Just saw what Manchester City are offering Samuel Eto'o. £250,000 per week! How can anyone justify paying someone that much!?! All this rubbish about Danny Buderus being payed too much!

Football is a massive industry they fore the stars get paid a lot more money. However it’s the owners of these clubs who make the real money through merchandise etc.

Yes it is a silly amount to me and you and the starving kid in Africa. But that’s for another debate!

How much money will Manchester City potentially make if they finish Top 4 every season, get into the Champions League and get rewarded with high prize money from the Premier League?

Not to mention the sales of replica shirts, selling out the CoM every home game etc.

You have to speculate to accumulate, just that in football both are done on a bigger scale than any other sport in Europe.

Buderus is on double that.

Aitch Tee Aitch.

Double?

He's on at least triple + a win bonus of £67,000,000

He can't be, he was once eating in the lawnswood arms!

Hey, even us multi millionaires like to slum it occasionally...

Thought you were on about the number of fans Hull KR take to away games for a minute there.

Increasing year on year.



Allegedley.

The money is wasted.
Firstly, as we all know from countless interviews with players and ex-players "they don't play the game for the money, they would all play for nothing such is their love of football". So why not pay the s nothing?
Secondly, they are all brainless s with little or no imagination (heading a ball once is enough to give me concussion so after doing it continuously from the age of 6 they must have either zero brains to start with or be brain damaged). This means they don't actually know what to do with all that money which is why they have to have at least one fake breasted bimbo with the IQ and taste of Kerry Katona to help them spend it (lets be honest - how thick do you have to be for your WAG to be the brains of the operation?).
Thirdly, it won't win you any trophies. Real Madrid won more trophies when players were on ten bob a month than they did when they were paying David Peckham 100,000 grand a kick. Arsenal had a legendarily rigid pay structure and won lots of trophies, and will again in the next few years.

But as it's football, I don't really care. Man City could buy the whole Brazilian national team and stick Messi up front and they wouldn't qualify for the Champions league with the manager they have.

Until you realized there were 6 noughts instead of 9?

A mate who is a sports journo tells me the figures quoted are after tax as well. Don't get me wrong i think its an appalling amount of money, but if it means the UK coffers get £250k a week in tax who cares (£250k because he'd be on 50% tax meaning if he is earning £250k after tax etc etc blah blah blah).

All i say is if they can afford it, bring more of the buggers over on that kind of cash. means the government might just make a bit more money available for the kids who want to become sportsmen (or more than likely spend it on a 3rd home for the greedy MPs)

Nah he signed for next nothing because he always had a burning desire to experience SL at the end of his career.