Premier League Wages

[Stoof]

I don't know if anyone has seen this before, but I got this in an email forward today:

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mg:

A month.

 

[TheChosenOne]

Million a year eh ?
After tax.
Nice work if you can get it.

 

[taidgh]

i should have never started drinking. ..and have grown a few centimetres.... and trained harder... never mind

 

[Bill_Oddie]

Deducted 65 quid for 'meals'? What the bloody hell's that all about? Has he got a slate at 'King Pie' in Bootle?

 

[PantherX]

I'm just shocked about the deductions on his checque exceeding 55k!!!

 

[Stoof]

I never knew if the media presented their 'knowledge' of wages gross or net? This is, what, 30k a week gross. But only wink just over 20k net.

 

[donny1013]

Remember Riise is bankrupt as well. give the guy a break, needs all he can get. :wink:

 

[captinbeefhart]

Also that guy needs to clean his fingernails once in a while!!!!

 

[InBlackAndWhite]

Also that guy needs to clean his fingernails once in a while!!!!

He is a dirty scouser don't forget, them nails ARE clean.

 

[bubble07]

that works out to about 3 grand A DAY AFTER TAX and Risse is an average - good premiership player. Imagine Lampard, Terry, Rooney pay

I would be extremly happy if I earned 3 grand a month let alone making that in one day

 

[ChRiStOpHe]

Bubble, how the heck can you still have Dawson, but much more to the point, Chimbonda in your ideal team :| It beggers belief, it really does.

Prem players get paid far too much :up:

 

[InBlackAndWhite]

Prem players get paid far too much :up:

Two ways of looking at it -

1) Overpaid. As they get millions for kicking a bag of air into a net when doctors are paid a fraction of that for saving lives.

or

2) The market dictates levels of pay, football generates huge amounts of money, surely it is only fair that the stars of the show get a fair chunk of it.

I am not sure what side of the fence I am on tbh.

 

[LSUY]

Two ways of looking at it -

1) Overpaid. As they get millions for kicking a bag of air into a net when doctors are paid a fraction of that for saving lives.

or

2) The market dictates levels of pay, football generates huge amounts of money, surely it is only fair that the stars of the show get a fair chunk of it.

I am not sure what side of the fence I am on tbh.

I think it's more number 1 than 2. It's unfair that legendary players like Ferenc Puskas die in povelty whilst the bog standard average Premier League or even Championship player makes more in two months than Puskas made in a year.

No one can convince me that a player like Matthew Etherington deserves to earn more than someone like Stanley Matthews did.

Football players are overpaid. It's got to the point that 17 and 18 year olds are getting paid over £1,000 a week. It shows how wrong society is at the moment that if some 17 year old in Man Utd's reserves is making more in a month than some nurses or soldiers do.

I think we are at the stage where greed is more important than love of the game. The fact that players still have to be paid to play for their country is a joke. When those rules were brought in it was because footballers were earning so little, so why do the likes of Lampard who is earning around £135,000 a week at Chelsea need to be paid by the FA to play for England?

 

[Chris12345]

If the players weren't being paid that much, the money would just be going into the pockets of a Lewis/Abramovich/Glazer type who swans around in the Bahamas not paying any tax and wiping there ass with 20's...

I'd much rather it went to the players!

 

[Chris12345]

I also love the way they charge him £36 for a ticket!

I agree he should be charged, but it looks so ridiculous next to all those huge figures! :lol:

 

[hashmander]

I think it's more number 1 than 2. It's unfair that legendary players like Ferenc Puskas die in povelty whilst the bog standard average Premier League or even Championship player makes more in two months than Puskas made in a year.

No one can convince me that a player like Matthew Etherington deserves to earn more than someone like Stanley Matthews did.

Football players are overpaid. It's got to the point that 17 and 18 year olds are getting paid over £1,000 a week. It shows how wrong society is at the moment that if some 17 year old in Man Utd's reserves is making more in a month than some nurses or soldiers do.

I think we are at the stage where greed is more important than love of the game. The fact that players still have to be paid to play for their country is a joke. When those rules were brought in it was because footballers were earning so little, so why do the likes of Lampard who is earning around £135,000 a week at Chelsea need to be paid by the FA to play for England?

i read on the web somewhere that armand traore, the 17/18 year old arsenal reserve team left back is making 15k a week.

 

[SpurSince57]

i read on the web somewhere that armand traore, the 17/18 year old arsenal reserve team left back is making 15k a week.

More likely £1.5k. I'm pretty sure the Arse have a fairly tight wages structure too.

 

[hashmander]

arsenal had the 2nd highest wage bill in the league behind chelsea for the 2006-07 season at 90m. they don't have a tight wage structure.

http://www.arsenalnewsreview.co.uk/...ail,0&cntnt01articleid=782&cntnt01returnid=42

These quotes are from his personal website, prior to France's games against the Faroe Islands and Lithuania.
Gallas thinks like a defender, a very proud defender, so when he talks about letting a 2-0 lead slip against Sunderland he is discussing a topic that pains him. He was not playing in that game but the score going to 2-2 obviously upset him because he is serious defender who takes nothing for granted.
He explains why we have not seen the best of Eduardo yet. He also talks about being one of five Arsenal players in the French squad. It's interesting that he mentions Armand Traore, who is a very dynamic left back who could be better than Ashley Cole or Gael Clichy.Traore lives in Enfield, earns £15,000 a week, pops into his hairdressers two or three times a week, and thinks he should be in the team. Maybe there is a bit of Gallas in Traore.

http://arseblog.com/columns/2007/10/18/arsenal-agm-2007-report/

AFC wage bill last year was £89.7m, Man Utd’s £85m and Spurs’ £40.7m

 

[Defsta]

*kicks Riise in the nuts*

 

[SpurSince57]

arsenal had the 2nd highest wage bill in the league behind chelsea for the 2006-07 season at 90m. they don't have a tight wage structure.

http://www.arsenalnewsreview.co.uk/...ail,0&cntnt01articleid=782&cntnt01returnid=42
http://arseblog.com/columns/2007/10/18/arsenal-agm-2007-report/

I stand corrected. I thought most of the wage bill was for Henry!