Football is one of the biggest and most lucrative businesses in the world. It generates massive revenues from ticket and merchandise sales, as well as player transfers. Investors are attracted to football clubs because they see it as a reliable way to generate returns. The high salaries of footballers are controversial when compared to jobs like nurses and soldiers that are seen as more important but lower paid. Some see footballer salaries as disproportionate for the amount of work required compared to other professions.

1. Adaptations:
Financial Times
Football is one of the biggest business’s in the world. There is a lot of money invested into football
nowadays as you see stadiums the size of a whole city! Football is the highest ranked sport in the
world that has the most money involved in it. Furthermore, the reason why a lot of money is
invested is because, it’s the industry where most people go into because the most money is in that
industry so that is why you find a lot of business men and women who put their money where their
mouth is because they know that they’ll guarantee to retrieve their money back. So basically money
is found in football so that is why you find that football dominates the world and you can see this by
the advertising that’s going on TV and billboards. The investors trust football clubs to make money
from tickets sales and kit sales that is why the more money they invest, the more money they are
guaranteed back (that is how the investors see it). They rely on jersey sponsorship deals and
transfers to make up most of the money so that they the revenue is high.
The Sun
Scandal of footballers earning £300,000 a week when overworked nurses earn £30,000 a year. This is
disgusting. That’s the equivalent of Cristiano earning nearly ten times (in a week) what a nurse earns
in a year. Footballers are just being paid to kick a ball around for 90 minutes once a week, whereas
nurses are working day and night to ensure that they get paid. Moreover, you have solders who get
5 times less than what footballers get in a year. Soldiers risk their lives to get paid, whereas you have
footballers who just train for 2-3 days and then play once a week which sounds and is very easy to
what soldiers have to go through all the time! This is really depressing as you see soldiers putting
their lives on the line for their beloved country and on the other hand you have footballers run
around to earn a fortune in 1 hour 30 minutes. Additionally, you have people who do 8 to 12 hour
shifts and get paid around £50 and you look at footballers who earn that in minutes e.g. David
Beckham earns £1.85 in a second equivalent to £111 in a minute. The surprising thing is that
although David Beckham retired around 3 years ago it is statically figured out that he earns twice as
much now than he used to earn.