How the other half lives

I apologise in advance for uttering the obscenity of the words Pr****** Le**** but reading this really shows that football at the top level no longer belongs to the people. It is even more obscene than the PL.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is being paid £143,000 by Manchester United for scoring a goal on top of £367,640 per week.


How can proper football fans possibly identify with clubs and players that do this? They are taking the p!ss out of you and me. It's Sky money just disappearing out of the game. I know it is a question of supply and demand. If someone offered me such a deal I'd take it as well. But this is the PL clubs bleeding the game dry and putting bu99er all back in.

The only good part of this is that their gamble hasn't paid off in the league and  I for one will definitely be supporting Ajax in the EC final.

Tax the lot of them 99p in the pound Tax and put a wage cap and then see if they like playing football in their own countries

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

I apologise in advance for uttering the obscenity of the words Pr****** Le**** but reading this really shows that football at the top level no longer belongs to the people. It is even more obscene than the PL.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is being paid £143,000 by Manchester United for scoring a goal on top of £367,640 per week.


How can proper football fans possibly identify with clubs and players that do this? They are taking the p!ss out of you and me. It's Sky money just disappearing out of the game. I know it is a question of supply and demand. If someone offered me such a deal I'd take it as well. But this is the PL clubs bleeding the game dry and putting bu99er all back in.

The only good part of this is that their gamble hasn't paid off in the league and  I for one will definitely be supporting Ajax in the EC final.

Agree with most of this but...
I will be supporting Man UTD in the final as I always support the English teams when playing against European opposition unless it's Hull City of course.

Man utd pay what they think he is worth, you cannot blame a player for making as much as he can. It is supply and demand and despite all the money in the premier league there are less than a dozen who will score 20 goals year in year out, if Manure qualify for the champions league because of Zlatans goals it will be seen as a good investment

Its not Zlatans fault.

Personally feel the money men are taking advantage of the beautiful game.Fans should vote with their feet and things would change

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

I apologise in advance for uttering the obscenity of the words Pr****** Le**** but reading this really shows that football at the top level no longer belongs to the people. It is even more obscene than the PL.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is being paid £143,000 by Manchester United for scoring a goal on top of £367,640 per week.


How can proper football fans possibly identify with clubs and players that do this? They are taking the p!ss out of you and me. It's Sky money just disappearing out of the game. I know it is a question of supply and demand. If someone offered me such a deal I'd take it as well. But this is the PL clubs bleeding the game dry and putting bu99er all back in.

The only good part of this is that their gamble hasn't paid off in the league and  I for one will definitely be supporting Ajax in the EC final.

RRFC I don't want to send you over the edge but when you see that Zllatan, Pogba and Mikatarian (spelling) all have the same agent who made stupid money out of Manchester Utd in the last close season it just underlines the top level football world has gone mad, well to be fair it's been bonkers for a few years now.

The Zlatan wage is higher though as he went there on a free with no fee involved. Man U are part of what is a circus which on a day by day basis is becoming less accessible to low/average wage earners and the fan demographic that actually over decades helped put them where they sit.  

Quoted from Rick12

Its not Zlatans fault.

Personally feel the money men are taking advantage of the beautiful game.Fans should vote with their feet and things would change

No I don't blame the player. Nobody in their right mind would turn it down though it would be nice to hear that he was using a bit of it to do something for the benefit of the game.

But things won't change unless the money dries up. Most PL teams don't care if there are no spectators in the ground, gate money makes up a small proportion of income in the PL especially to the top clubs. So a boycott wouldn't bother a club financially. The owners have no stake in the community anyway. Look what has happened to Blackburn over the past 3 seasons. They pay lip service to the fans but they only need them to come to the ground to buy the crap sold by their franchise and the big income comes from TV.

Quoted from golfer

Tax the lot of them 99p in the pound Tax and put a wage cap and then see if they like playing football in their own countries

Good idea it will be the 1970s again under labour .... oh wait😩

Worth every penny the guy is a legend ( I hate manu Utd as well)

That's just how things are with huge franchise teams and the TV revenue they generate along with merch. They have an interest to find the biggest names and best players in the world because most people will pay to see that and to pay for the name on the shirt because they see it on TV all the time.

That's just how the world works, people pay to watch Hollywood films despite there being many great independent productions out there,people prefer big PPV MMA and Boxing matches over amateur stuff because those fighters are advertised as the best in the world and the biggest names.

No matter how much you whinge and moan very few people care about things on a local level,they don't care about much beyond the top league certainly not about lower league local teams. As long as people want to see the top players playing for the top teams on TV they will pay crazy money to get them to play for their team. Think Beckham probably made way more than that to go play in America and players make crazy amounts to play in China or Turkey so it's not just the UK that overpays players.