Also that guy needs to clean his fingernails once in a while!!!!
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.
i read on the web somewhere that armand traore, the 17/18 year old arsenal reserve team left back is making 15k a week.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.
http://arseblog.com/columns/2007/10/18/arsenal-agm-2007-report/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.
AFC wage bill last year was £89.7m, Man Utd’s £85m and Spurs’ £40.7m
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/