Quote: (05-22-2013 09:01 PM)MattC Wrote:
In the footballing world, you have every day people commenting on their wages per week and it's just a completely different world they live in. Nobody can relate to them unless they're in the same bracket.
For example:
A football club has someone earning £60,000 a week.
Another player is set to sign with an offer of £40,000 a week.
"£40,000 a week! Most of the country don't even earn that in a year!"
The player who is offered the £40,000 a week declines, having seen someone else in the same position as him earning £60,000 a week, so he signs for another club for £75,000 a week.
The every day people says "what the fuck?! What's he gonna do with an extra £35,000 a week?!"
That £35,000 a week would make an insanely big difference on someone's life outside of the footballing/entertainment world, let alone the grand total of £75,000 a week.
What difference does it make to the footballer who is used to big cars, big houses, big nights out and big bank balances?
Is it any different from me being offered £30,000 a year at one company and £40,000 at another? Not really, but what it comes down to is the standards you've set yourself.
How much value does he add to the league, and how much are the owners and endorsement people making off of him?
I'm willing to be that the owners of these teams are more than making their money.
To put it in perspective, even if you could teach a sports superstar money management, how many of them would be in a financial position to buy their own team at the end of their career?
That's how much money these owners have. Cats quibbling about a couple hundred grand here or there, whilst the owners are typically worth north of a few billion.
WIA