You both really don't understand how wealthy countries like Qatar and the UAE and I'm not talking about GDP per capita. For example, their sovereign wealth fund (SWF) manages above trillion in funds. One sovereign wealth fund like Abu Dhabi Investment Authority manages above 800 billion in a fund, they have several state owned funds so you can guess the figures. That's without counting oil & gas revenue.
[MENTION=19476]mssarm[/MENTION] it's not throwing money, they are investing in a product/player that will generate big revenue for the club from marketing and sales.
Finally the shirt sales concept came out. I was surprised that no one mentioned it. Please tell me how much Neymar alone will generate in revenues, considering that if you pay 220M for the player +30 M in salaries, equals to 250M and if you do the stupidest thing and put that cash in the most conservative line of investment of 10% that will generate 25M annually. At the end of the day these guys are making investments and they are not in shopping spree. At the end of the first year PSG will be in hole 280M by most conservative calculations, how do you think Neymar is going to recover that money? They are not going to win CL , they are not making as much money like other European powerhouses and they were dumb enough to pay in lump sum, unlike other big clubs. Do the math yourself. By the way this is completely pointless, because Neymar already denied all the allegations.
By the way no one gives a shit on per Capita, we are talking about GDP here. On the paper Qatar's GDP doesn't look great and after latest development it will look even worse. You are making the assumptions that wealthy people splash their cash around which is not the case.
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