A view from abroad of football in England .

[graingrover]

As I read that Arsenal may pay £100 million for Declan Rice I cannot but compare that with the proceeds reaped from the England v World XI football festival at Old Trafford over the weekend in aid of Unicef .Starving children in Ethiopia and Somalia, homeless children in Ukraine and Turkey and terrorized children in Syria will be helped thanks to donations from football fans throughout the country .Yet all the love and generosity from hundreds of thousands of football fans is dwarfed by the sum paid for one footballer in the Premiership .
This is very very wrong don’t you think !

[DonnyBazR0ver]

It's obscene but it's what we've allowed it to become.

[idler]

Unless or until the top echelons of the game implode it will only get worse.

[KingKendrick]

As I read that Arsenal may pay £100 million for Declan Rice I cannot but compare that with the proceeds reaped from the England v World XI football festival at Old Trafford over the weekend in aid of Unicef .Starving children in Ethiopia and Somalia, homeless children in Ukraine and Turkey and terrorized children in Syria will be helped thanks to donations from football fans throughout the country .Yet all the love and generosity from hundreds of thousands of football fans is dwarfed by the sum paid for one footballer in the Premiership .
This is very very wrong don’t you think !

Would you make this argument for any other business selling assets to another? Didn’t Facebook buy Instagram for a billion quid. Where’s the same energy for asking them to donate that money to UNICEF instead?
 The fees are comparable to revenues a lot of these clubs make and the wages they can rightly demand considering what they bring to the club in terms of merchandise and overall improvement of the side. Of course they should take a piece of that pie.