United thread 2019/20

[NZBlue]

It's no different from other forms of entertainment such as acting, or the arts, where those at the top earn hundreds of times more than those a few rungs down the career ladder.

What Tom Cruise gets paid for a single film would keep a medium sized theatre going for a significant period, I'll hazard.

The difference is that Tom Cruise actually appears in his films, he doesn't get paid to not appear!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The difference is that Tom Cruise actually appears in his films, he doesn't get paid to not appear!

Marlon Brando towards the end of his career might have been more analogous: paid huge sums to perform lacklustre cameos, whilst making unreasonable demands of those who hired him and being conspicuously unfit!

 

[KS55]

Marlon Brando towards the end of his career might have been more analogous: paid huge sums to perform lacklustre cameos, whilst making unreasonable demands of those who hired him and being conspicuously unfit!

Brando was so unfit, he had to stop being a tricky winger and revert to centre half.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Brando was so unfit, he had to stop being a tricky winger and revert to centre half.

Watched him quite recently in Mutiny on the Bounty (during the filming of which he was supposed to be an absolute fucking diva) and was surprisingly entertained and amused by his dandified, foppish performance (for which he was widely slated)

 

[andyhinch]

Watched him quite recently in Mutiny on the Bounty (during the filming of which he was supposed to be an absolute fucking diva) and was surprisingly entertained and amused by his dandified, foppish performance (for which he was widely slated)

So a bit of a Pogba then.

 

[dickie davies]

That's pretty much what happened when we signed Gareth Taylor from Sheffield United
When the chairman was read the faxed offer of £800, 000 by his secretary he said "you mean £80,000"

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

So a bit of a Pogba then.

I said I was surprisingly entertained!

 

[KS55]

That's pretty much what happened when we signed Gareth Taylor from Sheffield United
When the chairman was read the faxed offer of £800, 000 by his secretary he said "you mean £80,000"

Many years ago, a management consultant told me a story about a job he got in the Gulf somewhere.
Sent off his proposal, without noticing that the price quoted was £1,000,000 rather than £100,000 which he meant it to be.
Got the job and the arab oil rich client paid £1,000,000. Result.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Watched him quite recently in Mutiny on the Bounty (during the filming of which he was supposed to be an absolute fucking diva) and was surprisingly entertained and amused by his dandified, foppish performance (for which he was widely slated)

Bit off topic but I really enjoyed reading his autobiography - I couldn't put it down

 

[Grassland Blue]

Southampton are 11/4 on Saturday. Can't see anything other than a Saints win.

There goes the S.O.O. campaign.....