Reply to: job of the week (Millenium more like)

[snaw]

He might have picked something up sh@gging Paris Hilton.

Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?

[lukemg]

You lot sound like permies !! 'no-one is worth that', 'it's obscene' 'doctors don't get that for saving lives' etc etc. Footballers are just the ultimate contractors, the market decides their worth as it does ours and plenty of people dragging along in hand to mouth jobs and who have qualifications would describe some of our rates as crazy too. Good luck to him and anyone else making coin without hurting anyone else.

[Alf W]

Would be a shame if he failed his medical...

He might have picked something up sh@gging Paris Hilton.

[MrMark]

Would be a shame if he failed his medical...

[snaw]

Come on - it's a dumb move. Footba has all the signs of a market about to decline. And Ronaldo just isn't that good - in the big games he hides, while players like Messi, Gerrard love the big games.

Actually - in the big games he generally delivers - there's plenty of examples of that so I canny be arsed googling them. But feel free to do it yourself and dispell this myth.

[snaw]

FFS.

Exactly.

Let's get back to the question at hand. I'm ******* gobsmacked at that figure.

[ace00]

Come on - it's a dumb move. Footba has all the signs of a market about to decline. And Ronaldo just isn't that good - in the big games he hides, while players like Messi, Gerrard love the big games.

[Menelaus]

£556,000 a ******* week?

FFS.

[snaw]

UK

Spain is actually doing OK. They own our airports, they own most of our banks, they have the best footballers, tennis players... they seem unable to do anything wrong if you ask me.

The money coming in is relying more on asia and the americas than domestically.

And I'm not sure I'd call 17.4% unemployment (record high) as doing ok. Added the the problems with the housing market there I'm not sure I'd agree with that at all...

[oracleslave]

UK

Spain is actually doing OK.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8550845

[MrMark]

UK

Spain is actually doing OK. They own our airports, they own most of our banks, they have the best footballers, tennis players... they seem unable to do anything wrong if you ask me.

Their working conditions in bakeries don't seem so good

[scooterscot]

See here's my thing - and I'm no expert on global marketing and tv rights and stuff.

But a team 5 years ago, containing Beckham, Zidane, Raul, big Ronaldo etc turned over a fair chunk - in a market which was booming. But it's not any more, tv companies are going bust, advertising is down everywhere, countries are in recession.

UK

Spain is actually doing OK. They own our airports, they own most of our banks, they have the best footballers, tennis players... they seem unable to do anything wrong if you ask me.

[snaw]

According to the Sun this morning (I know, I know..)

See here's my thing - and I'm no expert on global marketing and tv rights and stuff.

But a team 5 years ago, containing Beckham, Zidane, Raul, big Ronaldo etc turned over a fair chunk - in a market which was booming. But it's not any more, tv companies are going bust, advertising is down everywhere, countries are in recession.

HTF does up the ante, by a massive scale, with these two players and more to come make them more than the old galacticos?

I guess I just don't get it. Sure it makes sense to somebody - but other clubs in the world aren't that far behind RM and none of them would consider anything like these kind of expenditures (Well unless you're backed by a super rich owner - RM aren't - it's purely advertising/tv etc).

[oracleslave]

Football players get an exemption ni Spain, think it's called something like Beckham's law - check it out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckham_law

"However the Royal Decree 687/2005 modifies this law with respect to wealthy foreign workers. To ease the tax burden and to attract the likes of Beckham and top executives"

Only the poor pay tax.

[MrMark]

According to the Sun this morning (I know, I know..)

Madrid are confident that Ronaldo could earn them over £500m in merchandising over the next 10 years.