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What do footballers spend their cash on?
Posted by Martin on 6 April 2009 - 6:31pm.
You've bought the house with the Olympic sized indoor pool, the Bentley, the jewelry, the 95 inch Fujitsu and the Willie Nelson back catalogue. There's a private jet on standby just in case you fancy a little Monday morning shopping in Milan. And yet you're still only three months into the new contract. Each week, another 150,000 pounds drops into your bank account. What more is there left to buy?
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WAGs
Expensive habit.
Hula hoops?
Cheese?
A subscription to The Word?
I agree.
An extravagant taste in Hula Hoops could get expensive. Especially if the holes are filled with only the freshest top grade caviar harvested from the Danube Delta and specially flown in on Andrei Shevchenko's Learjet. Perhaps that's Rooney's problem.
Speaking of expensive food
I think it was S.J.Perelman who wrote about a salad "made of shredded five dollar bills"...
S.J.Perelman - comic genius - try reading this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Most-S-J-Perelman-S-J-Perelman/dp/0413455009/ref...
Drug testing
means that avenue of money wasting is out the window. Christiano Ronaldo seems to have quite expensive driving habits....
And I think you'll find it's "you bought the Bentley, the Roller, the Ferrari, the other Ferrari, the third Ferrari, the Range Rover and the Aston Martin...."
Yes, ...
... and I bet a ten car garage doesn't come cheap either. Particularly if its made from bricks reclaimed from the lost city of Atlantis.
MC Hammer
As mentioned on the podcast a while back, MC Hammer quite literally wrote the book on how to waste a fortune. It takes a few dozen of your closest childhood friends on the payroll, a couple of helicopters and so on.
Hammer is a lightweight...
compared to the wongahoover that is Michael Jackson.
A good defence lawyer
and the jury after yet another contretempts outside 'Shags' lap-dancing club at 4am most nights
The little sophisticates that they are.
Through circumstances quite
Through circumstances quite unusual, I got to knowbecame friends with a fairly notable premier league (and later SPL) player quite well, and stayed at his place once. I came to the conclusion that, unless you live in London, you can't actually spend that much of a footballer's wages on property. The big status symbol for all footballers is therefore the car - a 4x4 for trips to the ground, an Audi hatchback for the missus and a full-on fanny magnet (as Paul Calf would term it) for when you're let off the leash.
Who was it?
Tell Us. Tell Us. Tell Us!
Was it John Hartson?
It couldn't have been him...
he'd only fit in a 4x4.
Sorry...
if you want a comment, you'll have to go through Max.
But... another thing which struck me was that he lived on an upmarket estate (this was in Glasgow) where - it seemed to me - every other footballer in the city also had their home. It was all slightly Stella Street.
Ditto in the North East
The managers and ex-players all live in Yarm, the current players on the Wynard Estate (posher than it sounds).
And they can often be found...
... in the various watering holes on the towns high street (as can Janick Gers, on occasions).
Never imagined that the town where I went to school would turn into a haven for the North East's football elite (or those who play for Middlesbrough...).
CDs?
Why not? I would.
Most of Oldham
...in the case of Robbie Fowler, goalscoring legend (except for Man city) and king of the reasonably priced terrace.
I don't know
But if they want to put something back into the game that has made them so wealthy, there's a football club on the south coast in urgent need of some cash.
Nothing....
In my experience they make Yorkshiremen (no offence Hep!) look like the beacon of generosity!
The Good Old Days
In the 70s my short walk to school took me past Manchester City goalkeeper Keith McCrae's house. He lived in an ordinary house on an ordinary estate in an ordinary suburb of south Manchester. He parked his ageing MG/GB on his very short driveway. He could often be seen washing the car and always seemed available for a chat. He was a member of the community. Footballers were pretty well paid back then, I think. I'm guessing 3-4 times the average wage, or more for the stars. But none of the obscene wealth we see today.