Has the (football) world gone mad? Probably not BUT the news that Gareth Bale has been offered A MILLION pounds PER WEEK to play in China makes me wonder. There are homeless and hungry people on our streets and some people are so glib about this kind of money going to one person to play football. I do appreciate you can't link these two situations just like that but I could do a lot of good every week with that kind of money.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Tribes will always try and out-do each other. Look at it this way, they reckon that a fighter pilot is worth about 6 times more than his plane. Given that the euro-fighter casts £50,000,000. That makes a pilot worth about £300,000,000. What would you rather have tribes spend their money on? Fighter pilots or ballplayers?
273kelvin
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July 22, 2019
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But Gareth Bale is worth it! He came out of the Southampton Academy I’ll have you know! 
If we are to make comparisons look at the money consumed from the public purse by the Royal Family
What is better value for money, Gareth Bale or the Windsor’s?
Geoffrey51
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July 22, 2019
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Professional sports is out of control
bobwjr
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July 22, 2019
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1of5:
How so?
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@bobwjr what, you think they just print the money they pay the players? The money the players get is money the team owners would normally keep.
Proffesional sports is the only business i can think of ATM where labor actually gets compensated based upon what they make for the owners. Imagine if Wal-Mart employees had a union that forced Wal-Mart to pay its employees from a pool of money based on a % of Wal-Mart's revenue (as pro sports does) instead of minimum wage, and those employees went from $20,000.00 per year to $200,000.00 a year. Would you say retail is broken?
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@Moravian I have a hard time believing the owners lose money. A very hard time, unless the tax structure maxes that possible to lose here but make it up somewhere else - in which case they aren't actually losing money but get to look like they do. The rich are the same all over the world. You almost make it sound like the owners are providing a public service at considerable expense, akin to bread and circuses.
The salaries go through the owners - they're the ones who collect the ticket prices and own the tv rights.
@1of5 It does seem odd but for many owners it is a vanity project and if the club is successful the fans adore them.
Obviously there is some creative accounting and under EUFA rules premiership clubs are supposed to live within their means, but clubs like Man C, Man U and Chelsea have been buying success for years.
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Of course it’s obscene, but I’m afraid sport is big business, none more so than football....the players aren’t going to say no to such riches. Let’s hope he is at least charitably minded and puts some of it to good use.
Marionville
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July 22, 2019
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My late father in law was a professional footballer in the 1950, every where he went he was often recognised by admiring fans , right up until his death last year.
He gave up football in favor of accountancy when he married because there was more money in "a proper job".
Football was something he did because he loved it and could never believe the amounts of money paid in the modern game.
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July 22, 2019
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