Millionaire Footbalers Who Lose Everything

[Mark TKO]

BBC Sport - Riches to Rags: Millionaire footballers who lose everything

Anyone any sympathy ? I haven't - although i do have to say in this particular instance he did try and build a future. But if you see the names on that list I say fuck 'em.

The most of modern day footballers are nothing more than mercenaries. I love the game but can't wait for it to implode in a way when some of the bigger clubs can't sustain the financial side

[Howlin Mad Missy]

BBC Sport - Riches to Rags: Millionaire footballers who lose everything

Anyone any sympathy ? I haven't - although i do have to say in this particular instance he did try and build a future. But if you see the names on that list I say fuck 'em.

The most of modern day footballers are nothing more than mercenaries. I love the game but can't wait for it to implode in a way when some of the bigger clubs can't sustain the financial side

and they say women love to shop! I'd be hard pressed to keep spending that much.

[Saddo]

None... still pisses me off that they take Corrie off for that shit sometimes

[Master]

They are normal people who deserve our sympathy. They do suffer like us all.

[Mark TKO]

They are normal people who deserve our sympathy. They do suffer like us all.

you don't do much to convince people you aren't a complete and utter prick do you.......

[Master]

They are normal people who deserve our sympathy. They do suffer like us all.

you don't do much to convince people you aren't a complete and utter prick do you.......

You are heartless. Just because they have money, fame, women, fast cars, big houses they are still normal people.

[Scrap]

Shame that they finish work, the same time the Betting shops open.

[Beanz]

Millionaire footballers are also killing football league clubs. Clubs that have often been the social and emotional heartbeat of towns and cities across the country. Fuck em and their plastic so called fans.

[Mark TKO]

They are normal people who deserve our sympathy. They do suffer like us all.

you don't do much to convince people you aren't a complete and utter prick do you.......

You are heartless. Just because they have money, fame, women, fast cars, big houses they are still normal people.

bellend

[Gandalf]

Millionaire footballers are also killing football league clubs. Clubs that have often been the social and emotional heartbeat of towns and cities across the country. Fuck em and their plastic so called fans.

Agreed. The hyper inflation of the earnings of the modern top player is disgusting and if you cannot save enough money for retirement then you deserve what you get. I have no sympathy or tolerance for such stupid people.

Evander Holyfield in boxing is another.

[chinchekked]

This is a problem across all sports apparently. You get a young man and give him a crapload of money and some mistaks are gonna be made. I read that 70% of the people who pass through the NFL( American Football) are bankrupt within 2 or 4 (cant remember which one) years of retiring.

[Dia bando]

This is a problem across all sports apparently. You get a young man and give him a crapload of money and some mistaks are gonna be made. I read that 70% of the people who pass through the NFL( American Football) are bankrupt within 2 or 4 (cant remember which one) years of retiring.

Total agreement we must remember, theses people earning very large amounts of money in general
are from working class back grounds. Money on tap through there carers, wealth fame and a clam
some can handle it others simple can't.
Remember it's THERE life, the only harm they are doing is too themselves is it not,! you may talk
level headed, but what happens when you got millions burning a hole in your hand, and your
in your 20's. I no spend, spend that's what , your on the top of the mountain only way is down.!

[Gandalf]

This is a problem across all sports apparently. You get a young man and give him a crapload of money and some mistaks are gonna be made. I read that 70% of the people who pass through the NFL( American Football) are bankrupt within 2 or 4 (cant remember which one) years of retiring.

It is stupidity though as all it takes is one serious injury to end that career and most will have to retire in their mid thirties. It doesn't take a genius to know that putting money away for a rainy day is a good idea and more so if you know the rain is pretty much around the corner.

[Memphis]

Its not a surprise, regardless of the amount of money, people (not Miles) will always stretch their means to the limit and in some cases beyond.

Sympathy? Nah, just the same as I wouldnt have any for a 20k a year person racking up a ton of dept trying to keep up with the Jonses.

Theres clearly more to Hendries story than meets the eye. You dont amass a 10 million quid property portfolio and then have to watch it go down the swanny without having some serious further debt to service.

[Gandalf]

Yes, it is definitely a problem that hits those at the top and bottom, but living paycheck to paycheck seems to be an almost endemic way to live in modern consumer societies. There seems to be the thinking in the mind of ordinary folk that there will always be a safety net and they have that attitude of 'It's mine and I want it NOW!' and that really should be discouraged early on in life. Children are spoiled and grow up thinking it normal to be so, they really have no idea what conditions are like for the majority of people on this globe. There really should be classes in school on financial management as debt is almost a natural state of affairs with students loans and 'free' credit etc and then the life of mortgages, credit cards and other fluff designed to keep a man enslaved. Nobody needs that expensive car, 3 children (was one really never enough or even two?), a mortgage with crippling interest rates, 2 holidays a year etc etc. There seems to be almost no self restraint and consideration that maybe you are responsible for your own future and that maybe that tiny government pension isn't going to subsidise your end days in any degree of comfort. That's my attitude towards middle earners who cannot wind themselves in, so obviously the super rich get none of my sympathy.

Actions have consequences and your life is your responsibility. A tough situation should be a lesson learned and we have all been there. There is no reason why a football player cannot learn from his mistakes and join the real world. That's why I respect someone like Joe Calzaghe (a boxer strangely enough) who clearly managed his money fairly carefully. You don't need to live like a monk, but just have a little foresight.

For people way below average incomes it is probably very hard to get by, but for others doing moderately well, they live on the edge largely because they make choices that really don't have to be made. Holyfield with the million room mansion or the middle income family with several children or the banker who fluffs it all on the dogs. Well, you made those choices and have to live with it.