£85.3 Million for a football player...

[birthofanorange]

The crazy sum of £85m as a transfer fee aside, what I find abhorrent is the wage factor. Based on an ordinary persons working life of approximately fifty years, earning an average salary of £20k per annum, he will earn more in one month - for what, probably four games of football? It's just so wrong.

 

[sydney]

****chops monkeyspividiosycraticnessessity****........wubbish.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Earnings of £42,857 a day, plus apprently another £3m a year by registering his little "heart" hand gesture as his own personal trademark.

Bale is clearly not anything like as stupid as he looks (which, to be fair, really does take some doing).

I think he would have a fight on his hands over that with that Justine Beaver girl

 

[North London Seagull]

42,857 quid a day.

£38 a minute, and no I didn't work that out

 

[Safeway]

perhaps. I definitely got why they paid that much money for Ronaldo, and before him Beckham. I'm not convinced that Bale has the marketing draw of those two though

30,000 fans turning up to his unveiling might suggest otherwise.