Should Football Players Get Paid Too Much Essay

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Are footballers getting paid too much?

I ask you, are footballers getting paid too much?
Footballers are overpaid. Footballers should not get paid 2 million a week for kicking a ball. Football is waste of talent, it a waste of time. 22 players running round half naked and kicking a ball? Plus they are getting paid. What has the world gone to? This is what some people think.
The question is what will happen if football player’s salaries get decreased? Let’s thinks about it. We all know that rich people want to stay rich. So if rich people didn't invest in football players and gave them £10,000 instead of £70,000. There would be no one willing to give to charity or start a foundation because in the UK looking after your household is not cheap. So they will not give charity due to their low salary. If they were to live in a normal street flat or house, it would be very dangerous because people who watch football might not like him, so they might damage it.
Moving on, 43 clubs in France threatened to go strike because of the “million tax.” So if a French footballer earns more than a million pounds they have to pay 75% of the amount which is over a million pounds to the government. A survey was taken by the Tilder-LCI-Opinion and 85% of the people were in favor of this law while 15% of the people said it was …show more content…

A lot of people watch their sports at home and Sky Sports/BT Sport which usually cost £9.99 so they can watch sports, do you not think that they should get paid for entertaining you? You pay for watching movies/TV shows. Celebrities get paid a large amount of money just by being in a movie/TV show or even a TV commercial. Dwayne the Rock Johnson’s net worth is $125 million whereas, Sergio Agüero’s one of the best Barclays Premier League strikers at this moment net worth is $70 million. If Dwayne gets paid a large amount of money to entertain you, do you not think Sergio Agüero should earn the same

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