There's a reason "86 million" is in quotation marks.
Then Toni Kroos cost "72 million" if he has 7M per year.
Usually you don't have to pay a father to have his son playing for your football club. That is just insane. The fact that Barca did so anyhow, still makes me wanna punch someone, and I'm not even a Barca fan.
Signing on-fees are not unusual. Neymar was wanted by all big teams in the world so I don't really care if we give the money to the player or to his club. 57M was a great deal.
Supposedly that is reason why Iniesta and Messi got contract extensions... Not sure... Anyway how much does Iniesta earn now??... Messi is 20M net i think
Yes, Messi has a clause that he has to be the highest earner wage wise so basically he didn't need the extension because he still got the highest one. Only problem was that the 40M signing on fee is obviously also some sort of wage so after that went public they had to give Messi more because otherwise Neymar would earn shitloads more than Messi.
I don't know about Iniesta, it's possible that they also just gave him a raise because of it although I don't think he has a similar clause. They might just have given him a raise so that he wouldn't feel screwed over.