So, BBZ can I ask you a question? Who do you think was the best player between Suarez, Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar, Bale, Benzema? And what criteria did you use to come to this conclusion?
A good question, but very debatable.
The best player should be a mixture of awesome skills, but also with an end product and some trophies behind him.
Imagine a player with the best skills, but he never scores or make assists.
Or his team never wins trophies.
On the other hand, if you have a player with weaker skills, like 90%, but he scores 20 goals (compared to a first guy with 0 goals), plus he always delivers in finals and his team is winning trophies.
Messi:
-- 100% skills, awesome end product, he delivers trophies
Cr7:
-- 80% skills, awesome end product, delivers key trophies
Suarez:
-- 80% skills, awesome end product, delivers key trophies
Bale:
-- 90% skills, good end product, delivers trophies
Benz:
-- 80% skills, very good end product, delivers trophies
Ney:
-- 90% skills, his end product could be better, delivers trophies
So, you see, since all these 6 players have all needed skills, I just can't rate Neymar as better than some other guys, just because he nutmegs players and has better dribbles sometimes.
On a highest level, for me an end product and the highest prizes like CLs are what matters the most.
So, in the last 3 years:
Cr7 and Bale delivered more than our guys because of 2 Cls.
And among our 3 guys, Messi and Suarez delivered more.
But since Messi is Messi, if you ask me about the last 3 years:
1. Messi
2. Cr7
3. Bale
4. Suarez
5. Benz
6. Neymar
If we want to give more weight/importance to 2 La ligas, then:
1. Messi
2. Cr7
3. Suarez
4. Bale
5. Benz/Ney
What are you saying his transfer fee was?
His new contract wont 'ruin the team'. It makes it stronger.
Transfer fee
1. money to santos
2. money to his dad
3. money to DIS
4. penalties after a transfer, paid on court by Barca
5. new penalties to DIS, signed in Ney's renewed contract where DIS says that 40m paid to his dad are a part of a transfer fee, so DIS asks now additional 17M fee to them
Barca is offering 7m. So, we will pay additional 7 or up to 17m for Neymar's transfer in this year.
6. money paid for the first option on Santos's players which is only a cheating and that is actually money paid for Neymar
So, you see, if the original fee was 80-90 Millions, it has climbed up to 110-120 Millions in this year.
So, Neymar is in reality the highest paid player ever.
This is my problem about money paid for him and his return of that investment, which imo, is not worth all that money.
Before someone says: but he is the best LW.
Well, imagine if Verratti costs 200 Millions.
Ok, he is the best.
But if he costs 200M, and we can buy 4 players for 50+50+50+50 Millions, then Verratti is NOT worth 200 Millions.
He is good, but not THAT (200m) good.
The same is with Ney in my eyes. He is good, but not 120m good+insane wages.
About wages, other key players like Messi and Suarez will now ask for higher wages because of Ney's new wages.
Then the board will give them new contracts.
Then other guys will ask higher wages also (Busi, Ini, Raki etc).
Higher wages mean higher expenses and that means less money for transfers of new players.
So, to some extent, each million paid for a renovation of Ney, Messi and other guys is less Millions for a new RB, a new LB, a new CB, a new CM etc.
If Ney, Messi and Suarez all have wages 10+10+10 Millions, then you will have, let's say 80M for transfers in the next summer.
If Ney's wages go to 20M, now you have only 70m for transfers in the next season.
If Messi and Suarez now ask for 20m also, now we'll have only 50m for transfers next summer.
If Busi, Ini and Raki now ask 8M instead of 5m (example), then our transfer money next summer drops further from 50 m to 47, 44 and 41 m after 3 renewals (Ini, Busi, Raki).
So, you see, it is a domino effect.
Ney's renewal will strengthen our team in terms that we will keep an awesome player, but when other players will ask for a renovation, then Ney's renewal will actually cause a domino effect and a drop in transfer money available from 80m to 40-ish M.
So, you see, more or less, Ney's renewal and domino effect afterwards, is weakening our team and leaving us with less funds for a CB, RB, LB, CM and a 4th striker.
So, one more time, I am NOT happy with the amount of money invested in Ney's transfer and wages, compared with consequences on our other players and a future transfer money.
And then when you add that his end product is weaker than Benz's, Bale's, Cr7's, Messi's, Suarez's, then I don't think that my whining about Ney and all this money invested in him are totally unreasonable.
