proposterous amounts of money in football these days...all the financial problems in the world could be solved in a month if every premiership player donated 1 months wages to its country of birth !!!!

most football clubs will be bankrupt within twenty years!

Welcome to the world of SKY

20 premiership teams, say a squad of 25 so that's 500 players. Even if every player was paid the same as Tevez on 250,000 a week that would only amount to £500m.
That would pay off 0.12% of the US yearly debt interest payments.

Whilst the footballers are paid ridiculous sums of money, at least some of them have some talent rather than those overpaid arrogant t0ssers in The City, happily taking millions in bonuses while laying people off thanks to their own greed.

excellent maths there
20x25x250000x52 weeks = £6.5 BILLION

There aren't 25 players on £250,000 a week in the Premier League. Bar the top two or three I doubt any player is. Everton for example only recently broke their self imposed wage cap of £40,000 a week and that was for Mikel Arteta who has since been flogged.

But on football, it's not like there is that much money in the sport. The sport spends more than it earns each year. Pretty unsustainable if you ask me.

Yes that would be the yearly wage of all the players, except the poster I was responding to clearly stated only a months wages would solve the problem. Excellent reading there



Even so, if we took an entire League of Tevez-like wages for a whole year it would pay only 1.5% of the US annual debt interest payments, it's hardly solving the entire financial crisis.

The game just doesn't generate enough interest over here mate, RL will never be in a position to pay a player £200 grand a week,
Joel Tomkins reputed to be offered £400,000 a YEAR to play union at Saracens.

When all clubs can afford to pay full cap and break even at the end of the year then up it. Until then don't, it's not like it will make a blind bit of difference to one or two players being offered silly money from RU.

Much bigger impact than RU will be when the NRL cap goes up and they get two more expansion teams. Then we will see a dramatic reduction in 1st grade NRL players moving to SL, this will leave a big gap in clubs rosters from 2014 onwards.

Quote Him="Him"Yes that would be the yearly wage of all the players, except the poster I was responding to clearly stated only a months wages would solve the problem. Excellent reading there Even so, if we took an entire League of Tevez-like wages for a whole year it would pay only 1.5% of the US annual debt interest payments, it's hardly solving the entire financial crisis.'" Visual representation of US debt, just to cheer up your Thursday. usdebt.kleptocracy.us/ Not quite as good UK version too... t.co/uWTr4Grf

Quote Him="Him"Yes that would be the yearly wage of all the players, except the poster I was responding to clearly stated only a months wages would solve the problem. Excellent reading there Even so, if we took an entire League of Tevez-like wages for a whole year it would pay only 1.5% of the US annual debt interest payments, it's hardly solving the entire financial crisis.'" Visual representation of US debt, just to cheer up your Thursday. usdebt.kleptocracy.us/ Not quite as good UK version too... t.co/uWTr4Grf

Welcome to the wonderful world of Damo-Leeds logic. Happy for tens of thousands of poor and working class people to be ripped off on ticket and shirt prices etc so that 11 people from poor and working class backgrounds can earn more money than they ever dreamed of

Quote BobWire="BobWire"Visual representation of US debt, just to cheer up your Thursday. usdebt.kleptocracy.us/ Not quite as good UK version too... t.co/uWTr4Grf'" Indeed. I'm not sure Tim Howard & Clint Dempsey donating their wages will make much of an impact on a few trillion dollars of debt to be honest.

Quote BobWire="BobWire"Visual representation of US debt, just to cheer up your Thursday. usdebt.kleptocracy.us/ Not quite as good UK version too... t.co/uWTr4Grf'" Indeed. I'm not sure Tim Howard & Clint Dempsey donating their wages will make much of an impact on a few trillion dollars of debt to be honest.