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Utter madness........:td:

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Apparently you could get 77 Lee Cattermoles for that money.:D

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77 Lee Cattermoles might win you the title as well..:D

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Only if you could play them all at the same time.:D

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~£66m a year in wages before tax too. To put that in perspective that's roughly what Pogba, Aguero, Lewandowski, Dybala, Hazard and Reus get paid combined. It's more than most teams in the premier league pay their whole starting 11.

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Apparently Neymar and PSG lawyers turned up to pay the release clause this morning but La Liga have refused to accept it.

I get that the state of Qatar being the ones paying it is dodgy as hell but there doesn't seem to be any existing rules forbidding it so i can't see them getting away with refusing it. Unless they are hoping FIFA/UEFA will suddenly add a new rule before the end of the window, that seems unlikely though.

Whatever the case, this is a proper transfer drama saga :)

Edit - BBC link that will hopefully have more info later http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40814854

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It will go through eventually one suspects.

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Yeah I would imagine Barca will pressure them to accept it sooner rather than later so they can get moving with whoever they have in mind to replace him, they don't currently have anyone in the squad that comes close to being good enough.

It's already only 2 weeks until the new season starts so they are going to get fleeced for whoever it is. The likes of Dembele who before this saga would reasonably have went for £70-90m ish are suddenly going to cost them £100m+.

I kinda hope they end up with someone who isn't good enough tbh, things could do with being shaken up.

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Neymar £782,000 a week FFS football gone totally mad now

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40762417

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Christ, that's even worse than reported before. Roughly £1.5m per week before tax.

I'm a Manchester United fan and have seen loads of people asking why we didn't just pay his release clause and get him. Pogba's £89m transfer (on £190k a week last season rising 25% now we're in the CL) was mentioned non stop in every match last season, can you imagine the constant slagging we or any club in the league signing him would have gotten paying Neymar that ridiculous amount!

I sincerely hope that those kind of wages never reach the premier league. We slag of City for how they came about their money in the past but this is on a whole other level.

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He will earn 45m euros (£40.7m) a year - 865,000 euros (£782,000) a week - before tax

Which brings it to: £515,000 per week £73,571 per day £3,065 per hour £51 per minute

Even before tax it's technically still not the highest paid wage in the world to a Footballer with Lavezzi pocketing up to £800,000 a week at times and Tevez earning near £700,000 after tax by getting a weekly wage of 615,000 with a bonus if he appears on the pitch (appearance fee). It's just the highest seen in Europe. Even with wages in the equation, both Ronaldo and Messi both pocket near £80 million a year in endorsements, Ronaldo's endorsement with Nike is worth near a billion alone.

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http://www.itv.com/news/2017-08-03/p...ing-of-neymar/

I find this transfer absolutely disgusting. The biggest problem we have today in football is pure greed.

Its like Daniel Levy putting a 300.mil clause in Harry Kane or Alli contract. And someone comes up with the silly money.

And the club have to accept it.

I personally feel that at the end of the day, with this silly disgusting money. There has be a line that world football bodies have to say - enough is enough.

No matter who they are - no one is worth that much money to play 90 minutes football.

Its like Ronaldo said in court the other day ' Its only because its me that l am here' The biggest pampred little kid l have ever seen - over 500.000 a week. Ludicrous money.

And at the end of the day its US, who will end up paying more to get into grounds, more on shirts etc etc.

And yet lower clubs, that play in front of 600 fans get NOTHING, from the FA or world football.

Agents make all the money, clubs make all the money. And the fans get an increase.

I read recently that Spurs are top of pile for expensive stuff. My son tried to buy a new Spurs shirt from Sports Direct recently, and he was quoted £75.00

I told the salesman - l want the shirt not the hanger as well, he just laughed,

Disgusting sort of money.

In fact to prove a point. When Spurs play at Wembley against Juventus. The company organising it are reducing prices as they cannot sell enough tickets. As the game is being organised by another company - fans being ripped off at every time

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My season ticket at United has remained the same price for the past six years now. ;)

Home shirt is £50 for kids, £60 for adults, still wouldn't get me paying that for a replica shirt. :(

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A total rip off as you say especially when they only cost about a fiver to make.:td:

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Sod all this silly money. The FA Cup and the long road to Wembley starts for my local team today. Go out and support a real team in stead of paying Sky and these overpaid irrelevant 'teams', with players and supporters that don't have any connection or soul.