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  1. Business men shouldnt get more than they deserve as well.

    Kicking a ball, which can be fun to watch, doesnt deserve much at all imho. They are just worshipped as gods, I dont see the reason why they should earn > 10x more than a prime-minister / president / etc.

    Same goes for rock stars btw
  2. Originally posted by Risto:Business men shouldnt get more than they deserve as well.

    Kicking a ball, which can be fun to watch, doesnt deserve much at all imho. They are just worshipped as gods, I dont see the reason why they should earn > 10x more than a prime-minister / president / etc.

    Same goes for rock stars btw


    Because people pay to see them? When Manchester United play at home, they earn in excess of £2m (Over £3m for a Champions League game) from ticket sales alone. The megastore is always packed, they sell a great amount of matchday programmes and people flood inside at half time to buy food. Slap seasonal merchandise on top of that, advertising etc and you can see why their total revenue was £428m last year. Still, that's short of the £537m revenue that Real Madrid saw.

    I'm sure if you worked for a company that made £428m in a year and offered you £20k+ a week to work for them, you wouldn't turn it down.

    Manchester City on the other hand had revenue of £153m last year and have spent well in excess of that.
  3. Originally posted by Risto:Business men shouldnt get more than they deserve as well.

    Kicking a ball, which can be fun to watch, doesnt deserve much at all imho. They are just worshipped as gods, I dont see the reason why they should earn > 10x more than a prime-minister / president / etc.

    Same goes for rock stars btw


    +1

    completely agree

    Here in Argentina football players are the new "rockstars " !!
    They are in discos with lot of beatiful women , drinking and smoking !! ( i m envy... )
  4. Hahaha who isnt
  5. It's not just footballers who get a lot of money, Formula One drivers get loads too. The season after Raikkonen won his world championship, he was getting $28million a year. I'm pretty sure Hamilton is getting near $40 million, and Alonso is pretty similar to that amount too. It's crazy.

    Beckham gets paid for too much for his quality though. I personally think he's shit, and has never been that good in his whole career. Free kicks were his speciality, and maybe his only one.
  6. Yep, Schumi earned around 50 mln during his glory days.
  7. Originally posted by KieranU2:Beckham gets paid for too much for his quality though. I personally think he's shit, and has never been that good in his whole career. Free kicks were his speciality, and maybe his only one.


    You have seen Beckham play, right?
  9. Originally posted by KieranU2:It's not just footballers who get a lot of money, Formula One drivers get loads too. The season after Raikkonen won his world championship, he was getting $28million a year. I'm pretty sure Hamilton is getting near $40 million, and Alonso is pretty similar to that amount too. It's crazy.

    Beckham gets paid for too much for his quality though. I personally think he's shit, and has never been that good in his whole career. Free kicks were his speciality, and maybe his only one.


    George Best:

    "He (Beckham) cannot kick with his left foot, he cannot head a ball, he cannot tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right."



  10. Yes I have. And since you are English, of course you are going to say he was amazing.

    Originally posted by PEDRO67:[..]

    George Best:

    "He (Beckham) cannot kick with his left foot, he cannot head a ball, he cannot tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right."


    Yep, he wasn't exactly talented.
  11. And so what defines a talented player?
  12. Well, he obviously wasn't talented. The only thing he was really good at was kicking the ball, which led him on to a good shot, corners and free kicks. He didn't have any technique or pace. His skill was very limited when it came to some of the basic things in football (i.e. tackling, headers). The England team back then easily could've done without him.
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