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