Are Modern Footballers Overpaid?

[covlad-99]

Are footballers really overpaid? If you were Frank Lampard, earning about £50K a week, and suddenly your pay was slashed to say £1K a week, you are going to be in massive debts and you won't have the money to pay these debts and so on... And then it leaves you in an awful position, so, even if footballers are overpaid, there is really nothing we can do about it unless footballers change their lifestyles. In my opinion, if you can afford it, why not pay more. Doctors that perform heart surgery etc. are UNDERpaid, and should get paifd a lot more than they do. evertonfan, proffesional footballers do not just kick a ball. Kicking a ball is putting foot to ball, which anyone in the world can do. But, being a proffesional footballer takes lots more skill. EG: Being able to get into the right positions, be tactically aware, being able to communicate as a team.....The list goes on. So, I dn't think footballers are overpaid at all. As being a footballer costs a lot of money, and its a huge business, but the argument about Surgeons being paid less is invalid. The question should be, Are Surgeons Underpaid? And I bet the same answer will come up every time.

 

[Leicester Fox]

Wha Ronaldo does cannot be called kicking a ball, I would call it creating art, Ronaldo is football porn.

 

[Animator!]

Surgeons aren't underpaid, because if we paid them anymore then this countries economy would collapse. Relatively footballers are overpaid comparably to welfare profession and other such jobs that our country relies on to succeed, but in the business they are in they aren't overpaid due to the financial clout of the entertainment/football industry.

Same reasons why actors are paid millions for a film etc.

 

[covlad-99]

I have to agree with a Leicester fan for once there. If anybody calls what Ronaldo does "Kicking a ball" they are sadly deluded. If everyoen could do what he does, England would have a much better football team!
And also, if we talked about certain players like Steven Gerrard. he gets paid a bundle more than most players, when he plays like a donkey for England. Now that is being overpaid.

 

[Deleted member 9102]

Edit: Chris Gayle

 

[evertonfan]

Look, I wasn't undermining the role of a footballer and what they do because if you've read the very first post in the thread you'll realise i'm completely on their side, i'm just saying that what they do is nothing compared to what a surgeon has to do.

 

[Sureshot]

All footballers love the game. You only get a decent wage playing it in the top two tiers in each country, and to play in those you have to be good at it and train really hard.

Footballers can be professional in League Two. Heck some in the conference will be on ?700 a week. That's a blooming good wage still.

 

[Ollie_H]

Footballers can be professional in League Two. Heck some in the conference will be on ?700 a week. That's a blooming good wage still.

Now that is just kicking a football about!

Are footballers really overpaid? If you were Frank Lampard, earning about ?50K a week, and suddenly your pay was slashed to say ?1K a week, you are going to be in massive debts and you won't have the money to pay these debts and so on... And then it leaves you in an awful position, so, even if footballers are overpaid, there is really nothing we can do about it unless footballers change their lifestyles. In my opinion, if you can afford it, why not pay more. Doctors that perform heart surgery etc. are UNDERpaid, and should get paifd a lot more than they do. evertonfan, proffesional footballers do not just kick a ball. Kicking a ball is putting foot to ball, which anyone in the world can do. But, being a proffesional footballer takes lots more skill. EG: Being able to get into the right positions, be tactically aware, being able to communicate as a team.....The list goes on. So, I dn't think footballers are overpaid at all. As being a footballer costs a lot of money, and its a huge business, but the argument about Surgeons being paid less is invalid. The question should be, Are Surgeons Underpaid? And I bet the same answer will come up every time.

Im sorry but when did being a footballer cost a lot of money. They probably get most of their kit free through endorsements.

The only reason you make thing it is expensive is because of the lifetsyle they live. But they only live that lifestyle because they are overpaid.

If i had too choose between earning my money by being a buisness man and being a footballer. I would much rather be a buisnessman. It requires alot more patience and harder hours. I'm then putting something back into the economy.

 

[Animator!]

They actually get paid to wear gear rather than paying for it themselves, so if anything, that's more money they aren't spending.

 

[Skater]

Footballers can be professional in League Two. Heck some in the conference will be on ?700 a week. That's a blooming good wage still.

I know, that is why I said a 'decent' wage. ?100,000 per week is unrivalled, but ?700 is in other jobs.

 

[Kev]

I think everyone knows that Ronaldo does more that just kick a ball about, there are the fantastic gymnastics involved in falling over whenever someone comes within 5 feet of him


Sits back and waits for abuse


As a side issue, will we be moaning about Cricketer's obscene wages in a few years time when they are all signed up for IPL???

 

[Animator!]

Well, if it gets ridiculous which is likely, then yes.

 

[Ollie_H]

I think everyone knows that Ronaldo does more that just kick a ball about, there are the fantastic gymnastics involved in falling over whenever someone comes within 5 feet of him


Sits back and waits for abuse


As a side issue, will we be moaning about Cricketer's obscene wages in a few years time when they are all signed up for IPL???

I think i remember him at the Olympics? Possibly the Floor one?

 

[Will_NA]

He would really suck at Judo.

 

[Leicester Fox]

Abuse. Worse players, your just typical english fans who find yourselves a scapegoat that the media choose. etc etc Gerrards just as bad if not worse but because he's Mr Liverpool no-one mentions it.

Anyway 35K a year for a championship player SS? Really?! Thats a hell of a lot.