I wouldn’t turn it down.
I’m glad he’s getting out the shit show that is Arsenal but think we missed a trick not keeping him. He deserves a chance at the top level.
Let’s see what he does with the money. He’s a sensible lad.
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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago
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"Just think of the good you could do with that money. "
Yep. Much as footballers get paid outrageous amounts of money, some do great work with it.
Even as a Wales fan, I thought Craig Bellamy was a horrible individual. Then you found out he’d set up a football academy in Sierra Leone with no publicity at first, spending vast sums of money. He amass also warned it was too dangerous there.
Ramsey is a decent guy by all accounts - I wouldn’t be surprised if he does channel some into good causes.
It’s still a mad world when he earns more in a week than nurses do in lifetime!
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By (user no longer on site)
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I don't know Aaron personally, but do know a few premier league footballers. They get a bad press sometimes when it comes to wages. Most dont ask for what they get paid. It's left with agents to negotiate and agree on. All the player does is sign the contract. The few I know, all donate large sums to charities each year, as well as taking part in community projects. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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"Just think of the good you could do with that money. "
And how do you know he doesn't put some of it to good use?
Look at it another way - if someone offered you a huge amount of money to do your job would you turn it down? Even if you were comfortable with the money you were on already?
And who's really at fault here? Him for accepting it? Juventus for offering it? Or the fans that continue to pay the ticket prices and buy the merchandise that enables that kind of sum to be paid?
Truth is no-one is really to blame, it's no different than Tom Cruise being paid millions for a film, or a CEO of a successful company doing well out of it, or any other number of highly paid people doing well out of their talents - it's just the high numbers involved that make it sound out of whack. |
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By *opinovMan
over a year ago
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No-one is worth that, esspecially when there's a good chance it'll end up in an overseas account to avoid tax - and even more especially when we have homeless people freezing to death on our streets, parents having to go cap in hand for health treatment for their kids and disabled folks dying or killing themselves because they've had their support withdrawn for some bullshit reason, all because we allow those who can most afford to pay their taxes to avoid doing so ... it's fucking obscene.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsay has just signed a deal for Juventus for £400,000 a week. Does he really need that much money? "
I still love football to a degree. I'm not overly struck by the modern, sanitised spectator experience but I still go to watch my team on an occasional basis, as I did last night.
I'm not comfortable with these salaries though. I don't begrudge the players for taking what they're offered one bit but it's gone way past greedy and presently sits around 2 bus stops past immoral. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Of course nobody needs that amount of money as it’s a crazy sum of money to get each week! But really Arsenal should never of gotten into this position where he left for nothing. Really poor management on there part! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"No-one is worth that, esspecially when there's a good chance it'll end up in an overseas account to avoid tax - and even more especially when we have homeless people freezing to death on our streets, parents having to go cap in hand for health treatment for their kids and disabled folks dying or killing themselves because they've had their support withdrawn for some bullshit reason, all because we allow those who can most afford to pay their taxes to avoid doing so ... it's fucking obscene. "
Well said and I totally agree. No one who kicks a football for a living is worth £400,000 every week when people are starving around the world. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"No-one is worth that, esspecially when there's a good chance it'll end up in an overseas account to avoid tax - and even more especially when we have homeless people freezing to death on our streets, parents having to go cap in hand for health treatment for their kids and disabled folks dying or killing themselves because they've had their support withdrawn for some bullshit reason, all because we allow those who can most afford to pay their taxes to avoid doing so ... it's fucking obscene.
Well said and I totally agree. No one who kicks a football for a living is worth £400,000 every week when people are starving around the world. "
By that note though - is anyone worth millions just for pretending to be someone else, or because they happen to be able to play a guitar and write songs, or came up with the technology that each and every one of us uses every day?
I agree it's obscene that people are starving, homeless etc and that more should be done to help those in need but I don't buy into the parallels between someone earning large amounts of money by comparison.
Fact is no matter how much we'd like everybody and everything to be equal - there will always be those who have talents that are more bankable than others and those in need - it's not the fault of a footballer, actor, musician etc that they have those talents and benefit from them, any more than it is the fault of the starving or homeless they are in the position they are in a lot of the time.
Yes there are exceptions to that in both camps but I personally don't begrudge someone earning what they can, and what is offered, because of a talent and think it's the role of society as a whole to care for those in need. |
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