If you were a professional footballer, which would you rather do?
Earn 60m in your career, but not even win so much as a League Cup Winners' Medal, be one of the league's stand out players for talent but also go down as one of the best players to never win a medal.
or
Earn 15m over the same length of career and win multiple League Title Winners' Medals, FA Cups and 1-2 European trophies. You'd be considered dependable but nothing special and earn only a quarter of the other scenario,
Now for me scenario 2 would win but actually i would understand why people would choose scenario 1. I just think even if the 15m was 7.5m - 8m after Tax, i'd feel foolish if i ended up still needing to work for money after my career ended and the buzz from multple medals would be amazing.
So.,..................pots of cash or lots of medals?
Medals Vs Money
posted on 17/2/14
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 19 minutes ago
Speaking as a fan, neither would influence me unduly.
As a child all I wanted to do was play for Chelsea - I'd still have given my right armto do that, irrespective of how much I'd have been paid or how many medals I'd have won!
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posted on 17/2/14
Like you Brummie,I would have given my right arm to play for Chelsea,they didn't even give me a trial ! they don't know what they missed !
posted on 17/2/14
Slacky, can I say both or is that completely taking the pi ss?
Seriously though if it came to a choice, I would take the medals I suppose because I would also like to think that a little bit of decent wedge wouldn't be too far behind them.
If it wasn't then perhaps I could knock out 6 of my 9 Champions League winning medals and pick up shed-loads of dosh that way!!
posted on 17/2/14
They dodged a bullet with me Harlequin
posted on 18/2/14
Ridiculous question to be honest.
Scenario 1 is so much better, it's not even comparable to Scenario 2. Glory in the game isn't linked to medals. True glory comes from 'magic moments', great individual seasons, stand-out performances in big games. Ideally this would all be punctuated with team honours but that's not where the glory lies.
Players like Van Persie, Shearer, Batistuta & Totti will be remembered. The likes of Jamie Carragher, John O'Shea & Sergio Busquets won't be. No one dreams of winning medals when they're younger, they dream of being rich, of scoring winning goals, they dream of being a star.
posted on 18/2/14
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posted on 18/2/14
I think it's a decent question, and I would prefer scenario 2.
However life doesn't work like that, and given the choice between signing a contract for more money or a better chance of trophies, I would always choose the money, because it's real.
And when you think about it, how much money you earn a s a player is a better indication of your ability, albeit with less glory involved. In a team game awful players win medals too; Nicky Butt has winner's medals for 6 Premier League titles, 3 FA cups, 4 Community Shields, 1 Intercontinental and 1 Champions League x
posted on 18/2/14
Wow. For me option two was a no-brainer, plenty of money plus trophies - seems most others go for money and no trophies. Genuinely surprised.
posted on 18/2/14
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posted on 18/2/14
Won a top club golf trophy and got my name on the board last year....that'll still look good over time than any money I've accrued in monthly medals coming 1st 2nd or 3rd
Not quite in the millions obviously tho...