20 Most Disgustingly Over-Paid Football Players

16. Robin Van Persie - Man Utd

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Rating: £225,000

Is 12 goals in a season worth almost a quarter of a million pounds a week? Van Persie at times looked a shadow of the player he was in his first season at United, and fans should have wondered why it took so long to move him on.

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