Manchester United’s stars earn on average 281 TIMES as much as their fans… the biggest gap in European football

FANS travel over land and sea to see their favourite teams but they can only dream of earning the same amounts of money that the players of their clubs do.

Sometimes you wonder if it must be difficult for players to look their fans in the eye given how much they earn.

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With the ever-increasing costs of season tickets and player wages only on the rise, there is becoming a rapidly widening disparity between players and fans.

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Website MyVoucherCodes.co.uk set out to analyse this disillusionment, seeing which fans face the biggest disconnect to their players when taking average weekly wages into consideration.

The research factors in all Premier League clubs and fans’ wages and the gap is calculated by looking at the average wage of a person from the city in which the football club is based.

When looking at the most lucrative and expensive league in the world, Manchester United's players must consider themselves incredibly privileged.

The average weekly wage of a United player is a whopping £110,961 per week.

This is the most amongst teams in Europe, beating the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid.

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Fans of the club face the biggest wage disparity as the average fan from Manchester earns £393.64 per week, that's 281 times less than the players – the largest gap in Europe.

The noisy neighbours that share the capital have a very similar disparity.

The average wage of a Manchester City player is £104,289 per week, that's 264 times more than the average fans wage.

There is a huge drop off then to Chelsea, where players earn on average £86,800 per week, 161 times more than the average Londoner.

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On the other end of the disparity scale, Burnley fans and players are most closely aligned.

The average wage of a Clarets player is £18,354, only 45 times as much as the average Burnley fan earns per week - £400.

Bournemouth and Hull also have similar levels of disparity, with Cherries players being paid 55 times more than fans and Tigers players taking home 61 times more.