Premiership footballers - On another planet?

[King Kenny]

Tiger Woods per chance?

[Tony Baloney]

If I werelucky enough and talented enough to be a professional footballer I would do the exact same.  I would try to extract every last penny from my employers during my career as I could.  Anyone here who says they wouldn't do the same is being economical with the truth in my opinion.

I don't buy it. You've 30 million in the bank, you've a couple of years left after which you will have 38 mill sitting on the bench scratching your balls or 34 mill at a second tier premiership side togging out every week and making the most of your time left. If you had kids you want them to see you actually kick a ball.

Yis are mercenary hoors.

[King Kenny]

In a nutshell,  yes.  And if you were in the same position I believe you would find the idea of a couple of years in LA very tempting.

[Orangemac]

If I werelucky enough and talented enough to be a professional footballer I would do the exact same.  I would try to extract every last penny from my employers during my career as I could.  Anyone here who says they wouldn't do the same is being economical with the truth in my opinion.

I don't buy it. You've 30 million in the bank, you've a couple of years left after which you will have 38 mill sitting on the bench scratching your balls or 34 mill at a second tier premiership side togging out every week and making the most of your time left. If you had kids you want them to see you actually kick a ball.

Yis are mercenary hoors.

I'm with you Ton, if I had enough money to retire I'd rather be playing every week for £30k a week than notplaying for £60k a week.

Then again I don't understand people who dont play the Loto if it is £3million but will if it's £10mill.

[Puckoon]

Robbie off to the club and league he has supported since he was a boy.

Spurs striker Robbie Keane joins MLS side LA Galaxy
Tottenham striker Robbie Keane has joined Major League Soccer side LA Galaxy for an undisclosed fee.

Keane, who had also been linked with Leicester City, said he was "honoured, delighted and very excited" to be joining the American side.

Details of the transfer fee and length of contract have not been announced, but it is reported to be a £3.5m deal.

"I have always wanted to come and play in MLS so it's the perfect combination for me and a dream come true," he said.

Keane made 254 appearances for Spurs during his first spell at the club between 2002 and 2008, scoring 107 goals.

He moved to Liverpool in July 2008 but spent only six months at Anfield before returning to White Hart Lane.

However he failed to hold down a regular first-team place, amid competition from Jermain Defoe, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Rafael van der Vaart and Peter Crouch.

Galaxy general manager and head coach Bruce Arena said: "Robbie Keane will be a great addition to our club.

"I have followed his career and have always respected his ability as a competitor and a goalscorer."

A statement on the Spurs website said: "The club can announce that it has reached agreement with Major League Soccer side LA Galaxy for the permanent transfer of Robbie Keane.

"We wish him all the best for the future."

[4father]

You need only check out Joey Bartons twitter to work out that they are indeed on another planet!!!

http://twitter.com/#!/joey7barton

[quit yo jibbajabba]

footballers are in indeed on another planet, but i think you'll find that joey is on another planet from them also

[laoislad]

Didn't have anywhere else to put this but I saw this on Twitter.
What Samuel Eto'o will earn with Russian Premier League side Anzhi Makhachkala.

£1,458,333/month
£364,583/week
£52,083/day
£2,170/hour
£36.16/minute
£0.60/second


After Tax

[Tony Baloney]

Didn't have anywhere else to put this but I saw this on Twitter.
What Samuel Eto'o will earn with Russian Premier League side Anzhi Makhachkala.

£1,458,333/month
£364,583/week
£52,083/day
£2,170/hour
£36.16/minute
£0.60/second


After Tax

I can't imagine any of these mugs will be living in Dagestan. Some dough.

[mountainboii]

Didn't have anywhere else to put this but I saw this on Twitter.
What Samuel Eto'o will earn with Russian Premier League side Anzhi Makhachkala.

£1,458,333/month
£364,583/week
£52,083/day
£2,170/hour
£36.16/minute
£0.60/second


After Tax

BBC reckon that's an exaggeration. Only on £168,000 a week.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14610186.stm

[spuds]

Didn't have anywhere else to put this but I saw this on Twitter.
What Samuel Eto'o will earn with Russian Premier League side Anzhi Makhachkala.

£1,458,333/month
£364,583/week
£52,083/day
£2,170/hour
£36.16/minute
£0.60/second


After Tax

I can't imagine any of these mugs will be living in Dagestan. Some dough.

Security and training

The club's players live and train in the Moscow region and fly in for home matches.[14][15] This is for security reasons and entails, according to the BBC, "flying about 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) 15 times a season" for the home games.[16]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Anzhi_Makhachkala

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

1) Robbie Keane - surely he has made enough money by now. He has maybe 3/4 years left at the top. Would he not be happier on 30k a week (surely he could manage?) and playing week in week out at the likes of Birmingham/Fulham?

If I had the money Keane has, I would go to LA Galaxy and be happy on 10k a week. Sure L.A. or Fulham which sounds like better craic.

[ONeill]

They wouldn't make that money if people didn't pay to see it be it attend the games, geansai or Sky.

If that's the money floating about then grab it.

[screenexile]

I couldn't find the quote but at the time of Adebayor moving to City did he not say something like "If I were a plumber and somebody wanted to offer me twice as much money to do the same job I am presently doing should I not take it?"

Hard to argue with that logic... most of these lads come from nothing so you can't blame them if some idiot wants to give them £100,000 a week to chase a bag of wind around a pitch!

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

I couldn't find the quote but at the time of Adebayor moving to City did he not say something like "If I were a plumber and somebody wanted to offer me twice as much money to do the same job I am presently doing should I not take it?"

Hard to argue with that logic... most of these lads come from nothing so you can't blame them if some idiot wants to give them £100,000 a week to chase a bag of wind around a pitch!

Only way to stop this is salary caps, but if England introduce them, they got to Spain. Spain introduce them, they go to Italy. Italy introduce them they go to France or Germany. The Netherlands, Brazil, Russia, USA, Japan, UAE, Scotland, Turkey etc. down the line. You would need a FIFA wide cap system, but then that would hit their cash cows like England, Spain, Italy etc.