Do you think football players are over paid or do you think they earn it?

Answer 1

well considering most of them are retired from football before there 35yrs, i think its alright. they earn it because you have to give up so much to consentrate on football when your younger to make it, so those that do make it, deserve it!

Answer 2

If the money did n't go to the ballers it would go to the people up stairs, I don't go to watch the owners i watch the players and you don't see Chelsea fans with Abramivic on there shirt, when Beckham went to Madrid for 23million they made that in two week's on shirt sales if they paid nothing for him, a bloke in a suit would have been rubbing his hands, So yes they are over paid but it's the biggest sport in the world and we pay to watch and support teams of players not executives, The money goes some where and i would rather it went to the people creating the game!
I play semi-pro and get £120 a week plus expenses i have to work aswell but 500 people watch a week, i think the staff around the grounds should get more maybe,Kitman works for free
Grounds man at any club not much more min wage!

Answer 3

Yes I believe they are vastly overpaid and I cannot see how such a sum could possibly be earned. They are sportsmen, athletes, yet talk to any local athelete you know that isn't in football and chances are they aren't paid at all, they compete on their own money and time and take jobs to support their commitment to competing for their country. Those that are paid have nothing close to the sum footballers get, though rugby is closing the gap.

Here's a suggestion, pay them the national average. Not minimum wage but the national average, the sum that supposedly should allow you to live rather comfortably. Not even asking them to get a second job, but they should not be given preferntial treatment because it's the national sport. Have you seen our winning streak in the past thirty years? or lack of one? People go ballistic when we won the rugby and the cricket, but we've been improving for a long time outside of football, mostly because the players work very hard and want to win for our country. And there's a lot of sports where we do spectacular but get no mention, let alone support. Boxing was highlighted in the Olympics of a sport the british have managed to develop to a world high standard with the public being hardly aware of it. Outside of the WTF (the only branch allowed to be practiced in the Olympics but forbids most of the sport) Britain is consistently ranked number 2 in the world in Tae Kwon Do, behind only Korea for which it is their national sport. I only know this because I practise it, it certainly came as a shock to realise Britain was very good at it, and at my rather small club that we have to fight for a decent budget most years we have a number of national champions.

Money should not be a primary incentive for sportsmen but should be a means of supporting them to publicise a healthier lifestyle along with devotion to their sport and a willingness to compete to the best of their ability for the pride of their country.

Answer 4

Well, depends what is youre opinion on it!
From one angle, it's crazy that people are paid millions for kicking a ball into a net and stopping it from entering a net!
But, I feel that they should be paid coz they earn so much revenue for their club/country! Look at the earnings of Manchester United. They had $99 million in 4 yrs by Vodafone (sponsers), now their new sponsers are paying them $18.4 million per year. Natural for the club to pay their players based on what they earn. If you helped your employer to do well, wouldn't you be expecting to be paid based on your earnings for employer. Same with Football players.

But, yes, I feel that the extra income should be used in charity rather than have castles. If every player donates $1000 dollars per year to charity, then 3 million children wouldn't go to bed hungry.
Beckham if you are reading this, please donate to charity rather than buy yet another diamond necklace for Victoria!!

Answer 5

In the world of sports Football players are getting the shaft as far as paychecks are concerned. Only an elite few are getting seriously overpaid and the rest of them are risking injury for a measley paycheck. So my answer would be no. But Baseball and Basketball players are way over paid.

Answer 6

Anyone that is excellent at what they do and dedicated to it deserves the money that goes with it. In saying that if the money levelled off a little, maybe the entrance fees would go down a bit and make it easier for normal payed folk to take their son to see a football match without having to worry too much about how they were going to finace it.

Answer 7

The more they get paid the less football becomes a working mans sport

Answer 8

Overpaid? - yes but who pays them - the public who go to watch them.Other people have much more 'important' occupations (doctors etc.) however entertainers like footballers have displaced the monarchy in most countries as roles models for peoplewho want to earn a lot of cash e.g.Oprah Winfrey,David Beckham,Bruce Willis need I go on!!!!

Answer 9

I think it varies wildly. There is one lad in our team who is loaded, flash car the lot. I think he's an accountant or something. Then Dave on the other hand hasn't even got a job. Technically he doesn't earn anything he's given it...lazy git, good keeper though.

Answer 10

Since they can usually only do it for 10 years before they are so busted up, they are idiots or can't walk. I think their wages are fair. Especially when you consider how much the teams as a whole make.