Footballers in the 21st century are earning a weekly salary of £100,000 to £250,000, making them some of the highest paid entertainers in the world. Footballers are earning in one week what a doctor would earn in 2-4 years. Being a doctor isn't an easy job, it takes years of studying and requires good grades as …show more content…
Millions of people watch football yearly and they desire to watch the best football there is to offer, and that means watching the best football players. Football clubs offer huge amount of money to the best players to get them to play for their club. Also saying footballers are paid soo much is because the clubs that pay their wages are not public corporations and football player's wages comes out of the deep pockets of a millionaire, or a club with big money sponsorship deals. There's also a lot of money involved as football is so …show more content…
Firefighters, they risk there lives fighting the fires risking being burnt to death rushing into a burning building just to save lives. Ambulance crews, have to drive at high speeds carrying a passenger that could possibly die if not attended at the hospital they have to to go through allot of pressure. Soldiers, they put their lives on the line trying to protect their country and stop all evil. Where as what do footballers do? Run round kicking a ball thats not really worth £100,000 every week emergency services should be earning 100 times more than a footballer.
The charity UNICEF struggle to make over £2 million every year to save children and families that are living in a dangerous environment or That have no to food to eat. " As a charity we've struggled to help everyone as we just don't have the funds " quotes Anthony Lake CEO of UNICEF. It would take a footballer approximately 4 months to earn £2 million pounds for doing a simple job. Charity's like UNICEF which struggle to make money but still work hard to improve the lives of the unfortunate, this is what should be earning over £100,000 a week not a person kicking a ball around for 90