Jamie Vardy upset

Leicester the financial Angels? It's not a bee in my bonnet, it's just a fact footballers are paid an obscene amount of money, whether they play for Leicester or Liverpool.

 

Wow.

 

I still don't understand what wages in football has to do with Jamie Vardy getting upset over his coffee table getting scratched.

I know if I was him, I'd be fuming.

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What happened to his coffee table ?


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**** knows, it was only from Ikea and look what it's caused on here.

 

Not in the actual real world. Wasting your time arguing semantics with me, bud.

 

He's put it on ebay this afternoon, the cheeky sod has not mentioned the scratch.

 

I'm not arguing about it. It's there in black and white. Whether you agree or not, that's up to you.

 

Anyone reading that would surmise your real inference; that the aforementioned footballer does not deserve his salary. There was a negative, perhaps sarcastic tone, suggesting that rather than get this alleged scratch polished out of his table, he'd just display his 'obscene' wealth by heading straight to the table shop and buying a new one. A natural response from any casual observer would be that you were dissatisfied with the wages available to professional footballers; their response, therefore, could possibly be to offer the proposition that he's not personally to blame for said high salaries. Black and white, as you helpfully pointed out!

 

So now you're talking for the rest of the board as well as yourself? Well aren't you helpful. You can take it however you like, whether you think I was being negative, sarcastic, or whatever. That's up to you.

 

Cheers!

 

You're welcome.

 

Apparently Brain Surgeons are on about £200k. Disgraceful. Anyone can perform in such a low skilled, low pressure environment but fecking me, kicking a ball abart - very few can do that. Recent studies have shown that there are only between 7-9 people in Britain who can kick a football.

 

To be fair, we've employed a lot of people at Oakwell down the years who've been unable to play football. We're equal opportunity employers.

 

People still paid to watch football and companies still paid to sponsor players and have their names in grounds long before Sky money ripped the heart and soul out of football. Every time the cost of watching football goes up the cost has to be passed on somewhere.

I'd be happy to have the money going into football significantly reduced to try and bring some normality back into the game starting with players wages and agents fees.

 

How can you say the heart and soul have been ripped out of the game after Leicester? After Wembley? Plenty of heart and soul to be found. Or watch non-league.

 

The lower leagues are still relatively untouched by the Sky greed but above our league it's ruined. Leicester winning the league is a short breath of fresh air but even Leicester can't take the moral high ground financially. Clubs are prepared to risk everything chasing the golden goose and who pays when it all goes wrong? Not the players, not the agents. It's the admin staff who lose their jobs and the local businesses who get 9p in the pound when clubs dodge their responsibilities and wipe their debts by going into administration. The players still get their kings ransom salaries due to the protection of the football creditors rule.
The game is morally bankrupt at the higher levels.

 

There's nothing wrong with footballers being paid a good wage, but the wages are crazy. Yes, this is a symptom of the money in the game overall, but the shame of it is that footballers have nothing in common with those who pay their wages like they did say, even in the early 90s. You get Frimpongs, Brek Sheas who earn obscene amounts compared to their lacklustre actions.

Footballers are the elite of their sport, yes, but there are millions and millions of footballers who could do a good job. If you play eleven a side with the average hungover players on a sunday, you still get to see spectacular goals on the pub pitch. By the reckoning of those who think they deserve millions a year, they should be thousands of times better than the players of the 80s. Whilst the game is clearly faster and more technical, I don't think you can argue it is thousands of times more entertaining. In many ways I prefer the ambiance of the 1980s game which was cheap to watch and featured players who arguably had more invested in winning games for their club.

It is in companies' interests, such as Sky, to have you believe that these players are uniquely gifted individuals, providing hitherto unseen levels of technical brilliance and entertainment, so that you shell out more and more money which filters down to these sporting gods and their clubs and everyone is happy consuming the newest and slickest and best version of the sport we've ever seen.

 

There's more lacklustre English based players on £1m a year than any other country.

Most of the turn 17, get a five year contract worth several million and that's it. Why bother.