Footballers wages

[wookie70]

I read with horror that Gareth Bale was to receive £300k a week to play football. Surely at some point football fans are going to stand up and come out against these ridiculous salaries and also transfer fees. The money that pays and buys players starts off in our pocket. Every time the salaries go up or Transfer records are broken it comes pretty much straight out of our pockets. Some will come from increased sales of advertisers goods on Sports channels, some from Sky and other TV subscriptions and also from Season Tickets. At a time when most of us are struggling to make ends meet it seems incomprehensible that players are being paid so much. Bale earns more a week than Obama is paid a year. If he gets a twisted ankle and is out for a month his wages for that time will be an average wage for a lifetime of work for most folk.

I don't blame footballers but this love of celebrity and paying people ludicrous sums to ply their trade just seems ridiculous to me. Footballers have a skill and are at the top of their profession. It takes them years to learn their trade. I have no issue with them being paid Surgeons wages but not Surgeons Salaries on a Weekly basis and earning the same in a morning as most of us do a year.

Maybe a maximum wage is called for to bring things back into perspective. It won't suit the Big Clubs so Uefa and Fifa would never agree.

[Peevemor]

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I read with horror that Gareth Bale was to receive £300k a week to play football. Surely at some point football fans are going to stand up and come out against these ridiculous salaries and also transfer fees. The money that pays and buys players starts off in our pocket. Every time the salaries go up or Transfer records are broken it comes pretty much straight out of our pockets. Some will come from increased sales of advertisers goods on Sports channels, some from Sky and other TV subscriptions and also from Season Tickets. At a time when most of us are struggling to make ends meet it seems incomprehensible that players are being paid so much. Bale earns more a week than Obama is paid a year. If he gets a twisted ankle and is out for a month his wages for that time will be an average wage for a lifetime of work for most folk.

I don't blame footballers but this love of celebrity and paying people ludicrous sums to ply their trade just seems ridiculous to me. Footballers have a skill and are at the top of their profession. It takes them years to learn their trade. I have no issue with them being paid Surgeons wages but not Surgeons Salaries on a Weekly basis and earning the same in a morning as most of us do a year.

Maybe a maximum wage is called for to bring things back into perspective. It won't suit the Big Clubs so Uefa and Fifa would never agree.

I couldn't agree more.

[Jack]

Best not look at the rest of the entertainment industry, or even the joker that reads the news to you off a script or the weather celebrity.

[dangermouse]

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Best not look at the rest of the entertainment industry, or even the joker that reads the news to you off a script or the weather celebrity.

Sean Batty gets £300,000 a week

[Unseen work]

Agree completely. Unfortunately that's just where football is at, everyone supports and loves a team and wants to wear the colours with pride every week and turn up to watch the team and hope they achieve something

[LeithBoozy]

Funny enough, just what my wife said last night, when I mentioned it to her, he gets more in a week than I make in a lifetime.

[Sylar]

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Best not look at the rest of the entertainment industry, or even the joker that reads the news to you off a script or the weather celebrity.

Find me a news reader or weather presenter who earns £300k a week and I'll buy you a pint

[Wembley67]

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Find me a news reader or weather presenter who earns £300k a week and I'll buy you a pint

Matt Lauer for NBC...$25,000,000 a year (thanks google). You can keep your pint though

[Ross4356]

Posts like this come up every time a record is broken. They are boring and people need to get over it. Salaries are going to go up and there will be another post like this when the next players gets 350k a week

[Wembley67]

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Posts like this come up every time a record is broken. They are boring and people need to get over it. Salaries are going to go up and there will be another post like this when the next players gets 350k a week

Still an interesting topic for discussion do you not think?

Obviously not.

[Leithenhibby]

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Posts like this come up every time a record is broken. They are boring and people need to get over it. Salaries are going to go up and there will be another post like this when the next players gets 350k a week

Sorry, but I don't agree

If, and it's a big if, TV money was pulled for what ever reason, you can bet your bottom dollar that most football clubs would end up like the banks!.. We all know what happened to them.

Morally, it's wrong on so many fronts. For me, I think football was so much better for the right reasons when Pat Stanton Jock Stein and many other greats ......... (the list is endless) plied their trade with such craftsmanship And just for a living and a wage. Plus the love for the game.

[Stringer]

Spanish tax is a lot thou. They will take 180,000 from bale

[Jones28]

Charlie Sheen was being paid $1.2million per episode of "2 and a half men"

Every aspect of the entertainment industry pays outrageously.

It can all go and do one as far as I'm concerned.

[Hibs Giant]

It's more money than he'll likely know what to do with. It'll probably be spent gold plating his taps and on countless greedy slags. I can't help thinking there's a better use of resources, while innumerable people work themselves to death trying to feed their families.

[CyberSauzee]

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It's more money than he'll likely know what to do with. It'll probably be spent gold plating his taps and on countless greedy slags. I can't help thinking there's a better use of resources, while innumerable people work themselves to death trying to feed their families.

When getting paid at 49.6 pence per second, you can easily go for a 10 minute dump, wipe your arse with a few tenners, and you've still made the best part of £200+ without having to strain yourself too much. Easy money!

[Ritchie]

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[LioNeilMessi]

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Spanish tax is a lot thou. They will take 180,000 from bale

They have a sport stars tax which is closer to 20% I've heard. Although that could of changed by now.

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[wookie70]

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Posts like this come up every time a record is broken. They are boring and people need to get over it. Salaries are going to go up and there will be another post like this when the next players gets 350k a week

To be honest unfairness in society is neither boring or something I would like to get over. The problem is some fans are quite happy to live in an I'm all right Jack world.

The entertainment industry etc are equally at fault but this is a football forum so thought I best concentrate on that.

I am 45 so came to supporting Hibs at a time where money was starting to come more and more into the game. For what its worth I think money and in particular TV money seems to reward everything most fans hate and makes the things we treasure disappear. Loyalty, local kids being brought through the ranks and becoming heros, kick off times and connection with the players. All of these things have practically disappeared to a greater or lesser amount. Cheating, corruption and advantages for the favoured big teams are growing each year.

It may be boring to some and I appreciate this is a problem accross society not just a football one but it really gets on my goat

[Beefster]

I think it's fair enough to pay top footballers big wages. The likes of Messi, Ronaldo and Bale will earn their clubs way more in a year than they'll earn in a salary. Shirt sales, sponsorships, TV revenue etc etc is massive for these clubs worldwide.

Top footballers are just like pop stars and movie stars these days.

[wookie70]

they may well earn their clubs money but yet again that comes from me. My main issue is that the fan is always the loser in this. You could argue they get to see the best players in the world but they could still do that if money in football was a tenth of what it is now. A season ticket and Sky subscription could also come down 90 percent. It is the old socialist in me but I hatr seeing the rich get richer on the back of the less well off. The next time anyone complains about thr price of anything football related think where that money goes.

[Ross4356]

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To be honest unfairness in society is neither boring or something I would like to get over. The problem is some fans are quite happy to live in an I'm all right Jack world.

The entertainment industry etc are equally at fault but this is a football forum so thought I best concentrate on that.

I am 45 so came to supporting Hibs at a time where money was starting to come more and more into the game. For what its worth I think money and in particular TV money seems to reward everything most fans hate and makes the things we treasure disappear. Loyalty, local kids being brought through the ranks and becoming heros, kick off times and connection with the players. All of these things have practically disappeared to a greater or lesser amount. Cheating, corruption and advantages for the favoured big teams are growing each year.

It may be boring to some and I appreciate this is a problem accross society not just a football one but it really gets on my goat

Not everyone has socialist ideals and are happy with the best player being paid what is on offer. In regards to rest of the stuff you mentioned, you're living in the past mate. Cheating & corruption is not prevalent in English and Scottish football to my knowledge either

[Haymaker]

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They have a sport stars tax which is closer to 20% I've heard. Although that could of changed by now.

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Think that changed recently.

Still not sure Bale is worth 300k a week, that sort of cash for Messi or Ronaldo maybe. I dont see Bale getting 200 goals at the same pace as Ronaldo!

[wookie70]

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Not everyone has socialist ideals and are happy with the best player being paid what is on offer. In regards to rest of the stuff you mentioned, you're living in the past mate. Cheating & corruption is not prevalent in English and Scottish football to my knowledge either

The past was a better place in many ways. History does have a habit of repeating itself or at least thats what Im hoping for. I appreciate there is an alternative view too I can never understand it though.

Players diving would be an example of cheating for me. Seeded cup draws to suit big teams. Transfer bans that aren't. Rascism not being punished properly. Media reporting of events. 20 percent tax rate for sportsmen. Plenty cheating and corruption from where I am and money imo has a part to play.

[big gogs]

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strange ,when a footballer earns a massive transfer fee,or someone wins millions on the lottery,it always brings out the worst in the people ..cap the wages,put a limit on the lottery,why,how many buy a lottery ticket to win millions i do,gareth bale moved for a huge fee ,its not his fault his new club wants to pay him 3 hundred thousand a week,be honest now how many of you would knock it back

[wookie70]

I'm not blaming Bale and his wages dwarf that of most lottery millionaires. Strange how wanting a fairer share for all is seen as bring out the worst. One of the reasons I love Hibs is their history as being generous and socially responsible. If it wasnt in my blood I would still probably have chosen Hibs to support. My worst fears have been confirmed that football will continue in the same vain. To be fair the Union man in me would encourage a majority view. I would warn though that you should always be carefulvwhat you wish for. We may not be too far away from the Big Clubs sucking everything out of football

[big gogs]

big clubs have always sucked the life out of football.rangers and celtic have done it to hibs for years,its annoying but money talks louder than loyalty.i wanted brown and thomson to stay,but history tells a different story.

[ancient hibee]

It's nothing new-just more publicity.The Famous Five were regularly pleased to have difficulty putting their boots on because they were stuffed with fivers(courtesy of undeclared gate receipts).Gordon Smith came out of training one day to find a new Porsche sports car waiting for him.There was no maximum wage in Scottish football so good players were quite happy to stay here rather than go to England and have the maximum wage come into play and be used as an excuse by club management.

[Eyrie]

Playing Devil's advocate to an extent, but why shouldn't an employee like Bale get a cut of the money his employer Real Madrid makes?

[wookie70]

He should get a cut but it is more of the scale of things. It just seems ridiculous to me in a country with mass unemployment that someone can earn so much for playing sport. If Real are making so much money then they should maybe think about rewarding the fans with reduced prices. Players wages are completely out of control and it wont take much for football to implode. To me it is a similar situation to the banks with the market being overheated for the benifit of the few at the top. When it goes pop you can bet your bottom dollar, if you still have one left, we the fans will be expected to stump up.

Are Real Madrid a proper company running at a profit without state assistance. I'm not that well versed in Spanish Fotball but know there is quite alot of state money that goes to clubs over there.

[Onceinawhile]

It's not too bad, especially when you consider someone like johnny drop earns 30 million for 6 months acting in a turd f ilm like the lone ranger.