Firstly NHL and NFL have humoungous wages for a good few players per team, I didn't think there was a wage cap per player, but a team based one? Maybe I'm mostly thinking of baseball who have some truly absurd wages.
The fact is they can pay what they want, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone got the wrong end of the stick, like he played them for fools and got a huge signing bonus otherwise he wouldn't leave Barca.
Its funny, when Chelsea were signing people the value of the transfer was how much they paid for the player flat out, as soon as City started spending big, they started adding wages over the contract + transfer fee to inflat it over previous numbers seen.
I can't believe he's on 221k a week to be honest, Tevez, Ade, and well, the teams best players aren't. Though Toure can say he's a champs league final winner, league winner, etc, etc. He is also very good, Barca are getting quite well, racist at the moment, dropping non Spanish players left right and centre, for worse options, Messi doesn't really count since he's been there for ages.
Its probably some calculation , signing on fee, plus wages, maybe even throwing in the transfer fee, who ruddy knows.
We also don't know what ridiculous wages Barca had him on, he might have been on 150k a week, which in England would only get you 75k a week after tax, but in Spain would get you closer to 115k, so he might have only wanted to come if they could match his post tax earnings.
The fact is, thats how much money is in TV in the prem league, and other leagues, and I don't see why the players shouldn't get the majority of it. Likewise, a successful year in the league and champs league, IE winning both, nets you close to 100mil more than a team coming 8th without any Euro games, from tickets/winnings in each round and the money for winning both titles, so its not like IF they won things, spending money to do so is madness.
We've already seen people leave Chelsea and other huge clubs, to get football on lower wages, and CHelsea's/Utd's 120-140k a week for certain players hasn't managed to push up Arsenal's wages, let alone say Bolton's, and neither will City's. Likewise I can't see any evidence Chelsea's spending ruined the league, especially as their spending in the past 3 years hasn't been bigger than any other top club. Real/Barca's spending over the past decade, still dwarfs what Chelsea/City have spent. Real have been big spending for 15 years, and are still spending massively.
...theres no way he worth that much and sure hes a decent player but if he cant even hold down a starting place at Barca...that says it all really.
