No. Football is one of the few professions where the players actually get paid close to the true value of their labour.

As basically best players = best results = maximised revenue, the best players hold the negotiating power to capture all the profit from football. Clubs are very unprofitable in general for their revenue and I think it’s better that players get this share than owners and shareholders.

You can’t compare to public sector, so don’t. Compare to bankers, lawyers and other private sector professions.

The best way to look at I think is that the money is always going to exist in football so would I rather a billionaire profit from this or people from all around the globe coming from different backgrounds, some who had truly awful upbringings, benefit from it. I think the answer becomes a lot more straight forward then.

I also think these players coming from less privaliged backgrounds are more likely to do good with there money. Of course you’ll get a handful of individuals who spend recklessly and give footballers a flashy bad name, but the charity work that is able to to be done in countries like Senegal (Mane is one of the first names that came to my head due to being a Liverpool fan) would never have been able to have been done without football.

Compared to jobs that actually matter to the continuation of a healthy society like doctors and teachers? Yes. Doesn’t help that football is one of the only professions where teenagers suddenly become millionaires with no preparation for it.

However I would rather the players get the money than their employers, generally speaking.

Yes. Ideally, they wouldn’t earn mega wages that threaten the stability of the clubs. The players could get paid a decent wage and then the leftover money could be used to stabilise the club and be invested in the local community. But we all know that if they didn’t take the money then the chairman/board would take it instead. And because the players are the ones on the stage, generating the product then they deserve it fair more than the shareholders.

You should not think about how much players earn but you should think about how much people spend to watching football.

I’m Italian so I will give you the example of my country but I am sure that is happening the same situation everywhere.

Players earn much money because they help teams to earn money from championships prices. Where do you think the championships prizes come from?

They come from TV rights, tickets, shirts and other gadgets and sponsors.

TV rights prices are increasing season by season. In Italy to watch Serie A you have to spend 50€ per month. To watch a game at the stadium you have to spend 40€ (And you are in a place where you can’t see anything).

The fact is that if people will stop to spend money on football, they won’t give so big prizes and players won’t earn so much money.