Premiership madness!

Am I alone in thinking that footballers transfer fees and wages are out of control.

I mean, John Terry's transfer fee to Man City 40 Million, and being offered £248,000 A WEEK! He'd earn more in a morning than I do a year.

Playing devil's advocate for a moment - premiership footballers put around 80,000 arses on seats week in week out which is similar to a lot of big rock bands, a footballers career is short compared to say U2, Prince etc, both have no private life to speak of, a footballer (premiership or otherwise) risks permanent physical injury and even death from say a head injury during every game. The club obviously makes money from advertising, shirt sales etc the players are merely getting a share of the merchandise etc as rock bands would expect to do.

I fully agree, it's gone beyond a joke now. Not only are the transfer fees way too excessive, given the state of the global economy, but it's also making it impossible for smaller clubs to compete, it's even making it impossible for big clubs to compete. The likes of Celtic and Arsenal have no chance of winning the Champions League.

I can't speak for anyone else but i find myself wathching less and less football all the time and if it keeps going the way it is i might stop watching altogether

David Beckham made Real Madrid many times more what they paid for him through merchandising. Ronaldo will do the same. So certain players are worth the money. However, the likes of Adebayor and Man City.... now that's a world gone crazy, hope you fall on your arses!

its spiralling out of control.
There is no way you can justify what a footballer earns.
Because of all these billionaires buying teams they are killing football.
I hope they all leave and the teams all go bust that pay stupid money for players.

I think introducing a salary cap could be the way forward?

unworkable and probably illegal under EU law, name me a team (or fan) who would say no to an arab billionaire taking over their club? I bet Notts County fans are creaming their pants in anticipation, and good luck to them

I wouldnt say it was illegal, it happens in rugby league for example.

And i wouldnt mind a billionaire taking over celtic but frell the rest of them

(22-07-2009 00:27 )ritchie1 Wrote:  I wouldnt say it was illegal, it happens in rugby league for example.

And i wouldnt mind a billionaire taking over celtic but frell the rest of them

They are massively overpaid, but then again like someone else said, so are rockstars, and you can add baseball players, basketball players, boxers, actors/actresses. And they all earn more then footballers.

we wanna watch em, the market is there, they're entertainers, they're idolised by kids growing up so they're role models, football is no longer football, its a form of business and entertainment. Credit to them, if clubs are making lots of profits on the back of players performances surely the footballers are allowed a fair cut of this because without them there'd be no big market to exploit. They're also looking out for themselves and futures of their families etc, we'd do the exact same thing in their position

(22-07-2009 12:49 )654321 Wrote:  we wanna watch em, the market is there, they're entertainers, they're idolised by kids growing up so they're role models, football is no longer football, its a form of business and entertainment. Credit to them, if clubs are making lots of profits on the back of players performances surely the footballers are allowed a fair cut of this because without them there'd be no big market to exploit. They're also looking out for themselves and futures of their families etc, we'd do the exact same thing in their position

That's true, the worst part for some clubs is, if the millionaires aren't making enough pocket money, they can just move onto another club, and leave the rest in financial shit.