vickster
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As an example, one of plenty for £15-30mWhat comfort could 30 million quid buy that 15 million couldn't?
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What a crazy world we live in!!
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AndyRM
XOXO
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To most football fans in the U.K. perhaps...there is a potential audience of 1bn+
In China alone who might wish to watch Chinese players alongside a few global superstars. There is a big wide World outside Little Britain and even Europe...
Good luck to him. He’s been offered a truckload of money to continue playing football for the last few years of his career after being treated poorly by the club from which he had a contract. They didn’t want him there so he’s found an opportunity to pay him double what he was on until he retires
This is absolutely spot on.
Brandane
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It wasn't the "British" who won the World Cup in 1966 though. They were representing England only; not Britain.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
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- You want hills? We got hills
All these folk moaning about the money make me laugh
Put yourself in his shoes. He's got a few years left at the tip of the game, then that's it. He has no transferrable skills. He lives presumably a fairly expensive lifestyle. He may have another 50 years after finishing in football to fund
Someone comes along and offers him £100m for the next two years. It's perfect for him. He is past his peak as a player, the money lets him keep his lifestyle for life. You may say "Hey, Bale get a job like the rest of us and live a lifestyle like us". But why should he?
Put yourself in his shoes. He's got a few years left at the tip of the game, then that's it. He has no transferrable skills. He lives presumably a fairly expensive lifestyle. He may have another 50 years after finishing in football to fund
Someone comes along and offers him £100m for the next two years. It's perfect for him. He is past his peak as a player, the money lets him keep his lifestyle for life. You may say "Hey, Bale get a job like the rest of us and live a lifestyle like us". But why should he?
Drago
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I dont have a problem with him earning the cash per se. Hell, I would!
I think the issue for most folk is a society that rewards so called 'sportsmen' (why is laying on the ground pretending to be injured considered a sport?) so grandly, while those of real worth to the well being and progression of society, the nurses, teachers, soldiers etc, are valued sompoorly and paid so little.
If all the footballers disappeared overnight nothing much would change. If the nurses, teachers and soldiers disappeared overnight we'd be in serious schtuck.
Western society, capitalism, call it what you will, is progressing beyond sensible and sustainable limits, and footballers salaries are but a symptom of this. There will without any doubt be a major societal adjustment or upheaval brought about by climate, politics, or economics, or all three, and such useless fripperies will suddenly be worth their true value - very little.
I think the issue for most folk is a society that rewards so called 'sportsmen' (why is laying on the ground pretending to be injured considered a sport?) so grandly, while those of real worth to the well being and progression of society, the nurses, teachers, soldiers etc, are valued sompoorly and paid so little.
If all the footballers disappeared overnight nothing much would change. If the nurses, teachers and soldiers disappeared overnight we'd be in serious schtuck.
Western society, capitalism, call it what you will, is progressing beyond sensible and sustainable limits, and footballers salaries are but a symptom of this. There will without any doubt be a major societal adjustment or upheaval brought about by climate, politics, or economics, or all three, and such useless fripperies will suddenly be worth their true value - very little.
winjim
Smash the cistern
You embracing socialism, D?
Its because those same doctors, nurses and teachers etc are willing to pay** to watch those mega rich footballers (other sports are available).
Something I will never foget, it sort of haunts me.........
An after match phone in with Alan Green. A guy was really close to crying as he had taken his 2 kids to the game and it was dire. He had spent 50% of his weeks wages on that one game and "thier" team did not even try. He was very very upset.
**as I said previously, I really enjoy watching footy but would be happy to see Sky etc come crashing down.
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Accy cyclist
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- The hills of Accrington
This is absolutely why non football fans and many football fans dislike the money part of the game.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
you may not have a desire to be rich, yet your opening post mentions money quite a lot... just sayin'
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
I have no motivation to put the effort in the be rich, a subtle difference.
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
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- Portsmouth
To most football fans in the U.K. perhaps...there is a potential audience of 1bn+
In China alone who might wish to watch Chinese players alongside a few global superstars. There is a big wide World outside Little Britain and even Europe...
Good luck to him. He’s been offered a truckload of money to continue playing football for the last few years of his career after being treated poorly by the club from which he had a contract. They didn’t want him there so he’s found an opportunity to pay him double what he was on until he retires
+1 on both counts. There was no way any of the European clubs who could pay anywhere near that salary were going to do so. The best he could hope for in the Premier League would be to bench-sit at massively reduced wages. And not at one of the top clubs either. City wouldn't want him, nor Liverpool. United would have to shift Sanchez first. Arsenal....er, no. Tottenham didn't want him. Real screwed him over in multiple ways, I doubt the pay packet was compensation for that. Either way, his career at the top level was over. So, just the four CL titles, two La Liga titles, a Spanish Super Cup, a Copa del Rey, three UEFA Super Cups and three Club World Cups.
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- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Not aiming this at you - and I do agree with your two speed world to an extent but... this goes far wider than football doesn't it.
It includes the large majority of high-profile sports, music, film and, more recently, the social media industries etc.
The ironically amusing aspect of this is how large chunks of society despise some highly paid individuals yet are in raptures over others depending on what floats their boat or not.
One of our younger family members rants about over paid footballers yet positively adores the crass (imo) Kardashian mob.
