are these guys worth the money ?

[tweetypie/8]

[SIZE="3"]hi i am refering to premier league footballers,imo i dont see how can you justifiy paying a guy £150.000 a week for kicking a ball round a pitch [/i think they are overpaid prima donnas,also they cant take a thump without rolling about as if in agony get stretchered off and then back on their feet in two minutes,who do they think they are kidding take rugby and gaelic players very few sissies there im sure these comments apply to other leagues and countries well thats all of my chest it was bugging me SIZE]

[TheBlueRaja]

Yes.

[gazzae]

Very few players, if any, get paid £150,000 a week. The average wage in the premiership is £13,000 a week.

Are they worth it? They provide entertainment so they are worth it as much as movie stars / musicians are.

[lostandconfused]

IMO no they're not, but it's all to do with supply and demand, if there were loads of people that could do the job aswell as they could then they wouldnt be getting paid as much.

[Raistlin]

Short answer, no.

[peanut]

No !!!!!!!

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by gazzae

Very few players, if any, get paid £150,000 a week. The average wage in the premiership is £13,000 a week.

Are they worth it? They provide entertainment so they are worth it as much as movie stars / musicians are.

and of course they only get paid what people are prepared to pay them, should they turn the money down on principal? Actually even that isn't unheard of, players sign for clubs all the time for less money than they could earn elsewhere and one in particular Kiko, played for a £1 a week when his team, Athletico Madrid, got relegated a few years back

[Anonymouse]

Oh, come on! No-one, NO-ONE on this planet should be paid more in a week than most people get in a year just for kicking a bloody ball around a field! How many nurses, teachers, youth clubs, hospitals, police, research facilities - things we actually need, in other words - could be paid for with the hundreds of millions of pounds that are wasted - wasted, I say - on those idiots every week?

I do a job that would probably kill any of those wusses inside of a month - shifting, through entirely manual labour, items classed as Heavy Goods. And when it says heavy, I'm not talking PCs or bags of spuds or books, I'm talking flatpack, built-up furniture, leather 3-piece suites, American-style (i.e. bloody big!) fridge freezers, washers and the like. Some of this stuff weighs more than I do - and I'm pushing 13 stone at the moment with very little of it body fat, so that gives you some idea.

Handling equipment? Don't make me laugh. Well, apart from pallet trucks - and some of the pallets we have to wheel around the warehouse weigh more than a ton with all the flatpack piled on them. But the stuff has to be put away on shelves, and how's that done? By hand, that's how - and a piece of flatpack can weigh 30, 40, 50, even 60kg!

These bloody footballers don't know they're born. A decent week's work - real work - would do 'em in. My take-home pay for a 39-hour week is less than £280...and that includes a performance bonus and a 30% shift allowance. No footballer would ever survive on that.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Anonymouse

Oh, come on! No-one, NO-ONE on this planet should be paid more in a week than most people get in a year just for kicking a bloody ball around a field! How many nurses, teachers, youth clubs, hospitals, police, research facilities - things we actually need, in other words - could be paid for with the hundreds of millions of pounds that are wasted - wasted, I say - on those idiots every week?

What about all the businessmen and bankers that earn similar amounts? Do you think clubs give them the money because they feel sorry for them? Football these days is a billion pound a year business and in any business you pay your staff what you think they are worth, how much do you think the business would be worth without them?

There is something on the back of one of the papers today about Rhonaldino, Chelsea want him and according to his agent they have been in talks with Chelsea, they will have to buy out the remaining years of his contract which equates to £80 million, they said his wages at Chelsea will dwarf that of John Terry's which is £130,000 a week, he'll be on over £200,000 a week if he signs.

[tweetypie/8]

Originally Posted by Nidge

There is something on the back of one of the papers today about Rhonaldino, Chelsea want him and according to his agent they have been in talks with Chelsea, they will have to buy out the remaining years of his contract which equates to £80 million, they said his wages at Chelsea will dwarf that of John Terry's which is £130,000 a week, he'll be on over £200,000 a week if he signs.

a good point well said i will say it again they are a load of whinging,wining,a pain in the you know what

No I never thought they were till I read this, it's sod all to do with the person, it's all about saleability of the person..

football player or hooker !!! it's all about selling the goods..

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by gazzae

Very few players, if any, get paid £150,000 a week. The average wage in the premiership is £13,000 a week.

Are they worth it? They provide entertainment so they are worth it as much as movie stars / musicians are.

Who pays the inflated prices though? Back in the late 70s, a ticket for the average match probably cost are £3. Now, even a cheap ticket in a low-placed team can be £25-30, and for a higher placed team, you may be talking £40 or £50. Add the cost of the concessions (food, drink, clothing if you have kids), and you could easily be talking about >£100 a match.

If people are happy paying that kind of money for 90 minutes of entertainment, fine.

While Musicians and Movie stars get paid similar amounts, you have to bear in mind that the potential market for those people is far larger, simply because they don't only perform once a week.

[gazzae]

It always seems to be footballers who get it though. You don't often hear about people slagging tennis players for earning all that money for hitting a ball over a net or golfers for hitting a ball round a course.

[Anonymouse]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

What about all the businessmen and bankers that earn similar amounts?

Good point. No, I don't think most of them deserve such amounts, either. There's no need for anyone, really, to be paid so much for anything.

Originally Posted by gazzae

It always seems to be footballers who get it though. You don't often hear about people slagging tennis players for earning all that money for hitting a ball over a net or golfers for hitting a ball round a course.

Another good point. The same applies; why, exactly, are they paid so much? If they were rescuing people, finding cures for diseases or doing anything about our current social problems, then maybe. But otherwise, no.