He doesn't really care. He's just gone for the half million a week.
Neymar joins PSG on a five year deal
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Or they wont sign such high clauses so that other teams can afford them.
These are the same guys that, in 2013, 'agreed' a 200m euro-a-year sponsorship deal, and even had the cheek to backdate it to the previous year. I wouldn't put it past them.
When you're already at a great club, playing with the best players and playing the best matches and have already made a fortune? Then it's just greed.
Lets see how deep the probe from FFP/UEFA goes into this matter. If they find any discrepancies of which you can be sure there are they will have to punish them which will have long lasting effects on sugar daddy clubs and their football groups. It can although only happen if Barca can get other big clubs like Bayern/real/us/juve/Athletico/Arsenal/Dortmund etc on their side. Otherwise it will be a license to state funded clubs to do as they please and treat FFP as a joke. This deal will have large consequences for football either way. If UEFA clamp down on the sorces of the funds then you can epect market to be stable-r otherwise for every average joe you will have to pay 30-40 million.
PSG rubbing it in
Just for shit and giggles, they should have photoshoped him in a Barca kit on that picture.
I honestly believe all of this is leading to a possibility of Pep Guardiola going to PSG IF it doesn't work out at City in the next year or two. Just an opinion don't shoot me.
The money being spent on Neymar is amazing and I just get a feeling this could be his escape route should City fail to win honours.
The money being spent on Neymar is amazing and I just get a feeling this could be his escape route should City fail to win honours.
I've done the same in my own working life. Granted it's not quite the same level.. I'm a shit load happier.
Also no one ever has "enough" money. Your concept of money changes depending on circumstance.
I bet that City's new signings combined are only earning around that.
I can imagine all of La Liga are doing the same. There's got to be some gems out there whose once high buy out clauses now look relatively cheap.
I could definitely see that. PSG are obsessed with big names.
1) FFP were never meant for clubs like City and PSG.
2) This transfer isn't different to what City have spent this year for example. In fact, City have spend this season more than PSG (and last season too, and the season before that too).
People have lost their shit because it was PSG getting a Barca top player, not the other way around. Elitists can go and feck themselves.
Isn't the tax rate like 70% over in France? That would work out at about £2 million a week before tax. Mental.
It's a logical deduction as Pep only signs for clubs where he can activate cheat mode.
Men are greedy by default, it's in our biological make up. It's easy to sit here and pontificate but if you are presented with that much money then it's hard to say no.
Of course, not all players are motivated solely by financial gains. Some will choose to forgo some of it for arbitrary reasons known only to themselves, but choosing more money doesn't make you any worse as a person.
I think they changed that a few years back.
Edit: From what I can see, the highest band is now 45%.
Mourinho's next job, I reckon.
And that's going to mean them spending a large chunk of that £203m on contracts.
Ah, fair enough mate.
I could step down for £30m a year.
With my eye sight and speaking with the red tinted glasses I've just put on I'd like to disagree with you're statement and pray Mourinho is here for the long haul because he is the closest thing to Sir Alex. He's won 2 major trophies in his first year and he has us looking like we can challenge. I have faith that as long as Mourinho has success at Utd he won't leave.
If he doesn't then, well that's another story.
Jose wouldn't go to the French League.
The fee Barça payed for Neymar was crazier than the fee PSG are paying now. He's worth the money and he'll prove it.
It is factual. For the most part of the last decade (which is last 6 seasons), City have been better than United. I didn't say the whole decade, so not sure why would you take 2007-2017. The most part of the last decade is 2011/12 - 2016/2017. During this period, City have been the better team of Manchester.
You keep forgetting that you lost 4-0 on the field and that the draw was lost 6-5. I will make fun of PSG's fans for a long time but Barcelona can't really brag either.
I'm sure he could be per$uad€d.
Sure, most part of the decade, conveniently excluding the part of the decade when Utd were massively more successful.
Your argument is laughable. We were only really worse than them the last 4 seasons (and last season we were arguably better winning 2 trophies to their 0). The decline in performance has been to our own mismanagement, not financial disadvantage. Your strenuous attempt to try linking the two together is feeble at best.
It's your post that is truly bullshit for many reasons. See below
No. A free-market economy is based on...freedom. The shareholder is free to invest via equity or leverage. PSG isn't a monopoly in itself...PSG/City aren't an oligopoly...
PSG is a private business and a State has the right to invest. PSG version Qatar exists, no?
Free-market economy and "fair competition" are 2 different ideas even if inter-linked in a certain sense.
Leverage is a typical example of financial doping: common practice, no?
You are shocked to see shareholders who want to invest equity and develop a business plan. Are equity contributions forbidden in the business world? No.
A return on investment can be calculated over a long period of time. Investments in the brand development or in players can create directly and indirectly value in the long run.
Any asset has to be taken into account in the market value of a company.
So, they do expect a return on investment.... but not in a short period of time (30 days for example)
City & PSG shareholders are long-term investors, like it or not. The 1st step is to develop the brand and win the Champions League. Then, they will be very probably more cautious.
So, why do you want to calculate a return on investment now while their strategy is to create value in the long run (Business plan of 30 years at least)?
It isn't forbidden for an investor to show off.
Once again, financial doping is a common practice in accounting.
Ridiculous apocalyptic discourse TBH
The players have the right to change of clubs and there is the principle of freedom of contract.
Of course, the UEFA is free to regulate its own competitions as it wishes.
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That contradicts the mentality of most successful people. Imagine asking Warren Buffett why he didn't stop at 1billion.
And who cares if people think you're greedy when at the end of the contract you are sitting with £150m in your bank.
PSG and Barca now have a legitimate rivalry. The comeback, Verrati and now Neymar.But feck PSG and any state run club.
Loving this... Spain getting what they have been doing for years.
I agree with that.
When he arrived, it was a risky investment.
PSG on the other hand are buying a tried and tested player (at the highest level). He is reliable. Entering his peak. Has a huge commercial following.
£200M is about the right fee for him.
His wages are very high, though.
Buffett isn't driven by money, it is merely a by- product of his obsession.
In Neymar's case, it certainly seems that money is of paramount importance to him and his father.
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