To feel absolutely disgusted by this?

The cost of the Mays' holiday is a bit alarming too.
www.thecanary.co/2017/08/02/hollywood-power-couple-just-ruined-theresa-mays-summer-holiday-imagetweets/

Sorry Farnorth I don't see what that link has to do with the cost of her holiday.

Just heard on the news that the 25 year old footballer in question will earn 40 million pounds a year before tax. Also the amount paid for other transfers will go up because of the 200 million paid for him. I can't get my head around these figures. Imagine what the total amounts are for all transfer fees and salaries.

Perhaps these inflated ticket prices are fuelled by teams paying bloody obscene, astronomical, ridiculous amounts for players.

It's a vicious circle phoenix my son and 7 year old grandson are season ticket holders at (newly relegated) Sunderland . They love their time together "at the match". Sunderland (like the other North East clubs) are very family orientated and you will not see any trouble. The ridiculous wages paid to some of the top players (you won't find any of those at Sunderland ha ha) does push up the ticket price as clubs have to try and attract the superstars and the best players in order to do well. The premier league is effectively run by a few top clubs "the untouchables" just buy their way to the top. No longer sport just business. Sky TV is so powerful (dangling its huge pay off to the top clubs) they dictate kick offs to suit their schedules.

It is madness. What would any of us do with that sort of money, assuming it is spent on oneself anD family? I can't even begin to think what I might spend it on - except perhaps buy a house for two of my children who need it. And then what?

I'm about to borrow money to help pay for a funeral....

Apparently this club is owned by Qatar so the whole thing is political and nothing to do with sport as we once knew it.

It's disgraceful. My DH is an avid football fan and usually says 'well it's supply and demand' but even he is raging today.

NOBODY is worth that amount of money.
I hope the club that bought him goes bust.
PSG - wherever, whatever club that is?

Not trying to derail but Alieoxon have you thought of crowdfunding for the funeral? Might be worth asking an internet savvy teen.
And I totally agree about the silly money. They seem to end up badly too with multiple wives and damaged knees.

This is disgraceful. I am just hoping that very soon the international professional football association will cause it's own demise by an almighty financial meltdown, be forced to revert to sensible wages and disappear up it's own bckside.
This situation has nothing to do with playing sport it is all about the greed of the super rich.

Glad to hear Chris Evans has lost listeners though...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40806527

Phoenix My hubby would love to take our DGSs to "The Cop" and watch thier beloved Liverpool play but even with discounted rates there is no way he could afford to take them or even just one of them and get change from £80 (approx),According to hubby the best matches are the Sunday League where you just turn up and support your local school/pub team.

Glad to hear Chris Evans has lost listeners though...

Now that is music to my ears AlieOxon

I am just hoping that very soon the international professional football association will cause it's own demise by an almighty financial meltdown

Nelliemoser My dad (who fancies himself as an authority on these matters) is convinced that this will be the case. The sooner the better. The richest clubs simply buy their way to the top and the "also-rans" are often wasting their time even playing.

I am disgusted by these amounts of money, and even more so by the frequent trials where the players are charged with tax dodging evasion, avoidance, whatever it is. Nobody, but nobody needs that amount of money, and it is repellent how business has taken control of football. The Qatar money ( and Russian) has damaged the London property market and is now ruining football. They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

And despite all this the government gives millions to the FA each year.

I didn't know that loopyloo, why on earth are they doing that with MY money?

The same as Chris Evans and his BBC cronies are doing with your money GillT57 enjoy spending it.

I'm not upset or bothered at all - seems no different than actors, directors & producers getting £millions for films - it's all part of the entertainment industry - and footballers' careers are short.
Neymar is transferring from Barcelona to Paris-St-Germain - the transfer fee is actually 222 million Euros so it's not an issue for UK tax authorities.
Barcelona will be making the big profit (I believe they bought him for about £48 million) and Barcelona is owned by its fans not by overseas billionaires.
Everyone has the choice of whether they watch football & thereby contribute to the wage & transfer fee inflation.
What we don't have a choice about is paying our TV Licence Fee - what does annoy me is that the BBC pay ex-footballer Gary Lineker £1.8 million a year from those licence fees - and what's more, he is so greedy as to use tax-avoidance schemes.

The sad thing is that all the money seems to be at the top of the game, there are lots of little family orientated clubs who would love just a fraction of what the premier league have. I'm not interested in football but I think the whole system is out of kilter.

Just as I said earlier grannysyb there are a few clubs who simply buy their way to the top. The rest are almost just there to make the numbers up. My DS and DGS are season ticket holders at Sunderland which is a very family orientated (recently relagated) club.

DH keeps reading it out to every morning over breakfast. It is enough to give me indigestion. It just seems to me the more money involved the more somehow the silly people are revered.

"What we don't have a choice about is paying our TV Licence Fee"

You don't have to pay a TV licence fee if you never watch any BBC programmes on standard channels or on catch up.

all sports teams get way to much especially the so called star players
cant pay our soldiers a decent wage but some nit that hits,kicks,bats a ball around gets more than he/she can ever spend in a lifetime...
same with musicians and actors

tickets cost enough to support some familys for a week.

Far north if we all watched the BBC and didn't pay anything for the 'privilege' the Beeb would cease to exist. If that's what you do then I am subsiding you.
I hope you are grateful.