Footballer's Wages

I think most football fans would agree that footballers get paid a stupendous amount of money for the job they do. Most premiership footballers get paid £40,000 a week at least, and the best premiership players and the best in Europe are on salaries of over £1,000,000 a month. Now, let's do a bit of maths, shall we?

Let's take Samuel Eto as an example, the world's most highly paid footballer, who plays for Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala, a football club which most football fans wouldn't have even heard of a couple of years ago. He get's paid £1,500,000 a month, that's around £370,000 a week, £52,000 a day and around £2,000 per hour, and if you really go down, it's 60p a second. Now, each Russian team plays 30 league games a season, if you add cup games and if a team gets into Europe, Anzhi probably play around 38 games a season, let's round that up to 40, so 40 games a season. Eto probably won't play all 40, let's say he plays 35 of them. So that's £18,000,000 for 35 games, 35 games adds to 3150 minutes of football, given that he will be subbed off from time to time, let's say that he plays 3,000 minutes of football for Anzhi in 1 year. £18,000,000 divided by 3,000 is 6000. Sorry for dragging all this maths on, but that shows that Eto get's £6,000 for every minute he plays for Anzhi. Now that is absolutely delusional in my opinion.  

A fireman, or a policeman who risk their lives, get paid only enough to put food on the table and maybe give their family a good Christmas. That's if they aren't called into work on Christmas day. A fireman gets paid in a year what Eto does in half a day. Am I the only one who thinks that this is just ridiculous?

There is the argument though, that footballers deserve the money the get, as they provide "fantastic entertainment." Rubbish I say, because saving someone from a fire or going out at 4 in the morning to take a women in labour to hospital, or getting shot at by terrorists in Afghanistan, is far more important than providing entertainment for some football fans.

So, overall my opinion is that most footballers do not deserve the money they get, money has ruined football, there's no doubt about it. It's all about money now, if a club has money then they will be successful, if a club doesn't then they won't.