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[Mister Rog]

Neymar, Rooney, Bale etc

How do you compare ?  A bit of depressing fun  I like the bit at the bottom showing earnings in real time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/41037621


 

[tunnie]

I'd rather compare 5L emulsion white paint, from 3 different manufactures.

Be far more interesting. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

So some nancy boy gets paid £1M a week for kicking a ball around on a piece of grass.

The PM earns around £150,000 each year.

It's a totally fu*cked up world.

[Mister Rog]

So some nancy boy gets paid £1M a week for kicking a ball around on a piece of grass.

The PM earns around £150,000 each year.

It's a totally fu*cked up world.

Exactly my point. Bonkers. A highly trained NHS consultant earns around £95k - £150k PA excluding private practice.

[Mister Rog]

I'd rather compare 5L emulsion white paint, from 3 different manufactures.

Be far more interesting. 

Ah. Sorry about that. I'l try to ensure that all future posts are rivetingly interesting to everyone here, like DIY,  weather, and Sky TV services. (terribly sorry old boy, I am a little tired)

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

So some nancy boy gets paid £1M a week for kicking a ball around on a piece of grass.

The PM earns around £150,000 each year.

It's a totally fu*cked up world.

Exactly my point. Bonkers. A highly trained NHS consultant earns around £95k - £150k PA excluding private practice.[/highl

 

So it takes a skilled consultant roughly 5-7 years to earn the same as a little lad kicking a ball about earns in a week.

[Paddy Flannery]

Galling though it is, these unskilled boys have agents who get them the best deals in a sport that is awash with money. Christ knows what they do with it all as most of the year they are training and playing, so apart from maybe going out for a meal that's fits the dietary advice that have been given by the club, what the hell do they do with it all ? Suppose family and hangers on do well ...

[ronnyd]

Thought that Mr Rooney spent his early salary on ageing ladies of ill repute.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Thought that Mr Rooney spent his early salary on ageing ladies of ill repute.

Grey muff! 

[BazaJT]

They are all massively overpaid,although I can't say as I blame them for demanding and getting it.There was a programme on the radio this afternoon asking listeners what buildings they'd like to see demolished and my immediate thought was every football stadium in the country!It's a totally boring game and should be abolished.

[plym ian]

Can't go on it. Think opti has broken it being on more than Neymar

[Rods2]

So some nancy boy gets paid £1M a week for kicking a ball around on a piece of grass.

The PM earns around £150,000 each year.

It's a totally fu*cked up world.

Exactly my point. Bonkers. A highly trained NHS consultant earns around £95k - £150k PA excluding private practice.[/highl

 

So it takes a skilled consultant roughly 5-7 years to earn the same as a little lad kicking a ball about earns in a week.

If I show a printed piece of plastic/paper with I promise to pay and a nominal £££'s value does it over all other printed pieces of plastic/paper suddenly have morals? No, it is our societies, amazingly flexible and useful (if you don't believe me try using the alternative of bartering), standard method of exchange for charging or consuming goods or services called money.

If I offer to sell totally legal goods, services or rent out my time and skills or consume other people's offered goods, services or rent their time or skills in what is called a market place has the market morals? No.

If lots of people are prepared to pay for my skills so I make lots of money have the transactions morals? No.

Therefore applying morality to all of the above is a totally bogus argument and some people use their brains to subjectively apply morals, as they feel fit, to the above. (btw it is normally lefties to make themselves feel smug and superior to the rest of us ).

So why does a very top footballer get paid much more than a doctor or nurse?

1. Supply and demand there are many more doctors and nurses than top, top footballers. The Premier League consists of 20 football clubs with a team having a maximum of 23 registered players. So the core of a multibillion industry has 460 top, top players.

2. Why does a small industry make billions, because like all hobbies and entertainment industries we are prepared to spend disproportionate amounts of money on enjoying them. Most people have about 60 hours of leisure time per week and (apart from Tunnie who likes watching 5l tins of white paint, when he is not in the local student bar telling all and sundry how exciting the speed and acceleration are as you do 2000 miles on a thimble of derv  ) want their sensory perception to be stimulated in exciting ways. Now I'm sure Lord Opti, spends hours thinking about, planning and deciding how can I spend Saturday afternoon. Now shall I plan to watch some entertainment I love or shall I plan to have a really bad accident and love even more consuming those doctor's or nurses services as they painfully put me back together again? I can't wait to get those tickets for my entertainment of choice or I can't wait for all that blood, gore, pain and disability as the doctors and nurses put me back together again from that bad accident. Most normal people will go out of their way to be entertained and also go out our way to avoid the skills and services of doctors and nurses which most of us do successfully avoid most of the time.

3. What we earn all comes down to supply and demand in free markets, simples.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

It's a crazy world.
All the really shitty jobs that nobody wants to do are paid at minimum wage.

All the really great jobs that we would do for free or even pay to do are paid at at a high rate.

It's all arse about tit really.

If all the clubs in the premier league got together and decided that no club would pay no more than £500 a week to any footballer the quality of the 'entertainment ' would be exactly the same.

TB should add overpaid nancy boy footballers to his cull list.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

So some nancy boy gets paid £1M a week for kicking a ball around on a piece of grass.

The PM earns around £150,000 each year.

It's a totally fu*cked up world.

Exactly my point. Bonkers. A highly trained NHS consultant earns around £95k - £150k PA excluding private practice.[/highl

 

So it takes a skilled consultant roughly 5-7 years to earn the same as a little lad kicking a ball about earns in a week.

If I show a printed piece of plastic/paper with I promise to pay and a nominal £££'s value does it over all other printed pieces of plastic/paper suddenly have morals? No, it is our societies, amazingly flexible and useful (if you don't believe me try using the alternative of bartering), standard method of exchange for charging or consuming goods or services called money.

If I offer to sell totally legal goods, services or rent out my time and skills or consume other people's offered goods, services or rent their time or skills in what is called a market place has the market morals? No.

If lots of people are prepared to pay for my skills so I make lots of money have the transactions morals? No.

Therefore applying morality to all of the above is a totally bogus argument and some people use their brains to subjectively apply morals, as they feel fit, to the above. (btw it is normally lefties to make themselves feel smug and superior to the rest of us ).

So why does a very top footballer get paid much more than a doctor or nurse?

1. Supply and demand there are many more doctors and nurses than top, top footballers. The Premier League consists of 20 football clubs with a team having a maximum of 23 registered players. So the core of a multibillion industry has 460 top, top players.

2. Why does a small industry make billions, because like all hobbies and entertainment industries we are prepared to spend disproportionate amounts of money on enjoying them. Most people have about 60 hours of leisure time per week and (apart from Tunnie who likes watching 5l tins of white paint, when he is not in the local student bar telling all and sundry how exciting the speed and acceleration are as you do 2000 miles on a thimble of derv  ) want their sensory perception to be stimulated in exciting ways. Now I'm sure Lord Opti, spends hours thinking about, planning and deciding how can I spend Saturday afternoon. Now shall I plan to watch some entertainment I love or shall I plan to have a really bad accident and love even more consuming those doctor's or nurses services as they painfully put me back together again? I can't wait to get those tickets for my entertainment of choice or I can't wait for all that blood, gore, pain and disability as the doctors and nurses put me back together again from that bad accident. Most normal people will go out of their way to be entertained and also go out our way to avoid the skills and services of doctors and nurses which most of us do successfully avoid most of the time.

3. What we earn all comes down to supply and demand in free markets, simples.

I imagine there are far fewer 'cutting edge' neurosurgeons than premier league footballers. So your supply and demand theory is overly simplistic.

Such people are hard working professionals with a high I.Q. Compare this with the average footballer, who has the intellectual capacity of a retarded goat.

[New POD]

Neymar, Rooney, Bale etc

How do you compare ?  A bit of depressing fun  I like the bit at the bottom showing earnings in real time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/41037621


 

ROOOOONEY, When he last played for everton, before the united years, he lived at the posh end of my town.  One evening I saw him parked half on the pavement, on double yellows, and he came out of a pizza take away carrying about 6 boxes. I did find it strange that he had a second job as a delivery guy, but hey.....he was playing for the love and not the money.