‘The world’s worst paid footballer, Ivan Badaluta, 23, wants to leave Romanian club CSM Resita because his 16p* a month buys only one loaf of bread a week.’
*US=24c Aus=47c
Bread in my local supermarket costs about 48p* per loaf and I want to know how this lucky fellow can get his for 8.3% of the UK price.
Perhaps your footballer is on an unusual deal like Sol Campbell, who I think is not getting a signing-on fee, but instead just a massive salary. Maybe the Romanian had a large signing-on fee? Or perhaps not.
As for bread, I’m going down my local Tesco, here in Oakham, Rutland.
I am always interested in Bread Price Trends, who isn’t, but I’m glad someone has mentioned the footballer at last.
I suspect the truth of this story because 16p a month doesn’t sound very much, even if Bread Prices in Romania seem to be a bit on the low side.
Still, I hope Sol Campbell et al read this. These sportsmen are living in a world of their own if they really cannot manage on £80k per week. I love football but dislike the players. I really do hope that one day all the sponsors disappear into the ether and players are forced into doing something for a more realistic return.
Geez, where are you people shopping…I think Glee is the only person paying about what I do. Bread here ranges from the 45 cents a loaf (1 pound, 450 or so g) to the “really good” stuff for which I cringe and pay $1.50 for a pound and a half (680g).
That’s…um… 0.001 cents per gram for the cheap crap,
0.002 cents per gram for the decent stuff. Hm. Doesn’t seem like much of a difference.
I make 6.9 loaves of good bread per hour. It takes me 41 work-hours to pay my rent. A paperback book at the new bookstore is 45 minutes of my working time; a hardcover or non-fiction book can be 2- 2 1/2 hours. Also, with one hour of my working time, I can purchase 2 1/2 pounds of chocolate and one tube of generic pimple medication (which I would need after 2 1/2 pounds of chocolate).
Anybody feel like giving average or typical guesstimates for the living wage in Britain compared to these prices? I’d think that’d be better than trying to convert grams to pounds and pounds to cents.