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okay the title is slightly misleading, i do think they're overpayed, but you all judge when you KNOW nothing about the business of it? guarantee half of you saying it are 14. footballers are paid so much because of how hard it is to get to a professional level? how many MILLIONS of kids want to be footballers and aim for that half of their lives and never get anywhere? just like in any job, the ones at the top earn the most. they are at the top of the millions who want that job. not saying they deserve million pound salaries but you should really f*cking research it instead of making an uneducated comment on how they're overpayed for "kicking a ball around", would love to see any of you overweight single kids earn that much playing cod all day?
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wolfzy wrote okay the title is slightly misleading, i do think they're overpayed, but you all judge when you KNOW nothing about the business of it? guarantee half of you saying it are 14. footballers are paid so much because of how hard it is to get to a professional level? how many MILLIONS of kids want to be footballers and aim for that half of their lives and never get anywhere? just like in any job, the ones at the top earn the most. they are at the top of the millions who want that job. not saying they deserve million pound salaries but you should really f*cking research it instead of making an uneducated comment on how they're overpayed for "kicking a ball around", would love to see any of you overweight single kids earn that much playing cod all day?
Thank you so much for this!
This is absolutely brilliant
Nobody seems to realize their lifestyle has to revolve around football. Training is almost every day with diet and fitness strictly maintained. They can't do much in public because it gives off a bad image of the club. There are regular body fat tests. They have to be elite to even get into a football club. So the ones earning 100k+ are almost superhuman. If it was easy to be a footballer, everyone would do it!
Also, the money from wages is compensated by shirt sales/advertising/tv rights
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OhDavidLuiz wrotewolfzy wrote okay the title is slightly misleading, i do think they're overpayed, but you all judge when you KNOW nothing about the business of it? guarantee half of you saying it are 14. footballers are paid so much because of how hard it is to get to a professional level? how many MILLIONS of kids want to be footballers and aim for that half of their lives and never get anywhere? just like in any job, the ones at the top earn the most. they are at the top of the millions who want that job. not saying they deserve million pound salaries but you should really f*cking research it instead of making an uneducated comment on how they're overpayed for "kicking a ball around", would love to see any of you overweight single kids earn that much playing cod all day?
Thank you so much for this!
This is absolutely brilliant
Nobody seems to realize their lifestyle has to revolve around football. Training is almost every day with diet and fitness strictly maintained. They can't do much in public because it gives off a bad image of the club. There are regular body fat tests. They have to be elite to even get into a football club. So the ones earning 100k+ are almost superhuman. If it was easy to be a footballer, everyone would do it!
Also, the money from wages is compensated by shirt sales/advertising/tv rights
exactly i know i could never do it, and im pretty fit too, but i'd never be able to be as good as they are?! it's YEARS of practice and then constant training.
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You also train all day from like 9 am - 5 pm
+ It's all these rich chairmen who are providing players with money..
Not the government....
and I don't think any of you NON professionals can call PROFESSIONALS bad because they clearly cant be? If they are where they are today
If you think about it you train from 9 am - 5 pm ( time varies when your club starts and finishes )
Your train 5 days a week
You play a match maybe even two matches a week
You get ONE day off..
Altogether there training 40 hours a week.
+ It's all these rich chairmen who are providing players with money..
Not the government....
and I don't think any of you NON professionals can call PROFESSIONALS bad because they clearly cant be? If they are where they are today
If you think about it you train from 9 am - 5 pm ( time varies when your club starts and finishes )
Your train 5 days a week
You play a match maybe even two matches a week
You get ONE day off..
Altogether there training 40 hours a week.
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I found it wonderful that most of my area no longer undervalue footballers after some lad (now about 22) lived here. He was perhaps the most athletic guy I've ever met. Represented his school for 100m, 800, and 1500m. Represented his county for 100 and 800m. Got offered to represent Wales many times. He was so talented at football that in school, if he was on your time, 2 teachers had to play on the other team to balance it out. This guy used to spent hours at the gym every day.
He eventually didn't make it professionally despite teachers/local teams dubbing him a potential world class player.
He admitted to not being good enough leading everyone in the area to realize how good pro players can be.
He eventually didn't make it professionally despite teachers/local teams dubbing him a potential world class player.
He admitted to not being good enough leading everyone in the area to realize how good pro players can be.
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most of them train from 10am - about 1pm or even 12pm so thats what 3-4 hours a day?
im not disagreeing with what you are saying its all the same for example a project manager for a construction company earn up to 70,000 he manages the project and thats it and paper work and stuff like that a brick layer or carpenter the people building the building ear up to around 25,000 for doing the dirty work so i kind off see that the footballer is technically doing the dirty work coz hes playing so he should have a wage for doing all the work but obviously its outrages the ammount they do earn but still they have to make a living somehow.
im not disagreeing with what you are saying its all the same for example a project manager for a construction company earn up to 70,000 he manages the project and thats it and paper work and stuff like that a brick layer or carpenter the people building the building ear up to around 25,000 for doing the dirty work so i kind off see that the footballer is technically doing the dirty work coz hes playing so he should have a wage for doing all the work but obviously its outrages the ammount they do earn but still they have to make a living somehow.
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"Why Soccer Players arent overpayed"
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I still think they are overpaid tbh.
Players in the NHL get more than alot of football players but what do you expect from such a demanding, very physical, passionate game.
Players in the NHL get more than alot of football players but what do you expect from such a demanding, very physical, passionate game.
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Yet a QuarterBack gets paid more then a soldier on the frontlines protecting our country.
Seems legit. Welcome to America.
Seems legit. Welcome to America.
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I do think they're overpaid. There's no way that you can justify being paid millions each year. I understand it's an extremely demanding job but so are many other occupations. Take the obvious example of being a surgeon. Sometimes they'll have to do a 12 hour operation to save someone's life. Now it may not be physically demanding, but imagine the mental preparation, studying and motivation you need to do something like that?
Who deserves more money, a footballer that has to keep fit and play football for entertainment purposes or a neurosurgeon that can save a child's life?
Who deserves more money, a footballer that has to keep fit and play football for entertainment purposes or a neurosurgeon that can save a child's life?
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