This Makes for Interesting Reading...

[EastStandBlue]

The 50 Highest Earning Footballers at the moment.

A few points, notice the matching wage of Terry/Lampard... those types of "I have to be joint top earner" deals make me sick... and, Darren Bent? £95k? I want his agent.

 

[Shrimpersarmy]

Is this actually true or is this estimated wage?

Sol Campbell earning more then Totti?

Darren Bent earning more than Eto'o?

Football has gone crazy!

 

[OldBlueLady]

The whole issue makes me feel sick, how on earth can they justify paying that sort of money a week? There are, no doubt, people on here that earn some of those amounts in a year, but in a week? Ludicrous and shows just why half of them are the arrogant twits they are.

 

[EastStandBlue]

It's not the amount they're paid that makes me sick. Some people fully deserve their wage... As in any business, you pay a premium for an exclusive product and a natural born talent is such, an exclusive premium.

What gets me is when primadonnas moan about playing twice a week.... For £100kp/w i'd play twice every day if i had to. NBA Players will play up to 4 games a week across all walks of the USA, play a regular season of 82 games without pre-season or the Play-Offs and you'd never hear them moan.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

how on earth can they justify paying that sort of money a week?

It's simple, brutal economics. If winning the Champions League brings in a pay-cheque of £10m (which, roughly, it does - through TV rights, advertising, extra merchandising etc) - and if you are of the opinion that signing Thierry Henry makes the difference between winning and not winning the Champs League, then you can afford his £5m pa wages.

Incidentally, although they're paid in a very different way, a hedge fund manager can make as much as a footballer. A friend of a friend, aged 27, maths genius, was on a deal whereby she and two fellow managers would receive 3% commission on the profits made by what was a particularly risky / speculative hedge fund in a particular year. That's 1% each.

The fund made £700m that year. You do the maths.

:stunned:

Matt

 

[OldBlueLady]

It's simple, brutal economics. If winning the Champions League brings in a pay-cheque of £10m (which, roughly, it does - through TV rights, advertising, extra merchandising etc) - and if you are of the opinion that signing Thierry Henry makes the difference between winning and not winning the Champs League, then you can afford his £5m pa wages.

Incidentally, although they're paid in a very different way, a hedge fund manager can make as much as a footballer. A friend of a friend, aged 27, maths genius, was on a deal whereby she and two fellow managers would receive 3% commission on the profits made by what was a particularly risky / speculative hedge fund in a particular year. That's 1% each.

The fund made £700m that year. You do the maths.

:stunned:

Matt

The crux of the problem though, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

The crux of the problem though, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Indeed. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's right - I'm just saying that that's capitalism for you. Neither a pure Marxist model nor a pure capitalist model of economic distribution is the right one. The fairest model is, perhaps, a more "socialist" model - where capitalism is encouraged, but wealth is redistributed via taxation.

Finding the right line to tread - between stimulating the economy to allow the capitalist model to flourish by dropping taxes, and ensuring that wealth is as evenly distributed by raising taxes - is, however, enormously difficult. I'm not sure we have it right in the UK; my gut instinct is that, controversially, our income taxes are a bit too low - but that's Thatcherism for you.

Matt

 

[Grayson]

Harry Kewell gets £76,500 per week for doing sod all.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Harry Kewell gets £76,500 per week for doing sod all.

Even capitalism sometimes leaves one scratching one's head...!

:dizzy:

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Look at that list again. Who are the biggest mugs? English clubs.

on the list
40% (20 players) english clubs
28% (28 players) spanish clubs
18% (9 players) italian clubs
14% (7 players) other

Think it shows money doesn't buy success, look at AC Milan very successful, barely on the list.

So that makes the premier league the most expensive, commercial, but is it more successful than spain or italy? i'd say not.

:puke

 

[mattytheshrimper]

shevchenko is the biggest waste of money out of the lot. 6th highest earner and never plays. that really makes me sick.

 

[EastStandBlue]

So that makes the premier league the most expensive, commercial, but is it more successful than spain or italy? i'd say not.

All four EPL entrants remain in the Champions League. Spain have 1 team, Italy have a grand total of.... 0 teams left. The EPL is the most sought after football league in the world in terms of sponsorship, television rights and players. I'd argue that it's more successful than La Liga slightly, but there's more of a margin when comparing it with the hugely insular and introvert Serie A.

While the figures you show are correct, it doesn't show that the EPL has a broader range of the teams involved. That list features 4 Major Italian teams in AC Milan, Inter, Roma and Juventus as well as Sampdoria with Cassano (Former Real Madrid) scraping in at 50th. La Liga again has 4 teams in that list.

The EPL? 6 entrants, and Arsenal will almost definitely be in there next year after the next round of contract renewals, totalling up to 7.

 

[EastStandBlue]

shevchenko is the biggest waste of money out of the lot. 6th highest earner and never plays. that really makes me sick.

Shev was signed from a top Italian Club though where he'd consistently been at the top of his game. He's just failed miserably to adjust to the English game, not helped by his age and lack of pace of course.

Darren Bent was signed from a Championship club after 1 fruitful season in the Prem... and how he makes that much money is scandalous.

 

[JoshC]

Shouldn't David Beckham be on that list??
*edit* Just found him lower down than I thought he would be..

Aslo, ineresting that Arsenal are the only team in the top 4 who aren't on the list...

 

[scrounger]

Shouldn't David Beckham be on that list??

Aslo, ineresting that Arsenal are the only team in the top 4 who aren't on the list...

:flamer: Number 44

 

[Flinty]

It's simple, brutal economics. If winning the Champions League brings in a pay-cheque of £10m (which, roughly, it does - through TV rights, advertising, extra merchandising etc) - and if you are of the opinion that signing Thierry Henry makes the difference between winning and not winning the Champs League, then you can afford his £5m pa wages.

Incidentally, although they're paid in a very different way, a hedge fund manager can make as much as a footballer. A friend of a friend, aged 27, maths genius, was on a deal whereby she and two fellow managers would receive 3% commission on the profits made by what was a particularly risky / speculative hedge fund in a particular year. That's 1% each.

The fund made £700m that year. You do the maths.

:stunned:

Matt

Trust a solicitor to justify high wages........:D

 

[leeblue]

that list must be wrong- does anyone really think pompy would pay that much to sol campbell

 

[BrettieAngell]

Harry Kewell gets £76,500 per week for doing sod all.

and Shevchenko gets £125,00!! :stunned:

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

All four EPL entrants remain in the Champions League. Spain have 1 team, Italy have a grand total of.... 0 teams left. The EPL is the most sought after football league in the world in terms of sponsorship, television rights and players. I'd argue that it's more successful than La Liga slightly, but there's more of a margin when comparing it with the hugely insular and introvert Serie A.

While the figures you show are correct, it doesn't show that the EPL has a broader range of the teams involved. That list features 4 Major Italian teams in AC Milan, Inter, Roma and Juventus as well as Sampdoria with Cassano (Former Real Madrid) scraping in at 50th. La Liga again has 4 teams in that list.

The EPL? 6 entrants, and Arsenal will almost definitely be in there next year after the next round of contract renewals, totalling up to 7.

None of them have won yet though.

Chelsea, one of the biggest spenders are currently losing to a team not even mentioned in that list!

Did an english club win last year? no.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Trust a solicitor to justify high wages........:D

Employed barrister, my dear old thing.

;)