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I read a few posts on Evo-Web the other day that I totally agreed with, and have done for some time, regarding the value of footballers.
Well anyway, there's a story on BBC NEWS today - CLICK HERE TO READ. To sum it up, the total Premiership wage bill for next season is going to be £1 billion.
£1 billion.
Now I find myself sympathising with footballers sometimes, I think to myself that it's not their fault that wages are on the increase. If chairmen will offer them so much money they're not going to reject it. I wouldn't reject it if they offered it me.
But £1 billion... That could do so much. Football is a game. £1 billion could rehome homeless, it could feed the starving, it could ultimately save millions of lives.
Hasn't it gone too far now?
no one is worth 18 million. No footy player is worth 1 million. Its ridiculous.
Im talking in reality here, football is full of silly money. If you want to go into econimics we could, but money in football is scandalous compared to real world jobs and problems - thats what im getting at.
Football is in danger in my opinion, poor officiating, poor organisation, cheating, corruption and big business, THATS the problem i have with the game, and as i said to you earlier, you guys are a new generation of fan brought up in a totally different football climate, i was brought up in an era where football was seen to be a working class game and not a big multi billion industry.
Well anyway, there's a story on BBC NEWS today - CLICK HERE TO READ. To sum it up, the total Premiership wage bill for next season is going to be £1 billion.
£1 billion.
Now I find myself sympathising with footballers sometimes, I think to myself that it's not their fault that wages are on the increase. If chairmen will offer them so much money they're not going to reject it. I wouldn't reject it if they offered it me.
But £1 billion... That could do so much. Football is a game. £1 billion could rehome homeless, it could feed the starving, it could ultimately save millions of lives.
Hasn't it gone too far now?