The World of Soccer Goes Money Mad

The Premiership in England is without doubt the best league in the world and is one that most soccer fans would choose to watch. There is an array of talent on show every week and the pace and standard of play is a joy to watch. The money floating around the game though is just plain silly. When clubs spend more than £30 million on one player, it makes you wonder whether it is just a game after all.

Obscene

The money clubs pay for players and the money players receive for playing the game is obscene when you consider what people in the real world are receiving for doing work that is essential to society. While millions of people struggle to make ends meet and millions are living in poverty, it seems gross that people are earning a fortune every week for playing a game. This of course applies to more than soccer. It is a trend we see the world over as sports, film and music stars are paid enormous sums of money for things that we can actually live without.

Money Talks

The current situation in soccer now is that success generally revolves around money. It no longer about how young players are nurtured through the club system or how a manager can work to get the best out of players who play for the jersey. The key factor is: Who has the most money? Whoever has the money will basically buy the team they want. Now that Manchester City are the richest club, we hear about their short-term plans to buy all the best players in the world including Christiano Ronaldo, who currently plays for Manchester United.

Some of these money-crunching clubs are going to find to their cost that they have spent millions on players who will not perform and who will not guarantee success. Tottenham Hotspur spent big and currently sit bottom of the league. Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and the latest rich club Manchester City will all spend a fortune on players but only one of them can win the Premiership. Money can buy players but it won’t necessarily buy success.