Mo Farah's pad in London is AMAZING. Guy is loaded.

What is amazing about that place? Looks like ceramic tile floors, engineered hard wood where the pool table is, a very basic 3x4 shower. ... I'm sure being in London it is quite expensive, but the quality itself is not impressive from what I see.

You'd think he could afford a decent doorbell.

Hard to tell from the video, but I'm guessing it's maybe £4-£5million worth, given the huge garden. E.g.:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-71366346.html

rojo wrote:

Brits, where would you rank Farah in terms of most visible athletes? Like the Premiere League guys way above him?

Everybody knows Mo Farah because he was the face of the 2012 Olympics. Millions of people pay no attention to football and probably couldn't name one current England player, but everybody took notice of Olympics because it was a huge thing for the country. He is up there with David Beckham.

Amir Khan the Olympic boxing gold medalist and former world champion was paid £450,000 to appear a couple of years ago and that was the highest for a sportsman, and Mo is being paid £300,000. But I assume the amounts are less this year because they aren't stuck in the Australian jungle and everybody is in lockdown anyway.

in the uk Mo transcends athletics. Pretty much everyone has heard of him. He is bigger than the majority of footballers.

He is hugely popular outside of athletes by joe public. in fact in the last 10 years i think only wayne rooney, and perhaps AJ is as well known outside their sports

Despite his popularity he hasnt really maximised his ability to sell sportwear in the same way jordan did with nike or beckham did with adidas.

look at the shower and kitchen photos- mr. skeleton is promoting mr. muscle cleaning products ?

Wow! It's incredible what faith in Christ can do :-)

British people are so creepy with their celebrity/queenism stuff... so glad we had a revolution.

I hope that's not "AMAZING" compared to the house you and your bro grew up in.

Standard Setter wrote:

British people are so creepy with their celebrity/queenism stuff... so glad we had a revolution.

Given (for the next couple months at least) you've got a reality TV star as president, I probably wouldn't criticize too much.

Coevett wrote:

rojo wrote:

Brits, where would you rank Farah in terms of most visible athletes? Like the Premiere League guys way above him?

Everybody knows Mo Farah because he was the face of the 2012 Olympics. Millions of people pay no attention to football and probably couldn't name one current England player, but everybody took notice of Olympics because it was a huge thing for the country. He is up there with David Beckham.

Amir Khan the Olympic boxing gold medalist and former world champion was paid £450,000 to appear a couple of years ago and that was the highest for a sportsman, and Mo is being paid £300,000. But I assume the amounts are less this year because they aren't stuck in the Australian jungle and everybody is in lockdown anyway.

Oh come on, he's nowhere near Beckham. That guy is a worldwide icon, even with people who know nothing about football.

Farah might make top 10 'most famous' sports people in this country. But unlikely, football is just on a different level.

Andy Murray is orders of magnitude more famous and so is Lewis Hamilton. Fury and Joshua by a long way. You might put Farah on a level with cyclists like Froome, Wiggins and Cavendish.

Nah, this is ridiculous. There are loads. Farah isn't more famous than Ronnie O'Sullivan, probably not even more famous than Phil Taylor.

Oh Please wrote:

What is amazing about that place? Looks like ceramic tile floors, engineered hard wood where the pool table is, a very basic 3x4 shower. ... I'm sure being in London it is quite expensive, but the quality itself is not impressive from what I see.

+1

I assume by British / London standards it is upmarket, but to describe the garden as "huge" is overselling it a bit from what one can see in the pictures.

We're talking about visibility in Britain. Mo is likely no more famous than the average distance running clone (with the exception of Kipchoge) outside of Britain, but I've never met anyone in GB who doesn't know who Mo Farah is. O'Sullivan has 365,000 followers on Instagram, Mo Farah just under 1 million. O'Sullivan has probably more worldwide followers than Mo does.

Ronnie O'Sullivan and Phil Taylor are both huge personalities in GB, with more visibility than 95% of Premier league footballers.

His homeland is somalia.

Outside of the few people who watch running on TV (of which there is very little) Mo isn't that famous now, 2012 was 8 years ago now. Though he has done a few Quorn commercials, most people would probably know him from those than anything else.

Not sure I'd call Ronnie and Phil 'huge personalities', again outside of the people who watch those (ahem) sports both are also not that well known - Ronnie even joined a running club and apparently not many there really knew who he was. If they all did a line up my sister who watches zero sport for example would probably pick out Mo as 'that running bloke' and that's about it.

I assume by British / London standards it is upmarket, but to describe the garden as "huge" is overselling it a bit from what one can see in the pictures.

The interior, no (that shower looks minging), but you're looking at a city with the 4th highest land values in the world, after Monaco, Hong Kong and New York.

That is a pretty nice and big garden for a house inside the M25. Having a painting of yourself above the sofa in the living room is a bit vain though.

catch wrote:

in the uk Mo transcends athletics. Pretty much everyone has heard of him. He is bigger than the majority of footballers.

He is hugely popular outside of athletes by joe public. in fact in the last 10 years i think only wayne rooney, and perhaps AJ is as well known outside their sports

Despite his popularity he hasnt really maximised his ability to sell sportwear in the same way jordan did with nike or beckham did with adidas.

I think it's by design that Mo + others don't have a shoe lines. You think they couldn't have unveiled the MoBot 1.0 in the fall of 2012 as a Pegasus-like substitute? I think Nike is about maximizing profits. Athletes, like Jordan, cut into that. It's way easier to build your brand around visibility. Make decent products. Have everyone wear the same thing. No royalties to individual athletes for footwear. People buying shoes see everyone in running in Nikes.

Everybody knows who Ronnie O'Sullivan is. I'm sure he said in his autobiography that the running club members just treated him like any other member and weren't interested in snooker. Ronnie started winning back in the early 90's when it was watched by millions.

Football isn't as popular as it used to be. Premiership clubs get most of their money from worldwide tv deals and sponsorships. I follow the sports news and still watch the occasional England or Premier league game and I could only name 3 or 4 of the current England team or recognise them in the street.

Referring back to the OP's question - Farah is definitely up there with top Premier league players, as is a handful of other British sportsmen such as Ronnie O'Sullivan, Chris Froome etc.

Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Andy Murray are probably on a slightly higher level now than any current Premier league player. England doesn't have a star at the moment even like Wayne Rooney, let alone Beckham.