Now I'm not bothered about Ronaldo to City or is he worth it, its the amounts. How on gods earth can anyone justify a salary to anyone for anything of £400,000 a week, £20800000 a year or £1733333 a month? How can one person possibly spend or need that amount? How much further can the game get from us daft sods who turn up to watch?
£400,000 A WEEK TO PLAY FOOTBALL,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,`OI Mancini `which particular week do you want me to play, sure I can take a week off to help you out like. But dont expect favours all the time, and dont make it a habit of it, got a hectic schedule myself.
As long as Man City have ludicrously rich owners then £400k per week will always be a possibility, this will have a knock on effect. You say how can any one justify or need £400k per week? ... Isn't that already the case with the players in the premiership earning £250k per week! Must be a boring lifestyle when you've bought every flash motor going, houses in every hot spot around the globe, eaten in every Michelin star restaurant, swigged multiple bottles of top not champagne, attracted the interest of every hottie going ..... jealous much? Me? .... Nahhhh. We'll maybe a little bit!
Sometimes its easy to fall out of love with football and stories like this are sickening to say the least. Its not jealousy or envy at all but a sad reflection of the worth placed on a bloke that kicks a ball around for a living, that his annual salary could pay for around 900 fully trained nurses, or 250 GP doctors or 100 top surgeons, all of whom could contribute more to life in this country than 1 man playing a game. It was a funny old game once but now its just a sick joke at times.
I've been saying for years that FIFA need to get a grip on this. We've seen it all in the press recently about how many clubs (including our own) are in debt because of inflated wages. FIFA have got to bring in some kind of wage structure along the lines of grading players i.e Grade A Player = £60,000 (Champions League Level Team) Grade B Player = £40,000 (Premier League) Grade C Player = £20,000 (Championship) Grade D Player = £10,000 (League 1) Grade E Player = £5,000 (League 2) Of course, these are the maximum permitted levels, with individual clubs allowed their own internal grading systems that have also been set by FIFA. Let's take our own club as an example... Gyan would be a level 1 player within our club, so would command £40,000 Grade B wages under the FIFA maximum set limit, whereas Richardson would probably be level 3 at the club, but would still qualify as a Grade B player, therefore, would only receive £30,000 of the maximum £40,000 per week because of his level 3 status within the club. It would also provide a great incentive to players, to know that there is a promotion system in place, giving them a target to aspire to. Of course, there are all sorts of other permutations to consider, such as age, appearances, injury history etc. This is just my suggestion of how FIFA could bring in change, to benefit all clubs throughout the world.
The problem is they cant really do it now, with players being on 250,000 a week, you cant just say sorry but you are now on 60,000 a week. Man U can afford it, their wage bill is 46% of their turnover, Man City cant or shouldnt, their wage bill is something like 110% of their turnover, even Blackpools wage bill was 114% of their turnover even though the wage bill was only 13 million last year. I think ours is about 86% of our turnover, and we need 8-10 new players, so god knows what its going to be like next year.
Of course, it was all hypothetical Steve, but it is something that has to be addressed and soon! Players contracts last for what, 5 years max? so FIFA announce that as from the 1st August 2016 players wages will be capped, sorted. IMO, to do nothing would be disastrous for club football.
I agree with you, and i am just pointing out that this FIFA plan isnt really going to work. Man U make a fortune in turnover, so they can afford to pay high wages, Man City dont make as much but they have got champions league football next season so their turnover will increase, so they very well may break even, Arsenal were helped with the sale of their Highbury flats last year, next year they wont have that so they may even be scuppered. This rule will just make the top 5-6 even stronger, whilst the rest are always playing catch up, and trying to spend within their means, nd if you havnt got the turnover, then you cant spend it on wages and if you cant spend it on wages then you cant get the players you need to get into the Champions League. I think this is part of the reason you are seeing huge fees for players in the PL, Liverpool = high turnover can afford the wages, Sunderland = Low turnover but sell a couple of plyers for 44 million = reletavily high turnover. problem is we have to go and replace them, its all a very delicate balancing act for the also rans.
There is a simpler answer of course (even if it would never be adopted by every club) and that would be to just stop paying this silly money and tell players they are going to get paid a maximum of £10,000 per week basic (still a ****ing enormous wage by the way to kick a ball around of over a £0.5m a year) and then a win bonus structure that is open ended. If every club outside the top 5 adopted this strategy at the same time the players could do nothing but accept it because where are they going to go? They cant all play for Man Utd and Chelski or moneybags City. Only the cream would go to those clubs but then as we have found out, that happens now. They couldn't all go and play in Europe because A) the money has run out there as well B) there are not enough clubs in Europe that could accommodate them C) some of them are not technically good enough to travel abroad. This system would have prevented Bent leaving us and other clubs having players cherry picked. It would mean EPL clubs looking to the Championship for players (as used to happen prior to Bosman) and the development of better youth systems at clubs. Its always the argument of anti wage-cappers that this would leads to a brain drain of talent. The bankers use it to argue this. Well, in my opinion, the bankers can all **** off to whoever is stupid enough to have them after the absolute pile of ****e they have left this, and every other country in over the past 3 years. Who would want the ****ers. The same goes for the footballers.
The wage cap should be £10,000 per week and that is a joke !.Footballers should get individual sponsers to pay them what they like. What we also need is young and up coming footballers to learn about the past, like what the miners and shipyard workers had to endure for thier 'pittance' of a wage. And people who are not working but still buying season 'cards' like me.
400,000...............................a week Not to mention a transfer fee of about 150m, which he will also take a chunk off. Already earns over 10m a year,
i wouldnt turn it down as long a the overtime rates applied for midweek games late kickoffs etc and if a club is stupid enough to pay 400,000 per week how many players would turn it down
Even if a wage cap comes in, the truly rich clubs will find a way around it. Then it's down to trying to catch them at it! Happened before to that erm? "Bank of England" club.
