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Most of the world is football mad however the world pays a high price for a goal considering the  amount of prize money that a victorious Gladiator could expect, which varied depending on the time he lived.

In the Year 177 AD, Gladiators could get between 12 and 60 Sesterces if they were slaves and 15 to 75 sesterces if they were auctoratii. Free Veteran Gladiators without an owner, could negotiate their pay.

Since they were Veterans with a huge reputation and a corresponding fan base they would make much more than 12-75 sesterces per fight.

The highest-paid gladiators might make up to 5000 sesterces around £50 “of our present money”.

Well here is the answer.

Top 10 highest-paid soccer players in the world (September, 2022)

1. Kylian Mbappe = $125 million total ($105 million salary + $20 million endorsements)

2. Cristiano Ronaldo = $113 million ($53 million salary + $60 million endorsements)

3. Lionel Messi = $110 million ($62 million salary + $48 million endorsements)

4. Neymar = $91 million ($56 million salary + $35 million endorsements)

5. Mohamed Salah = $39.5 million ($24.5 million salary + $15 million endorsements)

6. Eden Hazard = $31.3 million ($28.6 million salary + $2.5 million endorsements)

7. Andres Iniesta = $30 million ($23 million salary + $7 million endorsements)

8. Raheem Sterling = $29.4 million ($21.4 million salary + $8 million endorsements)

9. Kevin de Bruyne = $29 million ($25.5 million salary + $3.5 million endorsements)

10. Antoine Griezmann = $27.5 million ($22 million salary + $5.5 million endorsements)

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Ranking	Club	Average Attendance	Average Matchday Income per game (£)
1	Manchester United	74,498	3.96 million
2	Arsenal	59,898	3.1 million
3	Liverpool	52,983	3.01 million
4	Tottenham Hotspur	54,216	2.92 million
5	Chelsea	40,437	2.08 million
6	Manchester City	54,143	2.08 million
7	West Ham United	58,336	1.23 million
8	Newcastle United	51,121	1.9 million
9	Southampton	30,435	0.77 million
10	Brighton	30,425	0.77 million
11	Everton	39,043	0.59 million
12	Leicester City	31,814	0.59 million
13	Crystal Palace	25,455	0.5 million
14	Fulham	24,371	0.47 million
15	Wolverhampton	31,030	0.46 million
16	Watford	20,016	0.44 million
17	Cardiff City	31,408	0.37 million
18	Burnley	20,534	0.36 million
19	Huddersfield Town	23,340	0.25 million
20	Bournemouth	10,532	0.21 million

When it comes to matchday income, gate receipts is by far the most significant resource. However, its importance varies between one club and another based on several factors, including the capacity of the stadium and the general status of the club.

Matchday income is the total revenue generated by a club when hosting a match on home turf. In the Premier League, the home side exclusively receives the money generated from gate receipts. Every season, each club hosts 19 league fixtures, and is entitled to earn all the cash generated from its home games.

Naturally, box office income is the largest percentage of the matchday revenue, but it also includes food and beverage sales, as well as merchandise sales. For instance, Tottenham Hotspur is believed to generate around £800,000 per game from food sales. 

On the other hand, TV money made up almost 60% of the clubs’ incomes, while commercial revenues averaged around 27% of the total income.

The Premier League clubs paid out an astonishing grand total of over £261m on striker salaries last season, this divided by how long the strikers spent playing shows just how much they pay per minute.

Arsenal pay their strikers the highest amount of £3,721.37 per minute,

The average Blues fan (who regularly attended matches at the Stamford Bridge) spent £1,648 during that campaign.

The up and coming World cup tournament in Qatar has also incurred a human cost as well as a financial one. The total outlay paid out by Qatar is staggering, around $ 7 billion.

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I want you now to close your eyes and picture the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,

Now what comes to mind?

Membership has its privileges. And before you can buy a ticket for 19 grand, you must be a member of the Economic Forum which costs a mere 52,000. And remember, that’s only if you’re invited.

For most it’s billionaires, CEOs, and world leaders hobnobbing in the Alps, but not for me.

It’s the $43 hot dog or Caesar salad, just short of $ 60 bucks.

Don’t get me wrong I love sport.

But how did we get here?”

The answer lies in decades of peddling the myth that wealth and success flow from personal endeavour and skill, and that poverty and failure are due to personal shortcomings.

The reality that most wealth and success stems from a mix of good fortune and the appropriation of other people’s resources and labour over centuries. 

Yes, a handful of individuals with exceptional talents can make a quantum leap from poverty to fortune, but most are constrained by the realities of an economic system that has, for decades, seen a reduction in the share of  wealth going to those reliant on their own labour for income. 

I’d be interested to see what responses would be to questions such as this (considering that poverty is the main cause of world problems nowadays)

It’s 2020 now. Look what’s happened because of humanity! Australia is on fire! The endangered list is now 41,416! You know how big that number is, that’s a really big number! People think climate change doesn’t exist, yeah, people only believe things when they cause problems. Maybe people will believe climate change exists if every country is on fire.

People make fun of this topic but don’t! It is a serious problem and if we don’t solve it we all will die because of our actions.

Is there such a thing as Global Cooling? Probably not, but I like the sound of it.

There are too many people who don’t and can’t have enough, and it’s detrimental to continue to add to the population so rapidly. Of course, if those who selfishly own so much for themselves or to save so future generations of their family will also be wealthy would just share with those who are here and in need..

 

At the moment we have the Woman’s world cup , Harry Kane – Spurs – just sold to Bayern München – 86 million.

So why pressurise FIFA the world governing body to let every goal in the coming World Cup in Qatar to contribute to reliving poverty.  Lets say 50,000 per goal.  

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