He has acknowledged that there is a problem (1 Viewer)
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'It is simply insane for any player to 'earn' £6million-£8million a year when the annual budget of even a club competing in the UEFA Champions League may be less than half that. What logic, right or economic necessity would qualify a man in his mid-20s to demand to earn in a month a sum that his own father - and the majority of fans - could not hope to earn in a decade?'
Don't be too fast. Here's the same article, only from a less pro-Blatter source. This is from PZC newspaper in Holland:
HYPOCRITICAL BLATTER STRIKES AGAIN
Sepp Blatter, the man who's bad sense of business made FIFA loose an estimated €22 million in 2002 and who has always carefully concealed his own salary and that of the people around him, has now attacked a far more transparent system: the capitalist ways in which the salaries of players are being publically established.
Indeed, the financial world surrounding the FIFA president is all but transparent as the organisation has been constantly accused of financial scandals and drama's. The minimum wage in Holland is €526.- and it would be justifiable if those people were to raise some complaints on the prices of, for example, season tickets of their favourite clubs. But it can be argued that a man who has been accused of being involved in bribes ranging up to €100,000 would be wise to sit back and be quiet regarding the finances of Europe's biggest football clubs.
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Now that's another way to look at it...
HYPOCRITICAL BLATTER STRIKES AGAIN
Sepp Blatter, the man who's bad sense of business made FIFA loose an estimated €22 million in 2002 and who has always carefully concealed his own salary and that of the people around him, has now attacked a far more transparent system: the capitalist ways in which the salaries of players are being publically established.
Indeed, the financial world surrounding the FIFA president is all but transparent as the organisation has been constantly accused of financial scandals and drama's. The minimum wage in Holland is €526.- and it would be justifiable if those people were to raise some complaints on the prices of, for example, season tickets of their favourite clubs. But it can be argued that a man who has been accused of being involved in bribes ranging up to €100,000 would be wise to sit back and be quiet regarding the finances of Europe's biggest football clubs.
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Now that's another way to look at it...
Spoilsport techies armed with firewall fun-deflectors mean the Fiver
has to be careful about using certain 'obscene' words and phrases.
Like "Sc*nthorpe", for example. Or "Up the Ars*nal!" So when Fifa
president Sepp Blatter started talking about "p*rnographic" amounts
of money while speaking sensibly for the first time in living memory,
the Fiver was left with no option but to reach for its giant jar of
asterisks so we could big up the little man.
In a Financial Times interview, Blatter condemned "the greed ruling
the world of football" and described some transfers made in the
modern market as "social and economic r*pe". He also vowed to set up
a task force focusing on corruption and ownership issues in the game,
which the Fiver presumes will work in tandem with his other task
force focusing on extra tight and skimpy Lycra for women footballers.
"All too often, the source of this wealth is individuals with little
or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon
football as a means of serving some hidden agenda," thundered
Blatter, as a nearby Russian billionaire harrumphed loudly. Blatter
went on to condemn wage negotiations that "produce the spectacle of
semi-educated players on GBP100,000-per-week holding clubs to ransom
until they get, say, GBP120,000," as a nearby England defender looked
chuffed to be described as semi-educated.
Shamelessly defending the indefensible, as usual, brass-necked PFA big
cheese Gordon Taylor reacted with anger to Blatter's comments. "I
find it bizarre that the head of Fifa, an organisation which has
built its huge wealth on the back of players, is having a go at those
same players. He is biting the hand that feeds him," he hissed,
conveniently overlooking the "p*rnographic" manner in which his
association's hugely wealthy members gnaw voraciously at the hands of
the fans who feed them.
has to be careful about using certain 'obscene' words and phrases.
Like "Sc*nthorpe", for example. Or "Up the Ars*nal!" So when Fifa
president Sepp Blatter started talking about "p*rnographic" amounts
of money while speaking sensibly for the first time in living memory,
the Fiver was left with no option but to reach for its giant jar of
asterisks so we could big up the little man.
In a Financial Times interview, Blatter condemned "the greed ruling
the world of football" and described some transfers made in the
modern market as "social and economic r*pe". He also vowed to set up
a task force focusing on corruption and ownership issues in the game,
which the Fiver presumes will work in tandem with his other task
force focusing on extra tight and skimpy Lycra for women footballers.
"All too often, the source of this wealth is individuals with little
or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon
football as a means of serving some hidden agenda," thundered
Blatter, as a nearby Russian billionaire harrumphed loudly. Blatter
went on to condemn wage negotiations that "produce the spectacle of
semi-educated players on GBP100,000-per-week holding clubs to ransom
until they get, say, GBP120,000," as a nearby England defender looked
chuffed to be described as semi-educated.
Shamelessly defending the indefensible, as usual, brass-necked PFA big
cheese Gordon Taylor reacted with anger to Blatter's comments. "I
find it bizarre that the head of Fifa, an organisation which has
built its huge wealth on the back of players, is having a go at those
same players. He is biting the hand that feeds him," he hissed,
conveniently overlooking the "p*rnographic" manner in which his
association's hugely wealthy members gnaw voraciously at the hands of
the fans who feed them.
Clearly Chelsea's economic activity is having a disruptive influence on the game. The likes of Veron, Crespo, Mutu not even fit to sit on the bench?
But to be fair, we all knew this would happen the moment people started commercializing aspects of the game.
The same old capitalist monster of class differences rears its ugly head, after, like a virus it invaded a game originally viewed as recreational and a form of entertainment.
After all, playing football is more fun than watching football.
But to be fair, we all knew this would happen the moment people started commercializing aspects of the game.
The same old capitalist monster of class differences rears its ugly head, after, like a virus it invaded a game originally viewed as recreational and a form of entertainment.
After all, playing football is more fun than watching football.