no
Derrick Martin $325,054.48 for 6 years.
The longest NBA contract ever signed by a player is a five-year deal.
The club is alleged to have signed a player who also has a contract with a third party. i.e. that the contract signed between the player and QPR is superseded by a prior contract. This happened once before when West Ham 'signed' Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano but it was later proven that the players activities were 'owned' by a third party. i.e. West Ham had not actually signed a contract with the two players but in fact this third party. see "Third party ownership in association football" in Wikipedia who have xplained it better than me.
You get signed
I believe Eto'o just signed a contract with a Russian football team for upwards of 29 million (or euro's I dont recall) a year
bobby hull
They are under contract when signed and they are part of a union.
The first football player to make a million dollars a year was Joe Namath. In 1969, Namath signed a three-year contract with the New York Jets that paid him a total of $3 million, making him the highest-paid player in football at the time.
Once they have signed a contract or the player received a franchise tag
Yes, a lease is a signed contract
Donovan McNabb.. 12 years with Eagles
A contract