💸 Messi's HUGE Inter Miami Contract: Has football gone MAD? 😬 Simon Jordan's Weighs In! 🔥

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11 ай бұрын

Has the game gone mad when clubs are offering more than just a salary to players? talkSPORT's Jim White and Simon Jordan have their say!
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@andrew1181 11 ай бұрын

Jesse lingard getting 200k a week last year was still more absurd

@garyrobinson3001 11 ай бұрын

As a Forest fan I totally agree with your comment! Thankfully he’s gone now!

@James-bc1jk 11 ай бұрын

Totally agree he's na idiot

@SuperMoonblue 11 ай бұрын

He’s getting it at tik tok

@TheGeneral_LUFC 11 ай бұрын

Not really. He did play out of his skin for a period of time

@andrew1181 11 ай бұрын

@@TheGeneral_LUFC are you joking he didn't even get in the team gibbs white is way better

@RockySaq 11 ай бұрын

If saudi does, it is bad for football but if usa do it is not

@user-xu4xj2cd2j 11 ай бұрын

Yeah double standards

@petegonad 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, Islamic dictatorships are evil

@HH_1988 11 ай бұрын

It's not the first time the West has been caught out with their double standards. And it won't be the last time.

@ianjones2731 11 ай бұрын

Saudi is doing it across the board the U.S is doing it for one player

@drep9028 11 ай бұрын

@@ianjones2731because the Saudis are seemingly more serious about the football

@scrapydan3251 11 ай бұрын

People have been saying footballs gone mad every single year since the 90s

@Akinwalesegun 11 ай бұрын

wince the the game wen professional i the 18xxs

@thelegendthatischels 11 ай бұрын

And they've been right every year

@scrapydan3251 11 ай бұрын

@@thelegendthatischels I mean if its gone mad every year for 30 year at what point is football just mad it can't suddenly become mad after the last time it was mad. People just need to accept this is how football is.

@desmo998rr 11 ай бұрын

@@scrapydan3251 Madness is madness, whether you accept it or not.

@scrapydan3251 11 ай бұрын

@@desmo998rr yeah but as the last few decades have proved this isn't madness it's a natural progression I mean Beckham had this kind of deal years ago it's not madness it's normal now.

@philthornton1382 11 ай бұрын

Football has gone from being a working man’s entertainment, to a tv show

@petegonad 11 ай бұрын

So true

@manicpanic4486 11 ай бұрын

Before all this outrageous money .... players from a certain era had to sell their medals to have money when they retired etc, nowadays players that dont even win a trophy have finances that dwarf the legendary players from the old days

@israeluncovered3653 11 ай бұрын

@@manicpanic4486it's got completely out of hand !!!

@SK-kh2rs 11 ай бұрын

Most footballers are from poverty. Shout out to them making gazillions

@QuentinMajor 11 ай бұрын

Good

@tommytucks1489 11 ай бұрын

As Simon said before, this is a financial decision, not a football one.

@himynameis294 11 ай бұрын

Nope he loves the game so much he refused to play for less money at Barca.

@zeeone4492 11 ай бұрын

Football is a business

@rohithraman6488 11 ай бұрын

@@himynameis294he agreed to a 50 percent pay cut which is the biggest pay cut you can take according to La liga rules. But then barca realised that even if he played for free, their wage bill would still be off the limit so they decided to let him go

@himynameis294 11 ай бұрын

@@rohithraman6488 ok then why is the club still paying him while he was at PSG and now. How much money is enough, it’s clear the club is in financial trouble and he’s not helping…but I guess He really loves the club 😂😂

@sheffsteel7 10 ай бұрын

@@himynameis294 if he loves football then he would try to grow the sport and leave a legacy. So why would he be selfish and go to Barcelona? Thus isn't about money, otherwise he'd go to Saudi Arabia, he's achieved everything so family and lifestyle as more important. Surely he'd be better to go where he's going to have the biggest positive influence, the biggest untapped marker is the USA, so it makes sense.

@factzoverfeelings7503 11 ай бұрын

The ticket sales for the worst seats inside the stadium for the season opener went from $29 to $449 now 🤷

@TheGeneral_LUFC 11 ай бұрын

Imagine he gets injured for the season.

@Lee-vj2mi 11 ай бұрын

Out of curiosity what about the most expensive seats open to the public? What was they before and what are they increasing to?

@desmo998rr 11 ай бұрын

And you get a season ticket for $500.

@jakecook4816 11 ай бұрын

Anyone sad enough to pay that deserves to be extorted

@jackpollard3151 11 ай бұрын

And just like that the average football fan has been priced out of going to watch Inter Miami 🥱

@RBN406 11 ай бұрын

The affect that Messi can have on football in the American media market cant be underestimated. That's why MLS and US Soccer worked so hard to bring him here

@user-xu4xj2cd2j 11 ай бұрын

Same was said about Beckham and it never kicked off like expected. The problem with football in America is advertisement. American sports have multiple time outs and breaks for ads to be played.

@manzinin1070 11 ай бұрын

@@user-xu4xj2cd2j during the match?

@jacko5376 11 ай бұрын

@@user-xu4xj2cd2j there is no advertising during MLS games

@user-xu4xj2cd2j 11 ай бұрын

@@jacko5376 yeah that's what I mean l, it's not being pushed because they can't generate the same money through advertisements, look at the super bowl it's literralh a big advertisement event

@user-xu4xj2cd2j 11 ай бұрын

@@jacko5376 basketball, baseball and American football will have intervals every 10 mins ot so

@ststeve5212 11 ай бұрын

So it’s okay for MLS but not for Saudi 🤷🏻

@Aitch2020 11 ай бұрын

Will saudi ever recoup the money . Seems like they are mindlessly throwing money around to compete with their neighbours/regional rivals and enemies.

@HH_1988 11 ай бұрын

They're bigots, simple.

@SK-kh2rs 11 ай бұрын

@@Aitch2020lol what. No league in that region is any good anyway

@Lil_tro_Vert 11 ай бұрын

What does this have to do with the Saudi’s weirdo?

@user-xu4xj2cd2j 11 ай бұрын

@@Aitch2020 I don't think inter miami will recoup the money from Messi, it's just a big pr move

@murcielago-vikingo 11 ай бұрын

Once Maguire gets 80m then Messi deserves no less than 8 Billion as simple as that.

@jamieosborne100 11 ай бұрын

Put some respect Maguire's name

@birchkids007 11 ай бұрын

Toby Maguire was for years the best Spider-Man …… probably was more than 80million

@De3dSh0t 11 ай бұрын

Always weirded out by this question. They make more because the sport generated more money. As a result, everyone gets more. Where do you want the money to go, the CEOs, owners and chairmen? Rather the players get paid

@sh3tpostsgamertime204 11 ай бұрын

Just money in general is inflated.

@De3dSh0t 11 ай бұрын

@@sh3tpostsgamertime204 But it's not their fault. They make more because the commercialisation increased, social media engagement, more channels, more games, ticket prices going up all result in the business of sport making more money. The average annual wage bill for a big 6 club in the Prem is around £200mil/year. Let's say you halve their wages, where are those £100mil gonna go to every year? They have to go somewhere.

@Luke-cz9tm 11 ай бұрын

Everyone gets more... except the fans. Owners/Ceos are still making more money - they just pass higher wages/fees onto the fans through ticket prices/subscriptions.

@De3dSh0t 11 ай бұрын

@@Luke-cz9tm The fans do get more, they get more games, more channels, more engagement with players through social media etc.. As a result, you pay more If you don't want them to get paid, stop watching🤷🏻‍♂️

@Luke-cz9tm 11 ай бұрын

@@De3dSh0t more channels = more subscriptions = more cost. More games? Do you mean more European qualifying games? Great... And more engagement? Who cares?

@KennyIMO 11 ай бұрын

Anyone remember Winston Bogarde at Chelsea, got 10 million over 4 years and only played 9 times

@SirHaroldMaguire 11 ай бұрын

Used to commute from Amsterdam to London and back 6 days a week.

@TheGeneral_LUFC 11 ай бұрын

Or mark bosnich making 40k a week snorting coke

@dontino3824 11 ай бұрын

Smart hustler.....

@Aitch2020 11 ай бұрын

He was stubborn for sure. But he got mistreated by chelsea. They got him on a bosman free and within a year tried to sell him for a fee.

@Aitch2020 11 ай бұрын

English players are the biggest fraudsters. Look how man over - rated/hyped/priced/payed English players their have been in the modern era. Andy carroll, David Bentley, Francis Jeffers, Harry maguire, jadon sancho, Danny drinkwater even Jesse lingard getting 200knlast season was a disgrace

@1purpose482 11 ай бұрын

Footballers make crazy money because they generate even crazier money for milti-billion dollar corporations

@bhagyeshkotian1747 11 ай бұрын

It's still less than what NBA and American Football players are making.

@srirj44 11 ай бұрын

if the money is coming to England then it is ok. If it is going any where else then football has gone mad.

@dj22jamesy 11 ай бұрын

Talksport and others are bricking it because they will lose the media rights. That's why they are crying about this.

@OloffMusic 11 ай бұрын

Football is a huge, global product, probably the biggest entertainment product in the world. Why shouldn't the stars of the show receive a proportionate level of income? I've never understood this argument at all. Sure, the games and streaming packages are too expensive and there's lots of dodgy corruption and advertising and stuff. But the players should of course earn a good portion of what the clubs do. If somebody wants to pay you 300k a week then they obviously see it as being worth it. Let them do it.

@petegonad 11 ай бұрын

If you want to look at it like an entertainment industry that’s fine. That would mean you only get paid if you feature. No contract, pay if you play.

@P.Rick316 11 ай бұрын

Players on huge wages, can even take a corner kick, players can't even hit the target from a free kick outside the box. To much money for these players,

@LindaNyathi-ce5bq 11 ай бұрын

@@P.Rick316because they bring in too much money for their employers

@russellward4624 10 ай бұрын

@@petegonadwhy do you want billionaires to make more money?

@russellward4624 10 ай бұрын

@@P.Rick316why do you want billionaires that don't kick any ball to make more money?

@larrygerry985 11 ай бұрын

Money is not the issue is more that these deals makes it more likely that the Euro league will happen. At a certain the NFL model will become the way your fund these salaries to compete

@njongomato 11 ай бұрын

At the end of the day, football is a business and players, especially top ones, along with their agents are taking full advantage of this now. If someone is offering ridiculous amounts of money especially in the twilight of your career, why would you say no? Nothing wrong with Messi's move in my opinion. Football doesn't start and end in Europe.

@GrahransWoWGold 11 ай бұрын

Isn't the reason Dybala transfer to Man Utd a few seasons back scuppered because he wanted a share of shirt sales and his media rights?! There are players out there that demand percentage of shirt sales, it isn't new! Who remembers Lee Trundle, back in the day, wanting his image rights, I think he was playing non-league football at the time! 🤦‍♂😂

@garywallace5602 11 ай бұрын

Simon's just realised football's gone made. Where's he been in the past 25 years...sharing a cryogenic chamber with Austin Powers?

@kenmano 11 ай бұрын

ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!

@ChrisD35 11 ай бұрын

One billion dollars

@garywallace5602 11 ай бұрын

@@ChrisD35 Messi, passed customs with his Swedish penis enlarger...Customs couldn't believe his bank balance.

@ronniegaucho10 11 ай бұрын

You clearly don't watch or listen to Simon often cause he's BEEN vocalizing this sentiment...😂

@Aitch2020 11 ай бұрын

Simon is a failed club owner. He talks a good game but messed up in real life. If he was still the palace owner he would be a billionaire or someone very influential in the footballing world

@FirstBorn__ 11 ай бұрын

Messi deserves it more than a lot of players. Sometimes we should allow players to be appreciated for their talent. Playing football takes a lot from your body.

@ajc1482 11 ай бұрын

Nobody deserves to earn that much money, with the amount of issues in the world that could be solved by financial help makes people earning what top end professional footballers earn obscene.

@andrewwright4195 11 ай бұрын

@@ajc1482usa sports stars earn more and movie stars

@Explorations84 11 ай бұрын

Diddums. I care more for family members/friends and normal people in physical jobs who adopt many long term issues. Playing football as a millionaire doesn't come close. Stop doting over footballers who have the best of everything.

@declanshanahan3888 11 ай бұрын

@@andrewwright4195 Movie stars only earn the money if the public go and see that actors films. When the public don't they are no longer box office. Most actors are not Tom Cruise and have to scratch a living. Also the public don't go and pay to see Tom Cruise week in week out for a club.

@davidkariu2330 11 ай бұрын

@@andrewwright4195 and no one should.

@seanpepper8906 11 ай бұрын

getting to the stage where the players will be signing the clubs

@MrPetebuster1 11 ай бұрын

world went mad long ago, its obscene what they earn whether its movie stars or sportsman

@DavWalker-zu6hh 11 ай бұрын

Jordan reads the same lexicon dictionary as me 💯🤣

@lfcspectre4335 11 ай бұрын

Has Tom Cruise improve Alan Brazil yet? After Tom was on here few weeks ago seeing a picture of Alan.

@AJ-xv7oh 11 ай бұрын

This is great for the footballers but it's dreadful for the fans.

@bossdeman 11 ай бұрын

How can you put a cap on the greatest footballer of all time ?

@alanstone8798 11 ай бұрын

yes it is when Real Madrid started to pay huge transfers you all must remember that time , paying players huge money. they started this

@clipped6963 11 ай бұрын

Messi agent has done him a madness, tbh Ronaldo probably also get tea bonuses in his contract. Beckham tho has done INSANELY well hes part owner of Inter Miami so Messi boss hes about to make crazy money if they sell

@eyesopen66 11 ай бұрын

To answer the question, in a word? YES! YES Football has gone mad, and some wages are now vulgar IMO? He can play football really well, but he's 36yrs now and he's definitely been on a downward trajectory for about the last 2yrs or more. The package he'll receive from Inter Miami and MLS is just eye watering and its not even incentive based? He doesn't have to win anything or score goals or assist goals? He just has to turn up, basically? It puts me off the game that ive loved all my life. I was a Man City fan from about 4yrs old, but I went to my 1st game at 8yrs old. I went to Maine Rd for years and in my teens and early twenties I went home and away watching Manchester City and we weren't very good in those days. No UCL then, infact we played a few years in the 2nd and 3rd division in those days. However I felt part of something, my club and the other men I went to games with, were like an extended family to me. The players had a good lifestyle and rightly so, but it was understandable etc. Whereas now the players are multi millionaire's before they're 20yrs old. They have nothing to do with the life I live. I struggle to find a connection to these players. However it won't change and go backwards, so I will have to get used to it I guess? Or go to a lower league of football, Salford fc are nearby to me.

@ROCKYBLUEDOGS 11 ай бұрын

So a digital number in the bank goes up and all possessions are temporary it doesn't bother me

@darrenlee9237 11 ай бұрын

Only a corporate money-man like Simon Jordan would not fear for the future of the working man's game. Yet he calls Eddie Hearn a "pound-hound".

@user-jv2tw1no8x 11 ай бұрын

There has to come a point in time when football fans will say enough is enough. Irrespective of leagues and nations.

@dudebro3250 11 ай бұрын

I already did. Football players and clubs have been extremely arrogant in the last 3 years. I don't miss it at all. It's just 22 people chasing a ball around a field.

@SK-kh2rs 11 ай бұрын

Lol football grows every year. Some boomers not watching no more has no impact.

@phoenix2225 11 ай бұрын

@@dudebro3250 so you stopped watching football but instead watch these pundits…. Well done

@P.Rick316 11 ай бұрын

Just want until the saudi's try and get into the UCL. The money is way out of control. The game has gone mad/crazy. Im losing interest.

@user-xu4xj2cd2j 11 ай бұрын

I don't know why people just don't support their local teams anyway, I don't get why people have to support the biggest teams like sheep

@Trecesolotienesdos 11 ай бұрын

messi is one of the greatest in the sport. arguably the greatest. he deserves what he can get. it would be a travesty if an average baller got that money. messi hasn't been average.

@QuentinMajor 11 ай бұрын

@prideofdurham4776 Messi is more important than all of them.

@Trecesolotienesdos 11 ай бұрын

@@prideofdurham4776 Messi deserves what he earns. He's one fo the best of all time. Though doctors earn a lot as ti stands. Oh, and society needs entertainers. Sportspeople especially at the elite level are entertainers. Do you think the same way regarding Hollywood actors who often earn more? If not, that's telling on you.

@Explorations84 11 ай бұрын

'Has football gone mad' being the same headline from 30 years ago.

@therenaissanceyorkshireman9278 11 ай бұрын

Future generations will look back at this time and refer to it as, "The Time of Madness."

@rjb10101 11 ай бұрын

How much money does one need.....?

@npormanbeccerbutcher4277 11 ай бұрын

Now we can understand why he turned down the offer from the Saudi club .

@user-df1lb1sg7p 11 ай бұрын

The greatest athlete of all time

@Slice998 11 ай бұрын

I guess if anyone “deserves” this kind of money it’s Messi. It’s all obscene but what Messi will bring to the MLS commercially will ensure their investment has its return. With the Word Cup there in 2026 Messi is definitely someone you want as one of the poster boys.

@TruRedCRIME 11 ай бұрын

I live in America. The Americans couldn't be any less interested in the MLS. Messi will only bring eyes to the games he plays in and after nobody will care. Just a fact.

@jakecook4816 11 ай бұрын

The 30m Latinos that live in the USA are enough to fill the stadiums

@dharktv1340 11 ай бұрын

Facts

@jordangarcia9245 11 ай бұрын

That is absolutely ridiculous

@tomredaintdead9575 11 ай бұрын

R. I. P John Berylson

@nickh2458 11 ай бұрын

Game went overboard finacially years ago...

@Ben_Gunner 11 ай бұрын

Negotiations went on for 3 years.....

@robertblake1228 11 ай бұрын

Messi is making money for Miami and deserves everything he gets .

@user-xu4xj2cd2j 11 ай бұрын

How will he make them money lol, it's a pr move to promote the club but won't make them the money back, his contract is probably as much as their revenue

@successblueprintinstitute 11 ай бұрын

I’m against it but if anyone deserves it’s him.

@russellward4624 10 ай бұрын

Against what? Why do you want billionaires to make more money?

@DavyRo 11 ай бұрын

Mbappe apparently wantd 200 million euro a season. He must want a move to Saudi Arabia.

@thunderjoy7250 11 ай бұрын

Thats what you have to pay for the best player thsts ever breathed

@mrfacts6860 11 ай бұрын

Messi taking ballon dor to America insane 😃😃😃🙏

@grinchoi1 9 ай бұрын

Messi Mania is in full effect in the US. I don't even think i could quantify the effect he's had on the league and the country.

@neilshaw3055 11 ай бұрын

U wait until he puts a free kick in top bins it’s worth it

@MichaelDavenport-xz2dv 10 ай бұрын

How can anybody subscribe to these ridiculous salaries There needs to be either a salary cap or these players need to be taxed 90%

@mickthemerciless9694 11 ай бұрын

Insatiable greed is sickening.

@mattprice3621 11 ай бұрын

Money spoilt the game. Chelsea and Liverpool have hundreds of players at the moment. Notts f do as well. And spurs. Players going to Saudi says it all like firminho, neves, possibly mahrez, kante. Messi was always heading to America I said that years ago. He just postponed it when he was at Barca.

@chrislacey8776 11 ай бұрын

Lads! Go on holiday! It's July, it's off season

@63mckenzie 11 ай бұрын

How on earth does a MLS team generate that kind of money?

@jakeb3989 11 ай бұрын

Is this not rinse & repeat with the great Pelé and New York Cosmos?

@Zitolos 11 ай бұрын

Its the cultural aspect too. More latin support & eyes in the us goes to liga mx in mexico rather than mls. Messi here chabges that. Then the whole thing that this is the first time in his club career hes playing for an adudas club. Since hes a lifetime adidas athlete, of course theyll make something happen for him.

@JoaoMassot 11 ай бұрын

After winning the world cup I'm pretty sure he became the world's most marketable athlete so what do you expect.

@Akinwalesegun 11 ай бұрын

thats still ronaldo, you can chose to accept the fact or not.

@JoaoMassot 11 ай бұрын

@@Akinwalesegun Link to your 2023 source pls. Instagram followers can't beat being the best in the world, considered the best in the history of the sport and having just lifted the world cup.

@dharktv1340 11 ай бұрын

@@JoaoMassot Both are huge but Ronaldo fanbase is just absurd seriously d guy bring everyone with him No one will go to Saudi Arabia if he wasn’t there I can assure you that✅

@akshayasubramanian5652 11 ай бұрын

Yea for sure ronaldo is the most marketable footballer in the world. He has the personality, commercial appeal, looks, and language skills to be marketable across the world. Messi is a talented footballer, but he doesn’t have much going for him outside that in terms of marketability Beckham was huge in America because of his commercial appeal. I highly doubt anyone in America will blink twice at Messi if they don’t already follow the game, especially if he doesn’t do talk shows and interviews lol

@JoaoMassot 11 ай бұрын

@@dharktv1340 When I say most marketable it's obviously within the context of football fans. Yes I realize I didn't make myself clear. My bad.

@seanosullivan7100 11 ай бұрын

They could probably distribute the revenue better in football as a whole.

@petegonad 11 ай бұрын

They should be forced to

@LindaNyathi-ce5bq 11 ай бұрын

That's boring

@LM10_ARG 11 ай бұрын

messi is the biggest player of all time, more respect with him

@pjduff7577 11 ай бұрын

No one has mentioned he has to give 10% to the big guy

@mccleandazza4618 11 ай бұрын

Hunters got it on a laptop that's been planted by the Russians

@thefacelessquestion3333 11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 Let's go Brandon

@astrologiaeaudiobooks7278 11 ай бұрын

Working class people finance these prima donnas. Just don't buy tickets, t-shirts or pay-per-view packages. Let the system fall down.

@BladeRunner0029 11 ай бұрын

It must show that the MLS is lagging badly compared to the traditional 3 American professional sports. Talk about a hailmary lol

@andydondy6444 11 ай бұрын

Citeh stadium is never full even when they give out tickets for free😂😂😂😂

@mheiseus 11 ай бұрын

Look at the way they talk 🤣 wow we must be doing good 😊

@karlwba1372 11 ай бұрын

Sport pay and remunerations have become a huge bubble, it was an unsustainable bubble, that is untill the Saudi`s and Middle East made their moves, so that bubble has now expanded massively, and will only burst, causing absolute chaos to the individual sports they are hoovering up, golf, boxing, Horse racing and right now, football clubs, will only burst as and when these middle eastern countries either gets bored , or when decide to take their washing machines and go in other directions...Football in particular has become an arms race between the Middle Easter Countires as well, Quatar, Oman, Kuwait, UAE, Abu Dhabi etc...Think PSG, Man City, Newcastle...they will agressivly go after the debt lades Real Madrid, Barca, Many U, Juventus etc etc...probaly eventually getting most of the elite clubs, ultimatly then creating their own European Super league run by the middle east...everyone has a price, especially when they are weak via huge debts.

@tombarton710 11 ай бұрын

Wish TalkSPORT would do a show on Lionel messis steroid use from 11 to 17. He had nothing wrong with him other than being short. It gave him life long advantages. It was legalised cheating by Barca to guarantee there investment. This always gets overlooked in the Messi v Ronaldo debate

@Aitch2020 11 ай бұрын

Haha. You should contact sleezie documentary makers like vice. They would probably happily make the documentary

@neekeskkarki2912 11 ай бұрын

Wtf are you on about? Messi had growth hormone deficiency and had to take HGH for it. He didn't use the HGH as a performance enhancer rather used a prescribed treatment monitored by physicians in order to overcome a medical condition.

@tombarton710 11 ай бұрын

@@Aitch2020 have a proper look into it. I’m not wrong. If he really did have a growth hormone deficiency he would still be taking them. He’s the Lance Armstrong of football

@mccleandazza4618 11 ай бұрын

He had a growth deficiency and it isn't ùnusual for kids to be given a steroid to promote growth ....so good try

@mccleandazza4618 11 ай бұрын

@@tombarton710behave we had a kid at school who took it for couple years during puberty and he didn't need it to continually take it . You ronaldosexuals will look for anything ti try and put him above messi He isn't and never will be better than him

@oliverwoodcock5307 11 ай бұрын

Footballers may well now be treated like movie stars. But a "movie star" is just an actor or actress. It's absolutely ridiculous money.

@jakehill351 11 ай бұрын

Football went mad a while ago

@petegonad 11 ай бұрын

Went mad years ago

@adriankearney4850 11 ай бұрын

the only reason the premier leauge in england and football around europe in general is going so well is because they are letting the rich billionares into the sport and buy up the big clubs to keep this club rich and going. iam old enough to remember watching football in the 80s with the french leauge and the italian leauge burst with big money of the time and football suffered for a few years. the french leauge never hit the hights since

@russellward4624 10 ай бұрын

It's Utd, lfc, arsenal, juve, Bayern, Real and Barca that made this change not new owners.

@freddiegass6961 11 ай бұрын

Football hasn’t gone mad. It went clinically insane 5 years ago and has been on an upwards trajectory since then. It’s ridiculous

@israeluncovered3653 11 ай бұрын

Rice for 100 mil 😂

@Dippers77 11 ай бұрын

The bubble will burst

@matthewallen2995 11 ай бұрын

But didn't he say his move wasnt about money😂. Clearly it is

@tellyshonestreviews1293 11 ай бұрын

it's not purely money. if it's about that, Messi would have gone to the Camel league. if I were Messi, I would have chosen Miami as well for lesser money. who would love to play in the desert with lots of social restriction?

@user-xu4xj2cd2j 11 ай бұрын

Yeah excatly there wasn't much between the money in Saudi and America, lifestyle of America suits his more so no brainer why he went there really

@paulsmyth3580 11 ай бұрын

Tom cruise owns the production company

@dlanigeragehs2595 11 ай бұрын

America doesn't play football, they play soccer, their biggest spot halftime is accompinied by a Hollywood show. It's bizarre there. It's a real business center. America really takes freedom to a whole new level.

@tevildo45 11 ай бұрын

The goat is worth every penny

@adamrowland830 11 ай бұрын

What do you mean Simon 😕 has football gone mad ...kinhell 😂😂😂😂

@kingcecil7126 11 ай бұрын

there is no such thing as overpaid if the organization things you are going to make them more money. these old men just need to get with it or shut up.

@P.Rick316 11 ай бұрын

Just want until the saudi's try and get into the UCL. The money is way out of control. The game has gone mad/crazy. Im losing interest.

@simonwilcox4437 11 ай бұрын

GONE mad now???!!! The game went mad as soon as the businessmen started outnumbering the football lovers in the boardrooms. TV-rights and the disgusting amount of money exchanged for them have ripped the soul out of our game and that happened a loooong time ago. Wait until the Saudis start to tempt footballers in their prime to their obscene league. European "top" leagues will look like the Conference.

@rosuzzieagnes124 11 ай бұрын

Don’t have a problem what he did in Europe was as magical

@eoincassin4265 11 ай бұрын

Jim acting like this isn't a copy and paste of the Beckham deal!

@plmc24071991 11 ай бұрын

Sorry but Tom Cruise doesn't get out of bed for $50 million. The movies are his vehicles, he executive produces. His salary for starring in them is dwarfed by the amount he receives on the back end 😂

@sheeple813 11 ай бұрын

It won't come down. Richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer. Class war declared on us all.

@andreafraquelli2870 11 ай бұрын

Messi is a bargain and gives to the game more than he takes. The problem in football is the 100s of average footballers and their agents that are millionaires for contributing very little...

@user-xu4xj2cd2j 11 ай бұрын

Wouldn't say he's a bargain have you seen the money he will make, he's the best footballer ever but that money won't be recouped

@ronnyjohnson739 11 ай бұрын

Yet ronaldo is on 4 mil a week.... they have both given us so much joy, if clubs can afford it then who cares, they have earnt it through sacrifice and dedication

@douglasprobert251 11 ай бұрын

Cant get a ticket for City. Empty seats are corporate.

@James-bc1jk 11 ай бұрын

While the working person cant eat lol world has lost the plot

@rod2274 11 ай бұрын

Ye but they bring in billions don’t watch football if that’s how you feel where should the money go if not to the ballers the working man is a fool

@GIBBO4182 11 ай бұрын

Football went mad a long time ago in regards to players wages! But when there’s so much money in the game, why shouldn’t they be the ones who get it? Better than agents, or greedy owners taking money out of the game!

@petegonad 11 ай бұрын

Yeah but most clubs run at a loss. So that makes it insane! The excess ought to be put back into the game at lower levels, or a percentage of it at least. The whole tree dies without the roots.

@GIBBO4182 11 ай бұрын

@@petegonadhow can they run at a loss and comply with ffp and still exist?

@petegonad 11 ай бұрын

Outside the premier league they run at a loss, but the wages are driven up by the wages at the top

@b3564 11 ай бұрын

At least he never went to the Saudi league! Will attract more international audience, easily!

@Starf679 11 ай бұрын

Inflation wont fall 😂😂😂..

@alansmith3733 11 ай бұрын

Surely this model only works if messi goes there in his peak. The rest of the world now that the mks is retitileague so it diesnt help get more viwers. They need to do deal like that for Mbappe and haaland for people to start watching it iver european leagues

@swigword 11 ай бұрын

Lol why Simon do man city like that ahahhaha

@wetguavass 11 ай бұрын

USA and America are not the same thing.

@gooner4life518 11 ай бұрын

Messi will bring people in that stadium he will sell shirts he will increase the profile of that team so it's also a good deal for that franchise

@abdulazizalzahrani5040 11 ай бұрын

I’m sick of Western double standards. If the US does it it’s ok but if Saudi Arabia does it. It’s bad. So many ppl are way fed up with your double standards.

@harry-qy2fz 11 ай бұрын

Its ok if MLS do it but if Saudi does it.. its blaa... blaaa.. blaa.. not every footballer is Messi who can demand such a contract.. but if a Saudi offers huge money its wrong... 😢