Foggysfplandiet3
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Couldn’t care less
Simply obscene
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Couldn’t care less
JM14
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So someone should loose 90% of their wage because you dont like what they spend it on? They will already have paid more tax than most of us in our lifetime
S7DiscoDown
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True about the tax... 45% isn't it? I thought that was actually a valid argument when folk were saying they should donate to the NHS during covid.
They actually do and all year round.
Let's be honest if anyone is on 100-300k a week (or far less) you'd struggle to spend it. It almost has no 'value'. It just becomes numbers. Once you've bought a nice house / car etc then what's left?
I always think what it would be like winning the lottery. Clearly amazing but you could very easily go 'footballer' mode and buy 30k watches etc. If you knew you'd never runout (although footballers and lottery winners do)
They actually do and all year round.
Let's be honest if anyone is on 100-300k a week (or far less) you'd struggle to spend it. It almost has no 'value'. It just becomes numbers. Once you've bought a nice house / car etc then what's left?
I always think what it would be like winning the lottery. Clearly amazing but you could very easily go 'footballer' mode and buy 30k watches etc. If you knew you'd never runout (although footballers and lottery winners do)
The_Lizards_Jumpers
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Attacking footballers (normally young working class males) is classic distraction theory. These guys earn huge sums, true. However their careers are limited in time, and could be ended by injury or a loss of form at any point.
Constantly attacking them for what they earn and spend, but looking the other way whilst the likes of Amazon or hedge fund managers pull in, and in many cases, avoid tax on, far larger amounts than your average PL footballer is what "the establishment" want you to do.
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MARMITE
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Bent as nine bob notes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51698150
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51698150
Tees_In_The_USA
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It sounds like something that nobody would ever say, I doubt it's true
Marvanelli
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It's not his fault he was offered such a lucrative contract which entitles him to spend thousands on bar bills
Michael_Vronsky
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You honestly think prem footballers pay a huge tax rate? They have an army of accountants making sure they pay minimal amounts and squirrel the rest away in tax havens.
Strange that ordinary working lads on here defend these overpaid, preening pop stars.
Strange that ordinary working lads on here defend these overpaid, preening pop stars.
BoroFur
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Do you think Greece is a 3rd world country without a functioning judicial system?
Tees_In_The_USA
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Not at all
Tees_In_The_USA
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How would you possibly know that? You are guessing
Michael_Vronsky
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What, you think they don't?! How naive are you?
BoroFur
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But you're alleging that the prosecutor i.e. the Greek police is lying.
Tees_In_The_USA
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I'm not saying they do or don't I'm saying I wouldn't know, just like you.
Tees_In_The_USA
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It's just my opinion, from what I've read about what happened it is all very strange and I don't think that's what would have happened
jam69
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It is of course up to him how he spends his cash, its a pity we don't value other jobs as highly as a premier league football, i think football should add a 1% "tax" on wages over say 60k a week with the money used to keep match day prices down and a more even spread of cash to clubs further down the line
Marvanelli
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Any proof of this please?
Tees_In_The_USA
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Why should they? They pay the highest tax bracket already.