Transfer Rumours Messi. £800k per week.

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Bizarreknives

Bizarreknives

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Let that sink in for a minute.

Apparently that is after tax, he will then have loads of add ons which will take it to well over £1million per week. For a footballer, over a million squid a week. **** me. The world has officially gone mad.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see Messi in the Premier League but these figures are just ridiculous.
 
Bizarreknives said:
Let that sink in for a minute.

Apparently that is after tax, he will then have loads of add ons which will take it to well over £1million per week. For a footballer, over a million squid a week. **** me. The world has officially gone mad.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see Messi in the Premier League but these figures are just ridiculous.
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Obscene !

Ps. Great work if you can get it !!!
 
If you've got the money, spend it I say.

This game should never be used for profit by club owners.
 
And how much t.v./ video/ magazine revenue does he bring in for Barca? I see your point, mate - it's an awful lotta money. But we've been there - a world celebrity like Stanley Matthews bringing in massive crowds wherever in the world he went on an insulting £20 a week. You do have a point mate, no doubt about it. But i hope never to see those times again. I don't know the answers.
 
Gil T Azell said:
Greedy mercenary tw*t. Only wants to leave Spain because of the changing tax laws.
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Haway Gil. His financial advisers are only telling him what my financial advisers would tell me if I was in that position. I'd do exactly the same, man. Sadly, I'm not in that position, so I can't prove it right now. <laugh>

It's the name of the game, y'know - rich men like to stay rich. Wouldn't you? I would.
 
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BalesBalls said:
Might be a struggle to spend a million a week after a few months
You think Glazier and Short risk their money just for the fun of it
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No. That's not what I said.

Sunderland evidently could not afford that.

United could, it depends on the transfer fee. We are the richest club in the world don't you know <laugh>

Sensible financial responsibility and great marketing <ok>
 
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United could, it depends on the transfer fee. We are the richest club in the world don't you know <laugh>

Sensible financial responsibility and great marketing <ok>[/QUOTE]






Just proves richest is not always the best
and most want to play for the 2nd richest <laugh>
 
I remember when Kaka was the football's big thing and City were reported to going to be offering him 500k a week. I said at the time that if that happened I would like the game as a whole a lot less. If Messi gets 800k a week, for me to be even slightly ok with it I would want to read an article that broke down how much revenue he was making City per week in return. If he was making them positive ROI I'd start to accept it. No way would Kaka make positive ROI on 500k......Messi is so marketable that positive ROI on 800k is a possibility.

It's like having a problem with the Queen because she cost several million to the tax payer. The royals might cost several million but they generate many times the cost in tourism and are almost universally popular overseas. Regardless of whether you think royals are an ethical thing to force on a population they are ROI and business dynamite. Messi kind of fits under the same category for me. If he came on that money he better be better than Ronaldo, Shearer, Henry et al by a margin.

I do though have a massive problem with the other twats in football demanding 500k+ because Messi is getting it. Bell ends like Yaya 'needs a cake' Toure and Wayne 'regain' Rooney holding clubs to ransom because Messi smashed the wage ceiling. I think 800k a week would be so damaging for what it would do to the general wage ceiling. I'd prefer the EPL stuck with the policy of buying the world's best youth: Martial, Hazard (at the time), Depay (got some work to do). EPL will rise again to be top in a few years. It's all cycles. EPL was dominant in the 00's now its La Liga.
 
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