Yes you either want a great team or a bunch of humble local lads on a bank clerk ‘s wages - you won’t get both. It might be that the standard of lower league football, and the wages, will fall.
Some good points made here but I can actually see it going the other way. Football stadiums opening up again will be the marketing mans dream, it will symbolise victory over the virus and life getting back to ‘normal’. Football’s Coming Home will be the anthem for the working man and everyone will fall in love with it again similar to Euro ‘96 and even London 2012. I know I’ll enjoy watching football again, be it live or on the tv. It’ll help everyone to forget all the worries and dark times we’ve been through. Football on the whole, particularly at the elite level will, I think, come out of this stronger than ever, whether the lower league will be so lucky, I very much doubt unfortunately.
It will be a massive morale boost for thousands and I can see why the government, rightly or wrongly, see so much importance in trying to get it started again as soon as safely possible. Hell I even got a buzz this year from the virtual Grand National and Im not even in to horse racing!
That is fair enough but people like watching Marcus Browne and Matt Taylor and whinge if the club doesn’t splash out on their sort of wages. If you want the club to pay more modest sums it will be Nico Jones and Malachi Napa. I’d still go.
You can say that again.
Where do you stop? All sports, football is far from the worst for extravagant pay. Actors? Stupid money for someone playing dress up and let's pretend. Authors? Loads of money for making up stories. Musicians? Millionaires for making a few sounds. Artists? Paid to put pigments in a piece of paper.
It’s yer free market innit. The alternative is Jeremy Corbyn deciding what everyone gets paid, like in Venezuela.
Wait, Venezuela have elected Corbyn? Blimey, he didn't wait long after missing out here.
Indeed. If you provide a service that enough people want to pay for, you have earned the returns. Otherwise where does that money go? If it’s being spent, it’s going in someone’s pocket. So the players get paid less - who keeps the money they aren’t being paid, and what makes them worthy of having it all over the people who we pay to watch? Enough people pay the money to watch and consume football and are happy with the amount they are charged, so what’s the solution? Where does all this cash people are spending go if not to the people who they are paying to see? And what industry do we turn on once that’s sorted? Do we start saying that any company that sells a billion hamburgers isn’t allowed to be rich and has to give all the profits to charity, because no business needs that much capital?
Not elected, no democracy in Venezuela. Apparently
That will suit Jeremy and Dianne
Of course ?
Now if I had said Ken and Dianne then maybe......but some people @Essexyellows
