engrtee: Samuel Eto'o, has taken a £10 million ($15.5 million) pay cut to join English Premier Leaguegiants Chelsea, after completing a move from Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala. Eto'o rocked football headlines by joining Anzhi a few yearsago on wages of about £350,000 ($542, 510) a week, as he
became the stand-out earner in world footballduring his time with the Russian giants

messi,bale and christian ronaldo all earn above that just by
bringing untold joy to millions of fans every season, just by twirling his feet around at great speed


do they really deserve the pay?However, should Messi be paid more than a nurse or a firefighter or a journalist? Okay, so perhaps he deserves to pick up a slightly bigger pay packet than a hack journo, but what about the other two, whose job is it to keep people alive? Shouldn’t ensuring others’ survival be worth more than running round a football pitch every few days? Don’t they and others deserve to be paid somewhere nearer Messi’s multi-million salary?

What about proffessors who spend years on research?
What of other professions?

Afam4eva: Yes, they deserve a higher pay because football clubs make more money than most hospitals and media houses. Clubs make their money through endorsements and adverts which usually come in billions, so, the pay these footballers get is in tandem with the amount of money in their industry. I also noticed that you used the example of a nurse and a firefighter to make it seem as if people that are helping others don't make much whereas footballers are indirectly putting smiles on people's faces by entertaining them. Do you know that the only thing that unites Nigeria is football. When a football match is going on, everybody forgets their tribal and religious affiliation and hold their hands in brotherhood to support their team. Let's not stretch it. Sports and especially football is big business and the employees of big businesses will also make big money. When most hospitals become multi-million dollar companies, then nurses will be paid very well. Even in developed countries nurses are paid reasonably well cos a lot of hospitals there are very big and make a lot of money.

pekelepekele: They don't deserve it but they are getting that pay because of the "BETTING WORLD" . Do you know that 70% of sport fanatics are into sport betting?

Sport betting alone generates over $20 bn in the united states alone annually .

Now lets assume the op is lionel messi and your pay is not more than $20k weekly and I am a bookie that own a website like bet365 dot com . I can easily approach you with $100k for you to make sure your team loses against a very simple team that no one ever expect to win.

All you just have to do is get on the pitch and injure any of the player on the opposite team seriously that the referee will have no other option than to give you a red card .

That is the main reason why the key players pay keeps sky rocketing annually.

But despite the huge pay some players are still selling out to the bookies .

Yoshi-Master:


Of course they deserve it, its not like they are getting the money from some unknown source, no. The money is coming directly from you and me that pay our hard earned cash to be entertained by them, and from sponsors that also make money indirectly from them by sponsoring them.

Even if you do not pay to watch them personally, so many people out there have goals of saving up money so they can go see their sport heroes live.

Regarding sport betting, that is nothing but excessive greed on the part of any player that intentionally throws a game for additional financial gain.

mikedaniel76@gmail.com:
End time tinz,Daz all!

pro01: Life is not fair, get used to it. I have been both a victim and a beneficiary of life's 'unfairness', so I know. It's not just about footballers' ridiculous wages; it's the same in sooooooo many other spheres of life.

Even the Bible seems to endorse this point.

Ecclesiastes 9:11
" I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the
battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or
favour to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all."

chidindufrank: If u think the job is easy,go to d market and buy ur own boot.

pekelepekele:

You are right bro but where the main money is for players and most coaches is inside match fixing . Arsenal coach can easily approach Man utd coach to allow him claim some points by defeating them and if man utd coach feels like he didn't really need that match he will accept the offer.

That is why sometimes you just see the coach bench a star player and also start the match with a very useless line up

ajanaku2: I dey vex!

I obviously chose the wrong Career path, no thanks to My education-and-book-loving Mama and Grandma...

I represented My secondary school in the lagos state Principals' Cup competition in both the junior and senior categories...May be I would have been playing for My favourite team, Arsenal right now and earning megabucks, if I had trodden the Football Path...

But Look at My Life right now! With a good Degree and 2 Professional qualifications, Samuel Eto'o earns in a week, what I would earn in 43 years or thereabout, with respect to earned Income...I doubt if Eto'o has the equivalent of a National Diploma...

No be by book at all o...In as much as I admire intellectual and scholastic accomplishments, I also crave Money in large amounts...So, it's Money Over Books...

If you've got a Boy out there who has a keen interest in football and he's relatively good at it, please, encourage him...I still blame My Grandma for not allowing Me to enrol for the Pepsi FC summer coaching for secondary school students that year at the National stadium Surulere, Lagos; She insisted that I enrol for some nonsense Junior WAEC classes...Some boys made it to Europe from that Pepsi FC summer coaching...



I dey vex!

Afam4eva: Yes, they deserve a higher pay because football clubs make more money than most hospitals and media houses. Clubs make their money through endorsements and adverts which usually come in billions, so, the pay these footballers get is in tandem with the amount of money in their industry. I also noticed that you used the example of a nurse and a firefighter to make it seem as if people that are helping others don't make much whereas footballers are indirectly putting smiles on people's faces by entertaining them. Do you know that the only thing that unites Nigeria is football. When a football match is going on, everybody forgets their tribal and religious affiliation and hold their hands in brotherhood to support their team. Let's not stretch it. Sports and especially football is big business and the employees of big businesses will also make big money. When most hospitals become multi-million dollar companies, then nurses will be paid very well. Even in developed countries nurses are paid reasonably well cos a lot of hospitals there are very big and make a lot of money.

Afam4eva: Yes, they deserve a higher pay because football clubs make more money than most hospitals and media houses. Clubs make their money through endorsements and adverts which usually come in billions, so, the pay these footballers get is in tandem with the amount of money in their industry. I also noticed that you used the example of a nurse and a firefighter to make it seem as if people that are helping others don't make much whereas footballers are indirectly putting smiles on people's faces by entertaining them. Do you know that the only thing that unites Nigeria is football. When a football match is going on, everybody forgets their tribal and religious affiliation and hold their hands in brotherhood to support their team. Let's not stretch it. Sports and especially football is big business and the employees of big businesses will also make big money. When most hospitals become multi-million dollar companies, then nurses will be paid very well. Even in developed countries nurses are paid reasonably well cos a lot of hospitals there are very big and make a lot of money.

Dean Olamide: Case one : Ur headline alone is fluke.... Sportmen and Footballers general to specific..

Case two : if they should earn more than professors? What do professors do? Sit in d office and sleep.. While these guys spend virtually all d time in a calendar year running to and fro a field... Imagine d thought from u... They deserve all of the money they get even more more more.