Yaya Toure - £221,000 A WEEK!

I'm not sure of the details of the Agassi case.

edit: Just had a quick google and it appears as if Agassi's challenge was against paying anything on money made from sponsors. His argument was along the lines of what you mentioned above; he's based in the US, his sponsors are in the US and he's paid in the US.
 
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no wonder "stars" dont want to work here - we arent making it easy for them to like the UK thats for sure (as if the weather, general quality of life etc etc isnt bad enough )


edit - in comparison to the same salary in other countries
 
This tax discussion's very interesting. Hadn't realised Spain had ceased the 'Beckham' tax rate/law. This is probably why a lot of tennis players opt out of Queens before Wimbledon. I'm surprised some even bother coming into Wimbledon if I can extrapolate and it certainly makes the one NFL game at Wembley interesting.
 
ah I didnt realise the tax laws had changed.

It just reminded me of that story about Arshavin being paid more each week now but having less than before due to our tax!

Something really needs to be done about our tax system though, Bolt deciding not to run here is quite a big thing really. One of the biggest names in the sport and he wont run, its a little damaging.
 
FrankJH said:
who cares what is supported in a few mud trodden council estates, when the World is practically dominated by far more successful neighbours:D

(I lived in the above mud-trodden estates for a few god-forsaken years so please take the above with a large pinch of salt) :D
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You sir, are the only United/city supporter I have came across that actually comes from Manchester.
 
anant_shah94 said:
£221k?

Did something happen in the last few years that I missed? Last time I checked, top players like Terry and Gerrard would get wages like £120k a week
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I'm guessing you didn't miss the stupidly rich arab that bought man city and is just not bothered about how much people cost are what wages they get paid.
That's what happened and it's getting silly now.
 
Not sure what's happened since but I remember the other year Uefa said Wembley lost it's bid to host the CL because of the tax laws.
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As soon as UEFA said this the treasury put their hands up and said sorry our mistake, we will add an exception for whatever year UEFA says the final will be played there (2011) same as we have done for the olympics in 2012 and will do for the World Cup if we get it in 2018

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It's time we had a salary cap in football to be honest. It works fine in the NHL and NFL, why can't it work here? This. Football used to have a maximum wage years ago, it would probably prevent some clubs from going into administration because they pay their players too much. I mean some of these premiership players earn more than most managing directors of large firms & there's an outcry about these 'fat cat' salaries in the tabloids, yet no-one really complains about top players salaries. OK, playing football isn't a job for life, but there are few jobs for life these days.
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There is an unofficial salary cap for both the football league and premier league. this is the old rule (which still applies but not 100% on the %age of income)

The League already operates a salary cap in Leagues One and Two, with clubs prevented from spending more than 75 per cent of their income on all club wages, or more than 60 per cent on playing salaries. It is not legally binding but has been in place for two years, during which time no club has exceeded the cap. The 2005-06 season was the first campaign in almost a decade when not a single League club entered financial administration.
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Think the prem runs something similar. A lot of the clubs that fold now are because they take fiancial risks to get up to the next rung of the ladder. And in pompeys case, they were a badly managed club (non football management) who offered silly incentives for European qualification and trophies which the players won (shock horror)

In the case of the NFL they can spend around 50% of league income on player wages but the yearly income is awsome. This is an entirely different model to that which we use which is based on club income.
 
Meh, wages based on income of the club, in terms of caps, do very little. The idea behind wage caps is to not completely level the playing field, but limit any single team, or very small group from being run away completely unchallengable leaders. The problem with a wage cap based on the clubs income, is teams like Utd have got in a position that their income is hugely higher than most other clubs, which makes its available wages, if say set at 75% of the clubs income, to 40-50times higher than Derby could afford, effectively doing just that, making them unchallengeable long term.

IT all came about from a business decision really, those that got big stadiums early, had a massively higher earnings potential. There isn't really any fair way to have a cap, and if you do have a cap, it won't reduce ticket prices or make football better or worse, it will just mean the richest clubs have a higher profit level and if they choose can have even more money available to buy the best players. I think a transfer cap would be more benificial than a wage cap. Barca/Real/City really shouldn't be able to just spend 100mil plus any year they like getting whoever is best at the time and doing the same a few years later.


AS for England and tax, we're pathetic and don't seem to understand why rich people move away from the country. If tax was lower, comparable to other countrys we'd make MORE money in terms of taxes gained.

Hamilton didn't want to be taxed 50%, so moved somewhere that charges a bit over 20%? So rather than gain that extra cash by having much higher taxation in the UK, lets say Hamilton made 20mil, instead of getting 10mil, rather than 4-6mil with more sane taxation levels......... we made nothing because it was easier and better to just leave.

We didn't have a CL final, which could have brought in millions, because we were too greedy, we've lost millions of jobs, and hundreds of thousands of rich people have emmigrated to avoid ridiculous taxation, thats lost the country countless billions in tax revenue, not gained it. The fundamental problem is, tax rich people too much, and they just have the option to leave, for frankly nicer climates, better taxation rates, nicer area's, and we're pushing them to make that decision.

You really need a pretty huge bump in salary to maintain the same level of wages when you move from almost anywhere else to the UK to work.
 
BaZ87 said:
Not sure what's happened since but I remember the other year Uefa said Wembley lost it's bid to host the CL because of the tax laws.
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To be fair, its not a great stadium and with almost every single player/team having played on it complaining about the quality of the pitch, honestly I'd hate to see a Champs league final there anytime soon. Frankly if they get someone in, fix it, get it right and they manage to get through all the end of season games next year, then maybe they'd be in with a shot the year after. For now its a shambles and playing the biggest game of the season on one of the worst pitches in a top international stadium would be a disaster.

Likewise if Wembley does get the final and the pitch is a disaster, and everyone is talking about the awful pitch that caused Messi an injury in the final, or something along those lines, it would be a disaster for the stadium in terms of getting other big games.

Till they get the damn pitch fixed, they should be keeping a low profile and spending whatever is required to fix it.
 
Wembley hosts the 2011 final; the only reason they don't have the 2010 final is because the government didn't amend the budget in time to stick the exemption for the final in. And I agree that it is a terrible idea to host it in the condition it is in. They reckon it needs a lot of time and TLC to ensure that it beds in properly but that aint gonna happen whilst the FA are paying off the loan.
 
I believe the correct strategy is to mix up the football with heavier grinding sports like say, American football. And the odd X-Factor Idol gay lord concert.
 
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