I understand your frustration. The huge amount of money footballers are receiving is absurd. As a huge football fan myself, I will agree to some extent, but not entirely. The question that is being asked by people time and time again is, “Why is he getting paid with this much amount a week, just by running around the pitch and kick the ball?”
We are told that times are very difficult. Difficulties in football are frequent. You have stated that “Liverpool is for sale”, “Manchester united are in debts” and Portsmouth, are slowly declining into bankruptcy. On the other hand, a mediocre club named Manchester city, have just signed Yaya Toure on a wage of £221,000 a week or £11m in wages. This seems a huge shock to you. Initially, this seems kind of ridiculous, because Yaya Toure is an average footballer who has only played 94 times in three seasons at Barcelona. You can argue that he is in the average barrier, due to appearance and scoring goals. He only scored 4 times. That wage seems too high for him in my opinion. He is only new to the premier league and will earn that much, at this
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Bryan Robson would move from Wrexham to Manchester united under manager Ron Atkinson. He became the first player to receive £1,000 a week. During that period, Bryan Robson performance was below par. The angst and outraged fans were constantly chanting: “What a waste of money”. To be honest, Bryan Robson was not a good player at that time. The fans may had the right to claim so. Within few years’ time, Bryan Robson was an established player, who would go on to captain Manchester united and England. In addition, he even became one of the greatest midfielders at that time. It turned out to be a huge success for him. Waste of money? No! Look how much Bryan Robson improved over the years. You claim that nobody notices about the money Bryan received, why? Because now everyone knows what good player he turned out to
Studs Lonigan is the protagonist and the name of the trilogy of three novels, Young Lonigan, the Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan and Judgment Day, by the American author James T. Farrell. The novel is a classic depiction of Irish life in the South side of Chicago and how Studs Lonigan comes of age in the setting. It is particularly in the second part that Farrell brings to light the venom of racism and how its unchecked spread helped to produce and reproduce the ghetto. The main reason Farrell cites for writing the book is the urban world that he knew had never been portrayed honestly enough in fiction. In his words, ‘I am a second-generation Irish-American. The effects and scars of immigration are upon my life. The past was dragging through my boyhood and adolescence’ (Farrell, 1993). It was the acrimony that Farrell had for the Irish Chicago neighborhood in which he grew up that led him to write the novel. In his opinion the Catholic parish church as the neighborhood’s primary institution was a great obscurant whereby the immigrants and their children were always uncertain of their identity and place in the new land (Byrne, 2006).
Players get paid too much. Rodriguez's made a deal for 275,000,000 to be on the new York Yankees team. The highest team player made 13 million in 2011. Low set paid bears player made 330,000 in 2011. Yes players do get payed too much.
While looking at these numerous problems I remember at a time my uncle told me that the business of soccer is good business, there is so much wealth to the be tapped if done correctly. The bad transfer system makes it difficult for European based players to move the United States. Average players like Kaka have tried to move to clubs like Los Angeles and have had deal not been able to go through because we have an Americanized sports version of a salary cap, so that everything is fair. In life and sports “Survival of the fittest” so why make an artificial environment that counter to nature? Players who deserve high wages like superstars deserve it and should have to suffer for one who performs subpar. These caps makes superstars like Kaka, Fran...
Now compare that to Messi who can't even pay off his tax; he goes to court every year to pay his taxes a year after tax salary. Cristiano Ronaldo also has a unique contract with Real Madrid where he is getting paid £288,000 a week (after tax salary), costing Real Madrid over £500,000 a week to have him in the squad. Ronaldo is also the most endorsed footballer and currently has the fourth most lucrative endorsement deal in sports with Nike worth £14.1 million a year ($21 million) plus a number of other deals. Ronaldo also has CR7 branded with clothing and shoe lines plus $80 million worth of CR7 hotel projects in four different
...s worth far more." Certainly a 22 year old kid can live on $126 million quite alright. Before doing an in-depth analysis of pro sports salaries, one ignorant person would conclude that these salaries are way too high. However, sports salaries are "okay" to be enormous. This is because high salaries show that the economy and basketball revenue are up, because that is where the owners get the money to pay the athletes. After Glen Taylor signed upcoming superstar Kevin Garnett, season ticket sales went soaring. Finally, if a player is allowed to make the money, why is it such a bad thing? More power to them. Yet athletes should be satisfied with their current salary status. As you can very well see, salaries have risen to unbearable heights, yet it is inevitable. With the economy as it is who knows when it will begin to level off. All we can do is sit back and watch.
same salary. This may seem like a small point, but on the contrary, it’s very important. How much a player
College is all about having fun, meeting new people, and furthering an education. How would college be if their were millionaires walking on the campus throughout the day? College football players would be so focused on their millions of dollars that they will forget about all the work they have to complete and establishing new friendships. College football players would think they are better than everyone else and start to talk down on others without even noticing it. They would start losing their focus and forget about the real purpose of being a college student. There would be more attention on college football players and other students would also begin to fall behind as well. In college, a student’s main focus should be completing the goals they have set prior to entering college. If a college football player was getting paid millions of dollars, it would only cause a distraction for the learning environment at the college. College is all about setting goal and achieving the goals being set. College football players are already going to college for free, so they should make the best of it and make their own money in the future. There is certainly nothing wrong with this confluence of the values of sports and those of the business world (Shulman) . A million dollar contract should not come in and interrupt what a college has
Every day, people around the world complain about professional athletes salaries. Even though the top athletes make millions of dollars every year, the majority of athletes do not make any more than the average working class citizen. There are also many risks along with the job, and job security is very unstable. Expenses and taxes also limit the amount of money an athlete makes. Tax rates are extremely high for the men and women who participate in professional sports.
Do you think professional athletes are overpaid? You might think they earn more than what they are worth for playing half a year, but athletes have many things which contribute to their salary. Some of these things include their earnings from endorsements, ticket sales, performance, merchandise, their social contributions, and TV ratings. Although there are many factors that contribute to their salary, professional athletes may be overpaid because as a society, we contribute to their success. So, in the end, part of the athlete’s salary comes from the people who support the sports in the first place. These are just some of the reasons why athletes are paid so much money.
Football is a very famous and well-known sport all over the world. Fans go crazy about their favorite clubs and teams play as hard as they can to win the championship. What a lot of people do not talk about is the money aspect of football. Every year football clubs spend millions on buying and selling players, which is called transfers. Apart from that, the amounts of money clubs pay their players, as a salary is outrageous depending on the team. In many leagues, there is the firm belief that spending a lot of money on players leads to success. It is easy to pick out the teams that spend most money on their players since their wage bills are much higher than the rest when compared. Looking at the English Premier League, which consists of 20 different teams, one is able to see how much teams spend on their players. This brings up questions such as: how can we measure how worthy a player is and decide how much to pay them? Or, how do teams decide that a player is good enough? Why do players who seem to be just as good as others get paid so much more? These research questions are all very interesting, though what will be focused on is the relation between success and the amount of money spent on players’ salaries.
Nocera also stated that as of 2011 there were now coaches being paid as much as 53 million dollars. As times have changed and coaches are now being highly compensated, the question remains, should players also begin to be compensated for both the risk of injury and for the amount of revenue they bring to their respective universities. Have you heard the name Jaylon Smith? According to Nina Mandell of USA Today Sports, in Smith’s last season
Soccer is a religion to many in the world. It is interpreted in many different ways, became a lifestyle and family to millions of people. If soccer is a religion, money has become it's undisputed god in the 21st century. Money lives and thrives throughout the sport of soccer in many ways. Whether people like it or not it is on jerseys and stadiums, in the player's mind, and the owners grasp. Some of the biggest clubs in the world are products of brilliant branding of the club's name. This is achieved through lucrative owners and presidents, but when does money become too much of a distraction and a problem for the sport? There is a very fine line between using and abusing money in the sport today.
This past weekend marks the largest contract signing in Major League Baseball history. On the 12th of February 2000, Ken Griffey Jr. (formerly of the Seattle Mariners), signed a nine-year $116.5 million contract with his hometown Cincinnati Reds. The city’s fans were ecstatic to bring Griffey back, and considering he turned down an eight-year $148 million deal to re-sign with Seattle, they feel that the acquisition was a real bargain. It really is amazing when a man can make $12.94 million a year, simply for playing the game of baseball and millions upon millions of people are calling it a bargain. Salaries in sports are incredibly sensitive and controversial issues. There are many die-hard fans that believe high-profile athletes are worth each and every cent their contract gives them, however most people believe otherwise; I am one of them. What exactly is it that athletes do that makes them deserving of such high salaries? The real issue at hand here, is that the more money athletes are making, the more fans are going to have to pay to see them in person. Is there really a win-win situation here?
When addressing the value of entertainment, there is without a doubt, that we as a society value entertainment highly. But there is no reason that these athletes, who are here to merely entertain us, get paid higher wages than those that save our lives and teach us such as medical doctors and teachers. I find it ridiculous that players make millions of dollars a year, and yet demand more. The entertainment that these athletes provide is solely entertainment; it is not essential to the function or productivity of society. If I were to become a professional football player I would not complain about my salary for many reasons. I am playing the sport that I love and getting paid for it. The minimum wage for football is well over $100,000 a year, as is for many professional sports. These reasons by their lonesome are enough to warrant that the salary professional athletes are paid is suffice.
Sport has always entertained and influenced our lives. It creates dreams for children and goals for adults. However, many fans are oblivious to the millions they pocket each year. It is without doubt that our sports stars are grossly overpaid. Their annual earnings exceed those we make in a lifetime, even when compared to highly qualified professionals.