Tony Casgarino has just been interviewed on SSN and Rooney's new contract was discussed. His opinion was that the deal will go way beyond £300,000 a week. Now I know players wages have been discussed on here before but this takes it to another level. £300,000 a week! FFS that's ripping the piss. At some point will the paying punter just say ' I've had enough of this' and stop going? At some point will the bubble burst? If you think about it how much would a truly world class player like Ronaldo or Messi be able to command in wages should they run down their contracts? £500,000 a week? It's plausible. The divide between the common man and the 'superstar' footballer is getting wider and wider.
I think it's time that paying footballers is capped to a tenner or twenty quid appearance fee. No reason they can't do a proper job and play on a Saturday.
If the money coming into football increases year on year then the star players will get paid more and more - if Rooney doesn't get the US owners do
What would Rooney do though? I reckon he'd work in a bacon factory or maybe on the bins. Good honest graft, instead of pouncing about kicking a bag of wind around a field.
I think I could see Rooney being a brickey. If you want a bin man, look no further than Jonjo Shelvey.
At some point the clubs have got to take control again. Too much power rests with the players. If/when sky pull out the whole league structure in England will implode.
It will never end whilst an increasing amount of money is pumped into PL football and because of inflation - it's rare that wages ever go down. Why shouldn't the players get the Sky money? Would you rather it's kept by the already wealthy billionaire owners coming into the game? It's no different from an actor getting $30 million for 6 months work on a film - they get paid due to the money brought in by their performance. If you don't like it, don't watch it and don't pay for Sky. Go and watch a non-league team play. You at least have a choice. ESSEX GULL
That's been predicted for over 20 years now - a lifetime pretty much, and it's not happened. There's no evidence it will happen soon either with each few years, the latest nouveau rich coming in to buy a club for prestige. The rinky-dinks haven't even started getting involved properly. ESSEX GULL
Rough figures time. Ignoring all other revenue and just looking at gate receipts, £300k pw is ~ £15m per year. Say 30 home games a season @ 75,000 per game, total attendance of ~ 2.25m. Therefore every punter every game would be paying him £6.67.
I genuinley dont udenrstand how they can possibly do this when they're over £500m in debt. Who is their bank? In a normal business world wouldnt something happen if a company hundreds of millions in debt paid someone £300k a week?
They've got a functioning loan agreement - they're covering the payments, so allowed to do what they want. Plenty of multinationals are in huge amounts of debt but pay their chairman/upper end employees huge compensation - car companies, banks and many more.. ESSEX GULL
Chairmen of GM earned more whilst that company was hemorrhaging cash and several billion in debt. Almost the entire banking sector from 2008-2010 paid board members similar. Most multi-nationals operate in some form of huge debt with loan agreements - all paying their boards huge salaries. Manchester Utd is no different - in debt, but generating income/turnover and covering payments, so in today's business climate, seen as ok. Very few companies have the cash balance of say, Apple. ESSEX GULL
They have an income of £363.2m a year, which is about the same as their debt level. Our debt to income level is worse than theirs and them paying Rooney £15.5m a year is no different to us paying Jelavic or Long £2.5m a year.
Yes I would prefer it to go into the owner's pocket. That would at least mean that the club could survive if the " benefactor" decided to walk away.
I don't have a problem with players getting paid a lot. As Essexgull said, I'd rather they have the money than agents, and ****ish owners. Footballers make the game worth billions. It's their talent that people pay the money to see, so why shouldn't they get it? I don't understand why anyone should resent footballers getting the money they make for their clubs. Actors get the same kind of money for a similar reason and no one moans about them. The real baddies are elsewhere. Publicly-owned banks pay their top bosses multi-million pound 'bonuses' and the whole insurance industry make billions by ripping off the public. These are the ****ers we should be hating. Now ticket prices are a real problem because that's just ripping people off, but the players don't set those prices, the clubs do, and the leagues and authorities fail to regulate it. Simple supply and demand says that while the clubs can charge what they do, and people still pay up, the players are going to see that money eventually and rightly so. It's up to the clubs and authorities to make watching football less expensive.
You know I might just do that. I might ring Sky and f**k 'em off. Hang on, there's that new True Detective series coming on soon and it looks fooking ace so on second thoughts I won't bother. Damn you Rooney, you win this time. But my time will come.
Carmine turns it round and wins the second half http://6.hidemyass.com/ip-1/encoded/Oi8vd3d3LmV6dHZwcm94eS5vcmc=&f=norefer Every TV series you can think of on there good chap.
i think you need to set your sights higher. in typical british conditions with the current state of medical knowledge and amenities there's no reason you couldn't live past 40, as long as you don't annoy people too much.
Board Administration - Ban this new troll 'x' who is on here purely to provoke and derail threads. ESSEX GULL
