Top level footballers' pay is now simply obscene.
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Yes i've heard all the counter arguments about a brief 15 year career and ''good luck if they can get it'', etc.
BUT.
Ronaldo now gets a A MILLION pounds per Instagram advert on his page. That's on top of the Facebook, Twitter and other online earnings. Then there is the money he earns for, erm, oh yes, being him, whatever they call that now. Add in the £500,000 he charges to open a big shop or centre, etc. and of course add in the million pounds a fortnight for playing football. Mental!
Rashford has total income around a million pounds a month, as another example.
People tell me that their boot deal worth often 10 million quid a year is not at the expense of anyone and good luck to him. Actually it's hard up parents paying way over the odds for his boots who suffer whilst he collects telephone number money without leaving his bed.
Ronaldo (countless other players are on insane money too) made 12 million pounds in 24 hours last month and was out of his house for an hour that day.
The pie is only so big, it's time the stupidly wealthy paid a lot more to the have nots and have little.
This from someone far enough right that i've been called a Nazi by wokes in the past.
BUT.
Ronaldo now gets a A MILLION pounds per Instagram advert on his page. That's on top of the Facebook, Twitter and other online earnings. Then there is the money he earns for, erm, oh yes, being him, whatever they call that now. Add in the £500,000 he charges to open a big shop or centre, etc. and of course add in the million pounds a fortnight for playing football. Mental!
Rashford has total income around a million pounds a month, as another example.
People tell me that their boot deal worth often 10 million quid a year is not at the expense of anyone and good luck to him. Actually it's hard up parents paying way over the odds for his boots who suffer whilst he collects telephone number money without leaving his bed.
Ronaldo (countless other players are on insane money too) made 12 million pounds in 24 hours last month and was out of his house for an hour that day.
The pie is only so big, it's time the stupidly wealthy paid a lot more to the have nots and have little.
This from someone far enough right that i've been called a Nazi by wokes in the past.
Yep. I won’t pay to watch 22 millionaires, kick a bag of wind around, in their underwear. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the people who will, seem to be mentally challenged, tribal, cavemen. As long as that continues, T.V. Companies will plough money into the game, and the players can continue to take the piss with their wages.
Ronaldo earns £1mil per Instagram post because he has the most followers in the world. recently just got over 300million i believe ? (may be wrong)
He's the biggest sports star in the world
A few years ago when Tiger Woods was 1000th in the world he was still one of the highest earning sports stars. Something like £50 mil sponsors.. $100k prize/tournament earnings.
It isn't a new fad or way of earning it's just Ronaldo now earns unbelievably more than the next person.
I bet Lebron James/Tom Brady get paid a fair wack for their posts
He's the biggest sports star in the world
A few years ago when Tiger Woods was 1000th in the world he was still one of the highest earning sports stars. Something like £50 mil sponsors.. $100k prize/tournament earnings.
It isn't a new fad or way of earning it's just Ronaldo now earns unbelievably more than the next person.
I bet Lebron James/Tom Brady get paid a fair wack for their posts
BroadsRS6 said:
Yes i've heard all the counter arguments about a brief 15 year career and ''good luck if they can get it'', etc.
BUT.
Ronaldo now gets a A MILLION pounds per Instagram advert on his page. That's on top of the Facebook, Twitter and other online earnings. Then there is the money he earns for, erm, oh yes, being him, whatever they call that now. Add in the £500,000 he charges to open a big shop or centre, etc. and of course add in the million pounds a fortnight for playing football. Mental!
Rashford has total income around a million pounds a month, as another example.
People tell me that their boot deal worth often 10 million quid a year is not at the expense of anyone and good luck to him. Actually it's hard up parents paying way over the odds for his boots who suffer whilst he collects telephone number money without leaving his bed.
Ronaldo (countless other players are on insane money too) made 12 million pounds in 24 hours last month and was out of his house for an hour that day.
The pie is only so big, it's time the stupidly wealthy paid a lot more to the have nots and have little.
This from someone far enough right that i've been called a Nazi by wokes in the past.
We’re all responsible. As a society, these are the people we value, rightly or wrongly. We can change that if we want. BUT.
Ronaldo now gets a A MILLION pounds per Instagram advert on his page. That's on top of the Facebook, Twitter and other online earnings. Then there is the money he earns for, erm, oh yes, being him, whatever they call that now. Add in the £500,000 he charges to open a big shop or centre, etc. and of course add in the million pounds a fortnight for playing football. Mental!
Rashford has total income around a million pounds a month, as another example.
People tell me that their boot deal worth often 10 million quid a year is not at the expense of anyone and good luck to him. Actually it's hard up parents paying way over the odds for his boots who suffer whilst he collects telephone number money without leaving his bed.
Ronaldo (countless other players are on insane money too) made 12 million pounds in 24 hours last month and was out of his house for an hour that day.
The pie is only so big, it's time the stupidly wealthy paid a lot more to the have nots and have little.
This from someone far enough right that i've been called a Nazi by wokes in the past.
Tiger Woods earned 60 odd million dollars last year while only 200k ish of it was from playing golf….you going to complain about him too? Or Lewis Hamilton who earns about 700k a week? If you’re the best in the world at whatever you do, you’re going to be paid handsomely for it and rightly so.
It’s just jealousy in a capitalist world.
Yes it’s huge amounts, yes it’s obscene to us mere mortals but if the business warrants paying the amounts in question then that’s what it is. Football is a business and If you don’t like it don’t watch it etc.
Logically it’s exactly the same as the local mortgage man making 130k while the nurse next door gets paid a relative pittance.
You’ve just decided (somewhat arbitrarily) that one excessive amount is ok and one is not….
Yes it’s huge amounts, yes it’s obscene to us mere mortals but if the business warrants paying the amounts in question then that’s what it is. Football is a business and If you don’t like it don’t watch it etc.
Logically it’s exactly the same as the local mortgage man making 130k while the nurse next door gets paid a relative pittance.
You’ve just decided (somewhat arbitrarily) that one excessive amount is ok and one is not….
BroadsRS6 said:
Actually it's hard up parents paying way over the odds for his boots who suffer
In that case “hard up parents” need to be slapped around the face with a wet haddock and taught parenting skills. “Paying way over the odds” for anything shows a lack of intelligence and self control.I actually think its great that all this money ends up with the people who actually do the work to generate the income.
People pay to see the best players in the world, Sky etc pay billions for the TV rights, and still would if there was a players salary cap. The money would just end up in the shareholders pockets.
No one objects to the money received by stars in music or Hollywood, I'm not sure why football players should be any different.
People pay to see the best players in the world, Sky etc pay billions for the TV rights, and still would if there was a players salary cap. The money would just end up in the shareholders pockets.
No one objects to the money received by stars in music or Hollywood, I'm not sure why football players should be any different.
Not quite sure how some players who are extremely average and make very rare appearances due to injury can warrant c.£60k-£100k per week, which apparently a good number at my (very average/bottom half) Premier League club do... I guess it's the difference between 'getting' and 'earning'...
fat80b said:
And what other business generates as much cash with so few employees
Arguably it would be much worse if the employees were paid a tiny fraction of the profits and it all went to some faceless shareholder.
At least this way the kid from the Barrio with the talent gets the money.
I'm in the good luck to them camp. The people I'm contemptuous of are the ones stupid enough to pay the ticket prices, buy the merchandise, sign up to the Sky subscriptions etc to fuel the whole circus.Arguably it would be much worse if the employees were paid a tiny fraction of the profits and it all went to some faceless shareholder.
At least this way the kid from the Barrio with the talent gets the money.
The one issue that I have is about the shareholder remark. The players are getting a significant share of the reward for a club's success but they aren't taking a commensurate share of the risk. It would, in my view, be more equitable for the shareholders, executives and even the manager of the club to get more of the reward and the players less, since they are taking a bigger personal risk
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