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I don't know why people are so bitter about how much footballers earn, it just comes over as sad. It's obscene but who cares. Film stars, sports stars, F1 drivers... they get paid because they can do what others can't and it makes the owners a lot of money, who wouldn't take an extra 50k a week from FSG if they could?
It's a short career, would you be happier if they earnt the average wage?

I don't know why people are so bitter about how much footballers earn, it just comes over as sad. It's obscene but who cares. Film stars, sports stars, F1 drivers... they get paid because they can do what others can't and it makes the owners a lot of money, who wouldn't take an extra 50k a week from FSG if they could?
It's a short career, would you be happier if they earnt the average wage?

I don't know why people are so bitter about how much footballers earn, it just comes over as sad. It's obscene but who cares. Film stars, sports stars, F1 drivers... they get paid because they can do what others can't and it makes the owners a lot of money, who wouldn't take an extra 50k a week from FSG if they could?
It's a short career, would you be happier if they earnt the average wage?

like I say I did mention that they get judged on face value by fans but being your so far away it might have been lost in translation so I will try to make it simple for a person like you to understand. Fans judge players certain ways we don't know the nuts and bolts of what's actually in his contract so we judge on what we see and know. If Lucas and Steven Gerrard are both on 50k a week and all of a sudden Gerrard is given 100k a week we as fans expect Gerrard to play twice a well as Lucas for that sort of money, if he doesn't and plays the same or just a little bit better then Gerrard is open to critism. If you look at another example, why did Andy Carroll get treated differently from Craig Bellamy and David NGog...it was because for 35 million pounds he had to play considerably better to justify that outlay, this is the way fans judge players and why players can't hide behind the excuse he's only human he can't play well all the time, that might work for a bog standard ordinary player on 20 grand a week but certainly not one on 100k a week.

Nobody is forcing you to go and if there were no players you would be watching the turf. You can even pay less to watch another team in a lower division where players earn less, why don't you try that? When Henry doesn't pay high wages you complain, when he does you complain about players' wages...do you get your picture?

nope I will never agree with you and the poster above you on that opinion am afraid, both of you don't go to the match or if you do it's the odd occasion so your opinion doesn't carry much weight, maybe if you did then your opinion would change when you have to cough up your hard earned cash and watch players go through the motions half the time or playing in dead competition like the League when there's nothin on it.
I think that's probably why it's so easy for people like you to say to match going fans if you don't like it then don't go, if you had any idea how hard for a person who has always gone the match to do that you wouldn't pass it off so lightly.
A person who doesn't go the match will never think like a person who regularly goes it's a bit like this mythical season ticket list that has about 2 million on it according to some, we all know that if you actualy offered a season ticket to these people and demanded 850 quid a season most wouldn't take you up on that offer and instead make an excuse...

Why are you bothering Vish?

So because you go to games and pay your hard earned cash to do so, you want players to become robots who shouldn't get tired, out of form or injured? Keep hoping then and good luck.