Would Chelsea be top of the Premiership if all pro football players were on a maximum wage of £500 per week?.
461955
No club is going to attract players without pay scales that are close to the other power houses in Europe.  However, high pay scales don't necessarily equate to great soccer.
409454
It would just go on the same, the Welsh and Irish leagues manage ok. People would just go to their local team.\nScottish football might actually get a boost!
1184336
Ashley Cole or Paul Scholes could rough him up..John Terry would be ideal though...haha..
1049725
i don't follow Chelsea but lets face it they can buy who they want, most players have a price ( not all ) but at the same time i think a few of there players unless there just in it for the money wish they had not joined . i respect Alan shearer for going to Newcastle and the likes of le tissier who probably could of had a big money move. they deserve to be where they are but they ain't helping some talented players and who they have signed all ready i think it will only get worse...... good luck to them tho if they win the premiership next season. i follow a premiership club not mentioning which club but i don't envy Chelsea just like any other team in our league.
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Of course they will.  There are already a number of players in the English premiership and that number will at least increase by two next year with Convey and Hahnemann leading Reading into promotion.  There is also already talk of Chelsea going after Adu in the next few years.  The World Cup always plays an important factor, whoever plays well will be given opportunities with big clubs in Europe.  Happens every four years.
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No they are not paid on how well they play in each game they are paid this amount of money because of the talent they have, and if they fail to perform at the end of the contract they will be transfered or put on a free transfer witch i would say is like being "sacked" so they have to play well to carry on being paid this money. Be a bit unfair to just stop wages all together imagine having all them huge bills to pay from the expensive house and nice car's and going through a bad patch they could end up losing it all and having to start over. Going from £200,000 to £0 a week\n\nDon't get me wrong they are paid crazy amounts of money but we wouldn't be complaining if it was us!
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becks got a lot advertising money.\n\nStevie Gerrand (liv) and F Lampard (Chel) I believe are the higest paid lads in England
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Chelsea have the money to buy any world class player just so no other team can buy them,for example Shaun Wright-Phillips, who they rarely played.\nThis is the only reason Chelsea won the title last season and will win anything next season.\nThis is unfair on other teams as no other team has the money to compete with Chelsea.\nI personally think that there should be a cap on the amount any one team can spend in a season on players.
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I am a firm believer, that should a footballer agree to a contract worth, let's say £40.000 a week, he should be entitled to half of what they earn, which would be £20.000, then the other £20.000 would be payed to the player, based on his performance, goals scored, then dedute payments on bookings and sendings offs.\n\nBy doing this, both club and supporters are getting there money's worth, with players putting in 100%every game and they can justify paying that amount to a single player.\n\nFor the footballer, this would be a good payment system, as they would have to play to there maxium level, if they wanted their full amount at the end of each wee. It would also improve disclinpary problems, which sadly today so many players lack.
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No, money can't do everything. Team spirit is more important. If everyone in Chelsea has the same spirit as Lampard, then Chelsea have a chance; if they keep on buying players who don't gel, they won't win anything except the Premier League.
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Yes. Well it wouldn't really be practical. Maybe if the amount of money put into football could go to the NHS and the like, carers, etc. could have a decent wage which reflects their work and other money could be spent on machines and training, etc. I definitely don't see how it can possibly be seen as fair that footballers get paid so much. All they do is play a game. And they only do that half the year for a couple of hours at a time. Nurses, etc. have to work stupid hours all the time for a crappy wage which is hardly livable.\nMr. Evil is a careworker and although his wage is higher than some, he still doesn't get paid enough.
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I am sure Chelsea would make a bid as they seem to be buying up every good player. If he is however thinking of hanging the boots he might relocate to Japan or USA.
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Yeah I think your right, footballers a paid way to much and then complain all the time seriously footballers are the most whinging of all sports people.\nTake rugby players, not earning as much as footballers, could play twice in one week, taking huge hits all through the game and its apparent most of them play just for the love of the game, now footballers used to be like that they would take a hit get up and continue playing for the love of it, now its ten minutes rolling around and trying to get people booked, I don't know what happened but football has definitely lost its soul to the corporate devil
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Well, as far as I am concerned, Football is still a Sport.\n\nBut the question you are really asking here is: Is the modern overpaid professional Sport (of all kinds, and not just Football) still Sport? \nHere I tend to agree with you. The millions and billions that are pumped into the modern mass media sporting events have ruined the spirit of true sportsmanship and turned the whole scene into nothing more than a branch of show business.\n\nNevertheless there are plenty of decent people left who play their Sport every week as amateurs without getting a single penny for it. That includes many good and decent footballers.
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completely\n\nIt is unfortunate how unfair it is that Chelsea's fortune is unlimited compared to under dogs like aston villa and Man City, but theres nothing we can do about it
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He's worth as much as a club is willing to pay for him, and how much Man Utd are willing to release him for. \n\nHe currently makes around 40,000 pounds a week, however Man Utd are willing to double his contract to 80,000.
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Jose Mourinho of Chelsea with earnings of about £5 million a year.