Reply With QuoteDoes it? Or should it be calculated over the rest of his life?Originally Posted by sidders
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According to Record Sport, Messi has agreed financial terms on a five-year contract worth a total of €700m (£623m).
The incredible deal would make the Argentine the highest-paid individual in the history of the sport.
It equates to £14,200 an hour, £341,000 per day, £2.4m every week and a whopping £10.4m per month.
Messi is set to spend three seasons at the Etihad before joining City Football Group's (CFG) Major League Soccer side New York City FC for two years.
How obscene is this payout for a 33 year old footballer when across the same city an international player is fronting an initiative to ensure that youngsters have enough food on their plate?
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Does it? Or should it be calculated over the rest of his life?
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So Man City are going to pay £1.4 billion on a single player who is 33 years old? Can't see that happening to be honest. Especially now anyone who signs him have the pay a £700million transfer fee
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That won't happen. Will still be a daft fee involved probably, but nowhere near that. Barcelona will find a way of letting him go whilst still saving face.
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Rashford also gets paid an 'obscene' amount of money (although, admittedly, not at Messi's level). And Messi also fronts his own significant children's foundation. Not that either of this equates to their wages.
My answer would usually be that if people are prepared to pay it, then they're worth it, especially where the money comes from punters paying £50 a month for Sky Sports. But the pot seems to have been swelled by billionaires around the world putting money in and over-inflating the game's worth somewhat. I see an implosion at some point.
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Describing him as "a 33 year old footballer" isn't really doing him justice.
This is arguably the greatest footballer of all time and one of the best sportsmen in general that's ever lived, even at 33 the money a team would make in marketing with him and with shirt sales would be just as obscene as the figures you've quoted and him ending up in america, in the huge market that New York is, when football is ever growing over there would also be massive. Nobody is signing him for his ability alone, despite him still being world class
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Is he the greatest of all time? The only club he's ever played for is Barcelona, he's never shone in a world cup and only vaguely in the champion's league. The Spanish league is not of a high standard once you get past Barcelona and Real Madrid, next tier is athletico Madrid and possibly Seville and then no one, in fact, I'm sure there was a part time club in la Liga a year or so back
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He's won it 4 times, scoring 115 goals in 143 games, tbf.
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He 's been at Barcelona since he was about 8 years old I believe and played with the same players in the same country.
Ronaldo left home and came to foreign country at 17 couldn't speak the language didn't know anyone and after a difficult start became a super star.
He then left for another country helped his team win four champions league and became an even bigger superstar.
He is now playing at the top level in Italy and scoring loads of goals again.
He also is a superstar at international level and against all odds helped them win the European Nations trophy.
Messi is a more gifted player but Ronaldo as had to work hard at his game and is also brilliant in the air, he is a credit at 35 years old.
I think they are both the best players we have seen in the modern era.
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Only a minor point but surely you're overlooking the talent that was Sean Canham and the legendary Steve Scoffham?
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