Being a footballer is one of the few jobs that you can sit on the bench, yet be earning millions monthly.
For this to happen, you simply have to work hard, earn a big-money contract, then fall down the pecking order or get injured.
I’m not sure if Gareth Bale knows about this, but his Tottenham stint sounds similar.
Having inherited a percentage of his Real Madrid contract, Spurs are now spending a lot of money to keep him on their books, but the attacker is hardly producing anything tangible.
With just a handful of appearances to his name and a couple of goals, Sun Sports has now broken down the financial implication of having Bale at Spurs.
The report says Tottenham is paying half of his £650,000 per week wage, which amounts to £325,000 per week.
What they got in return so far is £1.3m per goal for the four times he has found the back of the net.
The few chances he has created have cost the club £650,000 each. He is also costing them £28,000 for each pass he makes, and £9,000 per minute after playing just 785 minutes.
His poor performance against Brighton that saw him get overlooked for the Chelsea match means that he might hardly start for the North Londoners again this season.
I thought he’d at least be the same or slightly better than he is for Wales, where he’s still effective if hardly scintillating.
His game is no longer suited to the Premier League and domestic cups that’s for sure in the evidence so far. He’s more suited to international football and low intensity europa cup games it seems.
Judged by even my modest expectations he’s been a flop. Sad to watch.
I did a back of an envelope calculation that the club would need to sell over 3,750 elite first team jerseys each week at a hundred pounds each to pay his wages.
It’s alright when it’s Tottenhams. Then ENIC, Levy and Lewis pocket all the profit from the real estate. License to print money this footy lark.
What a shocker! Did anyone expect Bale to turn up and perform Maicon roasting levels of a decade ago?? Really?? Wonder how many shirts have been sold? Levy the business genius strikes again.
Maybe Levy thought Covid would be short lived and with fans back Bale could sell shirts etc and generate money from corporate interests and generate excitement and good will.
But it must surely raise the spirits of – well every single player at the club – to see the useless specimen stealing north of £200k pw
It’s splitting hairs as he is line for the “Chocolate Tea Pot” award but I read at the time the Spurs input was less than 50%
Throwing that away on a player the manager clearly didn’t want is criminal overreach by the football genius that is Levy. Again.
Now that is how you waste money. Guess there will be no money available come the summer window.
Throwing money away. It’s not sustainable.