more money questions

Are footballer paid too much? Well yes that’s any easy question. But what can be done about it? Is football a place for the public to have an input, in an ideal world, of course? But we don’t get a say in the BARCLAYS premier league which is shown on SKY and BT. this year BT and SKY signed a contract which means they share the premier league games for the next 4 years. During this time the BARCLAYS premier league will be given £3 billion. How many people here are happy that they’re showing the football? You see footballers are paid too much because we buy into the brands and we believe the hype.

The average household income of a working family is around £30,000 a year however an average premier league player earns £22,500 a week which totals to around £120,000 a year although the average length of a premier league playing career is 8 years where as. But does a regular family arrive at work at 6am and come home at 7pm to do a job they have been committed to since their early teens? Top flight footballers often talk of the sacrifices they have made to become a footballer in the modern day with everything from diet to recreation being controlled by a contract. Last year Rooney was dropped from the Manchester United team and given a £250k fine after taking his wife out to celebrate New Year. Would you do this job if you were paid £30,000 a year?

In this country, the average GP earns between £54,319 and £81,969 a year. These people are saving people's lives by making sure they get the correct care as quickly as possible. Also jobs such as people in the army and NHS that come under scrutiny very often yet still attribute great services to society yet even the people at the top of the army (excluding the royal family) don’t make the same as a football player. recently people in the NHS and army had a 1% pay rise but due to inflation rising by 2% they are actually earning less yet wayne rooney recently signed a £300,000 per week contract.  So why do footballers make all this money for simply kicking a ball around?

however why is it within the public domain to know how much football players are paid? they are not being paid by the government? they are being paid by a private business and then players in turn pay into the government often a large amount. also many of them have charities which they donate large sums of money such as didier drogba who used all the money he is paid by pepsi to build a hospital in his village and supply all medical essentials.

to stop these players being paid ludacris amounts we have to stop buying into the brand that is football. you are the one buying sky, you are the one buying BT and you’re the one who enables advertisers to create the hype around the products in which they sell. this is all down to you and if you stop paying the business will stop paying out. thank you