Thursday, November 01, 2007

Minister labels Terry's wages obscene

The sports minister, Gerry Sutcliffe, has labelled John Terry's salary "obscene" and accused Manchester United of setting ticket prices prohibitively high, claiming such moves took the game away from "ordinary working people."

"Good luck to John Terry but I think it is obscene to be on £150,000 a week," said Sutcliffe.

"People in the street cannot understand salaries like that.

Chelsea are £250m in the red and they may be able to cope with that but it's not the real world. £250m in the red is not sustainable."

However, Chelsea are understood to be furious with some of the figures quoted by Sutcliffe and are understood to have complained to his department that they are inaccurate.

It is thought Terry's weekly wage is closer to £130,000, while the club returned losses of £80m in the last financial year and £140m the year before.

And thanks to owner Roman Abramovich, their debts are minimal.

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