arminisgod
Player Valuation: £35m
Can't have it both ways mate. People hate it when MPs dodge questions.
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Can't have it both ways mate. People hate it when MPs dodge questions.
I think the reason football players are coming in for such stick is because they are the face of the game.
The public at large are seeing society as we know it close down.
They are seeing people in their thousands, often their friends or relatives or friends of friends and relatives, becoming very ill or actually dying from the plague.
They see frontline NHS staff, supermarket checkout girls and shelf stackers, food delivery drivers and others literally risking their own wellbeing to keep some semblance of normal life going.
They are seeing a whole raft of events like Glastonbury in June and Wimbledon in July rightly cancelled.
Yet in the midst if it all one organisation is holding out, coming up with one cockamamie plan after another, from holding a behind closed doors tournament in Birmingham to moving the circus to China, in order to complete a season to uphold “the integrity of the game”.
The Premier League.
What a load of twaddle.
Imagine being worried about the “integrity“ of a game when we are in the grip of a plague which has turned our society on its head.
The public see this.....and they know that what the PL is calling “integrity“ means they fear losing pounds, shillings and pence.
But as very few of us know the identity of the men bleating about the “integrity of the game” the public ire is directed at the names they do know...the players.
The public at large are seeing society as we know it close down.
They are seeing people in their thousands, often their friends or relatives or friends of friends and relatives, becoming very ill or actually dying from the plague.
They see frontline NHS staff, supermarket checkout girls and shelf stackers, food delivery drivers and others literally risking their own wellbeing to keep some semblance of normal life going.
They are seeing a whole raft of events like Glastonbury in June and Wimbledon in July rightly cancelled.
Yet in the midst if it all one organisation is holding out, coming up with one cockamamie plan after another, from holding a behind closed doors tournament in Birmingham to moving the circus to China, in order to complete a season to uphold “the integrity of the game”.
The Premier League.
What a load of twaddle.
Imagine being worried about the “integrity“ of a game when we are in the grip of a plague which has turned our society on its head.
The public see this.....and they know that what the PL is calling “integrity“ means they fear losing pounds, shillings and pence.
But as very few of us know the identity of the men bleating about the “integrity of the game” the public ire is directed at the names they do know...the players.
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/am-i-out-of-touch.107869/ this thread had it about right last summer. Current events are really showing the obscenity that is modern football. For a the transfer fee and wages paid to Sigurdsson, the NHS could have had a new hospital, or could have paid the wages of 1,000 nurses for the duration of his stay with us.
EFCINLONDON
Player Valuation: £950k
ANYONE should pay 75p for every pound earned over 200000 until the crisis is over regardless of whether a footballer or banker or whatever else.
All the usual complaints that talent will go elsewhere if you tax so much is irrelevant during a lockdown.
All the usual complaints that talent will go elsewhere if you tax so much is irrelevant during a lockdown.
The wages should and I think will take a cut.
But footballers equally aren't to blame for this crisis and Rooney is right to call out Hancock for his comments.
The players should be cutting salaries - as should managers and chief execs - at all the PL clubs to ensure none of those clubs are placing staff on furlough. But that has to come from the top down and people like Levy are always happy to shift the blame too. He'd make a cracking MP.
But footballers equally aren't to blame for this crisis and Rooney is right to call out Hancock for his comments.
The players should be cutting salaries - as should managers and chief execs - at all the PL clubs to ensure none of those clubs are placing staff on furlough. But that has to come from the top down and people like Levy are always happy to shift the blame too. He'd make a cracking MP.
The wages should and I think will take a cut.
But footballers equally aren't to blame for this crisis and Rooney is right to call out Hancock for his comments.
The players should be cutting salaries - as should managers and chief execs - at all the PL clubs to ensure none of those clubs are placing staff on furlough. But that has to come from the top down and people like Levy are always happy to shift the blame too. He'd make a cracking MP.
But footballers equally aren't to blame for this crisis and Rooney is right to call out Hancock for his comments.
The players should be cutting salaries - as should managers and chief execs - at all the PL clubs to ensure none of those clubs are placing staff on furlough. But that has to come from the top down and people like Levy are always happy to shift the blame too. He'd make a cracking MP.
Shevin Keedy
Player Valuation: £35m
I think that is spot on that.
It is a fact that players are picked on. Why not everyone who gets paid over 500k per year or something? Players tend to be working class lads who therefore do not deserve to be wealthy.
Wealth needs to be distributed in a more equitable way. You cant target a specific group. Does anybody deserve that kind of cash...no. But the world is what it is and needs levelling a bit
windymiller
Player Valuation: £70m
Saying that footballers shouldn't shoulder more responsibility because billionaires aren't is no more valid than saying footballers should because Joe Public are.
What I do agree with in that repost is that community is important in moments like this. Owners and footballers love to cite community when it is a positive PR opportunity for their company or brand but seem less inclined to be community minded in times of limited personal or commercial benefit.
I certainly feel part of a community at GP, on GOT and amongst my Everton-supporting peer group. I feel increasingly like that community is disconnected from the players, coaches and certainly owners.
Just because Hancock is a bad bell doesn't mean footballers are not.
Stan Lee Park
Player Valuation: £20m
100% this.
ParisToffee
Player Valuation: £5m
That is your opinion which you are entitled to ;-)
ParisToffee
Player Valuation: £5m
The Queen was on today (She's the one who wins the pools every January 1st) couldn't she have threw a few bob in the kitty for the carers etc. Couldn't
she have opened her house up to people who haven't got 2 bathrooms or w/cs or spare bedrooms, as Phil has retired and Andrew is in bad books,
Ginger and Wallis Simpson must have a crystal ball. Give the footy players a break!
she have opened her house up to people who haven't got 2 bathrooms or w/cs or spare bedrooms, as Phil has retired and Andrew is in bad books,
Ginger and Wallis Simpson must have a crystal ball. Give the footy players a break!
I assume that you're on £200K.
Seriously, what does this mean?
The PFA says the proposal would be "detrimental to our NHS" as it would equate to more than £500m in wage reductions over 12 months, and a loss in tax contributions of more than £200m to the UK government.
That suggests that footballers pay tax at 40%. Anything above £150,000 is taxed at 45% so what's it saying.
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