It lists the salaries of every professional player in Serie A, with the clubs' total wage-bill after tax put at £680m and now lower that it was even five seasons ago. The Premier League collectively spent £1.6 billion before tax in 2012-13 on wages – a figure that will have increased further over the past two years. This is starkly illustrated by Cole being listed as earning £35,000-a-week at Roma compared to a pre-tax salary in excess of £150,000 at Chelsea.