A Russian betting firm wants to buy soothsaying World Cup octopus Paul and hire him as a bookmaker with a salary of $US5,000 ($A5,775) a month, local media report.
"He will be one of our 120 staff employees," Oleg Zhuravsky, co-owner of Bet League, told Soviet Sport newspaper.
Zhuravsky added: "Our specialists receive around $US3,000 ($A3,465) a month. So we will pay Paul $US5,000 ($A5,775)."
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Paul earned superstar status by correctly predicting the results of all of Germany's games, including its semi-final defeat to Spain. He also was right in forecasting Spain's victory in the final.
Zhuravsky said he was ready to pay the Sea Life oceanarium attraction in the German city of Oberhausen, where the eight-legged oracle lives, as much as E100,000 ($A148,809).
