"The financial imbalance that exists within European football... is absolutely enormous."
"The value of a player is what someone is willing to pay for him."
"The Arsenal fan base is huge and loyal, most to attend matches across European leagues pay the highest ticket prices. Is it wrong to expect top management players at Arsenal Football Club?"
"Tell us for around 18 to 20 million euros, how good a deal would that be for Manchester United?"
"The power of this football money infused into the basketball conferences...it's why the Big 10 has no excuse to not be consistently good."
"The IPL's brand value has nearly doubled in the last five years. In 2018, the league was valued at $6.3 billion."
"the tennis star was worth an estimated 225 million dollars"
"Athletes generate billions of dollars... Why should his mama still be living in the projects?"
"Olympics are no longer funded by the countries, they're funded by sponsorships."
"There is one God in football and it is money."
"99.9% of the fighters... don't get paid if they don't fight."
"Give people what they want don't look at every term in the contract and try to change it just fight you Spar every day why not get paid tens of millions of dollars to do it in front of people."
"MMA fighters in the future will be making 50 million dollars to fight, 100 million dollars a fight."
"Michael Jordan: The world's first athlete billionaire."
"Promotion to the top flight has been pretty lucrative... however we continue on this free agent moneyball tactic."
"Money pulled into the sport in the UK over the last 20 years has completely revolutionized cycling."
"Per report from Adam Stern, Sports Business Journal, he says that Bubba Wallace is gonna bring an estimated 15 to 20 million dollars of sponsorship with him wherever he may go in 2021."
"You make it four to five million dollars a fight in Bellator."
"I'm all for financial management and sustainability of football, it's got to be fair."
"Bruno Fernandes' value at the moment is probably 100 million."
"I'd rather spend that money on danjuma than draxler right now in the market."
"This is basically United not wanting to pay his wages for the next season when they know we're not qualifying for the Champions League."
"We've spent 80 million on a centre-back, it's absolutely crazy when you go back through and see what is going on at this football club."
"Financial fair play is a myth for Manchester United."
"It's a dying argument. You can't look at the numbers and make the case that the fighters have been given a sufficient amount of money."
"Barcelona's financial situation is so dire that one or two publications even flirted with the idea of bankruptcy."
"The NFL makes far more money per club, so there's potential for the sport to make more money."
"Football is becoming about Mega wealth and if you haven't got it you won't succeed it's as simple as that."
"Stop kidding yourself that you think we're a football club. We're a business."
"If you're successful on the pitch, you'll make the money off the pitch anyway."
"Manchester United generates a lot of money, more than most clubs in the world."
"In modern football, it doesn't matter how well you run a club. You cannot win the Premier League title with a Championship budget."
"What amazing system we have in the Premier League where crap teams come up, get loads of money to go down, and then come back again like a bouncy ball."
"The number one word is greed that I have, and I'm really disappointed in how the NIL distribution has actually played out."
"They don't want to appoint a director of football, but a director of football would... well off the top of my head if we'd appointed a director of football five years ago he would have saved us over 100 million pounds."
"Transfers always come back to money as well. It's not just about football, it's about finances, isn't it?"
"The business of sports always wins in the end."
"I see them getting into 2020 cap to smooth it."
"That's so much money but not enough money to make up for what Dak Prescott has been able to do."
"It's not just the lack of ticket revenue, it's the lack of postseason money."
"Some clubs got 100 million; Newcastle's got hundreds of millions of pounds."
"I think it's time that we get rid of this amateurism work, this is no longer amateurism, these guys are now they're making money off their name image and license which is great."
"Long term, this is really, really bad for the financial growth and health of North America overall."
"Bayern with the highest bid we've ever received 213 million pounds."
"It's like Michael Jordan and I think it's a [__] crime personally that that man made $11 million his whole career."
"That's how much money the NFL makes to just be spending a million dollars on grass."
"You're not getting a team for less than a billion dollars these days. I don't care how bad the team is, it's good."
"Money will talk, will make people get in the room and fight like a big enough paycheck got these two guys now fighting and it should be like that."
"A 40 million pound deal would be absolutely fantastic."
"When two out of every five footballers in the United Kingdom are declared bankrupt in retirement, there is something seriously wrong."
"Who do you think turns up at the game, who do you think provides the revenue to Manchester United more than anybody employed there, more than the manager?"
"Get into the Premier League is worth more than a hundred million pounds per season that's in terms of competition money TV money and with that opportunity there it's a great opportunity to just scale up our facilities."
"Entering administration is rarely a good sign for any football club, but it is a particularly perilous situation for a French football club."
"No, I think it's a lot of money but I disagree with this kind of overpaying."
"These contracts are going to get really expensive really quickly though so we still have to be really cognizant of that and not be super crazy in free agency."
"If you had a points tally that needed points per million, you would have yourself a fascinating division."
"Every single point that Man United have accrued this season has cost them 15.54 million."
"March Madness now brings in over a billion dollars in TV ad revenue."
"He's on his way to the hundred million pound mark any day now."
"It's a bittersweet ending but at least there's some type of resolution here."
"From $2500 to $8 million, it's a reminder of what we hear and see in the world of sports, what is not appreciated enough as far as I'm concerned."
"70 million pounds is what Wolves have quoted for Ruben Neves now."
"Fourth place is more valuable to a club than the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup. It puts you in the Champions League, it makes you more attractive, you earn more money from it."
"It's not about how much Pogba cost versus the other player in the team, it's about how much progress is worth to the benefit of the team."
"These men hate football because even if you hate football, yeah, and you're a good businessman, obviously if you're winning, your fans are more likely to spend more money."
"Not understanding the exponential multiple that star players get."
"There's no country on earth like America with its diverse sporting economy and bandwidth for sports."
"It takes a brave club in this climate to say, 'We're not taking that 90 million we could take right now.'"
"No one buys crazy. Barcelona, they've got no money. Do me a favor. Yeah, they're signing all these other players like they've got money, man. They're just pretending to lower the standards."
"Since 2013 Red Bull Salzburg have generated more than 300 million euros through player sales."
"The January transfer window is going to be like no other... Deals can still be done cheaply but clubs aren't gonna have a lot of money to spend."
"The WWE still generated an insane amount of revenue when all was said and done."
"Reducing or completely eliminating the use of public funds for stadiums has become an increasingly bipartisan issue."
"If there was a net value of all these players in the transfer market, it would be sensational."
"What if football wasn't so greedy? What if its stadiums weren't crumbling? What if its clubs weren't going out of business?"
"Money goes hand in hand with top talents and top talent wins your games, isn't it?"
"Verbal agreement finally released with Barcelona for free around 15 million Euros."
"What moves the world is money, so the athletes have understood that and they've adapted to that."
"United are wary of spending more than 100 million on him."
"Ultimately at the end of the day the fighters are both the labor force and the product itself."
"I think 400k a week for Pogba... But it does worry me, it starts to get out of control."
"NIL is now a big part of real-life football and the game."
"Athletes need to be compensated like other workers."
"Every time a player holds an owner over the barrel, side with that player."
"Real Madrid, the biggest spenders for a team of no money."
"No city should ever pay for a stadium ever again."
"If they win at racing events... they get to take home the prize money."
"It just tells you what are they thinking like it's not that's why it's not about the stadiums and that what people what teams make on Match days now from the stadium is doesn't even touch the sides."
"He's the highest paid athlete in the world, first athlete ever to make a billion dollar."
"The money is mad, I remember Zidane to Real for 50 million, world record."
"It's not a big six, it's a three and a three, it feels to me like because it's United, Chelsea are breaking away from Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham for pure economic reasons."
"It's about having the best team not the team with the most money."
"Dak Prescott has been underpaid... he absolutely deserves it."
"I hope that one day football fans realize that we are the enemy of ourselves cuz it's our eyes they want. If nobody watched football, there would be no Super League."
"Every time a player gets drafted by the NBA, they're being given enough money to form a multi-million dollar corporation."
"I'm always for an athlete getting paid sooner rather than later."
"This ain't the same! This guy finally is cashing in and he ended up making more than the UFC deal for this one fight."
"So we're going back to when there was no salary cap but with the current rosters."
"If you take off salary cap, super teams will be formed."
"Money Talks. Real Madrid and Barcelona need the Super League because it's the way to make money quickly."
"Pick and Pop I guess you're talking about Amari Cooper they got 20 million back no that's not how it works."
"That's how it works for sure so is is Russell Westbrook worth the money that he got yep Russ is worth he got it let me is Russ worth more than the money that he got from the Clippers no I think he's worth more."
"That's crazy! $703 million revenue, incredible for a fan-owned club."
"That's how these huge fights are being created, making 100 million, 150 million."
"Chelsea became something entirely different—the first club that truly realized the raw power of money."
"PSG spent 300 million on Killian Mbappé, Neymar, and Lionel Messi only for all of them to leave for free and without winning them a Champions League."
"Arsenal are getting stronger as reports confirm we've now secured 91 million EUR in prize money."
"I think it's a good sign for NASCAR that the owners are reinvesting."
"The money is there, that same approach was applied to free agency in pro sports."
"This might cause a renewed interest in the WNBA, therefore leading to higher wages."
"The WNBA before 20123 was bringing in about 60 million or so per year... in 2023 they made about 200 million."
"Why would you buy 50% of the club, build the stadium, increase the value of the club, knowing that by doing that you're increasing Joel and Avram's share?"
"He is by far the highest paid cricket player."
"Botman is by far the best value for money you are gonna get at 4.4 million or less."
"Sancho is well worth it. The fee that Dortmund want is a fair price. He's well worth it."
"Make the money while you can...especially in sports."
"Classic Physique guys aren't getting paid nearly what they deserve to get paid."
"Financial fair play is very complex, gray areas."
"It's worth spending money on players that will give you an increased chance of qualifying for the Champions League."
"If you're a top, top player, you know you're a top, top player, your agent knows you're a top, top player, they know the rates."
"LeBron, that's why the ticket price is what it is when LeBron is in town."
"It's hard to win the Champions League because they can buy it but they can't really buy it the same way they can buy the league."
"2-year minimum Revenue guarantee so the teams can be much more sustainable in their operations in the longer term."
"Under the current owners, this is what United is going to be like. The only money that has been spent on players at Manchester United is the money the club has generated or that it's borrowed."
"I think if you want to win things, you've got to be spending a lot of money, and to spend a lot of money, you've got to be super wealthy."
"What's wrong with that? Anyway, the point I think for me it's a comment on the amount of money in football being insane."
"The Premier League alone contributes an annual 8 billion pounds to the UK economy."
"Premier League clubs had avoided almost half a billion pounds worth of tax over the last eight years."
"You can grow financially and not grow your sport. Your sport could become less healthy as you become more profitable."
"Manchester United isn't about being the best football team in the world. Manchester United is about being the best money-making machine for the Glazers."
"Weapons are really good in Hearthstone because they offer unconditional tempo."
"At the end of the day, if you're the champion, you make more money."
"I think the ideal scenario we need to have is that the fighters are heavily compensated financially, there's a premium on talent, and that most of the matchmaking decisions are made without their input."
"I just want to see Dame win, bro, because you're going to be making 40 mil somewhere else, 30 mil somewhere else, and you're going to get the credit that you've been wanting for."
"£15 million, that is so, so much money for a player who is brilliant and will probably be worth so much more than that."
"The fee we've paid for Cavani isn't worth what we got. And one of the big reasons we shouldn't be buying Harland is that the service for Cavani has been so poor."
"Every single time Frequency starts there's random players who want to take a pay cut."
"If we hadn't had COVID-19, 100 million pounds was a fair price for Jadon Sancho."
"Raise your son to be the team owner... the person who's paying the first rounder, they're making way more than the first rounder."
"Somehow the smaller teams have got to be given the opportunity to put something on the board as far as points are concerned because that's a massive thing for selling to a sponsor."
"Money runs everything" - Inequality in sports is also business-driven.
"Zion Williamson's trade value is significantly better."
"Sometimes you've got to pay a silly price, but if you don't pay it, you don't get the player." - Mourinho
"The NFL has a salary cap and there are still bad teams as well as dominant teams if the Premier League got a salary cap it'd be the same as that."
"I'm thankful to be the face of the sport...making 40 or 50,000 back then was market value, and now you see the market value."
"Big clubs pay what they need to get the deal done."
"Classic needs to be paid accordingly, as the draw that we bring in."
"The most World Series we win, the more valuable the franchise is, right?"
"Financial fair play can be manipulated, but you've got to have the money in your pocket to do it in the first place."
"Football is not about money, narrative has not been true for years."
"14 months ago, Tyson was earning under $1,000 a fight. Today, separate deals with ABC and HBO have brought in over 2 million dollars for 8 fights."
"For me, it's just the price tag. Marquee signings for me are Ronaldo's, Neymar's, Messi's, players like this."
"Manchester United's commercial revenue is more than double that of either Tottenham or Arsenal. Simply put, no other Premier League team comes close."
"Manchester United's wage budget only accounts for 53% of their turnover, among the lowest wage-to-turnover ratios in the entire Premier League."
"Manchester United have paid £838 million solely on financing costs over the last decade, more than the overall annual revenue of any football club on earth ever."
"FIFA wants a biennial World Cup because the World Cup is their only major Cash Cow."
"The financialization of football has reached new heights."
"You know what? He went through the Covington fight as the champion, saw the pay-per-view numbers there. He went through the Masvidal fight as the champion, saw the numbers there. So he can see clearly why you want to fight Masvidal."
"Fans pay all of athletes salaries. If fans don't believe that you are doing your part in a time of difficulty they'll find other ways to spend their time."
"The fact is you were worth 50 million to Swansea because he was the only reason they were staying in the prem."
"Spurs don't need to sell. I think Kane would cost a minimum of £125 million now."
"The NBA model is now based on finding revenue streams beyond the mere tickets."
"The clubs that spend the most money, they win, unfortunately. But it's true."
"PSG money yeah yeah free transfer to PSP this summer."
"You know, when you look at the money that Manchester United can spend, if they want to spend, you know, and they have spent, it's quiet."
"Dortmund will accept an initial £60 million for a package that ultimately rises to over £100 million."
"In a sport that's all about money, bragging rights are worth more than anything."
"There's huge amounts of money behind the scenes... that's going to destroy a Man City, a Liverpool, an Arsenal wage bill."
"Being a former champ boosts earnings by about 30%."
"A fighter at that level I believe they all should get paid a lot more."
"Yo it's kind of trash that you know the artificially devalued the running back position importance in the game." - Austin Ekeler
"Overpaid does not mean overrated, okay? There is a difference."
"We live in a modern age where a young Emile Heskey would cost 50 million quid."
"Kovacic is the best signing, the cheapest as well."
"Real Madrid have offered him in the region of about 9 million per year in the modern day game for one of the best two or three center backs in the world that is simply not enough money at all."
"I didn't start making money until my 19th fight but before that I was fighting for free just like trusting in the process."
"Undrafted guy at very minimal financial cost has saved the season here for the Steelers."
"Money talks and all these schools that had been in these storied leagues for a long time just [__] it."
"They pay a huge amount of money to be the finale and Formula One unfortunately runs on dollar dollar bills going into the bank account."
"You're much more likely to say, 'I can't believe we didn't sign that player,' rather than, 'I can't believe we wasted that amount of money on that player.'"
"You need money to be successful you need money I'm sorry in football you do."
"Paul Pogba's right to say to United, 'I want 400k a week if you want me to stay.'"
"Gender bias is not the mechanism behind the difference between the pro career prize winnings earnings of these individuals."
"We were a selling club, but now we're a trading club."
"No one seems to have a problem with football players or managers or agents getting paid the king's fortune. Anyone moved to the idea that someone actually owns a football club should get some money out of it? They should be flogged at dawn."
"The UFC, as a price maker, has built preventive mechanisms to keep fighters from escaping the Nash equilibrium."
"How can you be Surplus to requirement and wanting nearly 80 million pounds for him?"
"Shareholders are worth more than fans to the owners."
"Any fighter can't get enough money for me. You can't pay them enough because of the risk that they're putting on the line every time they get in that ring."
"When a guy is making 40 plus million dollars a year, the numbers he's giving you, that wasn't acceptable."
"I think Fighters should be making a lot more money."
"You can't just take a player and turn them into something because you don't want to spend money. That's why clubs spend 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 million pounds on players – because they're good."
"I think Jake Paul's really good for boxing. Amanda Serrano, her payday before getting with Jake Paul, her biggest payday was $50,000 before getting with Jake Paul, and now she's making a million dollars on average a fight."
"Coaching salaries are not commensurate at all with any other role within Counter-Strike."
"He understands the state of the running back market where you need to get paid, you need to get paid young, or you're never going to get paid again."
"The TV money is already crazy, but if you're having Ohio State play Georgia and those big matchups, it's going to be awesome."
"Being a champion is the only thing in this sport, if your name isn't Conor McGregor, that guarantees money."
"The price to get Rudiger for 52.7 million is nutty."
"Regardless of whether we win or lose we always show up and since we show up we just make sure we have a good time 60% of the time it works every time pause."
"I think it's interesting to note that in 1988, $3 million a year was the biggest contract in sports history. Now it's nothing at all."