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porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

A friend shared this a month or so ago and I haven’t been able to check how accurate it is but apparently its soccer player wages in 1999:

Highest soccer earners in 1999

That was a lot of money at the time, but even adjusting for inflation it really doesn’t seem to be the fuckoff money they get now

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wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I mean, that’s per week… Seems like a shitload of money to me.

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- porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  🤦‍♂️ I missed it was per week. I’ll go hide somewhere now
  
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  - porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Yeah, so that’s probably about 5-10 million pounds annually today? So they’re earning 10 or so times that amount now but its still very much fuckoff money
    
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