’s game is incomparable to that in the Premier League. Scott’s salary from her playing days isn’t publicly known, and even the highest paid female footballers are wildly underpaid.

Scott’s salary will have soared recent years as her media career has flourished.

BBC presenters are handsomely compensated – as is often the topic of debate – and Scott has worked tirelessly over the last few years, appearing as a presenter, pundit and commentator.

Who Did Alex Scott Play For?

Alex Scott signed with Arsenal when she was just eight years old. Initially a forward, Scott soon switched to right-back.

She moved to Birmingham City in 2005, but only had a short stint with the club as financial difficulties put the Blues under pressure to cut salary.

Re-joining Arsenal, Scott was a star of one of the best women’s football teams. The Gunners became the first English side to win the UEFA Women’s Cup, and they completed a remarkable quadruple in the same season.

A new league was created in the US called Women’s Professional Soccer in 2008. Scott was originally assigned to the Chicago Red Stars, but she was soon traded to the Boston Breakers.

The England international left north London for Boston, though she returned to the Gunners in 2012 following the collapse of WPS. She went on to win the 2012 Super League with Arsenal as well as three more FA Cups.

On top of a decorated club career, Scott also starred on the international stage.

Her 140 England caps is the fourth-most all-time, while she also started in all four matches of Great Britain’s run to the quarter-finals of the 2012 Olympics.

Alex Scott Journalism

Where many players turn towards coaching and scouting at the end of their careers, Alex Scott always knew journalism was the path she wanted to follow.

Scott completed a Professional Sports Writing and Broadcasting degree at Staffordshire University while still playing for Arsenal.

Her media career has only gone from strength to strength since then, featuring on the BBC’s FA Cup coverage, Match of the Day and becoming the first female pundit to report on a men’s World Cup in 2018.

Recently taking over as presenter of Football Focus, Scott has become one of the faces of football broadcasting. Writing for the BBC after her new role was announced, Scott gave insight on her journey to date.

She said, “Towards the end of my footballing career, some were suggesting coaching and management but I had such a strong passion to take this path.

"I completed my degree in sports journalism and broadcasting, and countless work experience placements from Sky Sports, Arsenal TV and London Live.

"This was to ensure not only I had the correct skills, but so no-one could ever question my place or my merit.”

Alex Scott Football Focus

Alex Scott was announced as the new presenter of Football Focus in May 2021, succeeding Dan Walker.

Walker held the role for 12 years. He was departing at the end of the 2020/21 campaign, meaning there was a vacancy to lead the show, and Scott was appointed to become the first permanent host of Football Focus, the BBC’s Saturday lunchtime football show.

The announcement was a big moment for sports media. Scott is a trailblazer, hopefully provoking significant changes to the demographic of people covering football.

The former Arsenal defender said, “When I was a kid, I would never have watched television and thought someone like me could be presenting a programme like Football Focus.

"For the BBC to trust me with this role and allow me to be my true, authentic self means a lot. To say I’m the Football Focus presenter feels surreal.

“I was one of the first female pundits on the BBC and I clearly remember being determined to transcend from being labelled a ‘female pundit’ to ‘pundit’.

"Besides the statements surrounding my gender or my race, after being part of the BBC family for six years, I want people see me on TV and think ‘she’s great at what she does’.”

Presenting has always been the goal, and Scott took the time to thank several of her colleagues for their help along the way.

“From day one, Dan Walker has guided me… Dan knew I wanted to be a presenter so he helped hone my skills and allowed me to step out of my ‘pundit’ comfort zone on the show.

"In fact, everyone around me - from Gabby Logan to Mark Chapman - and so many people behind the scenes have helped me to get to this point.”

Alex Scott On FIFA 22

Alex Scott has already notched plenty of firsts. On FIFA 22, she became the first female commentator in the franchise’s history.

Undoubtedly one of the best football pundits, Scott’s inclusion is thoroughly deserved.

It’s an overdue step from EA Sports, though, given their slow progress in adding women’s football teams to the game.

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FIRST PUBLISHED: 14th October 2021