Do footballers deserve their huge salaries?

No as they are thick as shyt overpaid ponces who have mugged the general population into paying ludicrous prices to enable them to boo their team when they are shyt. Blame the populus, equally as shyt for being done over.

Have to blame ourselves. We buy the shirts and pay for Sky who make it possible for clubs to pay 100 grand a week.

no, and neither do top bankers, or film stars, or pop musicians, or M & S chiefs, etc. Markets I suppose, and if I could take such money, gentlemen, I would.

No. Mostly over-rated d#cks.

Yes

That's capitalism, 'supply and demand' for you.

They might as well enjoy it while they can, it's all gonna go t!ts up.

No. Would I take it? Like a shot

Mind you, there were a few nights back in January when it was about -4 when I think I would have wanted £100k to go out and do 90 mins at Turf Moor or the like :0

Do footballers deserve their huge salaries?

No.

But if mugs want to pay inflated prices for a season ticket or via turnstile that's their problem.

They only have a short career
what a load of bo .......ks
some players earm more in year then 99% of normal people in their whole life
short career, domt make me laugh




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If you were on £150,000 a year you'd be doing very well.
Top Footballers get that every week ! Do they deserve it - NO !

How hard is it to be a nurse? Anyone could do it. It's much harder to play football to a decent level. Most people I know can't even even kick a ball without toe-punting it.

It's a meaningless question. Do nurses deserve their wages? Is a painting worth £50m?
If someone's willing to pay them these wages then by definition they are worth it.

Barry.................Rest assured Nurse/Doctors work about 100 times harder than a footballer and all for a disgraceful salary.I could then go onto the armed forces,but I wont.

Nothing wrong with top sports stars enjoying massive rewards for their talent and success. They provide excellent entertainment. The biggest problem for football is all those players who go from club to club with very little loyalty and not being that bothered whether they win or lose. Happy to see players earn big money but in an ideal world basic pay should be a lot less with big bonuses for winning matches, trophies etc.

the only judge of whther they deserve their salaries are the fans and tv subscribers that ultimately pay them -enough of them pay up at the moment so yes they deserve it!!

Dont join the Army on my account!

bankers on the other hand do not as they have to be bailed out by the taxpayer and operate in a highly restrictive trade with access to information that others do not

Nurses to a great job but not many would pay £60 to watch them on a saturday afternoon

These big wages will reduce the premiership to about 10 teams within the next 20 years,the rest will go under.
I dont blame the players at all.We are all human and take what we can get.
But it has to be said if I was a nurse/ doctor work 18 hr shifts on a 6 days a week for £19000 saving lifes.I would feel slightly hard done by(or as I say the armed forces risking there lifes for Country)
I just think it's a joke really.

^^^ no...but maybe on a saturday night!

lets not exaggerate steward !!

Talk of market forces is nonsense. Most clubs are upto their nuts in debt to pay these wages, the economics dont work.

At the very top level, your Rooneys, Torres and Fabregas, then yes, I can see the argument. But when journeymen are pulling in £40Kpw for clubs that are on the fast train to administration, then it's all wrong.

absolutely. how many other businesses running a book like theirs would still be here? Its bizarre, i just dont get how they can keep going.

Bring back Stan Bowles, he was great down at C0rals

then dont go to football matches or watch them on sky!!

What part Simon?

No

18 hr shifts on a 6 day week do not yield 19k for nurses let alone doctors

They deserve it......simply because people are stupid enough to pay £40/50 for a ticket and everything else that goes with it.
The end result is pretty much the same every season. Man U/Chelsea/Arsenal/Liverpool top 4. Villa/Spurs/Everton/Man city to follow. The rest just trying to stay up.
I gave up my season ticket in 1999 and have never looked back.

Nurses are on 19k for long days in these parts.
Doctors are bumping up their wages by going private after surgery.


20 years from now we will have a world super league,no Premiership.You watch ;)

yes they do, same as golfers, basketball players etc etc

Payton Manning signed a 100 million dollar contract for the Colts.Bet he is glad he got that done before the Suprerbowl.

Still he is worth it aint he.He wins Superbowls................Ooops can win Superbowls.Enjoy Payton ;)

If any of the "NO" people had the chance to earn their salaries.....you would ALL take it, end of.

Of course they would, but that's not the point.

how much tax do they pay on 100k a week? should be 50kish paye, i guess there'll be a few scams anyone know what they pay? A lot all the same, so stop moaning.... they pay for hospitals, the police, schools, benefits.

They probably pay more into the system in a month than I have done in my entire life.

Huck....they would take it even if they did NOT deserve it...that is the point.

Anyone can get a slice of the pie, if they're good enough. But of course only a v.small percentage of people are anywhere near good enough.

positive...good point.

The point is, look at Portsmouth & Palace, sooner or later a club is going to go bust, not admin, but bust. Then I think we could see a pack of cards effect.

You could make a point that to earn a decent wage as a footballer in the UK you have to be in the top 0.01% of footballers at all levels from when you leave school .

So its more like someone working in Tescos and buying a few lottery tickets every week to make a million ;)


Anyway, who the hell pays to watch football ,other than someone who makes a living by watching the game ie scouts,managers etc

I'm a passing football fan, A Luton Town fan, but not a fanatic, haven't seen them for 10 years or so. Will watch England fanatically in the world cup though. Not really interested in the prem until the big games turn up. so don't pay for shirts or tickets or merchandise etc.

Don't know what the problem is - a free market. Plenty of golfers and tennis players get very well remunerated without ever winning anything/much. Whatabout cricketers in the IPL - pietersen got about a million dollars I think for 6 weeks work when he didn't really perform too well.

OH and don't even get me started on boxing - some proper money for old rope goes on in that game.

Huck...these clubs are taking gambles and so are some others. Agreed more will end struggling soon.
Problem is if you don't offer a decent salary, none of the top players will go to the club.

Or they offer more money than they can afford and attract the best players and they go bust.

They're own fault imo. Not the fault of the footballers.

Though I do find it strange why a top top player would leave for instance chelsea on 100k/week to go to Man city on say 150k/week. Sport is about glory and winning I would've thought, certainly when you have enough money for the rest of your life.

I don't know what the answer is but clearly clubs are spending way over what's coming in. Maybe a few going bust will bring in a reality check, as £40,000 a week journeymen have to take £10 or even £5,000 as clubs refuse to pay them what they were earning.

Proabably not but fair play to them.
If your boss offered you a huge salary (way more than you know you're worth), would you turn it down?

It's the mugs who buy the shirts, pay the TV subs, buy
the season tickets and £4 hot dogs that keeps the
system going.

Silly people.

Didn't Ashley Cole leave a fantastic Arsenal side because the £50k wages they offered him was 'an insult'?
They are mercenaries and have no allegiance to their clubs.
No amount of badge kissing will change that.

I'm just glad that my then girlfriend chucked me in the late '90's when she decided she was a lezzer. Paying everything on my own instead of half meant I couldn't afford to go every week. Gradually lost interest over the years and saved a fortune. Hurrah for unknowing lezzers!

"Bring back Stan Bowles, he was great down at C0rals"

use to see him a lot at White City dog track.