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Originally Posted by Mr K
The player, club, agents... It certainly isn't me Ken !
The figures are obscene given the amount of poverty in the World. FIFA should put a cap on transfer fees, if they weren't totally corrupt themselves. No football player is worth more than £30k. Howeverer a nurse or many other worthwhile professions are.
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Rather lazy emotive analogy. Anyone can train to be a nurse very few are good enough to reach the top in football and they are paid according to the income they bring in, do you really think clubs would give the cash to the poor or make it cheaper for fans or fill the owners pockets, no-one complains when Tom cruise gets 50 million a movie or Richard Branson taking millions in dividends a year but football is different so much so we still discuss wages as weekly pay
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Originally Posted by admars
It's strange though, like in America where they have a wage cap so teams can only pay a certain amount, and players have taken cuts to get another well paid player in their team, so the team does well, I suppose in the long run that helps their career if they then win the league, cup, get more sponsorship etc.
A work mate and I had a discussion about best paid US sports, he said it was baseball, I thought no way, would be basketball. Interestingly the top baseball players are on a better salary than the best paid basketball players, however, the sponsorship deals etc of the basketball players are greater than baseball players, i.e. over double their salary so they earn more per year.
I digress, a wage cup in football, would have to be universal, otherwise a lot of the best players would go to the best paying countries, and as you say with FIFA being corrupt, and cost of living varying so much around the world it couldn't work.
TV Networks, Chinese companies etc getting involved with obscene amounts of money as well, who knows if the bubble will burst one day? season ticket prices are expensive for premiership clubs, sports channel subscriptions are high, but a lot of people, some happily, some begrudgingly are still paying them.
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I think the bubble will grow a while yet, streaming will be the future for football and it may dwarf current deals
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Originally Posted by Ken W
The cost of transfer fees is often in the millions.
Who gets the football transfer fees, the footballer. the club?
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Interestingly if the player is out of contract the player receives the equivalent of a transfer fee as a signing on fee sometimes. They also get 10% from selling club providing they haven't requested a transfer and 10% from the buying club if they're under contract. There's also stipulations about buying out your contract if you're older and not playing games like cech did to join arsenal