Is any sportsperson worth £68 Million?
 

Seems like a lot of money to me.

http://msn.football365.com/story/0,1...735109,00.html

No. Baseball is the worst. $200 million plus for a player that never does shit.

stuff like that pisses me off.

Fucking hell! I never knew baseball was such a big $$ affair. That's insane.

fucking ronaldo. i should've known.

Alex Rodriguez, 10 year, $275 million plus another $30 million if he breaks the all time homerun record of 762

How many years is Ronaldo's contract for?

The very best players in the NHL make from 7-10 million a year.

Alexander Ovechkin is signed for 13 years with the Capitals for 124 million dollars.

Sidney Crosby is signed for 5 years with the Penguins for 43.5 million dollars.

The £68m for Ronaldo doesn't include his wages which, if he stays on the same weekly rate for ten years is gonna be something like £70m. Still quite a bit behind baseball. Fuck.

That'd be close to like $200 million.

Still, Alex will make about the same amount or more in endorsements and advertisements in the same 10 years. So that's looking at like $600-$750 million total.

alex rodriguez is good at baseball... its the players who suck and get paid $20 mil a year that piss me off

Christ, average baseball players getting $20m a year? I think footballers need to start asking for a pay rise!

Or baseball players need to get a punch in the face.

85 millions for this dickhead ?
It's a shame.

Yeah, I must admit. While 85m euros is a lot of money for any footballer, the fact that it's going to Ronaldo is particularly irksome.

when will people sort themselves out?

It's just a way to invest money to get more money. (sponsors, tv coverage, supporters buying merchandise).
It's not that the player (the man) himself is "worth" that, is just that spending that to have him in the team will make that team owners gain loads more. It's economy, not sport.

I would give all my money to slap him.

i would pay to watch Heckler Spray give Ronaldo a chinese burn.

Yeah, that's the rationale, but it's putting the biggest clubs into more and more debt. Besides, using sports people for their public profile is a dangerous game, given how they tend to rape women in hotels on an almost hourly basis.

i'm looking forward to the bottom falling out of football

yeah. it's definitely on the cards. it's relying on being fashionable which is a dangerous game to play. once the Baddiel and Skinner posse fuck off back to reading the guardian the sport's gonna be fucked. all it'll take is another Heysel for the media backlash to really kick in.

I'd love for Rooney and McLouglin's wedding to be rained upon by turds.

i don't think hooliganism could rise to overshadow the sport unless the bottom fell out first

I don't think it'd just take that, but at the moment there's a thirty something generation that's keeping the sport afloat. Kids younger than that seem less and less interested in it, to the point where i wonder if there's gonna be anything like the same audience in ten years time.

He hasn't done anything to enrich humanity in any way, nor will these sports people ever. And certainly nobody is worth extravagant sums of money for kicking a fucking ball. I'd only go to a stadium to watch football players being eaten by lions.

well those thirty somethings will probably still have the money to support the game in 10 years.
what i meant about hooliganism rising if the money goes was that if the money leaves presumably middle class interest in the game will either leave at point or have left already, which i suppose would lead to football being out of the media's gaze and give hooliganism something of a breeding ground. however, i think without the old antagonistic policing methods of the 70s & 80s things will never be as bad as they once were.

I can't ever see a return to the kind of hooliganism of the 70s and 80s. I think that at the moment though, the game is being kept afloat by people with enough freedom to spend their money on football. Once people settle down with mortgages, etc, that money will have to go elsewhere, and I don't see the generation behind them interested in the game enough to want to take their place.

I can see an increase in shorter contracts and wage caps (which the game desperately needs, IMO) in the near future.

hate to break it to ya demonrail, but its not going to go away...

with all the money these sports bring in, don't you think they have teams and teams of marketers making sure that the game stays relevant for every age bracket? well they do

i was in paris at the time of the world cup one year and in the square they had a big television mounted on a building and people were going absolutely apeshit. people do still take it very serioulsy...serious to the point of issuing beatdowns. so i can't imagine what it would've been like 30 years ago.

as a member of the Chinese National Curling Team, I would say YES, we do deserve £68 Million.

those silly Brits, American athletes can make twice that!