I find it absolutely disgusting at the salaries paid in the premier league.........Willian just being the late example.......and Arsenal...layingeof 50-55 staff...if they paid him 10% less they could keep them on.
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I find it absolutely disgusting at the salaries paid in the premier league.........Willian just being the late example.......and Arsenal...layingeof 50-55 staff...if they paid him 10% less they could keep them on.
Arsenal's owner is worth $10bn and spent £550m just two years ago to buy out the remaining 30%. I don't think one player's wages are the issue here.
Seen how much Lineker's on?!!
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Maybe the 50 staff should have been better at footballQuote:
Originally Posted by Maurice Swan
Football is dying on its arse. If this pandemic has shown us anything it’s almost pointless playing in empty stadiums which ironically most of the big clubs could do regardless as they get so much Tv and sponsorship cash.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
Sssh , I've been through hell talking about that luvvyQuote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
Fixed for youQuote:
Originally Posted by life on mars
I think Rashford should front this issue up and negotiate a football salary cap , for these special times that saves jobs , and look to find a way to help fund from those clubs that don't sit at the top elite table that may fall, how any club with wealth can claim furlough or make staff redundant whilst paying obscene wages and transfer / agent fees isn't good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maurice Swan
That Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson earned $87.5 million this last year .........but I’m not calling him a greedy twat to his face, I'll leave that to Life on Mars:hehe:
Why focus of footballers when there are many greedy, slimy bastards in big business in London, all friends of Boris Johnson, who earn far more than the vast majority of footballers.
because the futBOLers get paYD MORE THAN SOLDIURS crowd have a very narrow field of visionQuote:
Originally Posted by Former Labour leader
Who’ll be earning it and more for the rest of their life, not just for an 8/10 year window.Quote:
Originally Posted by Former Labour leader
I'd rather working class lads and their families get the money. We aint half a nation of bootlickers at times.Quote:
Originally Posted by delmbox
The 'Bosses' 'Landowners' etc but lets have a go at people who are probably from the same environment that most of us are from.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
because it's a football forum about football and that's what we are supposed to talk about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Former Labour leader
Seems logical..Quote:
Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK
That’s what I said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Why does no-one ever have a go at actors' salaries? It's exactly the same principle
See my Dwayne Johnson above in this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Llandaff Blue
As you well know this forum very often strays in politics.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK
This business about criticising footballers over their salaries is like people having a moan about the woman down the road who does a bit of cleaning on the side while claiming benefits. The net loss to the Treasury ie you and me is feck all compared to the billions that big business and its owners are avoiding in tax, very often illegally, but certainly always immorily, by diverting profits via offshore tax havens.
Er, I don’t think so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Former Labour leader
No one earns a SALARY like footballers do.
People in business might have a decent salary but a highly paid footballer will still get paid more in salary in a month than they do in a year.
People in business make up their compensation in shares, (the values of which can go up or down - lol). bonuses etc and can get paid handsomely as a result.
But in terms of weekly take home pay no other job come close to how much footballers get paid
This is all in the public domain.
For how long though? A fat cat business man/actor/musician etc may go on receiving ever increasing sums all his life whereas a footballer has a 9/10/11 year time slot if he’s lucky. A footballer negotiating, say, a three year contract at the age of about 27, is 99% of the time negotiating to earn the highest wage he’ll ever earn in his life (for only three guaranteed years). Unthinkable in industry for anyone that young to have hit their earning peak. Even us minions have wage increases throughout our working life, a 60 year old would obviously be taking home more than when he was 25, 35 years earlier, not so a footballer. They’re very often working class lads like us who deserve to make hay while the sun shines.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
There's too much money in football, but too many people blame the players for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
The truth is, if player wages fall, it won't get cheaper for the fans. The money will still be sloshing around but it'll go to some faceless people who absolutely don't deserve it. At the moment at least the money goes to those with the talent, who have sacrificed their lives from about 10 (possibly younger) and who are putting their balls on the line
You must be joking if you think footballers earning big money are any different to business men. I looked up three names in Companies House on specQuote:
Originally Posted by Former Labour leader
Neil Warnock has a media business and a hotel business.
Joseph ( Joe) Ralls has a property development business
Aaaron James Ramsey has three businesses including a big bespoke property business
I bet if I spent some time looking through the premier league players a lot will be operating significant businesses.
The problem is that the longer the pandemic goes on, companies like Sky are mopping up.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
The premier league will still get obscene money from a TV as it will be the only way to watch football.
The sad thing is division 1 & 2 are very close to being totally skint and virtually closed
It's supply and demand. There are a limited number of top class players around, so you have to pay them top, top money to get them. Or they just go somewhere else. If the club says no, they lose the player.
The same doesn't really apply to Lineker. I think he's a good presenter, but he's fronting one programme once a week, for all that money. Why so much? I can't believe they can't find someone equally good, who would do the same job for far less.
It's all relevant, we are focusing on those players in pl earning massive wages.
There are also lots of players all over the world who won't be getting paid fortunes.
Also you have to think about 2 billion people set out to be a footballers. Those getting a very good living from it is probably a very small percentage.
For me football is as expensive as you want it to be. If you don't want to pay to watch sky you don't have to.
Because footballers generally come from poor or working class backgrounds and are often foreign or an ethnic minorityQuote:
Originally Posted by Former Labour leader
Foreign, poor and black. The 3 characteristics the Daily Mail tell their readers to hate.