Cristiano Ronaldo agrees new five-year deal at Real Madrid worth £365,000-a-week
 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...ants-s-36.html

I know that this article is not in the Football Section. But just read this. His wages per WEEK will be OVER £300.000 PER WEEK.

This is a disgusting wage for a footballer. NO footballer in the world is worth that amount of money.

We the fan have to pay enormous amounts of money to get to the stadium of our favourite team. We work all week to earn a living. And then pay a lot of money for the shirt, f that team and then pay a lot of money for 90 MINUTES of bloody football. And a players earns that amount of money. Its disgusting.

And then if we watch at home. We pay disgusting Subs fee. I think the genuine fans are in the wrong game. Appalling: mad:

Re: Cristiano Ronaldo agrees new five-year deal at Real Madrid worth £365,000-a-week
 

Don't be too mad. He is probably paying 45% tax rate so a good chunk of that is going back into the system

Re: Cristiano Ronaldo agrees new five-year deal at Real Madrid worth £365,000-a-week
 

He's worth whatever someone will pay him.

Re: Cristiano Ronaldo agrees new five-year deal at Real Madrid worth £365,000-a-week
 

£300k is his reported wage after tax, although it's Euros not pounds. He's now meant to be on ~€32m per year which is €615k pw before tax, Spanish top tax rate is 52%. Spanish players wages are always reported after tax for some reason.

Re: Cristiano Ronaldo agrees new five-year deal at Real Madrid worth £365,000-a-week
 

Maybe because they don't want you to know how little tax they get away with?

Re: Cristiano Ronaldo agrees new five-year deal at Real Madrid worth £365,000-a-week
 

I wouldn't be surprised, Spanish players always seem to be in the news for not paying tax.

Re: Cristiano Ronaldo agrees new five-year deal at Real Madrid worth £365,000-a-week
 

Perhaps the club pays the tax and the contract specifies that. If the tax rate went up, then the take home pay would stay the same.

In a way the clubs are monopolies, as fans aren't prepared to switch allegiances in the same way as they would with something like a supermarket. They can charge what they want and the fans are "forced" to pay it.

Re: Cristiano Ronaldo agrees new five-year deal at Real Madrid worth £365,000-a-week
 

I think you mean £300,000 - in the UK we use the comma.

Do you attend a lot of Spanish matches then ?

Re: Cristiano Ronaldo agrees new five-year deal at Real Madrid worth £365,000-a-week
 

Exactly, what does anyone think would happen if footballers were still paid a maximum wage, it'd be significantly cheaper to attend or watch or it'd go toward making the owners of clubs and satellite companies richer.

Re: Cristiano Ronaldo agrees new five-year deal at Real Madrid worth £365,000-a-week
 

Players of Ronaldo's stature (like him or not) are important to the profile of the club so they'll pay him what they feel is economically realistic and beneficial to the club. It's not just a one-way deal.

Real Madrid make in excess of 200M Euros per year in marketing revenue.

They don't do that by selling Jason Puncheon jerseys.