How much is "too much"?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Brendan Rodgers on Raheem Sterling's contract

Now personally, if I was managing a twenty-year-old employee who can't get out of bed in the mornings and rings up occasionally to say he's in Jamaica, I wouldn't be considering upping his salary to six figures a week in the first place. But obviously £100k a week isn't "too much". What would be? £120k? £130k? £140k, plus his own personal walk-out anthem at home games?

[EIM]

How much is "too much"?

What's he achieved to 'earn' £100k? Is that the going rate for an England international? Is he even any good? Do we even care? If he's 20 years old, earning above £8 an hour, and he's whinging about it, he can fuck off.

[Toby Gymshorts]

How much is "too much"?

Yeah, pretty much that. He's 20, and already earning £30k a week. I imagine that somewhere there's an agent being blinded by pound signs.

I'm turning into 'one of those people', but it's all a pile of shite, isn't it?

[EIM]

How much is "too much"?

He'll get paid what he wants, because the potential loss if he fucks off to Chelsea or whoever is greater than if they just cough up. But it's fucking madness. He's done nothing to remotely warrant that amount of cash, and in three years time he could have progressed so little that he'll spend the rest of his career at Anfield and they'll be lumbered with an expensive reminder of the vulgarity and idiocy of football.

[EIM]

How much is "too much"?

Which would be great.

[Toby Gymshorts]

How much is "too much"?

Or he could go to Chelsea, treble his wages, then sit on the bench for a year as an expensive reminder of the vulgarity and idiocy of football. Which is also known as 'doing a Salah'.

[EIM]

How much is "too much"?

He should take a paycut, fuck off to St Pauli, learn about Zizek in the Regional Leagues, go find himself in Tibet learning about Buddhism for three or four seasons, then come back a more rounded, complete man. I'd then have no objections to him earning a hundred grand or whatever. With great power comes great responsibility, as Spider-Man's uncle said.

[Toby Gymshorts]

How much is "too much"?

Fuck Sterling, where do I sign up for that?

[EIM]

How much is "too much"?

Of course, you'd rather the players got the money than the club owners, wouldn't you? But that's a bit of a false binary, like the only two possible destinations for the mountains of dirty cash in the game are gurning despots or shitty-shoed footballers.

[Toby Gymshorts]

How much is "too much"?

You've got shit shoes on, you shitty-shoed bastard.

[Ray de Galles]

How much is "too much"?

The photo in that article gives some insight as to what Sterling might have been up to in Jamaica :





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[Janik]

How much is "too much"?

The Ballad Of Lightbowne Lil wrote: Of course, you'd rather the players got the money than the club owners, wouldn't you? But that's a bit of a false binary, like the only two possible destinations for the mountains of dirty cash in the game are gurning despots or shitty-shoed footballers.

Yeah, there is a third option. The price that TV pays for Football is capped. Biggest potential beneficiary of that? Rupert Murdoch.

[Jah Womble]

How much is "too much"?

Capping - or at least auditing properly - the spending of teams that already owe vast amounts of dough would help.

As for Sterling, good as he is, he's clearly fast becoming another product of the system who buys into the b/s fed him by his agent. He should just b*gger off to Spain for loads of money and have a simply hateful time of it.

If this could happen by 8pm tonight, that'd be great.

[Various Artist]

How much is "too much"?

The Spain idea is nice Jah, but due to a rise in the value of the US Dollar it's a poor time right now for those looking to buy Sterling with Euros.

[Toby Gymshorts]

How much is "too much"?

Oh, that's just beautiful.

[Kevin S]

How much is "too much"?

Janik wrote:

Of course, you'd rather the players got the money than the club owners, wouldn't you? But that's a bit of a false binary, like the only two possible destinations for the mountains of dirty cash in the game are gurning despots or shitty-shoed footballers.

Yeah, there is a third option. The price that TV pays for Football is capped. Biggest potential beneficiary of that? Rupert Murdoch.

I suppose you could argue that since in the English model the TV money is paid to the (Premier) League rather than directly to clubs, the PL could dish out larger proportions of that money lower down the pyramid and into the grassroots game rather than just to the PL clubs and parachute payments.

They might counter-argue that not increasing the payment to the PL clubs each year would ultimately reduce the quality of the PL (and in the long run this would put downwards pressure on the price paid for those TV rights). But personally I doubt anyone would notice. And fewer would actually care.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

How much is "too much"?

well liverpool are in a bit of a pickle. It doesn't matter that he's 20 years old, they're using him as their main attacking player. You can't on the one hand be so proud of your £250 million turn over, and then offer your "franchise player" £4 milion a year. You're talking about a difference of £2 or £3 million a year, and preserving his sell on value, which at current rates of inflation in football will be heading for the £4 billion mark in two or three years time.

They were paying suarez £10 million a year, and are paying Gerrard £8 million a year. I can't help feeling in general though that brendan rodgers getting tough in public is the last step before he caves completely.

[Haribo West]

How much is "too much"?

Harry Truscott wrote: The photo in that article gives some insight as to what Sterling might have been up to in Jamaica :





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Suspension for Sterling as he tests positive for ether.

[ursus arctos]

How much is "too much"?

When did we start to do Daily Mail Tuesdays on here?

I never got the memo.

[Hugh Fatbastard]

How much is "too much"?

Professionalism has ruined football.

[Bootleg Mark Chapman]

How much is "too much"?

Jah Womble wrote: Capping - or at least auditing properly - the spending of teams that already owe vast amounts of dough would help.

As for Sterling, good as he is, he's clearly fast becoming another product of the system who buys into the b/s fed him by his agent. He should just b*gger off to Spain for loads of money and have a simply hateful time of it.

If this could happen by 8pm tonight, that'd be great.

No need to worry, he's unlikely to play due to injury

[Jah Womble]

How much is "too much"?

So I've just heard. Spooky.

[Vulgarian Visigoth]

How much is "too much"?

Hugh Fatbastard wrote: Professionalism has ruined football.

If only gentlemen were allowed to play football, the scourge of professionalism would have never smudged the game.

[Ray de Galles]

How much is "too much"?

Is that what UA was driving at with the 'Daily Mail'comment?

[Janik]

How much is "too much"?

My take was that he saw this thread as similar to a Mailish 'How can anything justify Oiks like these being paid so much'.