MattHB
Proud Daddy
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If you were born looking like you'd want compensation too tho?
Are footballers worth their money.
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Accy cyclist
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and he gets to keep most of it as well!!! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oney-dodge-millions-tax-cashing-loophole.html
MrJamie
Oaf on a Bike
I don't really follow football, although sometimes i'll watch Barcelona on TV as they always seem to be pretty entertaining. I guess better or more followed players, also brings in more money, more viewing figures etc.
In Formula 1 where some drivers are paid multi million £ salaries, quite often they bring in lots of sponsorship and TV time to a team, I imagine there's a bit of that in football too.
In Formula 1 where some drivers are paid multi million £ salaries, quite often they bring in lots of sponsorship and TV time to a team, I imagine there's a bit of that in football too.
adamangler
Veteran
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- Wakefield
no.
mrandmrspoves
Middle aged bald git.
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- Narfuk
I don't have any interest in football. I don't blame footballers taking home obscene amounts of money for kicking a sphere around on a bit of grass though. Are they worth the money? Of course they're not.
If football fans felt the same as me they would boycott football games where they are being asked to pay such stupid amounts of money to watch. If all football fans did this for a few months( along with cancelling their subs for Sky sports, and buying ridiculously over-priced merchandise - football clubs would have to stop paying silly wages.
If football fans felt the same as me they would boycott football games where they are being asked to pay such stupid amounts of money to watch. If all football fans did this for a few months( along with cancelling their subs for Sky sports, and buying ridiculously over-priced merchandise - football clubs would have to stop paying silly wages.
Psyklon
Well-Known Member
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- Widnes Cheshire
NO!!!
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
and he gets to keep most of it as well!!! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oney-dodge-millions-tax-cashing-loophole.html
oh well... it seems our high earning footballers are being just as deviant regarding paying tax as many of our pop stars, racing drivers, businessmen and ex politicians are.
It seems that when one has more than enough, all of a sudden they can never have too much.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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The rich spend a fortune paying people to save them money.
totallyfixed
Veteran
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- The only county without a McDonalds
If premiership footballers were to set an example to children of how to behave with humility and good sportsmanship, which they don't, then they might be worth one tenth of what they are currently paid, but they don't. They exemplify a lot of what is wrong with our society, greed, lack of respect, cheating and lying....that will do for now.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
How do we determine the 'worth' of one participant of in one sport over one in another? Or the worth of a poet versus a widget salesman, or that of an airline pilot over a train driver?
They are, just like houses, worth what someone is prepared to pay them.
They are, just like houses, worth what someone is prepared to pay them.
skudupnorth
Cycling Skoda lover
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- Astley,Manchester
I would rant like a madman about overpaid footballers,but the final answer would only end up being..........NO !
Rant over
Rant over
Drago
Legendary Member
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I terms of the effort they expend vs. any measurable benefit they bring to society they ain't worth the National average wage.
But it's the way it is so I'm not gonna sweat it.
But it's the way it is so I'm not gonna sweat it.
400bhp
Guru
Unfortunately this is correct.
Are most people socialists here then as that what the replies suggest? What should any of us earn?
The problem wrt footballers, surely, is the distortion on the "market" imposed by the Murdoch Millions: To establish the Sky franchise, he bought football and in the process ensured that fans pay twice over - for Sky (plus he pockets the advertising revenue) and at the turnstile as the salary spiral gobbles the TV money and high gate receipts are needed to compete.
No more than a few year before I started watching football as a kid in the early 60's, the players went on the same bus as the fans to the ground and even top pros had a day job (Tom Finney = The Preston Plumber, Alan Kelly 1970's PNE & Ireland keeper = Men's hairdresser). Compare that to the millionaire lifestyle of even second tier pro's now.
I've been convinced for a long time that footballers wages continue to be quoted in £/week to disguise the real amount: Jonny fan earns £25k per year. Hears that his hero earns £100k per week, looks at the two numbers (£25k vs £100k) and does not explicitly recognise that the true comparison is £25k vs £5.2 Million. In one year the player earns more than the fan will in his whole working life AND will pay a clever lawyer to arrange a sham company whereby he pays far below the normal tax rate.
No more than a few year before I started watching football as a kid in the early 60's, the players went on the same bus as the fans to the ground and even top pros had a day job (Tom Finney = The Preston Plumber, Alan Kelly 1970's PNE & Ireland keeper = Men's hairdresser). Compare that to the millionaire lifestyle of even second tier pro's now.
I've been convinced for a long time that footballers wages continue to be quoted in £/week to disguise the real amount: Jonny fan earns £25k per year. Hears that his hero earns £100k per week, looks at the two numbers (£25k vs £100k) and does not explicitly recognise that the true comparison is £25k vs £5.2 Million. In one year the player earns more than the fan will in his whole working life AND will pay a clever lawyer to arrange a sham company whereby he pays far below the normal tax rate.
aces_up1504
Well-Known Member
You have to remember that there very few footballers getting paid vast sums of money say over £50 grand a week They are probably 0.1% of proffesional footballers.
They are the best at what they do and there fore command the biggest salaries. It is the same for any Job, Yes what ever you do in life job wise, people will be paid different amounts depending on market demands.
You dont hear anyone moan that say Tom Cruise was paid £10m for a film or a Paul McCartney sitting on £500million + fortune?, one because he act ( up for question?) and the other wrote a few songs that happened to be popular. Is there any difference?
They are the best at what they do and there fore command the biggest salaries. It is the same for any Job, Yes what ever you do in life job wise, people will be paid different amounts depending on market demands.
You dont hear anyone moan that say Tom Cruise was paid £10m for a film or a Paul McCartney sitting on £500million + fortune?, one because he act ( up for question?) and the other wrote a few songs that happened to be popular. Is there any difference?
