gu trials Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 anybody have any idea why footballers are paid so much when all they are doing is their hobby just like us and bike trials but there isnt much money involved in our sport? apart from it is more popular than our sport lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogre Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 because football drives pubs, tv and broadcasting it's prety big business, theres enough money in football, so why shouldn't they? who'd say no to a 6+ figure salary... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Beach Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Guess its because it is good entertainment and they are the best players and play really well. And becuase of the popularity of the sport? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gu trials Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Guess its because it is good entertainment and they are the best players and play really well. And becuase of the popularity of the sport? but if bike trials was a more popular sport then i guess the best riders wouldn't be on as much money as they are, maybe if people paid to see the comps and the organizers of comps gave the competitors a bit of money then this would be a start Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCottTrials Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Because people are willing to pay to see them is the bottom line. If nobody paid to see them i.e. like trials then there would be no large salaries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran Morrison Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) Everyone that says because its entertainment, what would you rather; watch a game of football or have your lives saved? Soldiers on average get paid £23000 a year i think, rooney is getting 250 000 per week and some footballers get paid even more. Anybody being paid that much is ridiculous, unless they are a president/prime minister etc. Soldiers is jsut an example, doctors (even though they get paid quite a bit), nurses etc. also save lives and dont get enough Edited April 16, 2011 by Kieran Morrison 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt.price Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 because there is so much money in football. even if trials was more popular we wouldn't have t-shirts saying "hermance" and belaey" on. unlike football where alot of money come from merch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gu trials Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Everyone that says because its entertainment, what would you rather; watch a game of football or have your lives saved? Soldiers on average get paid £23000 a year i think, rooney is getting 250 000 per week and some footballers get paid even more. Anybody being paid that much is ridiculous, unless they are a president/prime minister etc. exactly right, i always see status's on facebook that footballers are well over paid, one of my mates is in a part of the army and he is on £1500 every fortnight, steven gerrard is on £100,000 per week :/. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Here we go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb88 Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Well yeah of course doctors etc. 'should' get paid more but footballers aren't paid by the government. Its a business, and footballers are what millions of people pay to watch, and so obviously the footballers themselves get paid a hell of a lot. It might seem unfair but in a way they get what they deserve, since so many people want to watch them kick a football around a field I'm more p**sed off about bankers getting paid so much after the government bailed them out.......! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gu trials Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 also footballers "arn't" on enouth money as it is from playing football, so they get more money from designing products such as aftershave ect, then they get more money for doing adverts and more money again just from being who they are, and having their name on shirts for the public to buy. thats what pisses me of lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob. Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 whats football? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gu trials Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 whats football? lads kicking a round thing around a field lol, and each other Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Yawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Quinn Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 It's called an economy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.Wood Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 also footballers "arn't" on enouth money as it is from playing football, so they get more money from designing products such as aftershave ect, then they get more money for doing adverts and more money again just from being who they are, and having their name on shirts for the public to buy. thats what pisses me of lol 1. Footballers don't design products such as aftershave 2. They're good businessmen if they get endorsements and sponsorship deals. Once you get a name for yourself, you become a brand that sells. The more you get te brand out there, the more it becomes known and therefore worth more, the more people who want you to endorse their products to get tem to sell. This goes round in a circle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 A football team wants a good team, they pay for a player. They want to have him more than another team, they pay more money than that team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simpson Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Everyone that says because its entertainment, what would you rather; watch a game of football or have your lives saved? Soldiers on average get paid £23000 a year i think, rooney is getting 250 000 per week and some footballers get paid even more. Anybody being paid that much is ridiculous, unless they are a president/prime minister etc. Jog on, same can be said about any other profession, or sport. The fact of that matter is+ anyone who has no health problems can be a solider, simples. 1 in a 5 million serious footballers will make a 6 figure wage, and it ruins so many lives. i.e. my mate was in the West Ham academy, got signed for Ipswitch, the training took him out of school, lost him mates, and he didn't make it, hes now playing for some shit team for a token salary and the same can be said about thousands of other people. So if they dedicate their lives to it, and are good enough and lucky enough to make it big then fair play. Don't be sour about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gu trials Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) A football team wants a good team, they pay for a player. They want to have him more than another team, they pay more money than that team. this makes it basically sound like an auction for people to kick a ball lol EDIT: although it is true Edited April 16, 2011 by gu trials 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Yeah, pretty much. Then you add in all the other stuff - people like to bet on it, people like to watch it, people want the players to wear their logos so you want to buy their shit, people want to video it, people want their logos on the video so you want to buy their shit, all that crap, you end up with football as it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gu trials Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Yeah, pretty much. Then you add in all the other stuff - people like to bet on it, people like to watch it, people want the players to wear their logos so you want to buy their shit, people want to video it, people want their logos on the video so you want to buy their shit, all that crap, you end up with football as it is. people want products with players name on it, so they get money for that just because its their name, so the player will get a small amount of each product bought, then the shirts and stuff. and then the sponsorships give them all the stuff for free, which saves them money when they can afford to buy it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Say you had £1000 in the bank that you'd been given for working X job for Y amount of time. Just because you could afford it, would you refuse a free ice cream? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoyoyo Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 (edited) Of the £100,000 for Gerrard that was mentioned earlier, 50% (£50,000) goes to the government in tax. Thats 2 soldiers salary every week. 104 over the year. There's probably about 30 players on that wage, probably more. Thats 3,104 soldiers a year from the premier league. Everyone knows a lot of drink is bought when football games are on, thats 20%(VAT) plus whatever duty there is on alcohol now, per drink bought. Lets just say 27% overal goes to the government per pint. £3 a pint = 81p per pint. I'm guessing well over a million are drunk over the weekend tv games. Thats £810,000 for one weekend. Just to put in perspective, when England didn't qualify for Euro 2008, they estimated the economy would lose out on £2 billion. So really i have no problem with what they earn. Yes soldiers should get more, but it'd come out of taxes(which everyone already complains are too high), and to be fair they chose to get shot at for that money. They know what they're getting into. Edited April 18, 2011 by yoyoyo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukasMcNeal Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 You say alot goes to taxes but I bet half of them have accounts abroad or in tax heavens so they pay very little at all. Just look at other sports like F1 where most the drivers do the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt.price Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 the money that sponsors invest in clubs, they don't have to pay in taxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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