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They could afford the Mersey Harmony choir

http://www.merseyharmony.co.uk/newWeb/index.html

I THINK Mrs R might possibly have 'help' with her children!!!! A Nanny come to mind, I should think they could JUST about afford that!!!!!

All that dosh isn't going to replace one rib of his disappearing hair.

See Mrs R is off on one of her hollies again .showing herself off in one of many bikinis.

Wonder sometimes how she manages at home .It was all i could do to go to the local shops when I had our daughter as a very young baby.

You only hear about the players salaries bacause they are the ones in front of the media cameras all the time. If the likes of Wayne Rooney didn't get their hands on it, that money would go to somebody you've never heard of and nobody would be any the wiser for it. Manchester United is not just a football club, it's a multi-million pound business. Behind the cameras are a load of faceless shareholders who want to protect their investment. Wayne Rooney is one of the companies assets. They're trying to protect their assets in order to protect their own earnings (however much that might be).

no one should be paid that much a week ,it is obscene ..

Oh,but with that income one is being paid for.


an image to upheld. :-D.

arrogance.

rudeness,

and,,,,,masses of meglomania.

that in its self is hard work....... ;-) :-D

He only earns that money because fans and football management want him to be paid that amount. He could presumably earn fabulous wages in many countries.

It is the same in all these high paid jobs. You have a man or a woman with specific marketable skills. They earn a lot of money for their stakeholders and get paid a lot. Wayne Rooney was earning an ordinary wage at first when he was at Everton and has managed to persuade his employers to hike his salary by huge increases ever since.

I have been expecting the soccer bubble to burst for years, but it hasn't happened yet. Is it so different to pop stars like One Direction and Gracie Fields, or film stars like Leonardo di Caprio and Richard Burton? Or authors like J K Rowling and Enid Blyton. Pure supply and demand for special talent.

It would be interesting to know exactly how much tax he is actually paying to the exchequer. The likelihood is that much is paid in such a way that he incurs very little income tax.

The term "Fat Cat" springs to mind.

So agree with all your comments especially yours Magpie. As some of you have also said it wouldn't hurt some of the 'celebrities' to help out the flood victims but don't suppose they will. As someone once said to me 'there are those that have it all and keep it all to themselves and those that have next to nothing and share with all'. oh well that's life I suppose but still makes me angry.

Wayne is paying £8m a year tax - which is more than I earn gross (before tax).

£32,000 a day he will "earn", I am told. And he has about 5 months holiday a year.

On downside, he may have to retire at 35. With a young family and only the pension and benefits to look forward to.

I just can't believe that ANYONE is worth that sort of money, let alone getting it for kicking a football!! Perhaps, as already said, some of these over paid prima donna's could donate a fraction of their salaries to helping others less fortunate than themselves in whatever capacity. (With regard to the floods we haven't exactly seen ANY celebrity interest, and clearly won't!) When you think of the years of training, long hours and dedication of so many people in vital/worthwhile services/careers not even earning a small fraction of this 'money', it just makes me want to puke!!

Alas professional football is not a sport, it is a financial market that buys & sells commodities - the commodity is players :-(

It's disgraceful. It wouldn't hurt him to offer some of his cash to those people who lost everything in the floods, same as it wouldn't hurt lots more of those overpaid footballers and such.

If the clubs didn't have to pay so much for players, they could cut the prices of the admission fee so more people could attend matches and enjoy the sport live.

Lizx

As long as I don't have to pay him I don't care. ;-)

don't like it though when my licence fee (tv) is given to someone I won't listen to or watch, cos I consider them to be a load of hot air.

Disgusting!

Obscene!!

It's for the next five years! Will he still be playing to the standard he is today.?

If people didn´t pay the gate fee maybe just maybe the money in football can come down a tiny bit

a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????

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