ronk wrote:Lev Bronstein wrote:dead right it's supply and demand. Why is it Ok for bankers, film stars, golfers and the rest to get obscene money but not for footballers. Of course, footballers are nasty and working class, so obviously they don't deserve it.
I wouldn't mind it if halving footballers wages meant ticket prices and Sky subscriptions would also get halved. I'm not holding my breath.
I spend what I can on football, and, if most of it goes to paying the players wages then so be it. I pay to watch footballers not the likes of Blatter.
It's not, and it's rather a pointless argument. The distain o people have for the current situation has nothing to do with class.
People have stronger feelings about bankers. You actually have a choice of which film star you can pick for what movie and how many you want and the industry is regulated. Golfers mostly collect prize money from a pool. The prize fund itself has a degree of control so it doesn't spiral.
Football doesn't have that at the moment. Player wages are being inflated to the point where venerable clubs are going out of business. Are golf clubs shutting down because they have underperforming golfers signed to long term contracts?
The sneering at the wages footballers get has been going on for decades. The feeling expressed (by the media and other "opinion formers")is that others (and I don't mean doctors etc) deserve the money and fotballers don't. I think that's to do with snobbery - you don't, fair enough. (Maybe I should stop reading the Telegraph)
I take your point about bankers, and other City of London whizz kids. But that's a recent thing. Previously the money they were on was more accepted, indeed at times they had celebrity status.
You may have a choice which film star you pick for your film, but a big, expensive star helps the fim earn money. Many films make a loss and you rarely see it mentioned that the actors were paid too much. I'm not too sure how the industry is regulated, at least in terms of wage capping.
Golf: I'll accept your point up to a point. The money comes from sponsors who in turn get their money from their customers - us. If I suppose I could boycott firms that give money to golf. But it wouldn't do much good - after all what's the favourite sport of the management of companies. If we all cancelled our Sky subscriptions and stopped going to games football would be brought to it's knees. How could we do the same to golf if we wanted to, stop using banks or buying cars!!
Players get the wages they get because clubs are so desperate for their services that they pay them megabucks. Clubs want success, so they take risks, others are more careful. Sometimes it all blows up in their face and then the club is in trouble. But that's the nature of capitalism.
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