Messi's Wages...

[jojojo]

A wage cap would surely see at least some reduction in ticket prices at most clubs, or at least it would see an end to the above-inflation increases we've been seeing.

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Wigan - 43/38.4
West Brom - 27.2/21.8
Stoke - 11.2/11.9
Hull - 9/6.9

There's no reason to believe that it would affect ticket prices. What affects ticket prices is whether the stadium is full or not.

All the schemes I've seen suggested, in the UK and Spain, have been about capping wages as a percentage of turnover. The rich will be rich enough to pay the wages. The poor will be too poor to hang onto any half decent player.

On the chart I assume the Hull / Stoke (and WBA) figures are for them as Championship clubs. There's no way Hull are only paying out 6.9 in wages for example.

 

[B Cantona]

What affects ticket prices is whether the stadium is full or not

Not necessarily. What's better for the owner, a ground 40,000 full with punters charged £20 a ticket, or a ground 20,000 full with punters charged £45 a ticket?

 

[Boss]

Looking Emo-tastic there.

There are some serious win-bonuses and Barca wages in there - a reminder that much as he may love Barca, and as indebted as he may feel for their early help - he's not actually a registered charity.

On the endorsements/ads things. Messi is paid a lot by Adidas. He does a lot of ads in Spain (and South America?) for non-football products because he's got mum-appeal. Which makes him safe for people like Pepsi as well. He also seems to have picked up Ronaldinho's old (non football) contracts - proving that in marketing, it's looks that count

Apart from Nike (where his contract was worth less than Rooney's) Ronaldo didn't do much advertising/endorsement work at United and the stuff he did was mostly for Portuguese firms. He's just a beginner.

Fair play, I remember reading an article saying Ronaldo was missing out on alot of marketing when he was here and his name was being used unofficially on things, it was tribalfootball mind you

 

[peterstorey]

On the chart I assume the Hull / Stoke (and WBA) figures are for them as Championship clubs. There's no way Hull are only paying out 6.9 in wages for example.

Hull's wage bill is over £40M which is why they're in the shit.

 

[Baby Faced Assassin]

David Beckham has lost his position as the best paid footballer in the world to Lionel Messi

The England star, 34, has topped the annual rich list for the last two years because of his massive income from advertising endorsements.

But the £3.6million bonus the 22-year-old Barcelona player banked for winning the treble last season saw his overall pay climb to £29.6million.

And Beckham is now just ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo as the Real Madrid star earns the biggest salary of £11.7million with another £900,000 in bonuses.
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Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho is highest paid manager ahead of Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini.

Beckham has finished in the two top of footballers’ earnings for the ninth consecutive time after coming out on top five times.

But according to France Football magazine, the LA Galaxy midfielder suffered a drop in income from £29.1million to £27.3million last year.

Part of that is due to the fall in value of the dollar where Beckham earns most of his £4.8million in salary and bonuses.

He still banks an estimated £22.5million from his football schools and sponsorship deals with Adidas, Giorgio Armani and Motorola.

But Beckham, who will miss the World Cup after his Achilles’ injury, is set to be also overtaken by Ronaldo with the Portuguese winger replacing as the face and body of Giorgio Armani this year.

Carlos Tevez is the highest-ranked Premier League player on £13.8million while Frank Lampard is in ninth place above No 14 John Terry. The Chelsea captain has a higher salary (£7.6million v £7.3million) but Lampard earned more from sponsorship even before the Vanessa Perroncel scandal broke.

Messi was still only the fourth highest earning sportsman last year behind Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and LeBron James. Beckham is seventh behind also Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher.

There are no Englishmen in the top 20 best paid managers in the world. Mourinho tops the table ahead of Mancini although the Italian earned £7.2 of his £10.8million in a payoff from Inter Milan. Fabio Capello is again the highest paid international manager on £7.5million just ahead of Russia’s Guus Hiddink.

The France Football rich list:
Players (combines salaries, bonuses and off-field earnings)
1. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) £29.6m
2. David Beckham (LA Galaxy/Milan) £27.3m
3. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) £27m
4. Kaka (Real Madrid) £16.9m
5. Thierry Henry (Barcelona) £16.1m
6. Ronaldinho (AC Milan) £15.5m
7. Carlos Tevez (Manchester City) £13.8m
8. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Barcelona) £13m
9. Frank Lampard (Chelsea) £12.8m
10. Samuel Eto’o (Inter Milan) £12.4m

Managers
1. Jose Mourinho (Inter Milan) £11.7m
2. Roberto Mancini (Manchester City) £10.8m
3. Felipe Scolari (FC Bunyodkor) £8.5m
4. Jurgen Klinsmann (ex-Bayern Munich) £8.1m
5. Fabio Capello (England) £7.5m
6. Guus Hiddink (Russia) £7.1m
7. Sir Alex Ferguson (Manchester United) £6.5m
8. Pep Guardiola (Barcelona) £5.8m
9. Arsene Wenger (Arsenal) £5.7m
10. Louis Van Gaal (Bayern Munich) £5.4m

Source: Lionel Messi overtakes David Beckham as world's best paid footballer - see the Top 10 here - MirrorFootball.co.uk

Its a disgrace that Tevez is topping the premier league list. He is a money grabbing whore. Rooney and Fergie are so underpaid.

 

[Name Changed]

What exactly do you think Messi does with his dosh anyway?

 

[Boss]

What exactly do you think Messi does with his dosh anyway?

rolls around in it, in his underwear?

Calls up his accountant at 5 am in the morning to count it, "just checking"

 

[Alex]

All of the more proof that Messi is a twat

 

[Kaush949]

Looking Emo-tastic there.

There are some serious win-bonuses and Barca wages in there - a reminder that much as he may love Barca, and as indebted as he may feel for their early help - he's not actually a registered charity.

On the endorsements/ads things. Messi is paid a lot by Adidas. He does a lot of ads in Spain (and South America?) for non-football products because he's got mum-appeal. Which makes him safe for people like Pepsi as well. He also seems to have picked up Ronaldinho's old (non football) contracts - proving that in marketing, it's looks that count

Apart from Nike (where his contract was worth less than Rooney's) Ronaldo didn't do much advertising/endorsement work at United and the stuff he did was mostly for Portuguese firms. He's just a beginner.