Essay Why Footballers Should Be Paid

In my first source, it says that ‘According to the public, an appropriate salary for a decent footballer would be seventy-five thousand pound– the same as for a top doctor. Since 1961 the average wage of a hard working miner has increased by 6% whilst the top footballer’s wage has increased by 1439% for kicking a ball around a football pitch. I understand that lots of people enjoy football and support teams because they are local etc. but don’t you think they’re paid a too much money? Christiano Ronaldo earned £15 million last year for kicking a ball, that’s £15,000,000 (£288,000 per week) and you would’ve earned less than £75,000 for a lot of hard work! Also, Wayne Rooney from Manchester United will earn approximately £1,785 per hour, that’s more than the average British worker earns per month! The pubic seen to think that the right level of earnings follows the popularity of the sport in Britain, with top football players earning £75,000 annually, rugby and tennis players earning £60,000 annually whilst cricketers and golfers are thought to deserve £50,000 annually.
Some similarities are clear. For both the pay is extremely high, excessively complicated and in some ways, secret. In football as in business, the money could be better invested in training and infrastructure, rather than ridiculous wage increases. ‘It may now be time to put the brakes on this dramatic escalation in wage at the top.’ It is interesting to note, that footballers do not come under the same scrutiny as bankers for their continually increasing wage slips. Back in 2001, when Sol Campbell left Tottenham for London rivals Arsenal, his one hundred thousand pounds a week contract made him Britain's first footballer to earn a six-figure weekly sum. Fourteen years later, Wayne Rooney's deal at Manchester United, signed last February, earns the England captain almost £300,000 each