El Flaco
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yeah, any1 knows what that was about. Looked like they were talking sign language lol
[gfy]ConsiderateMessyBarracuda[/gfy]
yeah, any1 knows what that was about. Looked like they were talking sign language lol
25 million? He basically got double salary and Barca gets only 10 mil. increased release clause.
Bending over for Neymar has no limits.
15M for neymar and 25M for messi is very fair. One is best player in the world and other is most marketable. But what the fuck are those bonuses? Who the fuck even gets 70-80% of their salary as bonuses seriously?
Who the fuck even gets 70-80% of their salary as bonuses seriously?
See BBZ, you can provide reasonable criticism.
Expensive, true, but the club looks at itself as a business. Whether he wins us trophies or not, merchandising will most probably recoup most if not all the money you pay for him.
Of course, if you keep playing below par, the marketability is lost and you don't bring in as much in ancillary revenue. It's connected, but in the short term, it's a business investment, even if you want to argue that the footballing investment isn't sound.
Expensive, true, but the club looks at itself as a business.
15M for neymar and 25M for messi is very fair. One is best player in the world and other is most marketable. But what the fuck are those bonuses? Who the fuck even gets 70-80% of their salary as bonuses seriously?
couldnt't have said it better, social media ruined all sportsThis part is true and it should be added into a context when we love and hate Neymar.
Seeing how much we are paying for him (transfer fee, all penalties and problems afterwards and currently insane wages plus huge bonuses), it is clear lately that Neymar is not "only" a footballer (like Rakitic, Roberto, Alba for example) but a huge marketing business today.
I am not saying that he is not playing well or that he has zero impact.
But sport turned into a huge (strange) business and into a huge show, not necessarily related only to sport results and trophies.
The irony, to some extent is, that we (Barca) always claimed that we are more than a club, that we are not only a business.
And a lot of us remember how around 2005, our fans laughed at Perez and Galacticos, since they were buying only marketable superstars, while we had a team built around cheaper and less marketable players (Ronaldinho, Etoo, Xavi vs R9, Zidane, Figo, Beckham) and we were stealing all the trophies and all the show on a field.
There were talks back then how Ronaldinho is too ugly to be a Galactico etc.
Barca went from a club which relied only on onfield success and pride, into a team which sold it's logo to Quatar and similar, into a team which turned into new Galacticos (with Neymar and his wages), plus in general, my opinion is that football and average football fans became dumber (I am NOT talking about this forum, but about population and sport fans in general).
10-20 years ago, it was mostly about sport, player's skills and team's success.
Lately a sport is not anymore only about skills and trophies, but about who is predestined to be a superstar with a combo of: fotballing skills, good looks, shiny haircuts, media popularity, number of followers etc.
I guess that a lot of people can argue that a pure skills and onfield success is not a factor No1 in modern sport anymore.
To some extent, I am starting to miss the good old days when football was only about your skills and either you a God on a field or not, and off field things didn't matter:
And in the last decade, football turned into a hollywood-ish show with:
Since a youngest generation of fans is buying this thing, in the future football will probably turn even more into this direction.