【一起闲话英语】运动员的薪资-Athletes and Pay

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speaker I do think professional athletes do make too much money, just by comparison¹ with other professions, for example teachers, who I think are a lot more important with the job that they do. They don't get paid enough and then you have people who are just playing a game and they get paid so much money and I think it's a little unfair.

 

speaker I think athletes, they don't make too much money, because they're playing exactly what, their favorite sports and they enjoy what they do. However, I heard about the NHL in Canada, the hockey, and their asking for more money, and more money, and I think it's, they should just take the money that they have because they get a lot of money already. They shouldn't keep asking for more money.

 

speaker I think athletes make far too much money, especially footballers. This is soccer players for those people who speak American English. I think that people like nurses, doctors, teachers, they should be getting more money, not people who play sport.

 

speaker I think professional players do deserve² the money they get. They're protraying their image publicly and risking their bodies to entertain us and there's a lot of money that goes into it, why shouldn't they reap³ the benefits. Why should the owners, or the people that are making profits in other areas, when they're doing all the work, reap all the benefits.

 

Yes, I certainly think, especially professional footballers earn much too much money. One guy called Rio Ferdinand just singed⁴ a contract for 100,000 pounds, per week and that's more money than I'll ever earn in my entire life, so I don't think that's fair.

 

speaker Ah, no, I don't think they make too much money. I think athletes deserve all the money they get. I mean they make a lot of money, and it seems crazy that they make so much money, but the bottom line is so many people watch their games buy their jerseys⁵. Buy tickets to follow them, listen to them on radio, so they bring in a lot of revenue⁶, and they are the reason that people watch them so they should get all the money that they earn. Maybe they should give a little more to charity, or give some of the money back to the communities, but yeah, they deserve the money they get.

 

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