£ 600.000 ... a week :( How obscene is that :(

For what, or who?

If I knew what your are talking about, I might be similarly outraged!

Mmm - my shoe budget?
My prosecco habit?
My OAP?

Well yes but at least it’s his only job and he does it well. Can I raise you £100,000 a year for 7 hours a week for a complete failure who supposedly already has a full time job? ?

Gareth Bale returning to Spurs, but £600,000 a week I agree is obscene. No-one needs that much money. I hope he contributes a lot of that to charity.

thank you grannyrebel17 - glad you agree

I know, the announcement had me thinking too - just what would/could you do with that much money? Even living in extreme luxury, you would be hard pressed to spend it all. Unless the excess was used for good causes (which he may very well do) what's the point of just amassing millions and millions that you couldn't spend in your lifetime?

Perhaps he’ll buy his mum a nice house (wish I were his mum) ?

A nice house? He could buy her one a week, or a whole village on those wages!

suziewoozie

Well yes but at least it’s his only job and he does it well. Can I raise you £100,000 a year for 7 hours a week for a complete failure who supposedly already has a full time job? ?

I wonder who that might be ???

Curly you haven’t seen the house I have in mind ......

Scandalous when come October after furloughs there'll be thousands looking for work.

btw, he flew into Luton and went straight to the Club- will he be spending 14 days there isolating?

Suziewoozie true..... baronial splendour at least on those wages, nothing less will do!

Good luck to him, why does it bother some posters?
Footballers as a whole earn a high salary. It's just the way it is. I really cannot get het up about it.

Exactly my feelings rafi. The real scandals and obscenities are our so called leaders giving out contracts and jobs to their mates regardless. The well paid footballers are not harming us but all these failed services provided/ run by Johnson’s chums will kill and disable many over the next few months

Agreed Suzie, why is it always footballers who get a hard time about getting high salaries. Football brings alot of joy for many, and alot players know what it is like to suffer poverty. Marcus Rashford for one, look at the good he done with the childrens school meals.
I really do not begrudge him his salary, or that of any other football player.

of course teachers and nurses, etc- don't bring a joy to many

Footballers get it because the majority of them are working class and didn’t go to public school?

Gareth Bale’s father was a school caretaker in Cardiff.

What do top actors earn for each film

A teacher earns more than a school cleaner or dinner lady

If anybody wants a serious discussion about the way we choose to reward people in our society and how we place value on the contribution they make, I’m up for it. What I’m not up for is scapegoating one very very tiny minority group as though they are the real problem we face.

Footballers, politicians, actors, tv presenters......lots of them are paid huge amounts....whether they earn it is another matter.

Good point suzie- thanks.

But honestly over 30 million a year is quite shocking- but i do take your point.

My major issue, is what it teaches our youngsters.

I worry far far more about what our current Government and its leader are teaching our youngsters. ? if tomorrow all football disappeared, what difference would it make? But if we as a society demanded truth, transparency, competency , compassion for those in need , fairness, justice from our Government and got it, that would transform our lives.

agreed. But hearing his salary on TV news really made me jump.

About isolating- will he and the Club get away with it? What will their excuse be?