20 or 100 million makes no difference any more.

The choice should be 20 mil or famous top sporter

$100m and the sports career, I'd take $20m and the sports career over the $20m on it's own to be honest.

comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 4 minutes ago
$100m and the sports career, I'd take $20m and the sports career over the $20m on it's own to be honest.
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and if there was no 20 mil for the sports career?

comment by Dude Bro (U1250)
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comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 4 minutes ago
$100m and the sports career, I'd take $20m and the sports career over the $20m on it's own to be honest.
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and if there was no 20 mil for the sports career?
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Guess I'd be more than happy with a 100k a year and a sports then management career.

...being bang average and old I pay to play football

100 million, why wouldn't you want to be famous?

comment by Cesc + Costa - The Spanish Duo (U21341)
posted 4 minutes ago
100 million, why wouldn't you want to be famous?
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Why would you? You can't just pop to the shop or go out for a nice meal without being harassed, no thank you!

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I love playing footy, I spend about $50 a week doing so and apart from a small stint of being paid for it, have done all my life.

So would love it as a job

Being pragmatic, I'd take the 100m. You can set up your family for generations, probably forever as long as it's managed.....

I'd choose to get the feerrk on with my life and stop dreaming ! or

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in the end the 100mil guy will have a name and a name can generate more and more cash.

the 20mil is fine for the hoi polli but you'd not be able to live the lifestyle down by henley etc and send kids to private schools etc on that

the world famous star can go on tv or release after shaves etc and never have to spend their own money

also if you win 20mil on lottery you will be stalked and pestered. at least as a sport star you will have already gone through it i suppose.

I'd take the £100m, pay for the creation of a time machine, go back and prevent Skynet.

i would take 20 quid right now if I am honest

Sports star. Not even a moment's hesitation.

The opportunity to be remembered generations from now as an amazing athlete would be too good to turn down.

Apparently the average EPL wage is £2.3m a year. The best paid rugby player in the world (Dan Carter) is apparently on £1.4m.

Olympic legends like Redgrave or Hoy would never have seen that kind of money without sponsorship (albeit they're not going to be badly off).

I'd choose a legacy like Carter or Wilkinson or Redgrave over a journeyman EPL player any day. And definitely over a lottery win which is just dumb luck.

Why wouldn't you want to be famous? So many reasons, as another poster said, why would you? An incredible amount of 'celebrities' have personality disorders which is the driving force behind their career of choice. It is a sad existence.

I wouldn't mind being renowned in a field but not one with the baggage of celebrity such as football. I'd take it as it is a great career but not if £20 million was on the table and I could do what I wanted without the burden of everyone wanting something of you.

comment by The Droog (U17596)
posted 8 minutes ago
Why wouldn't you want to be famous? So many reasons, as another poster said, why would you? An incredible amount of 'celebrities' have personality disorders which is the driving force behind their career of choice. It is a sad existence.

I wouldn't mind being renowned in a field but not one with the baggage of celebrity such as football. I'd take it as it is a great career but not if £20 million was on the table and I could do what I wanted without the burden of everyone wanting something of you.
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You'd still get the life you want surely?

Gareth Bale is one of the highest earners in world football, when was the last time you heard of him in the press outside of his sporting accomplishments?

He'll be remembered for generations as a Real Madrid player and multi CL winner. You don't need the limelight if you don't want it.

£20m and no fame all day long. I don't want to be famous.

£20m would set me and my family up for life and the generation after that too. I could also realise my dream and start my own charity.

Although I am sure the attention is annoying, I'm sure 99.999% of the public reaction when they see a top player is praise. Then, the places they will go out will be top end places used to celebs so they probably don't get harassed too much.

I'm sure they must enjoy it when they do a charity day or go to schools and get mobbed by kids who look up to them as some kind of God.

I think if a player is sensible and doesn't seek attention, ie Kane/Bale etc they must live a fantastic life.

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Option 1 which would mean I have been able to achieve my dreams and play at the highest level for a decade.

Not even close

Would hate to be recognisable in public.

Would love to be a famous author or something like that, where you could use your fame to your advantage when you "needed" to by dropping your name, but remain pretty anonymous for the rest of the time as most people wouldn't necessarily recognise best selling authors.

You can avoid the celebrity but elements are unavoidable. If I want to get comatoised on ketamine at a messy picnic my family aren't going to read about it in the papers.

Re the charity work / mobbed by kids thing, you don't need celebrity status for that. I did some charity work in Kenya and had about 30 kids in the Nairobi slums chasing me asking "how are you, how are you?" India was funny, just a holiday visiting a waterfall, as we left a load of school kids were making their way down the hill in single file and we had to high five about 80 of them as we passed, felt like the Fonz.

comment by Be A Grizzly (U2206)
posted 3 minutes ago
Would hate to be recognisable in public.

Would love to be a famous author or something like that, where you could use your fame to your advantage when you "needed" to by dropping your name, but remain pretty anonymous for the rest of the time as most people wouldn't necessarily recognise best selling authors.
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You might have heard of me, John Keith Rowling, I wrote a few little books about wizards.

£20m and anonymity please.

£100m and you'd have to hire an office full of people just to answer the tons of international begging letters- god only knows what your agents commission will be, also the drama having to set up corporations to hide the cash offshore so you don't pay 50% tax (Messi anyone?!) equals bankers and lawyers fees ad infinitum.
On the bright side i could buy my own private jet!

On £20mill i can do many many things for family and loved ones and I could also afford to buy the "tunnel and cheeseboard" season ticket for the new stadium so its all good, and if i have to charter a jet then so be it!

Ps:it 'only' costs approx £250,000 to privately educate your kids up to 6th form so thats remains within my budget!