Yes, of course 500k a week, what paper was it saying Balotelli move wasn't happening because he demanded 180k a week, yet today its almost a done deal at 23million and only 60k a week, thats quite a wage drop isn't it.
SEriously, the papers seem so anti Man City, before City every deal was X millions for the transfer and Y wages, all of a sudden since the City got money season every deal is £80million, but its really £30mil transfer and 5mil a year or something for 5 years, which is a £100k a week which is fairly standard for someone like a Tevez/Robinho. But if he'd gone to chelsea it would be reported as a £30mil transfer and 100k a week.
Ronaldo wasn't called a £150mil transfer, it was 80mil, and x amount per week.
I suspect that Yaya really isn't on 200k a week +, but its transfer + wages = what will average 200k a week, but thats not dissimilar to the value of many transfers from Real/utd/Chelsea/Barca over the years.
It does seem to be specifically targeting City with this new method of classifying the cost of a deal.
I mean what would Zlatan be on now, it was circa 60mil euro's, plus a 50mil euro striker, 110mil euro's, plus lets say £100k a week on say a 5 year contract, is another 50mil. Is it called a 160mil euro transfer though? No, it was barely noticed in the press as being anything more than a 50-60mil deal and very little fuss was made over the price, even compared to Kaka/Ronaldo/Alonso deals the price was barely even thought about.
But what would 160mil euro's count as over a 5 year deal, £140mil maybe(no idea what the exchange rate is right now), so 140mil/260 weeks.......... 0.53mil per week, or 503k a week deal IF you wanted to call it that.
Considering how much Barca must be realising they paid for this ridiculous deal, and they debt they are in, consider he would probably cost them 70-80mil to buy, and he'd move way up from 100k a week, and you're at 500k a week and more, if you really want to classify it like that, even though he'd been on only 100-150k a week.
EDIT:- if we really want to classify these deals like that, Berbatov 30mil, 4 year contract was it?, lets say, pretty conservatively he's on 100k a week, 30mil + 208x100k ends up as 244k a week, again IF you want to classify the deal like that.
Seriously you see this in Baseball, american footie and the Beckham MLS deal, but till City started spending big it was basically unheard of for European football to classify deals as such and its also why the deals look so ruddy ridiculous, but classified like that, Berbatov is on 40k+ a week more than the ridiculous Yaya deal.
