Do footballers deserve the money they get paid?

SpeedFreak said:
In the long run they are paid what they are worth otherwise the industry will implode.
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Yea, good job that isn't happening. Imagine the top clubs like Man U and Chelski all being in debt up to the eyeballs and virtually all clubs having spiralling wage bills that cannot be met.

I personally think footballers are worth a good salary but not the likes of tens of thousands a week. Keep in mind that footballers only have a finite career as a pro, say 16 to 35, maybe 40 if you're particularly good. After that many just go on the scrap heap and have to either get regular jobs, live off their salary/pension or scrape the bottom of the barrel and swallow their pride to be a TV/radio pundit. :p


Basher said:
Yes.
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Agree - bankers mostly do deserve their bonuses. If you're willing to work 18 hour days, travel all over the world brokering multi-billion pound deals, with the risks involved, then yes I understand why they get paid - what incentive is there otherwise?

Off topic I know but IMO, until the state gets their house in order, they have no right (other than that of the banks they part own I guess) to tell banks they cannot pay big bonuses - it is counter productive and those staff will just up sticks and move elsewhere where these rewards are paid.

A banker getting a 1m bonus will probably be on a percentile bonus of say 1-5% of profits they generate for the company........ in the grand scheme of things that isn't much.

I am not in banking, although in finance so have seen first hand the work involved for a lot of these people....... rather them than me!
 
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bloodline76 said:
I think it is a bit ignorant to say all footballers are thick. There are plenty of thick people that sit on the dole and collect money for doing nothing. At least these people make the effort to succeed in an area that they are good at.

Do Bankers earn deserve their bonuses? Do MPs earn their money? Sounds more like a football haters forum :rolleyes:
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If you don't like it you don't have to stay ;) Furthermore, there's a football specific subforum of the sports arena where people can idolise their football "stars".

FWIW, I do believe that bankers and other people deserve their bonuses - in spite of that, they aren't even in the same league as what footballers earn. For me, other professions are more worthwhile (again I repeat, for me). However, as has been mentioned several times, these people are supposedly the best at what they do, so sure pay them more, let them sign up to contracts and deals... however, if football salaries performance based though I could accept that, however they're not, they're well paid regardless of their performance.

I'm not denying that football is a good revenue generator for the country in terms of advertising, business, media and so on. It's about context to me and earning that much money for football is way out of context for me.
 
Its not your money they are paying them with. Plenty of tax money goes to unskilled/undeserving people regardless of their performance as well.

At least in this country they pay tax on them earnings as well. If we don't pay the wages they will go abroad and all that revenue is lost...
 
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