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Just now, BigBuff423 said:

 

No, they pay their soccer players much, much more to the tune of $70 and $90 million per year....

 

Messi aside (and there are lots of reasons why he is an excpetion) there are no soccer players earing that much. The top paid player in the Premier League (richest league in the world) is Kevin De Bruyne on about £20m a year - which is what? $28m? 

 

It is also worth saying though that those soccer stars play upwards of 50 games per year for that money. When you break it down per game NFL players are extremely well paid. Not saying that is right or wrong, and the top of the pyramid in the NFL is smaller (ie. number of soccer players who earn over $20m per year will be much higher than the number of NFL players that do) but the top NFL stars are paid more than all but 1 or 2 soccer stars. 

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Cowherd had Palmer on his show early after Josh was drafted and was at least willing to accept the notion he could be special.  He’s been relatively fair to Josh thus far, and this was a very nice “tip of the cap” to Josh and the Bills for doing things the right way.

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15 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Messi aside (and there are lots of reasons why he is an excpetion) there are no soccer players earing that much. The top paid player in the Premier League (richest league in the world) is Kevin De Bruyne on about £20m a year - which is what? $28m? 

 

It is also worth saying though that those soccer stars play upwards of 50 games per year for that money. When you break it down per game NFL players are extremely well paid. Not saying that is right or wrong, and the top of the pyramid in the NFL is smaller (ie. number of soccer players who earn over $20m per year will be much higher than the number of NFL players that do) but the top NFL stars are paid more than all but 1 or 2 soccer stars. 

 

Three players last year had higher salaries than the average salary in Allen's new contract -- Messi $93M, Ronaldo $78M, and Neymar $71M (not including endorsements). Only two this year since Messi took the pay cut in the move to PSG.  Shocking the separation between the very very top players and everybody else.  The next highest is Mbappe at under $30M.

 

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2 hours ago, wjag said:

I’ve been watching Colin slowly turn from critic to fan. He’s all in on JA17 and McBeane.  Joy is still only grudgingly going along. She acknowledges he’s good and her assessment was wrong but inevitably brings up year 1 and says something akin to disaster. 

She’s similar to a bunch of other hacks that won’t let go of his first year and you are giving her too much credit. She consistently references his first 2 years being bad. 
 

When somebody hints that Allen was bad in his 2nd season it immediately hints to me, their mind was already made up, that they were actually too lazy to ever go look at his numbers(which were very solid as a whole) and the only game they watched was the playoff debacle. It’s a super lazy way to try and act like you weren’t completely off base about him. 

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7 minutes ago, Billy Claude said:

 

Three players last year had higher salaries than the average salary in Allen's new contract -- Messi $93M, Ronaldo $78M, and Neymar $71M (not including endorsements). Only two this year since Messi took the pay cut in the move to PSG.  Shocking the separation between the very very top players and everybody else.  The next highest is Mbappe at under $30M.

 

 

That Ronaldo number isn't correct. The Juventus salaries were all published by Gazetta Dello Sport last year and Ronaldo was their top earner on €31m per year with a huge gap to Matias De Ligt on €8m as the second highest earner. 

 

Not sure what the $78m number is - might be his total income including endorsements etc but it is not his salary. His salary is €31m per year.

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46 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Messi aside (and there are lots of reasons why he is an excpetion) there are no soccer players earing that much. The top paid player in the Premier League (richest league in the world) is Kevin De Bruyne on about £20m a year - which is what? $28m? 

 

It is also worth saying though that those soccer stars play upwards of 50 games per year for that money. When you break it down per game NFL players are extremely well paid. Not saying that is right or wrong, and the top of the pyramid in the NFL is smaller (ie. number of soccer players who earn over $20m per year will be much higher than the number of NFL players that do) but the top NFL stars are paid more than all but 1 or 2 soccer stars. 

 

Messi, Rinaldo, and Neymar are three that earn over $70 per year and I'm good with it, doesn't really matter to me...and as you said, there about another six or seven that make more than $20 million per year. 

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Just now, BigBuff423 said:

 

Messi, Rinaldo, and Neymar are three that earn over $70 per year and I'm good with it, doesn't really matter to me...and as you said, there about another six or seven that make more than $20 million per year. 

 

See above. Ronaldo does not earn that in salary. Maybe with endorsements... but his salary is €31m. 

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2 hours ago, RobbRiddick said:

Well he did genuinely laugh and sneer at Allen getting in the top 100 players after his second season. By all means disagree but he was just laughing like it was a joke, then said he wouldn't put him in the top 200, which was insane and showed he never bothered to watch the games. I at least expect these experts who get paid to talk about football to watch some of the games.

Cowherd is just a front runner. He realizes that league and media perception shifted to recognizing Allen’s place among the best. This guy hasn’t had an original thought his entire career. This new take allows him to say he’s right, and cover the market for rabid Bills fans. He used to sing the Pats and NY team praises because he wanted the large market. That’s back when he said the Midwest and its people are worthless, and only big market teams matter. Cowturd is really good at taking the popular position. 

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2 hours ago, RobbRiddick said:

Well he did genuinely laugh and sneer at Allen getting in the top 100 players after his second season. By all means disagree but he was just laughing like it was a joke, then said he wouldn't put him in the top 200, which was insane and showed he never bothered to watch the games. I at least expect these experts who get paid to talk about football to watch some of the games.

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39 minutes ago, Stank_Nasty said:

She’s similar to a bunch of other hacks that won’t let go of his first year and you are giving her too much credit. She consistently references his first 2 years being bad. 
 

When somebody hints that Allen was bad in his 2nd season it immediately hints to me, their mind was already made up, that they were actually too lazy to ever go look at his numbers(which were very solid as a whole) and the only game they watched was the playoff debacle. It’s a super lazy way to try and act like you weren’t completely off base about him. 

 

Joy Taylor is a Dolphins homer (understandably) and doesn't really have the football chops.  She's more suited to a news desk than analysis but does what she does well.

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31 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

That Ronaldo number isn't correct. The Juventus salaries were all published by Gazetta Dello Sport last year and Ronaldo was their top earner on €31m per year with a huge gap to Matias De Ligt on €8m as the second highest earner. 

 

Not sure what the $78m number is - might be his total income including endorsements etc but it is not his salary. His salary is €31m per year.

 

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sport/football/highest-paid-football-players-2021/

 

Not sure if this is a reliable website but it agrees with Forbes and a bunch of others -- the claim is Ronaldo got 51M pounds from Juventus and 34M pounds from endorsements -- unless somehow the Juventus contract is not all for "playing".   Of course, you know more about this than me.   I found the gap interesting and also that Paris St. Germain will have 3 of the 4 top paid players in the world next year.

 

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1 minute ago, Billy Claude said:

 

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sport/football/highest-paid-football-players-2021/

 

Not sure if this is a reliable website but it agrees with Forbes and a bunch of others -- the claim is Ronaldo got 51M pounds from Juventus and 34M pounds from endorsements -- unless somehow the Juventus contract is not all for "playing".   Of course, you know more about this than me.   I found the gap interesting and also that Paris St. Germain will have 3 of the 4 top paid players in the world next year.

 

 

I would definitely say less reliable than the Gazetta article that published the whole list of Juve salaries. Gazetta is the number 1 Italian sports newspaper. They say his salary for playing soccer last year was €31m. I think you can pretty much take that to the bank. I am sure he more than doubles that with endorsements and his clothing brands etc.  

 

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