£160,000 a week is *&%"ing ridiculous!

[Fuzzmaster101]

You've got to remember that he'll only get just over £80,000 of that. I know that's still loads but in Spain their income tax levels are significantly lower than ours so we have to compensate the players to make their wages on a par with what they'd expect there. It's still a lot but relatively not so much more than other clubs abroad.

 

[Corky]

We should not have to pay 50% premiums on transfer fees and wages.

Or else we get Robinhos,and no one else can afford to take them of us if they flop.

Middlesboro tried it for long enough.

 

[Pam]

Couldn't care less. The Sheikh can afford it.

 

[lancs blue]

You've got to remember that he'll only get just over £80,000 of that. I know that's still loads but in Spain their income tax levels are significantly lower than ours so we have to compensate the players to make their wages on a par with what they'd expect there. It's still a lot but relatively not so much more than other clubs abroad.

City - reducing the budget deficit not ruining football.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

We should not have to pay 50% premiums on transfer fees and wages.

Or else we get Robinhos,and no one else can afford to take them of us if they flop.

Middlesboro tried it for long enough.

You may have a point but we have no alternative at the moment. The players view us as a gamble, we can't promise Champs league football let alone a trophy.

I understand your fears and the rest but I can't see a way around it to be honest.

 

[Owain]

Couldn't care less. The Sheikh can afford it.

Surely that isn't the point?

 

[Fuzzmaster101]

Apparently I'm wrong according to this graph!

 

[Citizen Green]

You've got to remember that he'll only get just over £80,000 of that. I know that's still loads but in Spain their income tax levels are significantly lower than ours so we have to compensate the players to make their wages on a par with what they'd expect there. It's still a lot but relatively not so much more than other clubs abroad.

City - reducing the budget deficit not ruining football.

Very interesting point.

 

[Clubber]

If someone offered you this you would take it. I know I would.

As money has flooded in, the players become more important, as they are the main attraction, so it's only common sense that the major factor for all the money coming into the game should be spread to the people who generate it. I feel for the managers really, as they get paid less than the players generally, yet they carry the burden of failure, yet the players seem to carry the major joys of success.

 

[cleavers]

For the second time. I am not blaming one club. City are following a trend and maybe taking it a bit further, but we are not responsible.

I am saying that the market as it is will ruin football. There will be 3 EPL clubs max, maybe just 2, or even only 1, that can compete at the highest level against a handful of other super rich clubs across Europe.

I'm also thinking that it is, just is, stupid money to be paid per week.

5 or 6 years wages for a lot of people watching paid to the players every single week!

It's just mad.

Of course its stupid, but football was "ruined" long ago by this shit, and we're not the first, personally I couldn't give f**k if we ruin a few clubs that started it, simply because they caused us to end up in the shit back in the 90's by doing just this (think Blacburn, oh and Newcastle, and err Leeds, not to mention a few more familiar names...).

If folk don't like it then they can always go support grass roots football at £15 a game in the Blue Square.....or you could just 'suffer' City.