You thought correctly. 👍

He loves in the same neighbourhood as Jurgen Klopp so he isn't skint

It’s good money now 😂

Probably still can in certain areas,

in liverpool you could buy a house a week on 2500K..!

I remember someone saying Charlie Chaplin was making 12 grand a week over a hundred years ago

Man said back in the day 80s 😂 how much you on now bro 5 k a week

Hats off well said mate, I'm from same era.

In 1984, us postmen were on £95 a week, just a fiver short of smashing through the £100 barrier. A lot of my wages were going towards Lawrenson's wages through the Anfield turnstiles. But they were well worth it with all the success on the field.

I'm a liverpool fan and agree with you entirely , I was about 15 quid a week on a yts which went up to 25 notes a year later,my heart bleeds for lawrenson, mind you he was one of liverpool's most underrated players for me ,I did see him put a tackle in on Alan Brazil who had rounded grobelaar and had an open goal and lawrenson came from nowhere to put it out for a corner,great player ,I digress 😊

true but some of the money players is on is silly, for playing a sport kicking a ball around. theres homeless out there not getting any help, the world is upside down imo

Mbappe gets over 4 million a month.

@@johnmitchell2269that's one player, not the norm

no one cares about the homeless, it's just virtue signalling...@@clockworkman8210

£10k a week. Most premier league players today wouldn't even get out of bed for ten grand a week, such is the money they get paid for (in many cases) not contributing much to their clubs.

1982 £ 25 p week YTS training job , 6 months later full wage £ 46 then later I was taxed , it was shite money for the graft we did and I never had enough, weekend overtime was £2 an hour

For the 1980's that's great money per week

lol IKR bruv that was the most ridiculous out of touch thing lawro said.... moaning at at 2 and a half grand a week which was mega money back in the 80s, he could've invested in dozens of the most expensive mansions and stately homes in Cheshire on the money he was on in the 80's (no doubt the banks would give him seven figure mortgages as well with collateral from property portfolio so he could buy even more properties) that would be worth over £70m now so maybe he should've invested the money correctly instead of whining about his 'low' pay. Main reason players from Lawrenson era not swimming in cash is because they didn't invest or have (like todays players) accountants to manage their wealth and agents (thanks to bosman ruling) who can negotiate better contracts and terms for the players. I have no pity for karens who got paid more than 99% of the UK population moaning about low pay compared to today's players. As the saying goes "a fool and his money are soon parted"

everyone was when she cut taxes and made it worthwhile ofr businesses and corporations to invest and create wealth, jobs, etc.

I've read that only Michael Robinson and Paul Jewell were labour party supporters in the Anfield dressing room during the 80's. The players were very higher earners even back in the day so it was always going to be Thatcher who would look after them.

Hansen was world class

​@@richardevans7035So was Mark , a great full back.

Or he’s home all day under each others feet

@@deathbystereo- stay naive to the world around you bro

@@ActiveArronit has nothing to do with being naive to the world pal lol, you’re just implying that every woman is a money grabber which although in some cases is true its not always true, there is much more nuance to a relationship as to why it falls apart, you saw it during the pandemic where relationships were breaking down because the dynamics of the household drastically changed and people were forced to spend more time with each other than they’d previously had. Mental health also comes into play which alot of professional athletes suffer in retirement, so this blanket statement that all women are evil is stupid and shows where your mindset is at.

@@kiely4561 your trying to sound clever but not really saying anything at all

@@ActiveArron for starters pal its “you’re” trying to sound clever, there’s nothing hard to understand about what I’m saying…even for your level of intelligence.

if you are earning £2,500 and the government is taking nearly £2,000 of it every week and your carreer is going to be over by 30 or 32 as most footballers did then would you not be questioning it.?

So in his best year he earned £343,000 in todays money and paid 83% in tax on the bulk of it leaving £58k in his pocket. Still a lot of money but it was a short career and not all footballers had the sense to manage their money sensibly as Lawro said. I've never really got my head around whether footballers pay is obscene or good value for money given the entertainment they provide for millions of people. It's market forces I guess?

@@trevorbaldwin1 the higher tax rate was anything over 80k

@@realcapitalist1462 I haven't seen the whole video yet but I don't think Lawrenson would have paid 83% tax on £343,000. He was not a top player until the mid 1980s. Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979 when he was still a developing player at Brighton. By the mid 1980s around 60% for employees.

@@BurnsTennis No that's true and I didn't bother factoring personal allowance and tax thresholds but as munaali has pointed out the higher tax rate started at £80k. Lawro did refer to his "best" year so I took that to be when he was winning European cups with the Reds.

Thatcher reduced it to 60% in 1980. Lawrenson was playing for Brighton in 1980. Jackanory Lawrenson.

@rstevens7711 bang on, also 83% is a marginal rate over a certain income threshold so its not like he was paying 83% on every quid earnings plus didn't (like most footballers then) do the smart thing and hire an accountant to lower their tax exposure so he only has himself to blame for not playing the taxing system.

No the 83% only kicks in once you have earned so much and paid tax at the lower rate so most of his salary would be less. Just like the higher tax brackets work today.

@@imposs-up1hg Top rate of tax for high earners reduced to 60% in 1988. It was controversial at the time to say the least. Thatcher's whole purpose was to transfer wealth from the majority to the rich. The rest is smoke and mirrors. Job done with the support of gullible working people on low incomes who voted against their own self interest throughout the eighties and in 1992 when they had the chance to reverse Thatcherism but instead embraced it after all the damage it had done in destroying Britain.

He never said he thought he was poor lol, he mentioned in the video he was on really good money and that you can only be a person of your time when asked about what players earn today, the comparison wasn’t about what the average joe was earning compared to league one footballers it was a comparison to how the game has moved on financially by today’s standards.

...which would be fine if the tax was spent properly.

The huge difference now though is that the average premier league player will be on £100k a week due to the huge amount of Sky money pumped into today's game.

Yep. One would have also thought slightly foolish to pubically brag about celebrating Thatcher when he's considered a Liverpool legend.

It's very significant off course if a large part of your wage is subject to such a high tax percentage in which case the essence of the point he is making remains.

True enough @@italkedtobarzini4015

Lawrenson was a footballer not a Chartered Accountant.

@@LDBROOKS Even a footballer should be able to understand that they are not losing 83% of their entire income to the government in tax.

You must have been earning well !!!

The poll tax in scotland was worse A large family of 7 mum dad 5 children working age paying 7poll taxes and next door neighbour 1 person paying 1 poll tax.Thats what destroyed maggie. Trial it in scotland also for a year.

​@william_marshal that was the basic rate in 1981, basic rate now is 20%

And vat was 8%, it’s 20% now!

On the BBC website 😮

I totally agree and I'm a man United fan

What do you do? Get another job.

You can do anything you want ,you have all the time and money but most footballers aren’t the brightest bulb in the house are they ?

Unless you're posting from a time machine in 2004, it's 40 years on.

If you think it’s only 20 years on, that’s probably the reason you’re earning so little 😂😂😂

He never once said he was hard done by did you even watch the video or just read the title 😂

£6200 per year in 1985.

@@ricardovosse3841 so he didn't do so bad.

I’m not understanding the criticism, Mark never once said he was hard done by in this video, he’s fully aware he was earning good money for the time, the question was asked as a comparison to what footballers earn today and how much the game has changed financially, most of you are just being triggered by the title without actually taking the time to watch the video.

@@kiely4561 yeah I understand but isn't it good to put a statement like that into context. It's not criticism. Just context..and I did watch it all the fact I picked on this statement would highlight this ..just pointing out that the players in the 80s earned alot more then the fellas that payed to watch them.

Higher rate tax was indeed 83% back in the day with standard rate at 33% , does not take much digging online to find out

He must have being doing something right to last that long,he has the medals

you dont get medals for being on tv @@johnflanagan5123

As opposed to Micah Richards laughing every five seconds and making everything about himself due to having a giant ego.

100% agree total negative dinosaur

I thought him a great pundit. A great dry wit. He’s been through the mill health wise physically and mentally and he’s not getting any younger. I meet a lot of people a bit jaded by life and cut them a bit of slack His politics are certainly not mine but so what. Can’t waste energy vetting every person in the world on their politics.