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Money Doesn’t Buy Football

Imagine this… You’re the best player in the world, playing for one of the biggest football clubs around and then you get an offer from Barcelona making more money than ever. At that point becoming the richest transfer deal of all time. All eyes are on you on what descion you are going to make. Do you stay with your home club or take an offer from the richest club in the world? This is a position that football stars are going to fall into. Owners spending money on players, footballers earning too much money and transfer deals that are going through the roof. The amount of money that is in the football world is sky high and shouldn’t be in this unstable economy.

Football is one of the most played sports in the world. In a football season there are transfer periods. Transfer periods are when a club transfers another player from a different club. Owners invest their own money to lure players from different clubs. This issue has become prominent over the years. The amount of money clubs offer players is getting unreal. In one instance former Manchester United star Christiano Ronaldo took up a transfer deal worth a reported 80 million pounds by Spanish giants Real Madrid. This marked the largest transfer deal in football history. Christiano Ronaldo has lived up to his expensive deal, but another football star didn’t. Fernando Torres was playing for Liverpool, before being offered a 50 million pound deal to play for Chelsea. However, it took him 4 months to net his first goal. Britain’s ‘The Sun’ newspaper labelled him “… A waste of Chelsea’s money…” This goes to show that pouring millions into players and huge transfer deals does not mean that the football star is going to be worth it.

When there is money involved, player salaries become a big issue. How much money a player makes depends on a lot of things. Such as, what football league, how the team is performing and how well you as a player are playing. Performing for a big money club such as Arsenal or Barcelona the salary is going to have a few more zero’s than other clubs in there respected leagues. In a story on the website Business Insider, out 0f 10 highest pays sports teams in the world, 5 were football clubs. Barcelona was the highest paid sports team in the world. Each player is earning on average $ 7,910,373 million dollars per year. Real Madrid came in a close second with each average player earning $ 7,356,632 million dollars per year, with Christiano Ronaldo earning a record $ 18.5 million dollars a year. This problem with football is also in other sports as well. On the same website, a poll read out of 7 sports and 7,802 first team athletes. With all salaries combined it will come to $15 billion dollars per year. This shows that not only football pays players too much but also other sports around are paying athletes way too much. This money could be invested into something else in their chosen sports. Instead of investing the money into player salaries and writing out more and bigger checks. How about putting the money towards what the fans want?

With elite clubs such as Manchester United and Manchester City who pay millions and billions of dollars a year. They need a financial backer. In this case, the owner of the club. To be a football owner you have to have loads of money. I don’t mean just a couple of million dollars. I mean hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars. There are several club owners who invest and use plenty of there own money. In a poll listed on the website Sports Intelligence.com, they polled the richest owners in sport. Three football teams were listed in the top 15. Two were in the top 6. Silvio Berlusconi invests a reported 7.8 billion into his club AC Milan and Roman Abramovich who invests a staggering $ 13.4 billion in Chelsea F.C. This amount of money goes towards players, transfer deals, managers, coaches and especially to the fans. With these amounts of money can certainly take a team to glory. So what owners invest in is always a tough call. If they make a bad descion it could cost the club in the future.

So as you can see, the amount of money that is in fluxed into football clubs are over the top. Player salaries are getting ridiculous, transfer deals are going through the roof and owners are spending too much money in their football clubs. Right now money is ruling over football. And if something doesn’t happen soon, Football may turn into an unstable global economy. As they always say, money doesn’t buy happiness.