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Theo gives WAG a nice gift

First it was  Stephen Ireland pissing away 264k on a chavved up Bentle GTC for his WAG
And now Theo Walcott   gets a fezza  for his WAG .£20,000 to insure! -i'm not suprised.
She (and any WAG)would have been more than happy with Mini Cabrio -they don't want anything more than that

http://www.extrafootie.co.uk/clubs/detailed/arsenal/30502/
DradusContact

Only does 193mph?  For that money id want to be part of the 200mph club.
maz

these fucking footballers get paid way too much

 its a scandal
Big TC

Just how old is young Wolcott? What a joke that he can afford to buy one of these, and insure it, at his age. I'm outraged....

Is a diamond ring not sufficient these days?
Humphrey The Pug

Big TC wrote:
Just how old is young Wolcott? What a joke that he can afford to buy one of these, and insure it, at his age. I'm outraged....

Is a diamond ring not sufficient these days?


Don't read the Daily Mail do you!!?
Parm

He earns 60K a week?!!
"him"

Parm wrote:
He earns 60K a week?!!

Exactly, and £20k to insure her car is only a 1/3 of his weekly wage,  my car insurance is way more than a 1/3 of my weekly wage...  

the other ct

Like most I do find it hard to get my head around how much footballers are paid. But with so much money in the sport it is going to end up in someone's pockets.

From what I've seen of Walcott he seems to come across as a nice guy. As opposed to Marlon King, forum fav El Hadji Diouf, Barton etc...
franki68

the astonishing thing about walcoot is he gets 60k a week for being injured.
Surely thatis the best job in the world.He plays what 10 games a year or something ?
BeN

Same goes for Michael Owen.
Dr. Hfuhruhurr

I thought Owen's pay was based on appearances?
BeN

Currently yes. But I believe he was given something like 100k at Newcastle for doing less than Walcott.
TimR

I thought Owen was on a 'basic' of something like £15k a week (I wouldn't get out of bed for that personally ) plus money for appearances, etc.

It's been mildly amusing over the past few months watching the media get into a froth about banking pay and bonuses - Stephen Hester at RBS springs to mind - while completely ignoring the inflated pay packet footballers get for 90 minutes 'work' a week.

At the time Hester's potential earnings of £10million over 3 years were coming under fire Manchester City were offering John Terry £250,000 a week if he went there (that's £39 million over 3 years, justt for kicking a little white ball).
franki68

TimR wrote:
I thought Owen was on a 'basic' of something like £15k a week (I wouldn't get out of bed for that personally ) plus money for appearances, etc.

It's been mildly amusing over the past few months watching the media get into a froth about banking pay and bonuses - Stephen Hester at RBS springs to mind - while completely ignoring the inflated pay packet footballers get for 90 minutes 'work' a week.

At the time Hester's potential earnings of £10million over 3 years were coming under fire Manchester City were offering John Terry £250,000 a week if he went there (that's £39 million over 3 years, justt for kicking a little white ball).


And stephen hester entertains how many millions of people each week ?
Apex clipper

I remember John barnes commenting on being injured when he was at that time the highest paid footballer in the land.

10k a week and him moaning he wasn't fit enough for 1st team selection. Now if I was trawling in 10k a week I wouldn't be phazed by just sitting there getting paid that kind of wedge.

Moaning barsteward.
DradusContact

Its not just football though, alot of sport is the same.  F1, Golf, even snooker is serious money.
TimR

John Terry couldn't entertain anyone.

Hester has direct responsibility for over 100,000 jobs.

Terry doesn't even have to wipe his own arse.

I'm not having a go at footballers - anyone would accept £100k a week if offered it to do almost nothing.
It's just that the media are so narrowly focused it frustrates me.

Really it's the fault of the club owners.
Big TC

Humphrey The Pug wrote:
Big TC wrote:
Just how old is young Wolcott? What a joke that he can afford to buy one of these, and insure it, at his age. I'm outraged....

Is a diamond ring not sufficient these days?


Don't read the Daily Mail do you!!?


No, not at the moment      
franki68

TimR wrote:
John Terry couldn't entertain anyone.

Hester has direct responsibility for over 100,000 jobs.

Terry doesn't even have to wipe his own arse.

I'm not having a go at footballers - anyone would accept £100k a week if offered it to do almost nothing.
It's just that the media are so narrowly focused it frustrates me.

Really it's the fault of the club owners.


No one should earn that sort of money whatever they do.
Dr. Hfuhruhurr

TimR wrote:
Really it's the fault of the club owners.

Nah, like everything else, it's really the fault of Rupert Murdoch.
franki68

Dr. Hfuhruhurr wrote:
TimR wrote:
Really it's the fault of the club owners.

Nah, like everything else, it's really the fault of Rupert Murdoch.


nearly,we all know that everything that is wrong in the world is due to piers morgan.
scamper

franki68 wrote:
the astonishing thing about walcoot is he gets 60k a week for being injured.
Surely thatis the best job in the world.He plays what 10 games a year or something ?


The worrying thing is, he is only about 12 and already is a complete Sicknote.

But yes, footyplayers earn too much and some don't set a good example - drink driving, drugs, assault charges. Don't get that in rugby.  Oh, hold on.
BeN

It seems to be an Arsenal affliction though. An astonishing amount of our players get injured, and stay injured/keep getting injured.

Rosicky and van Persie also come to mind.
DradusContact

Still doesnt compare to the fudster if you ask me.  When i rolled up in that baby for amanda, the look on her face......
Humphrey The Pug

Can you imagine earning £60k in a week, I don't earn that in a year let alone picking up 52 lots of £60k in a year.

It astounds me how much sportsmen get paid particularly football players especially when you put it into some kind of context.

Yes Kimi Raikonen gets, allegedly, £15 million a year bit there are only 20 full time F1 drivers in the world, some getting less than a £1 million, in a football team you have 20 odd players, in the good teams the best players are earning in excess of £150k a week and even the not so good ones £20k a week and many don't even play that often, multiply that by however many teams there are, in the UK alone and that is a shit load of money, much more than any other sport.

And who's paying for it, the paying public mainly and then sponsorship and TV rights etc.

Imagine being 20 and earning that much, fuck me, no wonder that many turn into bad uns, probably zero guidance, just out of being a teenager and having loads of hanger ons.
Bob Sacramento

TimR wrote:
I thought Owen was on a 'basic' of something like £15k a week (I wouldn't get out of bed for that personally ) plus money for appearances, etc.

It's been mildly amusing over the past few months watching the media get into a froth about banking pay and bonuses - Stephen Hester at RBS springs to mind - while completely ignoring the inflated pay packet footballers get for 90 minutes 'work' a week.

At the time Hester's potential earnings of £10million over 3 years were coming under fire Manchester City were offering John Terry £250,000 a week if he went there (that's £39 million over 3 years, justt for kicking a little white ball).


To be fair no footballer or team have ever performed so badly that the club had to be bailed out by the taxpayer to the tune of over £40 billion.


I am, of course, not including Newcastle United in that statement.
BeN

Popularity pays, sadly. If your profession is one that is constantly in the public limelight then more often than not the pay packet is going to be quite high.

I just finished a school essay about celebrity-dom and their role in the media. Unfortunately I have to use a Piers Morgan quote (scum of a man he is) to highlight how modern society has gone wrong in the worship of all things entertainment.

And football is entertainment to the masses.
DaveGibson

Humphrey The Pug wrote:
.......  And who's paying for it, the paying public mainly and then sponsorship and TV rights etc...........

Which is still the public through buying subscriptions or sponsors' products.
the other ct

Humphrey The Pug wrote:
In a football team you have 20 odd players, in the good teams the best players are earning in excess of £150k a week and even the not so good ones £20k a week and many don't even play that often, multiply that by however many teams there are, in the UK alone and that is a shit load of money, much more than any other sport.



Well (in theory at least) when the new higher tax rate is introduced 50% will be going to the taxman.
Big TC

BeN wrote:
It seems to be an Arsenal affliction though. An astonishing amount of their players get injured, and stay injured/keep getting injured.


Fixed you post for you, BeN.
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