Madness

[Porky]

Following on from two recent threads about our perilous financial future I was horrified to see the headlines in the papers just now that Rooney has, surprise, surprise decided to stay at Man U after all because he has been offered a new 5 year contract getting paid WAIT FOR IT ............................

£250,000 PER WEEK.

That makes me sooooooooo angry. How on earth can that be justified?

I would be interested to hear what you all think about that*-)*-)*-)

 

Roy Fuller

[kelly58]

" Obscene "

[Bulletguy]

I'm no fan of football at all but this has been dominating the news all week.

 

It's justified by exactly the same greed which drives people in other occupations to want more and more and more. Him and his agent have played a game of bluff to get a fatter salary and it's paid off. How long for is anyones guess.

 

Obviously the club are daft enough to pay it despite being heavily in debt.

 

[malc d]

kelly58 - 2010-10-23 12:50 PM

 

" Obscene "

 

 

 

'Obscene' possibly, but if that is what football fans can be persuaded to pay, I'm not really bothered as it costs me nothing.

 

At least we should be getting a nice lot of tax back from him.

 

:-|

[kelly58]

malc d - 2010-10-23 1:16 PM

kelly58 - 2010-10-23 12:50 PM " Obscene "

'Obscene' possibly, but if that is what football fans can be persuaded to pay, I'm not really bothered as it costs me nothing. At least we should be getting a nice lot of tax back from him. :-|

I totally agree as it also costs me nothing  and I never could see the point of football anyway.

[nightrider]

I was brought up two minutes away from Manchester Uniteds old training ground at the Cliff, when I say to people that I have never seen a football match in my entire life their jaws drop in amazement.

[josie gibblebucket]

His timing couldn't have been worse with the spending review having been announced this week. So many folk are facing cuts to their incomes or even losing their jobs altogether, I think he may face resentment from some fans, in fact he may face resentment from the rest of the team too. I'll bet none of them would have been given such a whopping payrise. It is purely greed, if he couldn't live on his existing salary, there is something very wrong. He must also have a very large ego if he thinks he is worth that much more. >:-(

[malc d]

josie gibblebucket - 2010-10-23 3:42 PM

 

His timing couldn't have been worse with the spending review having been announced this week. So many folk are facing cuts to their incomes or even losing their jobs altogether, I think he may face resentment from some fans, in fact he may face resentment from the rest of the team too. I'll bet none of them would have been given such a whopping payrise. It is purely greed, if he couldn't live on his existing salary, there is something very wrong. He must also have a very large ego if he thinks he is worth that much more. >:-(

 

 

I expect that he is just following his agents instructions.

 

I wonder if his agent got a rise as well.

 

 

 

 

;-)

[Guest peter]

josie gibblebucket - 2010-10-23 3:42 PM

 

His timing couldn't have been worse with the spending review having been announced this week. So many folk are facing cuts to their incomes or even losing their jobs altogether, I think he may face resentment from some fans, in fact he may face resentment from the rest of the team too. I'll bet none of them would have been given such a whopping payrise. It is purely greed, if he couldn't live on his existing salary, there is something very wrong. He must also have a very large ego if he thinks he is worth that much more. >:-(

Perhaps the Hookers he frequents have put their rates up. I would have told the greedy little s**te to f*ck off. He hasn't perform at all well lately, except maybe in the whorehouse.

Football fans must be off their heads to graft all week and then give a big proportion of it to the likes of him and his ilk.

Football........I can't stand it.

[CliveH]

Have to agree Peter.

 

I once had football explained to me as 22 bags of wind kicking another little bag of wind about.

 

The whole thing is obscene and underlines how divorced from reality some sections of the population are.

 

The fact that people spend huge sums to watch these one talent wonders and thereby help pay them these obscene amounts is a mystery to me.

 

[art338]

Who is Rooney ?

[PJay]

art338 - 2010-10-24 10:14 AM

 

Who is Rooney ?

 

 

An old actor (Mickey)

[Bazza454]

CliveH - 2010-10-24 8:10 AM  The fact that people spend huge sums to watch these one talent wonders and thereby help pay them these obscene amounts is a mystery to me.

And surely Clive, this is the point, as long as football "fans" are prepared to pay up to £90 to watch a Premiership game and even £30 to watch a league 1 match, clubs couple this with TV and corporate monies and can then afford to pay these silly amounts. It's not obscene, it's called "market dynamics".

[Syd]

What nonsense you are all speaking.

 

When you sell your motorhomes will you reduce the price because there is a recession on at the moment.

 

"No" I don't think you will

 

Well Rooney is, like you when you sell anything, selling his services and is simply getting as much as he can for them.

 

If he is being greedy then so is everyone else who gets as much as they can for whatever they are selling.

 

Simple isn't it, and good luck to him

[Brian Kirby]

Have to agree with most of that, Syd.  Rooney isn't a charity, and if he can screw ludicrous sums from Man U, the fault is theirs, and not his.  Someone should have looked him straight in the eye and said "go on then, see what you can get elsewhere".

That they didn't, should lead to a number of Man U directors resigning, and ideally being disbarred from holding directorships in future on grounds of insanity, not the pillorying of poor little Wayne, who is merely suffering from far more fame and fortune at a tender age than his brain cell can cope with.

[LordThornber]

Good luck to him I say. If he's comfortable with the public scrutiny that he gets for on or off the pitch activities then good on him.

 

No amount of money would comfort me if I was a young man with a wife and a baby to nurture and then to have to protect them with hordes of yobs baying for blood at my home.

 

I don't care how much security his wealth can buy, peace of mind is priceless.

 

Martyn

[Guest JudgeMental]

Have to agree, this is the reality of what he does for a living, and while I dont see it as being a good thing, it is the nature of the world we live in, and the one we vote for *-)

[Syd]

Another justification, as if one were needed, is the often VERY short career span that many footballers enjoy often due to injury

[Guest peter]

I also agree with the above. I couldn't give a toss what he gets paid, as it costs me nothing and he pays a lot of tax on it, rather than it being salted away to some tax haven by the directors instead.

What is obscene is that young boys want to emulate him and are really dissapointed when they end up working at McDonalds instead even though they are streets ahead of him in intelect. Life just aint fair is it. :D

[nowtelse2do]

It's all about money. Leave Utd in January his value is less than 50% to Utd,(whatever that value is) Utd will have to replace him. Very costly.

Leave Utd after next summer, his value to Utd is 0%, and Rooney is a free agent.

Give him an extra £100,000 a week and get him to sign on for another 5yrs, value goes back up, at least for another 2-3yrs then sell him. So its cost Utd an extra £15,000,000 which is cheaper than having to let him go now. (They would have probably lost this and more)

His agent is on 10% so now he gets £20,000 a week instead of that measly £10,000 a week he was on.

I see their new Mexican signing scored Utd's 2 goals to day, Wonder if he will be asking for a rise next week!! 

Dave

[Bulletguy]

Syd - 2010-10-24 7:11 PM

 

Another justification, as if one were needed, is the often VERY short career span that many footballers enjoy often due to injury

Ramsay didn't let a little thing like that get in his way.

But then Ramsay is an exception amongst pro footballers in that he has a brain.

[nowtelse2do]

Bulletguy - 2010-10-24 9:37 PM

Syd - 2010-10-24 7:11 PM Another justification, as if one were needed, is the often VERY short career span that many footballers enjoy often due to injury

 But then Ramsay is an exception amongst pro footballers in that he has a brain.

I hope this should be in past tense Bg, otherwise I think this is a bit spooky.

Dave

[Bulletguy]

Nothing 'spooky' about intelligence.

If we are talking Ramsay then its quite apparent for all to see that he has a brain.......which, amongst pro-footballers, makes him the exception rather than the rule.

 

The guy can at least converse in logical english and hold conversation!

[nowtelse2do]

I thought you ment Alf Ramsey!!! :D :D

Think it's time for bed, Goodnight.

Dave

[Porky]

I am just glad I don't feel the urge to spend £60 for a ticket (presumably soon to go up to support the rash of increases clubs will have to pay to keep their spoilt brats from leaving) because I am not that brave to explain to my wife the reasoning behind it.

Obscene amounts of money are paid to top athletes and one assumes this will continue until common sense takes over. Don't hold your breath*-)*-)

When A**ene Wenger (manager of Arsenal for those who don't know) was asked would he pay £250,000 per week to a player, his answer was that he manages a business which has to balance the books, and therefore no he wouldn't be paying that sort of money. Good for him.

When I was 16 I was offered a professional deal, but in those days (yes it was along time ago) there was a maximum wage which was actually less than a carpenter or plumber could earn. How times have changed>:-)>:-)

PS why is ars in A**en removed but not in Arsenal???????

 

Roy Fuller