If Alfie didn't make football videos for a living, he'd either be a history teacher or an accountant.

Alfie is the smartest Hull fan to have ever existed.

I don’t know if you are going to see this but you are up there with my favourite KZfaqrs. Could you do a video on the life of footballers playing in league one and two.

Afie, you're the first person to make finances sound interesting. Great video.

Day 11 of asking: 7 extinct or less commonly used positions in football today. Eg. Sweeper, Wide Midfielders.

Hi Alfie, Can you make a video on how clubs generate income? I would like to hear this. Also to know why people claim that they are paying the players' wages.

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I don’t care how rich you are, seeing £117,000 taken from you wage a month in tax has to sting

"Sir Marcus of Rashford." I liked that.

As the old saying goes; 'You learn something new every day.' Great video mate. Broken down & simplified brilliantly.

Can you do a Viedeo of all DDR-Oberliga teams in the season that it existed and looking where are they now.

Hey, Alfie. Would you be willing to post links to some of your sources in the description for future documentary-style videos?

Remember guys you can't get arrested for tax evasion if you don't pay tax. 😏👍

As a chartered accountant student in India and since India draws most of it taxation structure from Britain,thanks to colonisation, I really appreciate you making this video...and I must say it was a very great one. Keep up the good work.

Videos like these are great, really interesting and informative. I think it’s really good that you’re not afraid to venture into politics when you must to clear up some of the rubbish that’s out there. Keep up the great work as always.

Hitc sevens is one of the only channels where I watch every video in its entirety and like every video before watching.

He's not correct with his amount at the 45% straight off because it goes through the basic rate first before higher rate bands.

I really don’t get it. Why do people feel such a need to paint footballers as villains?

Rashford will forever be a legend in my eyes, coming form a Liverpool fan, protect him at all cost

Praise him or not, he is SIR MARCUS.

Hello, Alfie! I wanted to bring to your attention two very interesting stories from South Korea, if you'd like to. Regarding your videos about "Rise and fall" and "What on Earth is going on" of some teams around the world, I wanted to suggest the recent story of K-League 2 team Gyeongnam. Since their foundation in 2006, they always featured in the top-tier of K-League until 2014. In 2017, they won the second-tier championship and a rollercoaster of emotions started for them: in fact, the following year, thanks to key players such as Brazilian prolific goalscorer Marcão, Japanese winger Takahiro Kunimoto and native defender Park Ji-Soo, they even finished runners-up of K-League and competed for the first time in the AFC Champions League. Unfortunately, in 2019, after the departure of some key members and an incoming crisis, they were eliminated in the group stage of CL and finished 11th out of 12 teams in the K-League, eventually ending up losing the promotion/relegation play-off against second-tier team Busan I-Park, thus being relegated again. Today, they've technically ended the crucial play-off match against Suwon FC in a draw, but they've missed promotion due to placement rules that are probably going to cause some controversy (Gyeongnam advanced to the final after beating Daejeon Hana Citizen due to the same mechanism). I'm going to write the other suggestion in the answer space... 😅

As an accountant (unemployed at the time being), I found this video very interesting and knowledgeable. Great piece of content, Alfie! 👌👌👌

Sir Marcus of Rashford 😂🔥!!!

Alfie mate your videos are so informative I feel like you know everything

Very eye opening. This won’t stop the keyboard warriors but a well worded and detailed account. Thanks HITC7s

could you make a video on the Middlesbrough North Korea friendship

Helping eliminate financial illiteracy amongst football fans too. What a fucking channel

Your channel is exceptional and you're a genius, focussing not only on the field but everything happening around 'the ball'. I wish you work more on the tactical side of the game.. discussing tactics and the idea behind those..

Great video. Those tax brackets certainly are a pinch.

Great video Alfie ❤

Was still watching😉 and if im honest i prefer the vids you make on topics where you go in depth of the subject above the lists vids you make.

Please do a video about the 7 best Belgian Footballers before their golden generation!

Alfie is a godsend 🙏🏿 now if he’d only just do a Ronaldinho episode in the style of Zidane....

This was a great video! Please make more related to Finance in Football

You mentioning money going untouched for retirement is something which people often neglect to mention. Footballers often are retired by their mid-30s and unless they go straight into coaching, management or journalism, are often then without an income.

As someone studying accounting, the economics of football in this vid is very interesting. More vids like this plz

People saying how Rashford is using tax loopholes dont understand "marginal tax rates" either.....but they are experts on taxation and accounting you see, they saw this thing shared on Fac.....

I consider myself a huge nerd so I absolutely Love this stuff even though it's hardly a smoking gun worth of shock value. Keep bringing the quality stuff!

Enjoyed every bit of this Top quality stuff

That intro had me rolling. No holding back.

How does this get no views? This is way more interesting than a lot of list videos

Alfie, you are quality, your personality, your knowledge of ball and your political opinions are great bro. Keep up the amazing work.

This is a really good video. Very underrated

Impossible to tax avoid on base salary, Very possible to tax avoid on Image rights. Simple

Very well said, thank you.

I enjoyed this video, please more make videos like this and historical ones too. Thank you

Alfie your videos are top tier

Amazing video! More of this please

Day 2 DDR Oberliga teams 1990-1991: where are they now?

Would you be able to make a video on the depth of the french talent pool at the moment? Being from the United States I love all these videos as footballing resources like this can sometimes be difficult to find

This man never fails to interest me no matter what topic he is speaking on

Great video Alfie!

keep it up with videos like this !

Not sure about the UK. But any corporation that I’ve ever been a part of pays their owners through dividends. For easy of bookkeeping, you record the payments throughout the year as shareholder loan then at year end, you move the amount to dividend and do a t5 for taxes. The reason why you do that, here is because you don’t need to pay cpp ( approx 6-7%) and you get to benefit from personal tax credits and the lower corporate tax rates. With normal income, charity spending usually gives you a tax credit on those earnings. You are still paying the money out. But at least it isn’t going to the government.

Awesome, another video on finance!

As a former Private Banker specialising in Sports clients I can generally endorse the salary and tax principles espoused here, but Alfie has ignored a key element, which is that most PL players are not UK Citizens, in fact many are not even EU Citizens, and therefore are Non-Domicile ineligible for UK Tax I.e. theoretically they can be paid Offshore via Tax Haven bank accounts and only pay tax on the % of their income that they physically spend within the UK. I know for a fact that some clubs will not allow this avoidance due to the risk of reputational damage, but I’m sure it does go on...

Good video as usual 👍

Could you do a video looking biggest overachievers / surprise packages for each of the premier league seasons e.g. Leicester 15/16 or Sheffield United 19/20

Great video, Alfie

9:49 why is Paul McGinn getting shown when he’s talking about dodging tax

Alfie, your videos are true class, but those thumbnails need some work

Such educational videos on football are important.

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I always wondered How the financial system works in football with salaries and taxes.

But the main thing I took from this video is is that that Marcus rashford pays more tax in a year than I will earn in my life

Great Video, Enjoyable

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Great video

I enjoyed this video; can you make a video explaining the importance of football managers

We need HITC History and HITC Economics

When your to young to understand all of this. Good vid any way

A really interesting question is how do players in China get paid their massive salaries. China only allows people to transfer $12,000 out of the country per year. Do they get an exemption or do they get paid abroad?

I don’t remember if you already have but could you make a video about the side ventures that footballers have taken on

No mention of shell companies, I’ve wasted ten minutes of my life for this common method not to be addressed

Nice educative videos

Can you do a video on how transfer fees are payed and who the money goes to?

Can you make a video on how much the owner's have invested in the clubs they own

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Video suggestion: A documentary on why most players do not become referees after retirement

I used to believe the same myths over footballer wages, until several years ago when I started working for a company who handled the pension administrationfor the playing and coaching staff of one of the Big 6 Premier League clubs and was surprised to see they were payed the same way as the rest of us, just with considerably more zeroes. It was also interesting to see how much their eventual flop of a new manager at the time was paid. Not as much as I expected, to be honest.

Alfie! Please do a video on Islam Feruz and what a warning he is to young players.

Why don't the other rich blokes in the UK pay that much tax say it with your chest

Day 89: 2012-2013 and 2019-2020 Bayern Munich Combined XI

Please make more football finance videos!

Good explanation! However, the likes of the Mail and Express ignore this as it contradicts the views or the Gammons.

top 7 utility players either right now or of all time, can play in more than one position eg milner who has player full back, midfielder and under pep a false nine (example of utility player, he may or may not be in top 7)

Honestly this is how a lot of people get away with not paying tax, they set up multiple shell companies in countries that quite frankly don't give a fuck about the UK or their laws, and pay back loans to these companies, pay £1000s for things like "Admin Fees", it's all a bluff and it's legal, it's the basic way that you can get away with it.

Do a ‘Worst cases of second season syndrome’ !!!!

I know I am late to this video, but how did you get through it all without bringing up Andrey Arshavin and his tax discovery upon signing for Arsenal. He thought he had negotiated himself a nice pay rise from the transfer, only to find that after paying his 40% on the bulk of his earnings he was taking home less money than when he was at Zenit.

Really good

How does TV rights and tickets work as part of a club’s income?

Should make a companion video "are owners tax dodgers." The answer is an emphatic, "Yes."

Do worst injury hit teams since the premier league was founded in europe - reference to Liverpool currently who have half their first teamers injured

8:15 Joël Matip is worth the entire universe nevermind 1 mil smh fuck HMRC

Who do I look for everyday, it's you and no other football youtuber, because everyone else has uninspired garbage as content atm. FD has gone down a toilet of late

Do a 7 players you didn’t know got relegated

great video

The real issue is the funding from overseas billionaires that are amongst the most aggressive tax evaders

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