I wasn't talking about materialistic things.
Robbers ambush Tom Cleverley
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
I think rich people spending money is always a good thing, it helps the economy, the more they spend the better it is for everyone else.
Sounds like trickle down economics
It depends on what the money is being spent on. The labour-value being put into a designer handbag is a total waste of resources...it is labour-value that could be used elsewhere. 1000 people spending £10 on a handbag would be significantly more beneficial to the economy than some WAG spending £10k on one.
Would be interesting to know whats better for the economy, your average footballer in the 50% that go broke within 5 years of retirement or a footballer who misers and hordes.
I reckon that footballers buy such random crap that it doesn't really help the economy all that much.
PSG will come in with a bid now
People already made tha..... Oh wait...
Just logged on. Great minds etc etc
Eh? You'll have the explain that one to me.
It probably didn't cost a lot (in labour or money) to design and make the handbag... If it wasn't created there would be a gap in the market for a designer handbag, and if only cheap handbags were made then the cheap handbag market would be saturated.
The fashion industry must be a fairly major market., providing tens of thousands of jobs in the UK. My job is affected by it.. and I have never looked at any clothing for my job.
I guess the question is, where do the profits end up... TK Maxx, Next, H&M or the independent ones or the luxury ones... Do the profits end up recirculating or being sucked out?
I reckon its not that bad at all
He is very very good at what he does.
is he going to PSG next summer?
I don't believe in trickle down theory, but since there are rich people with plenty of money, it helps the economy if they spend it.
Be pretty useless to the burglars with that padlock on it tbfHermes Birkin Handbag - Cost: $23,775.00At least it's got Free Shipping!
I'm not being funny but I get taking the watches but how does anyone know what a hand bags worth or av I missed something ?
When I've watched crimewatch reconstructions I've heard .. "Give us the f****n money" ... And "where's the f****n safe" and a "where's the the f****n jewellery"
But I've never heard "where's the feckin handbags !!!"
When I've watched crimewatch reconstructions I've heard .. "Give us the f****n money" ... And "where's the f****n safe" and a "where's the the f****n jewellery"
But I've never heard "where's the feckin handbags !!!"
WAG bags would definitely be pricey as none of them would be caught dead with cheap accessories. Anyway, all the burglars need is to steal and the police would give them a value assessment the next day assisting the burglars to fence it at proper price.
And that's another person who has more PL medals than Stevie G...
Yep same here.
I've never liked the way TC came across in interviews. I got a bad impression of him. Also never helped that he was a pretty average player either.
However no one deserves this! I hope him and his family recovers mentally from this
However no one deserves this! I hope him and his family recovers mentally from this
You're getting a lot of stick for this but feck them, you absolutely have a valid point.
I wouldn't necessarily say those in question are 'scum', but it's certainly indicative of modern society that some cnut would spend £15k on a watch or whatever, (and then be defended by a bunch of strangers on the internet for doing so) when you see endless stories of children(etc) needing a couple of grand for life saving treatment, going unaided.
I wouldn't like people telling me how to spend my money and I'm not short on material goods myself, so I can see the hypocrisy here. Even so, I can't help think it's fecking vulgar spending so much on materialistic 'luxury'.
A 50,000 pound watch, incredible.
Not only that, a terribly average player like him makes 60k a week! No wonder English players never leave England.
Not at all. It's been like that forever and ever. Even Seneca, that old feck who once claimed that he carries everything with him that he owned, was known to have amassed a huge fortune after making it big in roman society and reportedly dined off tables made from lemon tree wood with ivory legs. When people get rich, they buy expensive crap no matter how many poor people might be around. Since always. The big difference in modern society is that we can now see pictures, tweets and videos of those rich people and their golden crap whenever we fancy it.
Sounds a lot, but it isn't. Not in the whacky world of watches.
Typical scousers. Oh wait he still lives in crime free Manchester.
I know that he doesn't.
I know that he doesn't.
Keep reading the title as 'Rodgers ambush Tom Cleverley' which is way more amusing than what actually happened.
Maybe they bused it?!
No joke yet about the irony of TC stealing a living as a footballer?
How much does Tom Cleverley contribute to charity, exactly?
I always though Tom Cleverley meant ingenious ways of wanking. (Tom Tank)
I'm surprised that some people are surprised that average Premier League footballers earn so much... and that luxurious watches, handbags, shoes etc are priced at tens of grands.
Do you really expect him to live in a house that cost £500,000? Even Sol Campbell's London pad was worth £30 million and he retired yonks ago and didn't play in this era of overpaid inflated pay cheques.
Have some of you been living under a rock for the past 5 years?
Do you really expect him to live in a house that cost £500,000? Even Sol Campbell's London pad was worth £30 million and he retired yonks ago and didn't play in this era of overpaid inflated pay cheques.
Have some of you been living under a rock for the past 5 years?
£5 pound a month direct debit to the RSPCA and a couple of quid in the collection pot for Bernardo's on his weekly Tesco shop?
I might have missed a couple of things though, so feel free to tell me how wonderful he really is.
Nope, not really. Assuming the material cost for a £10 handbag is around £3 to £4, you get around £6 to redistribute to employees (labour, marketing, support). Material cost for a £10k will be significantly smaller than 30-40% hence the amount of money the seller has left will be higher. Obviously it's all theoretical because there's no way that all this money will be redistributed and a £10 handbag sold 1,000 times could still generate more income for employees but it's not as straightforward as you present because there are other sides to it.
Bottom line is he is not hurting anyone by spending £10k on a handbag. If he keeps this money on his bank account he's stiffling the economy, if he spends it on shit it is actually re-distributed so it's in a way better (well, if he has this on his bank account it will be redistributed by bank through credit etc. anyway but in this case it goes to sharks of the banking industry so no way out).
I assumed with you calling him a cnut for spending money on a watch whilst there are kids out there needing operations that you'd have had a breakdown of his charitable contributions in order to be able to draw some kind of conclusions.
Guns. A shotgun preferably and a couple of handguns. Those fools wouldn't rob a rich person in America with baseball bats
No they'd rob them with guns.