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Troy Deeney has said that women footballers do not deserve the same pay as their male counterparts.

In an interview with GiveMeSport, the Watford club captain pointed to commercial reasons by saying “you can't have equal pay if there's not equal money.”

The striker has been injured for most of the current campaign and has only played two games all season, but the 31-year-old was keen to stress that the lack of revenue generated by the women’s game is justification for the lower contracts handed to women.

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Deeney said: "I don't mind women's football. I am of the business understanding though, when people say 'it should be equal pay'.

"If the business makes sense, it does. So you look at KSI and Logan [Paul], should they be making the same money as Anthony Joshua for a boxing match? No, but the business side of it says they do.

How many women's football matches are selling out week in, week out, 20,000 plus? They're not. So that's just logical business.

"But in terms of, do I sit and watch women's football? Yeah. Should they be getting paid the same as Neymar? No, because business-wise, you're not selling shirts like him and you're not packing out stadiums like him.”

Despite Deeney saying that he watched women’s football, when asked if he could name five players on the England team he replied: "Nope, and wouldn't even try. Do you think equal pay would make that happen? And do you think they should be entitled to equal pay when I don't even know who they are?"

Watford currently sit bottom of the Premier League with just one win all season. Hayden Mullins is currently acting as caretaker manager and the club has already sacked Quique Sanchez Flores and Javi Gracia already this campaign.

Deeney returned to the starting lineup in the team’s game with Leicester City on Wednesday, but couldn’t prevent his side losing 2-0 to Brendan Rodgers’ men.

kalani JR wrote:What people have been missing is the debate is often made with National teams in mind not clubsides.

Bigpokey24 wrote:

kalani JR wrote:What people have been missing is the debate is often made with National teams in mind not clubsides.

Trust you to dumb down the main topic..smh

kalani JR wrote:

Bigpokey24 wrote:

kalani JR wrote:What people have been missing is the debate is often made with National teams in mind not clubsides.

Trust you to dumb down the main topic..smh

Anything anyone adds to a topic that was started by you automatically raises the level of discourse, now flee from my sight wretched cur.

Deeney is likely arguing from the perspective of clubsides which is not what the USWNT lawsuit was focused on, they just wanted equal paycheck with their male NATIONAL TEAM counterparts. Even the example he used KSI vs. Logan is in poor taste, that was a celebrity exhibition, perhaps I am mistaken but I think Rapinoe, Lavelle and their colleagues are professionals just like him, they have even been to the World Cup unlike him. Even his false equivalence doesn't hold up since the USWNT had comparable television viewers and probably have larger following in the country.

Cito wrote:Equality vs Equity in pay is a touchy topic. Remove equality from what he said and replace it with equitable Pay structure and you have a better understanding of what he is trying to say.

kalani JR wrote:

Bigpokey24 wrote:

kalani JR wrote:What people have been missing is the debate is often made with National teams in mind not clubsides.

Trust you to dumb down the main topic..smh

Anything anyone adds to a topic that was started by you automatically raises the level of discourse, now flee from my sight wretched cur.

Deeney is likely arguing from the perspective of clubsides which is not what the USWNT lawsuit was focused on, they just wanted equal paycheck with their male NATIONAL TEAM counterparts. Even the example he used KSI vs. Logan is in poor taste, that was a celebrity exhibition, perhaps I am mistaken but I think Rapinoe, Lavelle and their colleagues are professionals just like him, they have even been to the World Cup unlike him. Even his false equivalence doesn't hold up since the USWNT had comparable television viewers and probably have larger following in the country.

Cellular wrote:

kalani JR wrote:

Bigpokey24 wrote:

kalani JR wrote:What people have been missing is the debate is often made with National teams in mind not clubsides.

Trust you to dumb down the main topic..smh

Anything anyone adds to a topic that was started by you automatically raises the level of discourse, now flee from my sight wretched cur.

Deeney is likely arguing from the perspective of clubsides which is not what the USWNT lawsuit was focused on, they just wanted equal paycheck with their male NATIONAL TEAM counterparts. Even the example he used KSI vs. Logan is in poor taste, that was a celebrity exhibition, perhaps I am mistaken but I think Rapinoe, Lavelle and their colleagues are professionals just like him, they have even been to the World Cup unlike him. Even his false equivalence doesn't hold up since the USWNT had comparable television viewers and probably have larger following in the country.

Thank you!

The conversation was not about private enterprise but about teams representing their respective countries.

Cellular wrote:

kalani JR wrote:

Bigpokey24 wrote:

kalani JR wrote:What people have been missing is the debate is often made with National teams in mind not clubsides.

Trust you to dumb down the main topic..smh

Anything anyone adds to a topic that was started by you automatically raises the level of discourse, now flee from my sight wretched cur.

Deeney is likely arguing from the perspective of clubsides which is not what the USWNT lawsuit was focused on, they just wanted equal paycheck with their male NATIONAL TEAM counterparts. Even the example he used KSI vs. Logan is in poor taste, that was a celebrity exhibition, perhaps I am mistaken but I think Rapinoe, Lavelle and their colleagues are professionals just like him, they have even been to the World Cup unlike him. Even his false equivalence doesn't hold up since the USWNT had comparable television viewers and probably have larger following in the country.

Thank you!

The conversation was not about private enterprise but about teams representing their respective countries.

pajimoh wrote:

Cellular wrote:

kalani JR wrote:

Bigpokey24 wrote:

kalani JR wrote:What people have been missing is the debate is often made with National teams in mind not clubsides.

Trust you to dumb down the main topic..smh

Anything anyone adds to a topic that was started by you automatically raises the level of discourse, now flee from my sight wretched cur.

Deeney is likely arguing from the perspective of clubsides which is not what the USWNT lawsuit was focused on, they just wanted equal paycheck with their male NATIONAL TEAM counterparts. Even the example he used KSI vs. Logan is in poor taste, that was a celebrity exhibition, perhaps I am mistaken but I think Rapinoe, Lavelle and their colleagues are professionals just like him, they have even been to the World Cup unlike him. Even his false equivalence doesn't hold up since the USWNT had comparable television viewers and probably have larger following in the country.

Thank you!

The conversation was not about private enterprise but about teams representing their respective countries.

Even that - one can argue the men's game is more commercially viable. FIFA pay more yo men's team at the wc than women.
What the USWNT is spinning is because they win nore chanpionship than their make counterpart but we all know it's the same ball but different ball game altogether

pajimoh wrote:

Cellular wrote:

kalani JR wrote:

Bigpokey24 wrote:

kalani JR wrote:What people have been missing is the debate is often made with National teams in mind not clubsides.

Trust you to dumb down the main topic..smh

Anything anyone adds to a topic that was started by you automatically raises the level of discourse, now flee from my sight wretched cur.

Deeney is likely arguing from the perspective of clubsides which is not what the USWNT lawsuit was focused on, they just wanted equal paycheck with their male NATIONAL TEAM counterparts. Even the example he used KSI vs. Logan is in poor taste, that was a celebrity exhibition, perhaps I am mistaken but I think Rapinoe, Lavelle and their colleagues are professionals just like him, they have even been to the World Cup unlike him. Even his false equivalence doesn't hold up since the USWNT had comparable television viewers and probably have larger following in the country.

Thank you!

The conversation was not about private enterprise but about teams representing their respective countries.

Even that - one can argue the men's game is more commercially viable. FIFA pay more yo men's team at the wc than women.
What the USWNT is spinning is because they win nore chanpionship than their make counterpart but we all know it's the same ball but different ball game altogether

wiseone wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 1:40 pm

Sleaky72 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 12:45 am

wiseone wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 1:40 pm

No problem sweetheart.
When you start competing for places absent gender restrictions then you can start talking.
These entitled femininas are so ughhh

Mr. Piffington wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 6:57 pm

Sleaky72 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 12:45 am

wiseone wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 1:40 pm

No problem sweetheart.
When you start competing for places absent gender restrictions then you can start talking.
These entitled femininas are so ughhh

It's ridiculous, it's almost as if they don't know how markets work.