Please help me explain the meaning of the sentence.
The football experts thought Rooney was the golden boy who would replace Beckham as the new face of football . But the hype died down as soon as the question of dollars traslated into sense. Sure, Rooney is a very good player, declared one commentator, but what could he possibly sell--- "potatoes"?
And then in the next paragraph the author begins to talk about the importance of a player's ablity to sell products related to football. I don't quiet understant the sentence as previously mentioned from "But ...to sense" .
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It's a play on words: dollars and cents. By using "sense", the writer means "being sensible" or "a sensible result". As you can break a dollar down into cents, you can also understand "dollars" to mean "the financial aspect", and "sense" as "practicality". A lot of talk about money, but can it be done in practice?
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I think that the sentence should end like this 'as soon as the question of dollars translated into cents.'
Cents are a smaller unit of money than dollars.
This phrase is saying that when discussions became more detailed, the hype died down as people realized that there were problems.
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I think he was being over-payed because he was simply an okay footballer. Or that they were paying him too much considering he couldn't sell products the way that he should.
A sports fan might do better with this question.
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