Should players take a wage cut?

[FSF]

The Football Supporters' Federation is conducting a quick straw poll of fans up and down the country for their views on a couple of issues, including whether they think that players are worth their exhorbitant wages, or whether a wage cap should be introduced. The survey is closing in the next couple of days, so we'd really appreciate if anyone who hasn't filled it in already will give us literally one minute of their time (and not in the Jamie Redknapp sense, but it is actually very, very short; there's only a couple of questions). Just visit:

http://tinyurl.com/3ad6lau

Anyone who fills it in is automatically entered into a draw to win a copy of Football Manager 2011 for PC/Mac by way of thanks.

 

[sharky127]

Should they, Yes definately,

Will they, No, you've got more chance of pissing over the moon!

 

[RichieS]

To be fair to players, it's not their fault (generally) that their wages are so high. The industry is worth a phenomenal amount of money and they are the most important people in it so in some senses football is actually better organised than your average company pay-wise. (By that I mean what do Alan Sugar and Philip Green for example do at Amstrad and Arcadia respectively that warrants them earning much more than anyone else in the company?)

 

[cwy21]

Not really. They should get paid what the someone is willing to pay them. Even the highest paid players in football don't make anywhere near the top American athletes.

Alex Rodriguez makes a salary of 33 million USD per year or about 406,000 GBP per week.

 

[MattyP]

Nope.

It's a free market economy - who would police it? Uefa, FIFA, the individual football associations? I don't trust any of them.

 

[Phantom]

If a cap is seriously considered I would prefer a system limiting individuals wages not the team as a whole.

Watching American sports is frustrating seeing trades/releasing players to make room within the cap.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

Bizarre. Should Johnny Depp take a wage cut for starring in films that make money? Should the Kings of Leon take a wage cut because they sell a lot of albums? Top level football is popular, therefore there is money to go to the stars. It's very very simple. Honestly, who wastes their time doing this? People often forget that being a football player is a short term career, and it could end as a result of loss of form/injury at any given moment. Take the money I say, and invest it wisely.

 

[dontcallme]

Why is it only footballers who get heavily criticised for high wages?

Many sportsmen earn huge money but that's because they are in an industry that earns huge money, they're only earning their piece of the pie.

Many CEO's take huge bonuses while letting go members of their work-force. There are many financial injustices in our system but the constant attacks on footballers is completely ridiculous.

 

[DoublePivot]

What a retarded question

Anybody here going to take a wage cut?

I didn't think so. Imagine the lot of you think you're worth more. Imagine a lot of you wouldn't take jobs based on low wages alone.

Just because football is an inflated market doesn't mean footballers are all that different from you. They're human at the end of the day.

If you want them to get lower wages, show some fucking balls and quit the sport....that's right quit it altogether. That will lower their wages. And that's the only thing. But you won't.

So until then, go complain about some other nut job bogeyman.....Johnny Foreigner or Welfare Cheats or Liberal Gay Atheists. You're choices or endless.

 

[Reece]

If the players take a wage cut where does the money go? To the chairmen or executive board members?

 

[cwy21]

Basically its asking millionaires to take a pay cut so billionaires can have more money.

 

[Viva la Tottenham]

Basically its asking millionaires to take a pay cut so billionaires can have more money.

exactly, it's going to take a whole lot more than capping players stupid high wages to sort footy out

 

[danielneeds]

Of course they should. Chances of it happening - not bloody likely.

There is a small hope the UEFA's financial fair play regulations make claw them down slightly, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

I have noticed a lot of empty seats in grounds all over Europe in the last year though, maybe the football world will gradually twig that prices need to come down, and that footballers' wages need to go down to compensate.

 

[SpursMad]

Basically its asking millionaires to take a pay cut so billionaires can have more money.

Couldn't have said it better.

In the states everyone uses the phrase, "they (athletes) don't deserve that much money." Deserve has nothing to do with it. They are the part of a huge billion dollar cash machine and they are the stars. Without the players there is no game.