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but charitable donations, appearances and endorsements do wonders for careers and upward mobility.
Agreed. You only have to look at things like remembrance day, wear a daffodil in March, breast cancer awareness etc etc.
Celebs jump all over these and are never seen without the respective badge/ribbon. Would be career suicide if they said “I’m not wearing that because…..”
Respect to anyone that gives to charity or anyone worse off but usually large donations are made by people that have it to spare and are rarely truly altruistic acts. Gerrard giving away six figure sums is a bit like me donating a tenner to Comic Relief. That’s not having a pop at Gerrard per se, that’s just the way it is.
Gerrad is allegedly on £150 per week. So for your tenner to match his £100k donation means you must be on £15 per week. I suspect you’re not. ;)
I get your point, but it isn’t actually the same. And even if he isn’t on megabucks, he still didn’t have to do it.[/quote]
” And even if he isn’t on megabucks ” ? Around £7.8m a year plus endorsements!! If that ain’t megabucks then I don’t know what is! :silly:[/quote]
Would it have been easier for you to understand if I’d said “if he wasn’t on megabucks”? But, either way, I think the point I was trying to make was fairly obvious.[/quote]
My point was that he IS on megabucks! Let’s just say that the average wage is a tenner an hour, I don’t actually know but we shall go with a tenner for my example. Now if he gave a £100,000 to a charity that is like someone on the average wage giving £250 over the last say 15 years! No, he didn’t have to do it but it was a mere splash in the ocean pro rata!
Respect to anyone that gives to charity or anyone worse off but usually large donations are made by people that have it to spare and are rarely truly altruistic acts. Gerrard giving away six figure sums is a bit like me donating a tenner to Comic Relief. That’s not having a pop at Gerrard per se, that’s just the way it is.
Gerrad is allegedly on £150 per week. So for your tenner to match his £100k donation means you must be on £15 per week. I suspect you’re not. ;)
I get your point, but it isn’t actually the same. And even if he isn’t on megabucks, he still didn’t have to do it.[/quote]
So after tax, Gerrard draws £75k PER WEEK. That’s around £320k PER MONTH. And he’s been on this kind of money for 10 years or so? Fair play to him for donating as he does but it is only a minute part of his worth. He doesn’t miss the money one bit and it’s a massive PR boost to boot.
Apologies for being cynical, and I may be very wide of the mark in Gerrard’s particular case, but charitable donations, appearances and endorsements do wonders for careers and upward mobility.[/quote]
As does scoring a ponful of goals, earning over 100 England caps (many as captain)and single-handedly winning FA Cup and Champions League finals.
It’s pretty clear that thread is full of the bitter, jealous bile that used to blight David Beckham. I don’t particularly like the fella (Gerrard) either but to dismiss his entire career because he’s (allegedly) a greedy bastard is quite pathetic.
That’s not aimed at you by the way, as I know you were only having a pop at his charitable work.
I would say that Gerrard made a better decision how to use his disposable income than Jimmy did.
FORMER Hull City player Jimmy Bullard is said to have lost up to £650,000 in a failed investment scheme now being investigated by police.
The Sunday People reports that dozens of football stars could be involved in the affair involving millions of pounds of failed investments.
Bullard and players including former Spurs striker Robbie Keane are said to have been joined the scheme with promises of huge returns on their investments.
A police investigation has now started after former Coventry and Wolves player Michael McIndoe, 35, went bankrupt in October with debts of at least £3million.
As does scoring a ponful of goals, earning over 100 England caps (many as captain)and single-handedly winning FA Cup and Champions League finals.It’s pretty clear that this is full of the bitter, jealous bile that used blight David Beckham. I don’t particularly like the fella either but to dismiss his entire career because he’s (allegedly) a greedy bastard is quite pathetic.
That’s not aimed at you by the way, as I know you were only having a pop at his charitable work.
You sound very much like a Liverpool fan there Griff. I thought you were a Manc? ;)
Respect to anyone that gives to charity or anyone worse off but usually large donations are made by people that have it to spare and are rarely truly altruistic acts. Gerrard giving away six figure sums is a bit like me donating a tenner to Comic Relief. That’s not having a pop at Gerrard per se, that’s just the way it is.
Gerrad is allegedly on £150 per week. So for your tenner to match his £100k donation means you must be on £15 per week. I suspect you’re not. ;)
I get your point, but it isn’t actually the same. And even if he isn’t on megabucks, he still didn’t have to do it.[/quote]
So after tax, Gerrard draws £75k PER WEEK. That’s around £320k PER MONTH. And he’s been on this kind of money for 10 years or so? Fair play to him for donating as he does but it is only a minute part of his worth. He doesn’t miss the money one bit and it’s a massive PR boost to boot.
Apologies for being cynical, and I may be very wide of the mark in Gerrard’s particular case, but charitable donations, appearances and endorsements do wonders for careers and upward mobility.[/quote]
As does scoring a ponful of goals, earning over 100 England caps (many as captain)and single-handedly winning FA Cup and Champions League finals.
It’s pretty clear that this is full of the bitter, jealous bile that used blight David Beckham. I don’t particularly like the fella either but to dismiss his entire career because he’s (allegedly) a greedy bastard is quite pathetic.
That’s not aimed at you by the way, as I know you were only having a pop at his charitable work.[/quote]
I’m not even having a pop at his charitable work, I guess I’m saying that there’s nothing particularly impressive about a very rich person giving money to charity. Now if he was walking from John O’Groats to Land’s End on his hands or even doing something as crazy as giving up drinking for January, it would be far more impressive ;)
The thread I started about his agonising decision wasn’t even aimed at him. It was aimed at the crass media coverage of it. He was in no agony over it. He woke up one morning and asked his missus if she fancied moving to ‘Americker’ and that was that, I reckon.
As does scoring a ponful of goals, earning over 100 England caps (many as captain)and single-handedly winning FA Cup and Champions League finals.
It’s pretty clear that this is full of the bitter, jealous bile that used blight David Beckham. I don’t particularly like the fella either but to dismiss his entire career because he’s (allegedly) a greedy bastard is quite pathetic.
That’s not aimed at you by the way, as I know you were only having a pop at his charitable work.
You sound very much like a Liverpool fan there Griff. I thought you were a Manc? ;)[/quote]
:) Believe it or not, I nearly added “I’m going to stop now before somebody comes on and accuses me of being a Liveroool fan” but I wasn’t expecting it to be you!
If Steven Gerrard is such a greedy get, why did he choose to stay at Liverpool instead of going to Chelsea for the big bucks?
If Steven Gerrard is such a greedy get, why did he choose to stay at Liverpool instead of going to Chelsea for the big bucks?If Steven Gerrard is such a greedy get, why did he choose to stay at Liverpool instead of going to Chelsea for the big bucks?
Bloody Nora, but it is Liverpool I guess.
If Steven Gerrard is such a greedy get, why did he choose to stay at Liverpool instead of going to Chelsea for the big bucks?Because he stayed at Liverpool for big bucks.
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!If Steven Gerrard is such a greedy get, why did he choose to stay at Liverpool instead of going to Chelsea for the big bucks?
Because he stayed at Liverpool for big bucks. :whistle:[/quote]
Smaller bucks, actually
He was convinced of the wisdom of staying in Liverpol by a local gangster called Pancake, wasn’t he?
Anyway, I see this loyal club man has put the knife in to Rodgers today by suggesting he would have signed a new contract if it had been offered in the close season.
Don’t managers have the right to look over a player for a few games before deciding whether to re-sign them? And isn’t it up to them how many games they think a player over 30 can manage in a season?
Gerrard obviously feels he’s bigger than the club and has had his ego dented by Rodgers exercising this right to manage as he sees fit. And he’s shown how much he loves Liverpool by destabilising their manager rather than going quietly. What a strap-on.
Also apparently a little contract worth six million pound is being offered from LA Galaxy. But that couldn’t have had anything to do with his decision could it?
Also apparently a little contract worth six million pound is being offered from LA Galaxy. But that couldn’t have had anything to do with his decision could it?Donny are you for real?, Gerrard wanted his future sorted out last season with a new contract at Liverpool but they were not willing to offer him one. Much akin to Lampard and Chelsea so is he supposed to dance to the clubs tune and wait?. Like Chelsea Liverpool have gambled and lost out on their prize asset. As for a 6mill contract in the US, how stupid would he have to be to turn it down? :ohmy:
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