How many footballers does it take to change a lightbulb? Our Top 10 most pampered players

After Manchester United full back Patrice Evra revealed the club will provide help on everything from getting their cars fixed to changing the lightbulbs , we look at just how easy life is made for pampered Premier League footballers these days...

1) Ex Manchester United forward Brian McClair - now the club's youth academy director - gave an insight into what else the Premier League champions lay on for players. Last July he said: "I don't go into the first team dressing room very often, but when I popped in I noticed there was a new addition to the room - a large flat-screen TV.

"I switched it on and saw there was a scrolling screen informing players of details for the day. There were times of training, massage times, pedicure times, hair care times, whose turn it was to speak to MUTV, who to instruct to run a bath for you, weights sessions, yoga times and nutrition advice." Make my bath nice and hot please, gov.

2) Liverpool's Ukrainian striker Andriy Voronin revealed how welcoming the Reds were when he moved in summer 2007. He was handed language lessons, given help at training and advised on which side of the road to drive on.

"I've been really well looked after since I arrived at Liverpool," said Voronin, who was sent out on loan to Hertha Berlin for this season.

"A bank worker was invited to the club office to set up an account for me, then all the police (immigration) and other registration papers were sorted out on site too."

Maybe now that the tax-payer pretty much owns the banks we can get them to come to us too?

Voronin continued: "Training starts at 10am so we meet at the training ground at 8.45am. At 9am we have breakfast together then we have free time. Some people have a massage, others are on the internet. You can watch TV, play pool, whatever you like. Then it's training. At 12 o'clock it's lunch - then we can go home."

Two hours a day. Count me in. And despite all the money Premier League players earn, it was Liverpool who paid the rent on his flat for the first six months.

3) Cristiano Ronaldo was at the centre of one of last summer's major transfer sagas as Real Madrid tried once again to prise him away from Manchester United. Sepp Blatter claimed United's determination to hang onto their star man amounted to modern day slavery - and Ronaldo agreed . Judging by how Ronaldo spent last summer, it really is time to get Amnesty International involved now...

4) Apparently £80,000 a week is not enough for Arsenal playmaker Andrey Arshavin. He is after a huge pay rise as compensation for the higher income tax he has to pay in Britain . In Russia the tax rate was only 13 per cent. Wonder whether our bosses would consider stumping up for our tax as well ...

5) Another means of keeping more of their dosh away from the taxman currently being explored by Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United is salaries being paid as interest-free loans. According to a report at the weekend, with the new 50p income tax rate coming in clubs could pay their multi-millionaire players their salaries as interest-free loans, which could initially see them pay as little as 2.5 per cent tax on some of their earnings.

6) Ashley Cole became a byword for the pampered modern footballer - and earned the nickname Cashley - after his autobiography revelations about his Arsenal contract negotiations. The England left-back revealed he nearly crashed his car when told Arsenal were only offering him £55,000 a week. He moaned the club were "taking the piss" - that's what we all thought Cole himself was doing since the pitiful sum was twice as much as the average annual wage most Brits earn.

7) Cole's Chelsea and England team-mate - and the national team skipper - no less, John Terry, flouted a very basic traffic rule.

In March last year £100,000+ a week defender Terry blocked a disabled parking spot with his Bentley for almost two hours as he ate with his family at Pizza Express in Esher. The £60 fine didn't exactly make a dent in his bank balance - but people nearby were unimpressed, especially since there was a 50p-an-hour public car park just yards away.

8) For athletes in other sports, drugs testing is the norm. But imagine the outcry when it was suggested an elite group of 30 footballers might have to tell the World Anti-Doping Agency where they would be for an hour a day so they could be subject to the same rigorous testing regime. PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor warned: "We feel that to invade the privacy of a player's home would be a step too far."

9) Fabio Capello has introduced a tougher regime to the England camp - they are expected to turn up on time and not to use their mobile phones at dinner time. But the national side does not exactly have it hard. Ahead of last year's friendly against France, a Boeing 737 flew 26 miles to pick them up from Luton rather than Stansted, saving them 30 minutes extra on the coach. Insteady they had a half hour drive to Luton, 18 miles away, while VIP charter airline Titan Airways flew the plane to meet them from Stansted - a long haul 36 miles away.

10) And finally one ex Premier League star who was certainly used to the pampered lifestyle: ex Chelsea striker Gianluca Vialli. The Italian is the son of a self-made millionaire and grew up in a 60-room Italian castle, Castello di Belgioioso, in Cremona.

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