Malaysian football fans on Twitter have once again raised the issue of professional clubs overpaying their players in the country.
On Sunday, Twitter user RimauXI posted a list of average annual player salary in the 2019 J1 League, stating that several Malaysian players in the Malaysian league are paid figures that are too high to make playing overseas attractive.
The tweet sparked responses from other fans and fan pages, as well as members of the Malaysian football fraternity.
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Many of them are of the opinion that pro footballers in the country are paid too high despite the lack of financial returns yielded by Malaysian clubs and Malaysian football's limited success at the international stage.