Quote Originally Posted by Pissedofdon View Post
The whole deadline day thing is a complete embarrassment! There will come a point where those in the stands will just eventually give up on this! There was an interesting app on BBC website that showed that Neymar would take 24 minutes to earn my annual salary! It would take me 424 years to earn his annual salary.

F@ck that. It is obscene!
It is obscene if you think about it morally, but that isn't going to stop people going - no more than the huge amounts of money Mayweather/McGregor earned stopped people wanting to watch the fight, the huge amounts film stars make stop people going to the cinema and so on.

Will the bubble eventually burst? Possibly, but there are some reasons to think it won't matter that much if it does. Some of these clubs are backed by states and may as well have infinite resources. Even the ones that aren't explicitly owned by countries have a kind of under the table de facto guarantee that if they got into serious financial trouble they'd find a way out of it. At worst they'll drop down the leagues and come back again like Sevco. There is essentially a zero percent chance Real Madrid, Barcelona, PSG (and so on) will somehow cease to exist. Governments won't allow it, UEFA won't allow it, so there's no real jeopardy. Even a catastrophic financial collapse would be forgotten about in a few years.