Sport is Big Business - Sonny Bill Williams vs Ronaldo
June 6th 2008 02:05
The Sonny Bill Williams circus keeps rolling on, it is a shame, because Sonny is a good kid, but seems to be getting influenced by the wrong crowd. So we will continue to read about SBW’s much publicized contract – we are told approx worth $400,000 a season… It is clear SBW is unhappy, but he is a shadow of his former self at the moment. On the field he is destructive as ever, but something has changed in him and he just appears to be lost and confused at the moment.
What something needs to get across to him is that there is no big pot of gold he is missing out on. Even if the NRL raised the salary cap, there is no way clubs could pay him what his cohorts are telling him he is worth - it would send the clubs broke and out of business. He also must remember that he has missed more games than he has played since making his debut for the Bulldogs. The Dogs have been loyal and perhaps to their detriment - no doubting SBW's talent, but to sign a player on a 5-year deal when they have had a history of injuries is a risk. This should have been a dream contract - a player who has spent months on end on the sidelines gets a contract for 5 years! Assuring him his future - what other journeymen in the game would have given to be in such a position... Players like Adam Peek who toil year in and year out on 1 year deals - knowing that any injury could end their career in an instant.
To put this into perspective, Manchester United’s pin-up boy, Ronaldo reportedly wants to make a ‘dream’ move to Spanish giants Real Madrid, for wait for it… $300,000 a week… No this is not a typo, he is in contract negotiations worth 300,000 a WEEK!! What do you do with all that money? It is important to note that this is what the club would pay him a week – you also add to this his numerous endorsement and sponsorship deals and you are talking MEGA BUCKS!!
Keep in mind, Cristiano is only 23…
How is anybody worth that much money? I find it hard to fathom. Sport is big business, BIG BUSINESS - long gone has the romantic view of 'amateurism'. TV Rights, clothing labels, cars and sporting drinks all push the sporting economy by the Millions.
The toughest decision Ronaldo has to make is whether to shoot or pass…
When you consider our Prime Minister receives roughly 350,000 a year to run a country and has to deliberate on everything from policy to budgets to economy to law, it makes a mockery... He is responsible for an entire country - 20 million people... and Ronaldo will earn the same amount of money in a week for kicking a ball around a paddock.
I’m not blaming the athletes at all, if this is what business wants to pay them, then that is what the market is worth…
Just find it really interesting... I can only hope to see that much money if I win Lottery, but it looks like someone beat me to that the other day, a mystery punter from Victoria are the early reports who must be blind drunk and celebrating after collecting a cool $60 million dollars...
Ah well... Next time...
Sonny Bill Williams
What something needs to get across to him is that there is no big pot of gold he is missing out on. Even if the NRL raised the salary cap, there is no way clubs could pay him what his cohorts are telling him he is worth - it would send the clubs broke and out of business. He also must remember that he has missed more games than he has played since making his debut for the Bulldogs. The Dogs have been loyal and perhaps to their detriment - no doubting SBW's talent, but to sign a player on a 5-year deal when they have had a history of injuries is a risk. This should have been a dream contract - a player who has spent months on end on the sidelines gets a contract for 5 years! Assuring him his future - what other journeymen in the game would have given to be in such a position... Players like Adam Peek who toil year in and year out on 1 year deals - knowing that any injury could end their career in an instant.
Ronaldo
To put this into perspective, Manchester United’s pin-up boy, Ronaldo reportedly wants to make a ‘dream’ move to Spanish giants Real Madrid, for wait for it… $300,000 a week… No this is not a typo, he is in contract negotiations worth 300,000 a WEEK!! What do you do with all that money? It is important to note that this is what the club would pay him a week – you also add to this his numerous endorsement and sponsorship deals and you are talking MEGA BUCKS!!
Keep in mind, Cristiano is only 23…
How is anybody worth that much money? I find it hard to fathom. Sport is big business, BIG BUSINESS - long gone has the romantic view of 'amateurism'. TV Rights, clothing labels, cars and sporting drinks all push the sporting economy by the Millions.
The toughest decision Ronaldo has to make is whether to shoot or pass…
When you consider our Prime Minister receives roughly 350,000 a year to run a country and has to deliberate on everything from policy to budgets to economy to law, it makes a mockery... He is responsible for an entire country - 20 million people... and Ronaldo will earn the same amount of money in a week for kicking a ball around a paddock.
I’m not blaming the athletes at all, if this is what business wants to pay them, then that is what the market is worth…
Just find it really interesting... I can only hope to see that much money if I win Lottery, but it looks like someone beat me to that the other day, a mystery punter from Victoria are the early reports who must be blind drunk and celebrating after collecting a cool $60 million dollars...
Ah well... Next time...
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