What a disgrace!... The best doctors in the world that work crazy hours and shifts don't even make his weekly wage in a year! Football is getting a little out of hand with the whole money spending situation!
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Thread: Wayne Rooney - 300K P/W
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22-02-2014 08:56 AM #91
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22-02-2014 08:59 AM #92
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He could get the services of a few old hookers for that wage ;-)
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22-02-2014 09:03 AM #93This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-02-2014 09:07 AM #94
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Gie it tae hertz
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22-02-2014 09:08 AM #95This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The best doctors in the world don't have tens of thousands of people interested in paying good money to go watch them do their thing each week. Is it fair? Maybe not. Is it fair the guy who lives downstairs from me stinks, looks like worzel gummage and plays crap music at 10 on a Saturday morning? Maybe not. But life's not fair. Don't see why folk (not a dig at merritthibees) feel the need to get so worked up about things like this (Rooney not my neighbour..) though.
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22-02-2014 09:17 AM #96This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-02-2014 09:31 AM #98This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-02-2014 09:33 AM #99
Was Eto not on £316,000 a week at Anzhi?
I bet Messi, Ronaldo will be on similar and but we wouldnt get a 4 page thread
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22-02-2014 09:35 AM #100
Another way to look at Rooney's contract is to consider how much Man Utd would have to spend on a transfer fee and wages for a replacement. At least with Rooney they know what they are getting and how well he fits their systems. Look at Veron for an example of how even the best managers can get it wrong when buying a player.
As regards player wages, most of the current Hibs squad will be on more than most of us make in a year (£1k per week = £52k per annum) and look how many complaints there are on here about the standard of player that we have. However I've yet to see a practical proposition on how player wages can be reduced to more reasonable levels (assuming "reasonable" can be agreed) when there is a global marketplace for footballers.Mature, sensible signature required for responsible position. Good prospects for the right candidate. Apply within.
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22-02-2014 09:37 AM #101
It's nothing to do with football per se, and everything to do with market forces.
[Insert sport here] is massively popular, therefore lots of people want to watch it, therefore it's hugely profitable to sell TV subscriptions (and to a much lesser extent, tickets), therefore TV companies pay huge amounts for the rights to the competitions with the best players, therefore the prize money (not even for winning, just for competing) in those competitions is huge, therefore it's financially prudent for clubs to spend large chunks of money on players (particularly wages, which are more important than transfer fees) to make sure that they stay in those competitions.
It doesn't matter what the sport is, it would go the same way. In this case, it happens to be football.
That's capitalism, folks.
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22-02-2014 09:38 AM #102This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Aye it is.
This could go on all day
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22-02-2014 09:40 AM #103This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-02-2014 09:40 AM #104This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Naw it couldnae
(cos I've got to go walk the dog soon )
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22-02-2014 09:42 AM #105This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
There's an argument about the value of nurses, firemen, policemen, plumbers etc to society but the fact is that plenty of folk, with training, have the ability to do these jobs so there is not the same desperation for their individual services. Most professions have more people capable of doing the job than can actually make a living doing it.
Aside from the income he generates, becoming a footballer of close to Rooney's calibre takes a lifetime of training and even then, despite millions upon millions trying to achieve it, very few actually manage it.
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22-02-2014 09:56 AM #106This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
An NHS consultant, from example, requires 15-20 years training and study from beginning medical school, and is currently paid £101,000 per annum. If Rooney is 'worth' £15 million per annum, then we need to question the type of system which enables this to happen, how it comes to these crazy decisions, and whether we can find a better way of allocating the national wealth.HIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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22-02-2014 10:00 AM #107
We'll look back at this in a few years time and think it's chicken feed. Football pay is going the way of US sports.
As previous posters have said, it's the gap between the pay of the fans and that of these overpaid players that sticks in the craw.
None of the TV deal money for English clubs has gone to reduce ST prices. Funny that.
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22-02-2014 10:56 AM #109
Rooney while a good player is not worth anywhere near that no player is, however if we put into context players that are better than him at this moment and forget the over inflated world they live in if we take the best players in the epl say imho that yaya, saurez, ozil, van percey, navas, silva, kompany, and a few more that i cant think of just now but all these Guys are better and should be on more than the is
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22-02-2014 11:16 AM #110This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-02-2014 11:22 AM #111
I just can't get excited about footballers' earnings any more. On the whole football is entertainment. It's fun, thrilling (some of the time) and a Good Thing.
Rather Rooney got that sort of money than some banker, or criminal.
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22-02-2014 01:20 PM #112This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Important things suffer, because things that are not that important are taking higher priority.
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22-02-2014 01:26 PM #113This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I'm not arguing that Rooney is 'worth' more to society than anyone else. I'm arguing that, to his employers, he's worth what they're willing to pay. Its a private matter and there is no suggestion that he's evading tax so I don't see the issue.
If you want a different system in this country, vote for it. That's the nature of democracy.
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22-02-2014 01:27 PM #114This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I'm not saying that this is a good thing, but there are some awfully naive posts on this thread.
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22-02-2014 01:30 PM #115This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We accept a system that is actually quite damaging when you look at the bigger picture.
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22-02-2014 01:33 PM #116This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
A company in the US has just been sold for $19bn to Facebook, making the founders (some of whom were struggling to find a job four years ago) billionaires overnight. How sensible the amount paid was can be rightly debated but you wouldn't grudge the founders of the company the rewards of their initiative, creativity and hard work, would you?
PS Apologies if this is moving into 'Holy Ground' territory.
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22-02-2014 01:34 PM #117This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-02-2014 01:43 PM #118This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-02-2014 07:59 PM #119This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I also don't agree with your assertion that we live in a democracy. Maybe 50 or so years ago, when politicians weren't (as) corrupt, we did but now, democracy is dead as a vehicle of government. What we actually live under is a kleptocracy, or in layman's terms, a system where the ruling class become richer at the commoner's expense whilst masquerading it as being in the interests of the general population. I think the evidence of politician's behaviour in recent years fully supports the kleptocracy argument and the carrot of a vote every 4-5 years is not sufficient to argue that we live under democratic rule.
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23-02-2014 04:54 AM #120This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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