Obscene

just another reason why I becoming more disenchanted with the game

http://www.90min.com/posts/4194900-...taggering-180m-for-barcelona-star?a_aid=35527

 

It is sick and obscene in a time of austerity when many Mancunians have to use food banks......This is why i wont put a penny into football ever again.....

 

The irony is that Neymar would probably repay that fee within 18-24 months through shirt sales, merchandise and sponsorship deals etc.

By the end of this decade, we'll have our first £1,000,000 a week footballer

 

Football is the biggest worldwide sporting business and realistically that's how you've got to look at it. Football players are commodities and as Valley says, the money will be recouped in shirt sales and sponsorship.

It may seem another planet for the average fan, but there again so are the mega bonuses picked up by city traders or the huge inheritance of the young Duke of Westminster.

Business is business

 

Have you got a mobile phone?

 

Dai's got a brick!!

 

He's yet to suss out how to switch it on

 

That to me is not the issue , to me it's the increasing disconnect between reality and the pampered life style the so called stars . what we see today as the exception tomorrow becomes the norm . I some how can't ever envisage Neymar wandering so back street helping out .

http://www.southwales-eveningpost.c...-this-winter/story-29949721-detail/story.html

 

That made me laugh Post #7.

 

I can afford the best of the best but wont ever buy the best when my phone does everything i need it to do.......I dont think i have text anyone more than 10 times in a year.....I only use it for business and family calls....

 

I don't begrudge the players getting paid huge amounts on the grounds that if they didn't have it, it would end up in the back pockets of the TV executives. If that makes them pampered and in the eyes of the average fan disconnected then we will stop watching them, which I think is what you're driving at.

The bottom line is that the money comes from us. We pay for the TV channels. We are the suckers (just with any product).

However, to get things back to "normal" you would have to convert a large chunk of the worlds population to think along the same lines as yourself!

 

Why do you continue using it when the companies make billions in profits and buy commodities for tens and hundreds of millions? Just like football.

 

To me it is getting that way, I'm seriously thinking of jacking it next season and watching local league and my grand kids play, which when I do probably gives me greater pleasure than watching some of the lack lustre poor quality overpriced dross on offer. not just with us but in general , I'm an avid watcher of footballer but I can't recall a game (last Saturday an rare exception) where I've thought they earned their money and I enjoyed a game .As I posted the exception today is tomorrows norm and that thought doesn't inspire me at all.

(see you Saturday )

 

Convenience

 

That reminded me of my first ever mobile phone, it was supplied to me by a company called Equity & Law, and it was literally the size of a brick, the network then was called cellnet, think it was a subsidary of BT.

Of course I'm back in the boom years of the eighties. ......

 

Football is nothing more than a pastime to me now since money ruined the game.....More should be done to help those clubs starting at grass roots upwards. they are struggling big time and with all the wealth in football today it should be better shared out......I love the game but the greed has put me off spending any of my own money on football.....

 

Slightly off topic but just in relation to the money being paid for players in the modern game.
Not sure of the exact amount but Pogba went to Manchester United for something like 89million?
In the grand scheme of things, and this sounds ridiculous, but it wasn’t a big financial deal for them.
The outlay of that amount was something like 8% of their income.
When they paid a few thousand pounds for Bryan Robson in the early eighties, it was close to 50% of their income.
I guess Sky TV has a lot to do with this and the increasing commercialisation of the game.
A lot of the time when this discussion on players wages is raised someone may argue, ‘well who would you prefer have the money?’
Well certainly not Sky but I would be confident in saying that all premier league clubs could do more for their local communities then they currently do.

 

Will do By the way, I agree with you that the money is obscene as are most multi national transactions. That's what football has become now.

 

A man of principle then

 

Ours is not a lot better , one of the provisos for the council granting planning permission for the Landore complex to be built ( bearing in mind there was an old established local football pitch there already and that was lost not to be replaced ) was that the one of the new pitches could be used for the community as and when for cup finals etc for the senior and junior leagues and if my memories correct it has been once to host a final of the junior league but not without causing upset due to the overhanded scrutiny of the ground staff and Club officials with petty restrictions spoiling what should have been a memorable occasion .