Are footballers overpaid?

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Depends. Eto'o doesn't deserve 1.7m euros per month. But if it was Heskey or Bramble, i'd have to agree! Nah jk, yes they are ******* overpaid.
 
Depends. Eto'o doesn't deserve 1.7m euros per month. But if it was Heskey or Bramble, i'd have to agree! Nah jk, yes they are ******* overpaid.

but the Russian gave him the offer, what can u do. hehe
 
Depends. Eto'o doesn't deserve 1.7m euros per month. But if it was Heskey or Bramble, i'd have to agree! Nah jk, yes they are ******* overpaid.

explain. its called supply and demand, not to mention the huge amount f revenue they a) generate for their clubs and b) generate towards society in taxes
 
Wayne Rooney makes £9.36 million a year, so he pays £4.6m in taxes, which means Wayne Rooney generates enough funds for the basic yearly wages of NINE British Army platoons, or 143 Specialist Nurses. So yeah, they are well worth the money.
 
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Didn't Aannddyy ask for this NOT to transcend into 'Footballers vs Soldiers/Nurses drivel'?
 
They're overpaid in most countries, as it's basically not viable in the long run. Germany's the exception.

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Wayne Rooney makes £9.36 million a year, so he pays £4.6m in taxes, which means Wayne Rooney generates enough funds for the basic yearly wages of NINE British Army platoons, or 143 Specialist Nurses. So yeah, they are well worth the money.

However, if he's done an Owen and sells himself as a business (which he probably does), he avoids a lot of those taxes.
 
Of corse they are overpaid but they are only paid this much because of the money floating around in the sport. You have to look at it this way, a club like Chelsea's wages must come to 2million+ every week. But the fact they can pay that just makes you wonder how much they are making every week. I personly dont think you can blame the players (unless they do a Rooney type situation and hold out for more money) because they are offered this money and no-one would turn it down. But i do think there should be a limit worldwide to how much a player can earn weekly, this would also in the long run make clubs more stable and bring down ticket prices and merchandise prices etc.
 
Of corse they are overpaid but they are only paid this much because of the money floating around in the sport. You have to look at it this way, a club like Chelsea's wages must come to 2million+ every week. But the fact they can pay that just makes you wonder how much they are making every week. I personly dont think you can blame the players (unless they do a Rooney type situation and hold out for more money) because they are offered this money and no-one would turn it down. But i do think there should be a limit worldwide to how much a player can earn weekly, this would also in the long run make clubs more stable and bring down ticket prices and merchandise prices etc.

Or a terry who did the same ;). I dont knock them for the basic principle of the sheer amount of money they generate, as i pointed out above
 
Didn't Aannddyy ask for this NOT to transcend into 'Footballers vs Soldiers/Nurses drivel'?

cant see where it has, made no judgement on their jobs. Just pointed out the most basic of principles that people ignore when they argue this.
 
Didn't Aannddyy ask for this NOT to transcend into 'Footballers vs Soldiers/Nurses drivel'?

Mike basically made it 'Footballers = more soldiers/nurses'.

Durrh.
 
Nope. Samuel Eto'o definitely deserves that 350k per week.

Can you imagine Eto'o thinking the Russians were having a laugh when they opened talks, and he was expecting £400 a week, and they suprise him with 350k a week XD
 
I find it odd how so many people and the British press in particular choose to make footballers the scapegoats in this rowover people being overpaid as footballers are by no means the highest paid people in the 'entertainment' industry (as I would presume that most people watch football for entertainment.

According to Forbes, the highest earning (including salary, endorsements, investments etc) footballer in the world for the past year was David Beckham, earning a total of around $40 million. Compare this to the highest earning actor, Johnny Depp who earned around $75 million. Yet have we heard anybody complaining about how actors are grossly overpaid? Didn't think so. The list goes on: The second highest earner of all actors was Ben Stiller, raking in $53 million compared to C. Ronaldo on $38 million. Tom Hanks earned $45 million, Messi earned $32 million. Adam Sandler; $40 million, Kaka; $25 million. And the list goes on.

People are paid on market value, footballers earn millions of pounds because the market dictates that their services are valued at millions of pounds, and it is exactly the same for actors, singers, TV presenters, whoever. When you can score past Casillas from 30 yards you will be paid handsomely as well because people like to pay lots of money to see goals past Casillas from 30 yards.
 
Work hard all of your life and get paid.. Football players are litterally 1 in a million, so why shouldn't they get paid millions? It's not affecting any of us in anyway, except maybe the fact that a lot of people are jealous. I'm not, but then again, I've worked hard for most of my life and what I'm getting now is what I've worked for.
 
I find it odd how so many people and the British press in particular choose to make footballers the scapegoats in this rowover people being overpaid as footballers are by no means the highest paid people in the 'entertainment' industry (as I would presume that most people watch football for entertainment.

According to Forbes, the highest earning (including salary, endorsements, investments etc) footballer in the world for the past year was David Beckham, earning a total of around $40 million. Compare this to the highest earning actor, Johnny Depp who earned around $75 million. Yet have we heard anybody complaining about how actors are grossly overpaid? Didn't think so. The list goes on: The second highest earner of all actors was Ben Stiller, raking in $53 million compared to C. Ronaldo on $38 million. Tom Hanks earned $45 million, Messi earned $32 million. Adam Sandler; $40 million, Kaka; $25 million. And the list goes on.

People are paid on market value, footballers earn millions of pounds because the market dictates that their services are valued at millions of pounds, and it is exactly the same for actors, singers, TV presenters, whoever. When you can score past Casillas from 30 yards you will be paid handsomely as well because people like to pay lots of money to see goals past Casillas from 30 yards.

Boom, headshot. It's not the footballers' fault they're being paid millions - would you honestly turn it down? - the market is to blame. WE, to an extent, are to blame for funding their wages. If we disliked them being paid so much, we could just vote with our feet and stop watching football.

Oh, nobody willing to make that sacrifice? There's a surprise.
 
Boom, headshot. It's not the footballers' fault they're being paid millions - would you honestly turn it down? - the market is to blame. WE, to an extent, are to blame for funding their wages. If we disliked them being paid so much, we could just vote with our feet and stop watching football.

Oh, nobody willing to make that sacrifice? There's a surprise.

Agreed, here we are arguing about how bad it is (no doubt they're paid too much) but we watch, support and love them every week without arguments.
 
No, because the market decides their value. As the supply of footballers is small and their demand is high, their value rises. In the case of truly elite players like Messi and Ronaldo, it's even more true. Thus, they are paid what the market decides they are worth. Thus, they are not overpaid.



I just totally zoomed Joel'​

Pretty much exactly what I said to Frank yesterday on Twitter. However 140 characters > My comment.
 
The issue should be: How the did Ben Stiller earn 53 million dollars or Sandler 40 million or Tom Hanks 45 million? They must have worked on some secret ***** for some Arab sheikh.
Actors are waay overpaid.
 
The issue should be: How the did Ben Stiller earn 53 million dollars or Sandler 40 million or Tom Hanks 45 million? They must have worked on some secret ***** for some Arab sheikh.
Actors are waay overpaid.

Or they were in some films :S
 
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