People forget that ballon d'or is offered by a company , lucrative one " magazine " .. the mass appeal is a real factor. there are several factors taken into consideration and actual football is just one, when football should be the only factor ( ideal world)
A Croatian journalist who writes always about Spanish league says that Messi will sign a new contract worth 35 M per year (in the first year) and it will grow to 40 M in upcoming few years (wage will be higher in each new year).
Also, a journalist says that since Barca signed expensive extensions with MSN now, that we will have very limited amounts of money to spend both in winter and next summer.
Basically, new wages will "eat" majority of potential transfer money.
Papers say that even Barto is not too happy about how high wages MSN have currently.
(I know, people will say: they will leave if we don't give them high wages, but still...)
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Best part of this friendly was Murtaza got to meet Messi
The original source of this is As, so it's better to wait and see. There was already a similar news back in the day, with similar values, and it was bs. As is a crappy source for Barça news. They also lied about neymar's and suarez's wages.
But do they really need wages that high? We saw from CR7 income list that 90% of his incomes are from endorsment deals and that his salary which is super high for football standards is nothing in comparison to his other incomes.
I imagine its the same for Messi and Neymar, not sure about Suarez tough ....
In NBA star players take a pay cut (not Kobe ) so the team can bring in quality players for them to play with.
If Messi is going to get 30 + million a year what will that do to team chemistry? New players will look at that see the breadcrumbs they are getting and tell themselves "well for the money he is being payed he can run a little bit more and play defense so i dont have to do that for him while getting 4 milion a year".
Its a slippery slope.