More evidence that the game is fecked you say?

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  1. Gor

    Gordon Ottershaw Well-Known Member

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    Crystal Palace have offered Wilfred Zaha a deal worth £200,000 per week.

    Crystal Palace. £200,000 salary for one player. Every week. He gets £200,000 per week to play for Crystal Palace. Not Real Madrid. Not Barcelona. Not even West bloody Ham, but Crystal Palace. Per week.

    Nope, doesn’t matter how many times I say it, I still can’t make it make sense.
     
    Gordon Ottershaw, May 16, 2023
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    Bigger club than us but we have more than matched them over the last 20 years at times. The game is truly gone. EFL is more enjoyable
     
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    Prince of Risborough Well-Known Member

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    Obscene amount of money for any footballer.

    Good dribbler, scores some decent goals but come on - nobody is worth that for playing football.
     
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    This for me, the Premier League is insane, £200k p/w for any player is crazy, it's a league built on money, greed and wealthy dodgy owners.
     
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    Not sure if the ins and outs,.But if he goes on a free, they may need to pay 20 mil plus for a replacement, plus wages… or for 2 years, they can keep him and be better off?

    Unless they buy a replacement from us for an undisclosed fee…. Or tenth of the price he’s actually worth.

    That said, stupid amount to pay, but he may keep them in the greed league….
     
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    Not sure this is really big news. Well established Premier League team paying a lot of money to keep their best player. It's no different than say Tottenham paying Kane that really. Especially when you consider Man City are paying academy players upwards of £20k a week.
     
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    Greed league for sure.
     
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    End of last season Eddie Nketiah signed a new Arsenal deal for 100k a week. If he's worth that, Zaha is worth atleast 500k. Zaha is proven premier league consistent performer, (hate this next bit but kinda true) and basically single-handedly has kept them in prem for last 3 year.

    It's absolutely mental isn't it. Nketiah = 100k a week. M.e.n.t.a.l
     
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    Totally agree with this topic but why is football always targeted.F1,Golf Tennis to name 3 then film stars,music people and many more occupations.
     
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    As far as F1 goes only the top 5 drivers will earn as much or more than Zaha. There are championship players on more than some of the F1 guys.
     
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    Wilfred Zaha won't be in the top 200 footballers in the world, probably not even close. I doubt there are many professions where the 200th best earns £10m a year
     
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    I remember Solanke demanding 100k a week from Chelsea when his deal was expiring. he made 2 substitute appearances at that point.
     
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    £10m a year, and half of that will go to the taxman. Wonder how many nurses he's paying for.
     
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    Spot on mate
     
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    Fixed that for you
     
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    Pretty much what Simon Jordan said.

    It’d cost Palace a min. £20m to replace, and then it’s still a risk as the new player might not work out. This is a safer bet by tying him down, and the money is spaced out through the contract.

    A lot of money - but actually it’s a sound investment for now.
     
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