Comments on: 2007 Galaxy Salaries Revealed

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Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:10:46 +0000

[...] was researching something on salaries for a later post and pulled up this old post from less than ten months ago. [...]

By: simon

simon — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:57:20 +0000

I think that this is absolutly outragious. The lowest salary is 12,900, and the biggest is beckham with 6.5 mill. A person can hardely live off 12,900, but you can feed thousands of people for beckhams pay. wtf is this

By: Joost

Joost — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:26:51 +0000

@Laurie: Exactly! Why are these guys taking this? Pay Beckham, 6.3mil and use the 200 grand to get those guys some decent salaries. (CNN is saying Beckham stands to make up to $250 million if you count endorsements, criminal if you see the other salaries.)

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sat, 05 May 2007 00:29:49 +0000

Lane, I don’t necessarily disagree with you until we hit the bottom end of the pay scale. For the amount of time these guys have put into developing their skills just to get to this point, it seems to me that something like $35,000 should be the absolute minimum for a first-year player. Incentive to improve, sure, but I don’t think they should have to take second and third jobs just to survive!

By: Lane

Lane — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:06:38 +0000

Ah, these guys are living their dream. And it’s not like they put in a 40-hour work week. What, they show up at, like, 9:00, 9:30, get done by about 1:30 or so? Plus they get to travel all over the country.

And as Dan Loney said in his blog – if they don’t think they’re getting paid enough, then they have the option to get better so they can demand better pay.

As I said, they’re living their dream – to play professional soccer. With the promise of some day making it big and making big bucks. I’d do it in a heart beat if I had the talent.

By: Inara

Inara — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:38:33 +0000

Oh man, I never thought I’d see the day when I earned more than a footballer.

Ouch, some of the salaries are below the national poverty line! I hope Ty Harden doesn’t have kids, or he might have to go on welfare.

And here I thought that the French league was cheap…

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:06:50 +0000

Whoa, David, you’re not kidding! Doesn’t look like your team has had any problems making the salary cap!

At least with Guevara gone that should free up some bucks, eh?

By: David

David — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:00:52 +0000

It would seem that you guys actually pay your players….that is not really the same thing for chivas.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:28:55 +0000

They’d probably settle for things like $4.99 laundry detergent. Or a six-pack of generic beer.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:24:11 +0000

Hopefully some of those guys have wives who can help them out with things like buying $28,000 watches.