Paying someone £300 million pounds for any job[1], let alone merely kicking a ball around for fun, is obscene. Even 1% of that is excessive. £3000 a game sounds fair, they play once a week, throw...
Paying someone £300 million pounds for any job[1], let alone merely kicking a ball around for fun, is obscene. Even 1% of that is excessive. £3000 a game sounds fair, they play once a week, throw in a few bonuses here and there and call it £200k a year. You can live pretty nicely on that.
I live near a low-end Premier League (UK's top football league) club's training ground and the ridiculous vehicles I see coming out of there, being driven by people barely old enough to really be called adults, is crazy. Cars that cost more than my house. I don't doubt professional footballers work hard but so do lots of people.
What a horrible, disgusting waste of resources the top of this sport has become.
[1] Is he being paid this, or is that money being used to 'buy' him for a club and he's also getting a wage on top of that? Plus sponsor deals and so on, I assume. I don't know how football works but it seems entirely possible this is even worse than the headline.
Haaland will likely cost around €100 million in terms of a transfer fee and then on top of that, his salary demands are for €25 million net per season and subsequently €50 million gross.
A five-year contract is what he and agent Mino Raiola are after, meaning €250 million gross wages overall.
Then of course there's the commission fee to Raiola. The Dutch superagent received €14 million when he negotiated a £17.1 million deal to take Haaland from Red Bull Salzburg to Dortmund in 2020.
His dad, former Manchester City and Leeds player Alf-Inge, was paid €7 million. Raiola's figure will be much higher in Haaland's next move, irrespective of his destination.
Oh how I wish there were some prolific footballer who would just say no to that kind of money or at least donate it a lot of it right away in spite. I know it's a unrealistic dream but the...
Oh how I wish there were some prolific footballer who would just say no to that kind of money or at least donate it a lot of it right away in spite. I know it's a unrealistic dream but the "Nothing matters, just get paid" mindset is so fucking tiring.
1% is probably very far away from the definition of "a lot", but I thought the idea behind Common Goal was quite interesting. Footballers pledging this percentage from their salaries towards...
1% is probably very far away from the definition of "a lot", but I thought the idea behind Common Goal was quite interesting. Footballers pledging this percentage from their salaries towards social responsibility and football-related outreach programs.
Since it hit the headlines in 2017 to much fanfare with Juan Mata, it does seem to have lost a little steam, with the number of prominent athletes signing up slowing somewhat. But there's something there, be it a crumb.
Paying someone £300 million pounds for any job[1], let alone merely kicking a ball around for fun, is obscene. Even 1% of that is excessive. £3000 a game sounds fair, they play once a week, throw in a few bonuses here and there and call it £200k a year. You can live pretty nicely on that.
I live near a low-end Premier League (UK's top football league) club's training ground and the ridiculous vehicles I see coming out of there, being driven by people barely old enough to really be called adults, is crazy. Cars that cost more than my house. I don't doubt professional footballers work hard but so do lots of people.
What a horrible, disgusting waste of resources the top of this sport has become.
[1] Is he being paid this, or is that money being used to 'buy' him for a club and he's also getting a wage on top of that? Plus sponsor deals and so on, I assume. I don't know how football works but it seems entirely possible this is even worse than the headline.
Sport Bible – 19th November 2021 [source]
Oh how I wish there were some prolific footballer who would just say no to that kind of money or at least donate it a lot of it right away in spite. I know it's a unrealistic dream but the "Nothing matters, just get paid" mindset is so fucking tiring.
1% is probably very far away from the definition of "a lot", but I thought the idea behind Common Goal was quite interesting. Footballers pledging this percentage from their salaries towards social responsibility and football-related outreach programs.
Since it hit the headlines in 2017 to much fanfare with Juan Mata, it does seem to have lost a little steam, with the number of prominent athletes signing up slowing somewhat. But there's something there, be it a crumb.