BS: Gareth Bale's salary - any comments?

Subject: BS: Gareth Bale's salary - any comments?
From: Kampervan
Date: 03 Sep 13 - 02:43 AM

I don't blame Gareth Bale for taking what's offered, but is this really justified? Or is it just that I'm jealous!!

Gareth Bale has more than trebled his salary by agreeing an incredible deal worth £256,000 a week with Real Madrid.
That works out at:
£13.312million a year
£36,471 a day
£1,520 an hour
£25.33 a minute


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Subject: RE: BS: Gareth Bale's salary - any comments?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Sep 13 - 03:32 AM

It is a ridiculous amount but we are not talking just sport here. It is the entertainment industry and someone at Real believes that this investment in Bale will be justified by higher returns. Trouble is the investment in this case is a human and they could be wrong.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE : BS: Gareth Bale's salary - any comments?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 03 Sep 13 - 05:04 AM

And some people are very vociferous about the cost of attending a football match !

Subject: RE: BS: Gareth Bale's salary - any comments?
From: G-Force
Date: 03 Sep 13 - 05:19 AM

As a student watching Sheffield United in the 1960's I could get in for 2/- (i.e. 10 new pence to the youngsters). I simply cannot believe what it costs my son to go and watch Chelsea now. The footballers may be higher paid, but are they any better? When the Blades played Manchester United I saw Charlton, Law, Best, Stepney etc., all for two bob.

Subject: RE: BS: Gareth Bale's salary - any comments?
From: banjoman
Date: 03 Sep 13 - 06:02 AM

One word _ Immoral- nobody is worth that much. How on earth could anyone spend it. The world has got its priorities all wrong

Subject: RE: BS: Gareth Bale's salary - any comments?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 03 Sep 13 - 06:15 AM

He needn't spend it; but if, as he seems to be, a man of sense, save most of it for his retirement. Footballers have to retire from the game at a comparatively early age, and can't all be employed as tv pundits or whatever. I read an article recently about the hardships suffered by some of their families at the drop in the standards of living when they have been feckless with the resources in their playing days.

As to the 'morality', banjoman: for better or worse we live in a society where wage levels are a matter of free negotiation, individual or collective, between employer and employee. Where do you find the 'immorality' of a man with a talent negotiating the best reward for it that he can from an employer who will presumably consider it, having regard to the interests of his shareholders &c, a worthwhile investment?

You might well feel envious -- who doesn't? -- but I honestly don't see where the concept of 'immorality' comes into it.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Gareth Bale's salary - any comments?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 03 Sep 13 - 06:20 AM

Not that I entirely disagree as to the 'priorities'; and one might well wish that, in that regard, things were other then they are; and that those who make important social contributions could be comparably rewarded for them. But, as P G Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster remarks somewhere, "Other than what they were is what things were not"!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Gareth Bale's salary - any comments?
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 03 Sep 13 - 11:22 AM

I'm sure I could find a use for 13 million quid a year...

Subject: RE: BS: Gareth Bale's salary - any comments?
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 03 Sep 13 - 11:48 AM

The football fans are the fools!
But then again so are the music fans(!) who pay silly prices to attend arena concerts.
Having said that, I'd mortgage the house - and the wife - to find the money to see Django or Franz Liszt!
BTW, both of those chaps played my home town - Liverpool -but long before I was born!
P.S. But I bet their entrance fees were very reasonable!

Subject: RE: BS: Gareth Bale's salary - any comments?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Sep 13 - 01:03 PM

Django and Franz Liszt played for Liverpool! Wow!

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: Gareth Bale's salary - any comments?
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 03 Sep 13 - 01:59 PM

Ah, those were the days!
I can still see Django sprinting down the wing. A magnificent sight!
Of course, he attracted a lot of abuse!
Cries of "Gypo" use to fill Anfield.
But he gave as good as he got!
His two good fingers were often waved at the taunting crowd!

Subject: RE: BS: Gareth Bale's salary - any comments?
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 03 Sep 13 - 02:51 PM

Tunesmith, the fans who attend count as little more than "incidentals" on a big club's balance sheet. The real money comes from tv rights.

Pete Jennings, if you did spend £13 million a year you'd soon be disgusted with yourself. Unless you were giving it away. Even then you'd be well advised giving it to charities rather than friends as the latter course would compromise your friendships. It's a familiar story: countless lives have been ruined by lottery wins.