JACOBHARRIS999 IS A PRO FOOTBALLER SO PLEASE BE SURE TO­ RELATE TO HIM IN THAT FASHION, HE SUGGESTS THAT­ FOOTBALLERS SHOULD GET THESE MASSIVE AMOUNTS,­ JACOBHARRIS999 LISTEN YOU GREADY PARASITE OF THIS­ WORLD, THE LARGE REVENUE'S GAINED IN THE PREMIRE­ LEAGURE SHOULD GO TO GRASS ROUTES FOOTBALL WHICH IS­ LACKING THE INVESTMENT YOU C*&T. EVERYONE WHO WANTS­ FOOTBALL TO REMAIN A GREAT SPORT IN ENGLAND SHOULD­ EMAIL YAHOO AND HAVE THIS SCUM BAG BANNED, WE DON'T­ WANT WHAT HAPPENED IN ITALY A FEW YEARS BACK TO HAPPEN­ HEAR, JACOBHARRIS99 THROW YOURSELF OFF A BRIDGE AS YOU­ ARE A WASTE OF HUMAN LIFE.

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The last paragraph in your last post is interesting­ (JacobH) and for me it sums it all up beautifully.­

' if you think players are being paid too much,­ you need to provide a solution as to where the money­ goes '

Errrr, may i step forward and suggest this­ radical gem - the money goes to the millions upon­ millions of people whom have been left to fight hard­ every day for the survival of them and their children­ in the shade of lady luck. Really the fact that this­ point hasn't even been bought up is the saddest­ thing of all - the idea of any corperation giving­ surplus profit to charity in this sick day and age is­ laughable isn't it? Or maybe just for people that­ lack honesty and decency.

The thing is Jacob, your missing the point. You can­ give us as many sums as you like, none of which make a­ difference. Its the injustice of it all that bugs­ people. We all get one shot at life, and some people­ get to spend theirs scratching around never having any­ security often trying to raise children and find the­ time to enjoy their depressing exsitences. Then we have­ fat Frank Lampard in the papers feeling hurt that­ Chelsea won't give the extra £10,000 a week he­ feels he is worth in the current market (on top of his­ £100,000 a week of course). Its sick. Its grossly­ unjust. And if Lampard really did spit out his dummy­ over not getting an extra £10k a week then he is a­ complete disgrace for not even having the common­ decency to realise that outside his bloated West London­ exsistence people are sleeping on the streets or trying­ to scrape enough money to take their kids to Devon for­ a week.
The fact that you are trying to defend their­ sick wage packets by claiming they retire at 35 and­ 'are unable to work in any other field' makes­ you weird and extremely stupid. What about someone who­ was deprived an education due to uncaring or abusive­ parents? What do they do for work without any­ education? Wheres there multimillion pound Swiss saving­ account to keep them alive like your precious­ footballers have? Your right about one thing - if a­ business (such as Man Utd which in years gone by was­ actually refered to as a club but never mind) is­ earning all this money a year then once they have paid­ their overheads they have a right to pay their­ employees (or players) the rest. The sick thing is this­ happens to be tens of millions, and whats sicker is­ that this is precisly what the clubs do. This article­ will always make moral people feel a bit sick and­ saddned. So maybe you lack morals Jacob.

men they deserve 2 be paid

some of you are so narrow minded! footballers get paid­ the amount they do as it is a fair distribution of the­ wealth in their area.. let me ellaborate, take old­ trafford, capacity of 76000 and an average season­ ticket price of about £700, this equals £53 200 000 a­ year generated from tickets, their deal with AIG is­ worth 56 million over 4 years which is £14 million a­ year. so they have £67 million a year solely from­ ticket sales, and their main sponsorship. (take note­ that we are not including any other sponsors of which­ there are many, their prize money, and more­ importantly, any of the money they receive from­ television rights, or from advertising on their own­ channel during football games. if you divide this money­ between 15 main squad players it works out at 4.5­ million a year each. No one can argue that this is not­ fair, apart from the players and the mannager and a few­ other backroom staff, who else should the money go to,­ It is inevitable that there is this much money in­ football, as it is so popular, As it is so popular it­ is a perfect platform for advertisment. (companies want­ to advertise their product on a football game as they­ know that they are garunteed a large audience)

If you­ are suggesting that footballers are paid too much, you­ have to provide a solution as to where the money should­ go if it is not to the players. Proposing giving more­ of the money to the club itself would be counter­ productive as it would merely make the richer clubs­ even richer, thus creating even greater hyper inflation­ in the player transfer market. (some clubs would be­ able to price every other club out of the market)

Where is Walcott & Adebayor on the list? The list­ is defected. Re-present.

Where is Walcott on the list? The list is defected.­ Re-present.

i truly envy the footballers but Jacobhariss, it's­ so funny that you think they deserve more cos they­ retire early. Retiring @age 35 does not mean u­ can\t do anything else. or are they so stupid? some­ of them must have gone to sch or have investment­ somewhere, i wish i can marry 1 even if it's for 12­ months.

a footballer gets paid 50 times a year more than any­ other technician. if they retire 25 years before anyone­ else, every year they played, earned them 50 years of a­ normal person! Only a brain dead cannot work out that­ in 1 and half years he will get the same amount of­ everyone else will roughly get, when retiring at 65 or­ so. the other 17.5 years of getting 50 years of wages­ in one. that would give them extra 850 years of normal­ person wages in retirement. just in case they run out­ of money for having a short employment. all the brain­ deads who want to justify footballers wages on the­ short employment hopefully their brain is good enough­ to understand this

JACOBHARRIS.ARE YOU WIRED UP PROPERLY SON.IF A­ FOOTBALLER AT THE AGE OF 20 IS ON £100 GRAND A WEEK­ TILL HES 35 THATS £5.2 MILLION A YEAR, TIMES 15.ISNT­ THAT ENOUGH TO RETIRE ON.JACOBHARRIS=MUG+MUPPET

Just like an average civil servant will get retired­ someday after his service since he can't work for­ the rest of his life till age 90, so do footballers­ plays until age 35 or lil bit more and actors does till­ even 70s, So whats the different? I'm not against­ players getting paid heavily, but it's not­ justified doctors, engineers, and other highly­ professional skills been paid less.

How about Brucie then? don't you think he deserves­ a knighthood, He is as good at entertaining as­ Manchester United but he doesn't get paid £1000,000­ a week and I think he should the way he dances and­ tells really funny jokes, he makes me laugh as much as­ some of the comments on this page.

Footballers have a­ relatively short footballing life so good luck to them­ if they earn lots of money. If you don't like­ paying their wages don't go to watch them. The­ wages would soon go down then!

a senator from my country went to ivory coast before,­ and as he arrived at the airport, he was ushered by­ government officials to a rest lounge to relax. they­ passed by a more luxurious looking lounge, so he asked­ the official, "what's that room for?".­ the official answered, "that is the VVIP lounge,­ reserved only for kings, presidents and didier­ drogba...". true story.

jacobharris, dunno why u really going all out to defend­ the footballers...you're making the point that they­ retire at age 35 so they deserve a lot? what, will they­ become so helpless and are they really stupid that at­ age 35, after football, they can't do anything else­ to earn a living? you are a joke, sir...

Jacobh -- you are a tool.........

To peterlynch, post6, Didier Drogba was born in Africa.­
To Emmanuel A, post 10, Drogba is well aware of the­ poverty there. He is a United Nations ambassador who­ spends a lot of time and money in Africa trying to­ improve conditions. The people of the Ivory Coast­ don't begrudge him his good fortune, just the­ opposite. He is a national hero there.

to Peter H i think you don't understand the point.­ so i will explain it simply for you. they retire at the­ age of 35 and this means they have no job, and­ therefore no income from that day. If they were to earn­ as you suggest 100 000 a year untill 35. for example­ lets say this is from the age of 20. this would give­ them total earnings of 1 £500 000. Lets say (very­ nievely that they have only spent £750000 (giving them­ one sports car, and an average- nice house) they now­ have £750 000 to live on until the age of 90, which as­ fit men you would expect them to live to. this is 55­ years. £ 750 000 for 55 years. Lets be generous and say­ that they have been clever with their money and made­ the £750 000 into £ 1 million. This would give them­ an annual salary of £ 18181.8 hardly a salary which you­ could expect one of the top sportsmen in the world to­ survive on. Does this make it any clearer to you Peter­ as to why they earn the salaries that they do. You­ cannot question the fact that they deserve a higher­ than average standard of living.