He's going to earn £35m a year (after tax). Alright if you can get it! How long will it be before the sport becomes completely non contact as you can't risk a £200m player getting kicked! Imagine the insurance premiums as well. Sadly it stopped being a game in 1992 and has only become more clinical and financially driven. The daft thing is they may spend £198m on him but he'll probably make them a fortune in commercial revenue in places like Asia every year. They won't be paying £200m unless they know how much money he'll make them (aside from improving their team). To think.... that could buy them 100 Andy Yiadoms!
Liverpool will be laughing their cocks off if barca get that. They will be able to name their price for coutinho now
I don't think this is that crazy compared to other transfers. Neymar's one of the very best in the world, he's a global superstar, still with his best years in front of him. 29 year old Matic for £40m & 27 year old Walker for £50m are dafter fees in my opinion
Who's paying for it? We are. Increased ticket prices, ever increasing Sky fees, replica shirts every year. All to go into the pockets of footballers and their agents. I forgot about the millions being spent by clubs that they simply haven't got or by the billionaires who don't give a toss I suppose but time and again us supporters lie down and allow ourselves to be dictated to. If ever a supporters body gained enough strength to flex some muscle with boycotts of games etc things might change but I'm afraid it will never happen.
To put this into perspective, the new Spurs stadium is forecast to cost £450m, meaning Neymar will be worth nearly half of a brand new 60,000-seater stadium. But Neymar won't last for decades like White Hart Lane will. I wonder at what point a player will play in a new ground that cost less than the player did.
When I first started watched Barnsley in 1968, the record transfer fee in this country was £150,000 paid to Fulham by Leicester City for Allan Clarke. The world record was £500,000 for an Italian player called Anastasi (sp), but I can't remember the clubs involved.
I suppose it depends upon how many of those Mike Sherons could play at one time. I imagine if twenty of those Mike Sherons played twenty games they might score a goal between them. Eventually with enough Mike Sherons the goal per game ratio could theoretically equal one, though I wouldn't like to put money on it. Now If you were to put £198m in pound coins on the pitch, preferably in front of the goal, you'd always keep a clean sheet, so I imagine that's something to consider, though then you'd have the problem of carrying around £198m in pound coins. I imagine you'd need a lorry, so you'd lose some paying for the parking. The average salary of a traffic warden is around £17,000, so you could just spend it all on 11,647 traffic wardens. At £65 a ticket you'd need 3,046,153, or 8,345.6 a day to recoup your £198m. That's not even one per day per each one of your traffic wardens.
Neymar is worth every penny. Why? Because if he wasn't then PSG would not have paid it. Supply and demand.
