I am making a observation and like to have a discussion in general about these type of salarys being paid to these so called stars.You do the maths!

Ok bathtub tom no disrespect to you either.Life is short.

Mercedes contract was two years ago. A public relations guru said at the time

Brand analyst Peter York said: "Ordinarily you'd expect Mercedes to choose someone aspirational and classy to advertise its cars, and it's fair to say Wayne Rooney doesn't fit that category.

"It's extremely strange. You have to ask who chose him? Was it someone who has misunderstood his image or was it perhaps a calculated move to ensure people talked about it?

"It's possible it will backfire and put off traditional Mercedes customers - but perhaps their choice of Rooney reflects the fact that the kind of people prepared to spend a fortune on a smart car nowadays are not particularly smart people."

And this was BEFORE the paid for company and the cynical threats of leaving MU. He hasn't got a brain of his own and his agent does his thinking for him - for a 20% fee!

Edited by Armitage Shanks {p} on 26/10/2010 at 16:29

a r s e n a l strange?

The game I enjoyed and played was Rugby League amateur met some great players and they weren't in it for the money.Football players could learn a lot from Rugby League players and their attitude to the game.Regarding sport I think it is good for children to be involved in a sport .I started with judo when Anton Geesink dutch judo champion became olympic champion in Japan.

I agree with woodster, in fact i do the same where possible & if no one turned up to watch overgrown children kick a ball around whilst spitting all over the place ( used to be an offence years ago ) and behaving like hooligans then there wouldn't be the funding there in the first place.

To be honest if I were unemployed and in hardship the last thing I would want to do is to turn up to a mach and watch some one gat paid more in one hour than they would earn in a year !

Boycott football matches.

its funny really, surgeon may earn £250K+ a year for saving lives but Rooney gets paid that fro kicking a lump of leather around and playing away from home

I blame the huge wages on the half witted fans who pay exhorbitant amounts to watch their "heroes' kick a ball about, the really sad thing for me is that all the supporters go along each week to cheer on their team, but it matters not a jot where the team players come from, I get the impression that supporters would cheer to the rafters a bunch of chimpanzees as long as they wore the appropriate shirt , and of course, won!

Its not football anymore, its big business.....

I think a lot of the money is generated by Mr Murdoch and his control channel.

We used to be able to watch boxing and other major sporting events on BBC I and ITV.

Various goverments allowed this chap to take total control.

I wont be paying a penny anymore to the sky channel when this year contract is finished.

I'm like you Manatee, I won't have Sky as I can't stand the thought of my money going to that manipulating Murdoch. Huh, I don't even have a daily paper in case I pick up one that his empire controls. As for football, it long ago ceased to be a game of interest to me. The ridiculous wages, paid to some of these over rated "stars" really annoys me. I am also convinced that a lot of very dirty money, from overseas, gets laundered through the premier league. All very sordid.

It's like when people complain that the supermarkets are destroying local traders; they are not! It is the public choosing NOT to shop at the locals that are destroying them.

Can't agree with that - a gross over-simplification. The planners have in effect handed a near monopoly to one or other of the big chains in many small towns.

Of course the comment from Tescburys or whoever is always the same - "people choose to shop with us".

The point that's missed is that if only 25% of the people who use the local baker/butcher/fishmonger defect to the new supermarket, that's enough to close the small businesses, then the supermarket gets the lot. Result - no choice but the supermarket, and all because they offer to build a roundabout and a car park. But we pay for it, boy do we pay.

A bizarre result of this is that there is now more choice in small owns in sp a r s e ly populated areas that are too small to attract the big boys. But it won't last, now they have started on the sub 2000sqft convenience stores.

Much the same has happened with Sky. Do you think it's possible now to set up in competition with them?

Edited by Manatee on 20/11/2010 at 21:34

A case of supply and demand it seems! As far as the footie goes, I have minimal interest and find it grotesque that an industry can exist in which a few arrogant blokes, often not particularly bright or aspirational, and in the grand scheme of things not overly blessed with any useful gift, get paid such obscene salaries. But then again as long as other people are happy to idolise them and buy match tickets, it will continue to reign supreme! I can't be the only one who had hoped that the recession might spell the end of this era, bearing in mind that most of these clubs seem to fund their wagebills through running up enormous debt levels?! But it seems their little industry is bulletproof. And I guess Tesco will always do well so long as people who 'object' to the supermarket revolution continue to do their shopping there despite seeming to 'support' local business! Ah well...

Makes Banker`s bonuses look tame!

The gap between the haves and the have-nots grows bigger still.

Never paid in any way,shape or form to watch a football game or wear any logo`d merchandise so not even a fraction of their income originates from me.

spelling sorry.