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Well I find this totally disgusting and sickening, £108 million for a footballer and then he will get half a million a week in wages >, he will have several big houses and fancy cars no doubt, where is the sense in this, the country is entering a recession that by all accounts could last a couple of years, people are losing their jobs left , right and centre and struggling to pay their mortgages and utility bills, we have people starving around the world, and also world poverty.

Yet some rich oil merchant dishes out money like toilet paper, something has to be done because this will kill the goose that laid the golden egg, fans will stop paying for season tickets because all they can see is these twats getting treated like gods, I used to be a big Nottingham Forest fan and witnessed them at their best when they won the European cup twice, the game was so different then, I haven't been to a match for some time now, it's around £25 - 30 to see a Forest match now, I'd rather go see Aussie Floyd and get 3 hours of REAL entertainment.

Surgeons save lives everyday, paramedics do the same thing but they don't get extreme wages, and a pilot saves 155 people but he don't get bugger all for that, what does a footballer do?? kick a bag of wind around for 90 minutes for a couple of times a week, and a bit of training, I don't care how good he is, NO FOOTBALLER IS WORTH £108 MILLION.

My sentiments pretty well summed up there Lea. That's why I can't afford to go to any professional sports game...price wise, it's just way out of reach. 

Football has been out of control in many ways (and not just money) for years now.  It's a complete waste of time.

It's totally obscene the amount of money these people demand and get. That's why I stopped following football as avidly as I used too. It's not a sport any more it's a business !

It is crazy money - ridiculous.
But...all big sports are big business these days. The only time sport comes into it is the 90mins between the refs whistles...same with F1, the rest of the time away from the game or race, it's commerce.
Kimi Raikkonen was last year the highest paid driver in motor racing history - £25 million pounds per year, yet he was blown away by his much cheaper team mate.

Top Football players as with top F1 racing drivers should in my view be paid a basic salary of say £100K per year, with bonuses attached if the team wins, the driver wins or that player scores a goal...some form of sliding scale bonus set-up. Otherwise like Raikkonen they can walk away with a hefty bank balance for under achieving or missing too many goals.

Further to this, football should get into the modern world, it is all far too vague. So much money is at stake. The technology exists to put a sensor in the centre of the ball so questionable goals ( was it over the line?) are no more. Secondly, all this vague extra time awarded by the ref...why not just stop the clock every time the ball is out of play...like ice hockey? 90mins is then 90mins...without 3-4 or more minutes added on. There's too much money tied up and too much at stake for vague decisions.

FIFA & the FA have been against the use of technology claiming that they want the game to remain the same across all leagues - including the Sunday morning pub teams. This argument is fine until you realise that some decisions are wrong.

A performance related wage scheme is an option (some teams may already do that).
I'd like to see the weekly wages capped at £20,000 per week, with maybe an additional £10,000 for each goal scored (that would be paid to everyone in the team to avoid punch ups over who takes the penalties).  Maybe an additional £10 for keeping a clean sheet.

So for a 1-0 win, each team member would pick up a maximum of £40,000.