To think that Wayne Rooney is.....

[Bornin1984]

Greedy to be paid 300k a week!!!!

I know it's the way football is but is it really necessary???

[ThatFuckerFancyPuffin]

Urgh Wayne Rooney

He's like vagina kryptonite.

[HoratiaDrelincourt]

At yesterday's match against Palace, some fans were throwing coins at Rooney. Twats.

[neiljames77]

He's getting paid that much because if he let his contract run down, he'd leave the club for nothing and would mean they have to buy a replacement AND pay salary. (by replacement, I mean a replacement footballer, not a replacement bloke with a face like a boiled bollock)

[prh47bridge]

Riise's payslip can be mistaken for a weekly one since it states that the period is week 24. However the YTD figure is only a little over 6 times the salary for the period which implies he was either paid monthly or 4-weekly.

I've also seen a payslip for Carlos Tevez which was very definitely monthly.

HoratioDrelincourt - You are partly right. The fans objected to the takeover on the grounds that the Glazers were effectively buying the club with its own money and taking it into debt. However the club remained profitable and its borrowings have been reduced to around £380M. The club's net worth (i.e. total assets minus total liabilities) is around £448M according to the latest accounts.

For what it is worth around one quarter of the clubs in the Premiership have no outstanding debts other than the normal trading debts you would find for any company.

[Bluegrass]

I don't understand. J K Rowling write some books, millions of people bought them. Is she overpaid?

Millions of people around the globe are prepared to pay to watch Man U, buy kit etc. Rooney gets a tiny fraction of that, which luckily for him is still loads.

It's not like watching football is a human right. It's entirely discretionary spending, like munching caviar. The market sets the price.

[ComposHat]

donna if it is the John Arne Riise one, that is monthly. Riise wwouldn't have been earning 80k a week in 2006.

I knew the club secretary of a professional football club. Salaries (for both footballers and staff) were paid monthly.

[songlark]

Just because he's offered that kind of money doesn't excuse him from being greedy.....and no, we wouldn't all take it if it was offered. I find it unbelievably obscene that anyone should get paid this amount , least of all someone who just kicks a ball about, there has to come a point where you should be embarrassed to make more in a week than most people earn on average in 24 years. It's worse than obscene, and the argument that footballers only have a certain shelf life and have to earn it while they can is ridiculous. My husband is a roofer, he won't have the same earning power in his 60s....does that mean he should earn thousands a week now? Basically, for football clubs to have so much money....people are getting ripped off, minimum wages for the minions and the fans getting fleeced.....so Rooney gets 300k .so YADNBU.

[squoosh]

People hate that footballers get paid so much as they generally don't have so much as a GCSE to their name and this greatly offends those who have worked their socks off for their third level qualifications.

Is he supposed to say 'no thanks, just a few shillings and enough bread and dripping to keep me and Colleen going'?

[DonnaDishwater]

Is a singer overpaid if millions of people are prepared to pay for their music?? Is an actor overpaid if millions of people are prepared to watch the films they are in? No? So why criticise footballers who millions of people pay to watch play football?

[DonnaDishwater]

Compos: google "footballers payslips", there are plenty of them. All the ones I can see are for a single week. And plenty of normal people still get paid every week. I don't now but I have done in the fairly recent past.

[Jemimapuddlemuck]

So those who think it's immoral would give the money back if the won the Euromillions then I take it! Because they don't 'deserve' that money, or need so much of it. Just take what you need and give the rest away would you...?

Footballers can't win, even if they give large sums to charity people grumble that it's a drop in the ocean!

Don't get me wrong, I do think he's overpaid but then again I don't understand the fascination with football at all, so I would think that!

[ComposHat]

No donna they are actually paid monthly like the rest of us. Just a lot more.

[bodybooboo]

working class boy made good. good. on him!

same as princes William and Harry really without the silver spoon.

[DonnaDishwater]

I think Footballers are still paid on a weekly basis. There's been payslips leaked before, pretty incredible to see a payslip with those kind of figures on there, including tax and NI.

[chateauferret]

Funny how he can score goals like that against palace but put him in an England shirt and his feet turn to shite.

[wowfudge]

When offered a pay rise, who would say, 'actually I don't want it/Thank you I'll just take some of it'? Not greedy. There's an argument that footballers have relatively short careers and the large amounts of money recognise that. There is also a view that the huge amounts of money in football are to its detriment.

[fivefourtime]

No matter how much plastic surgery he has, he'll always look like an onion.

[HoratiaDrelincourt]

I think it's just because it's easier to hoik judgeypants when it's a smaller number to process.

Footballers earn per week.

[ComposHat]

I always find it interesting that they give footballers' wages by the week as if they were still paid like manual workers of yore in brown paper packets at the training ground.

[VampyreofTimeandMemory]

the strongest emotion I have re Wayne Rooney's salary is envy.

Why just him, btw? aren't they all overpaid?

[HoratiaDrelincourt]

I stand corrected.

When the Glazers took over United, they did so on credit, and took the club into debt by doing so. At the time it was widely lamented that the last profitable club had gone. Most had for some time been propped up by billionaire owners, typically forrin. I thought this was still the case.

It is obscene the sums involved though. I guess it's a bit like banking where they have to pay £n salary to compete in a global market regardless of how stratospheric those salaries are. But the salaries mean the ticket prices have to go up, and although the likes of United sell out every match, the tickets are still way, way out of reach for the children they're supposed to inspire.

DH points out, however, that it isn't about Wayne Rooney himself, but how he represents continuity despite the change in management team. United isn't going down the pan just because one Scot retired yes they are. They make most of their money from kit and other merchandise, sponsorship, telly rights, etc.

[RedPencils]

Who would turn down a huge salary? I wouldn't.

[NoLikeyNoLighty]

He's not greedy for accepting that amount of money. If anyone wanted to offer me that amount of money, I'd gratefully accept.
Which, truthfully, most people aren't going to turn down if it's thrown at them, are they?!
It is an absolutely ridiculous amount of money though, and I seriously can't grasp how kicking a ball around a field warrants that amount of money.
I mean, he's not doing anything life saving or worthwhile, is he?!
Why is all the money in football but not where it's worth?!
Stupid amount to be paid to ANYONE in my opinion actually.

[Technotropic]

Yabu.

£150k per week in tax is what helps prop this country up. I earn a decent wage but it would take me a lifetime to put that much into the system.

He's a total twat but by Jove this country needs twats like him.

[ComposHat]

No one seems to gets tgeir knickers in a twist over what golfers, formula one drivers or film stars earn. Then formula one drivers don't tend to come from the arse end of Croxteth do they?
Pesky footballers not knowing their place.