It all comes down to jealously. It doesn't matter what industry you're at the top you'll get the top wage of that industry. I've never seen anyone complain when Tom Cruise gets paid £10m for one film. And people comparing footballers wages to soldiers etc is just stupid.
Formula 1 is another, they can earn £18m a year and they go live somewhere like Monaco to avoid tax (not that I blame them) people's justification for this is they risk their lives every time they go to work as if it makes it ok and different to football.
People work hard to get into the industry they do, doctors and nurses know the kind of salary they will earn when they train to become that. They do an incredible job of course, but they aren't creating income by doing their job for the NHS, so it's impossible for them to get a huge wage. The money in football is mental, obviously we're all jealous of Ronaldo etc. but he's worked hard to get to where he is and is making an awful lot of money for Real Madrid and as has been said above, I'd rather the money go to those who make that money for the club than some billionaire pocketing it all.
People don't seem to understand that it's nothing to with 'danger', but the fact it's one the richest sports in the world. Rally driverig is equally as dangerous, but only get a 10th of the salary of a F1 driver.
Think 'arrays dog earns more a year than I do! Although I do predict slim pickings ahead for them both.
Ronaldo is one player, if one less nurse or one less doctor existed than I'd argue that too would not be noticed.
Ronaldo Ronaldo Ronaldo. Because he scores the goals that helps his team win the league and get increased revenue. He scores the goals that get his team into the champions league and increase revenue. he is now a superstar and people by shirts with his name on increasing revenue. He is the exception to the rule. Lets bring it closer to home, how many of our players EARN their wages. Look at the bigger picture.
Well they're part of the most watched league in the world. Which TV companies and sponsors pay millions to be apart of.
And if they fail to keep us there, every single one will be getting a wage reduction, I don't think you can say much fairer than that.
I think footballers are overpaid because the sport isn't that great, many games are boring. People overpay based on tradition, the media over concentrates on one sport because of that tradition as well. The money would be better spread around for more strength in a variety in sport
And yet as was disscussed on here in another thread about a month ago some clubs are paying their staff less than minimum wage.
Agree that's wrong, but doesn't come down to supply and demand? There are a lot more people capable of being a steward etc then being a Premier League footballer.
Here's another way of looking at it, their wages are paying for doctors and nurses. Let's say the average PL side's ticket is £40 a game. Average with cup ties and friendlies equivalent to say 26 home games a season? 52 weeks a year, so £20 a week, straight into the players pockets as wages if a club is breaking even. £10 a week paid in tax for each seat filled in each stadium. How much is that each week going into the government coffers to pay for things like nurses, and doctors? If fans stopped going to football and "saved" all that money, would they voluntarily be donating that £10 a week on top of their own taxes to pay for things that benefit society, or would they be doing what I've done this season and used the extra cash to go on a holidays or something else like that?
There's 2 things about these figures. 1) It's ridiculous that the money is so concentrated. 2) It's hilarious when western people complain about it as though they're down the bottom end of it. There's a website you can go to and on one page you put in your wealth, and on the other you put your income and it tells you your global rank based on those figures. Obviously it's to fit an estimated curve on a graph but it's not going to be massively out. Now using my figures for this year (the first one since I left uni) I'm ranked in the top 15% based on wealth, and the top 1.5% in the world based on income. I don't even work 5 days a week, and I'm doing the job I was doing part-time as a student whilst I get to grips with the practical side of accounting by working on the side. (I want to work in a particular area with my accounting, and it's more personally rewarding than financially)
