Twenty Eight Quid???

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Bruce Wayne said:
That's what it takes. Last season when clubs had vast areas of empty seating they were forced to look at ticket prices and several clubs froze prices.

Man Utd have been the biggest club going the opposite direction and have raised prices by over 10% to fund the summer spending spree. No, hang on, the Glazer family funded the summer spending spree (for those who want a new owner ;) )
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ahh bruce, its a shame gotham needs protecting so vigilantly - if only your cutting comments and sharp points were in more plentiful supply.

such is the cost.
 

The government or the FA or some higher authority really needs to step in and put some rules in place regarding player salaries. Football, I think most of us can agree, is similar to a drug, so just like cigarettes, if the prices goes up it rarely affects are desicion to buy. So effectively, the agents and players are exploiting that hold of fans over their clubs to line their pockets.

I am completely against paying someone £130,000 a week for playing football, its immoral, as indirectly thousands of people are being exploited for a small group of individuals to get very very very rich for doing very very very little.

Clearly if someone doesnt steps in and the fans continue to be exploited then we are going to head to some major outburst from the fans as pressure continues to rise.
 
It isn't as bad as some sports out here. Recently Alex Rodriguez signed a new deal with the New York Yankee's that will net him $27,708,525 for this season alone (Salary, not endorsments)!!!!!!!
 
Dylan said:
It isn't as bad as some sports out here. Recently Alex Rodriguez signed a new deal with the New York Yankee's that will net him $27,708,525 for this season alone (Salary, not endorsments)!!!!!!!
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Thats exactly what I mean, how many people are living in poverty for a person to fund a lifestyle like that. I'm all for capitalism and having the chance to get rich, but thats obscene for what he does for a living.
 

True, in the big picture of things, $27mill a year is piddling. Look at Gates with his $50 billion personal fortune. Or Sam Walton who was at around $100 billion before he died and left each one of his kids $20 billion.
 
Dylan said:
True, in the big picture of things, $27mill a year is piddling. Look at Gates with his $50 billion personal fortune. Or Sam Walton who was at around $100 billion before he died and left each one of his kids $20 billion.
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Yeah thats true, but anyone who does such little for so much is doing it simply through the poverty of others.

OK I'll stop preaching about the imoral high earners now or the feds will be on me for being a communist! :lol:
 
footballers train 6 days in 7. and they do charity and social events.

some pony tailed suit sits on his fat arse and uses his phone and his solicitors to make money.

footballers pay tax. gordon browns friends have special rules whereby they pay 10% instead of 40%.

like i said, wrong goose to aim at.
 
Come now. If what those 'suits' (was there a pun intended there suits?) did was so easy then a lot more people would be doing it. I'm sure many will regard what footballers do as quite easy, it's only running around kicking a ball after all, but ask your average Sunday league player how easy it is and you'll get a different answer.

The fact is that 40,000+ pay £30 a week to watch these guys, that's £1.2 million right there (or 50k for each of the 22 starters). Add in the many thousands that pay however much to watch them on tv each month, not just here but abroad as well. Add in how much sponsors are willing to pay to be placed next to these footballers. Add in the merchandising that these players help to sell and you get serious money and the players know that it's by virtue of their talent that all of this money can be made.

It's the same with film stars. They earn based on their commercial appeal, both at box office and movie store (and to a lesser extent merchandising etc.) Now personally I think most Tom Cruise movies suck arse and he's nuttier than a fruit cake, but as long as millions pay to watch his films he'll get paid millions to star in them.

It's just the law of the markets I'm afraid chaps, however unjust it may appear. If millions of people wanted to pay to watch me do something then I expect I'd be equally well paid. As far as the financial side of the game goes footballers are less about winning on the pitch as they are about putting bums on seats, feet through shop doors and eyeballs on the tv. They're products to be sold to you and I.
 

a lot more people would like access to 'the old boy network', 'jobs for the boys' i think it has been named.

if i could have been part of the deal at rover whereby i was part of the few that bought it for £10 and gave myself and fellow directors millions of pounds worth of golden parachuttes then i would have. shame the poor bastards that worked there go so screwed over with regards severance and back pay.

glaxo smith klein make billions, because they supply a product to the health service and there are many takers for it in britain. compare it with the poor people suffering in african states and the intransigence shown by companies that could save lives but wont because it means slightly less on the share dividends.

disgusting doesnt even begin to address the ill feeling towards such cowardly and cunniving corporations.

professional athletes are the wrong goose to be gunning for. maybe take a look at the "Barclays premiership" for an idea of who to target first.
 
I think the FA should take a serious look at Wage capping. John Terry is on more money then he's worth its beyond a joke how much people are making.
 

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