Yeah, so basically the transfer itself was only about €17.1m, a decent price, then the other €40m was a signing bonus for his contract and the "commission."

Apparently this is the leaked document. Source

zeo

Serbia6334 Posts

July 11 2013 16:28 GMT

#664

Wonder if the deal Real Madrid offered had a '40m to Neymar' clause in it, or if that impacted which team he chose in the end..

mavignon

France369 Posts

July 11 2013 18:12 GMT

#665

That's so wrong that they use Ballon d'Or voting for primes.

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

July 11 2013 18:14 GMT

#666

Wow what the fuck, why does someone need to be paid €40million to play for Barcelona, da fuck

wingpawn

Poland1342 Posts

July 11 2013 18:36 GMT

#667

Well, that 40 million fee for Neymar is plain stupid and basically kills any rudiments of free transfer market in football. I mean normally, clubs compete for players' signatures by offering higher fees and wages BUT, as a flipside to that, players have to also compete between each other by knowing that if they demand too much, their potential buyers might turn his back on them and hire someone else for more reasonable price. Apparently, that mechanism of keeping wage and fee hyperinflation died. Top tier teams somehow cannot stand failed negotiations and allow those absurd deals to happen. Is it because they are so determined not to let their targets to join direct Champions League rivals --- or perhaps they just assume there are no players of Neymar's potential anywhere available? Either way, now that the last bastion of transfer reason is out of the game (Sir Alex Ferguson) I'm expecting it getting even more nonsensical in forthcoming years.

However, there's always a chance that some of those 40 millions were actually transfered 'behind the scenes' to Santos in order to avoid taxing or something. Or at least there are some complicated achievement clauses Neymar has to complete in order to ever see that kind of money. That or Barcelona's management just went full retard.

Kleinmuuhg

Vanuatu4091 Posts

July 11 2013 18:46 GMT

#668

its not like they "just" went full retard. As a lot of people already have pointed out, their history is full with aweful decisions ( from a business perspective).

Stratos_speAr

United States6959 Posts

July 11 2013 20:17 GMT

#669

Is anyone besides me watching the Euro Women's Cup? I'm watching Germany vs. the Netherlands, and It's pretty disturbing for two reasons.

1) This is the worst fucking refereeing I've ever seen. I mean yea, I've given FIFA/UEFA refs a lot of shit for bad calls, but holy shit this stuff looks like they pulled some random idiot off the street and put 'em in a ref's uniform. Calls are completely inconsistent, entirely missed, or completely made up when there is no foul at all.

2) The skill being displayed is shockingly terrible. Germany is supposed to be (arguably) the best women's team in the world, and I think they've won the last several Euro's, but fuck, both teams are awful. Horrible strikes, horrible decision-making, everyone's on the ground after the slightest contact, no hustle, wow. And yea, you can just say, "Well it's the women's game", but I've had the lucky pleasure to be widely exposed to the American women's team, and this shit does NOT happen by either the U.S. team or anyone they play. Women's play is hardly this bad, as I've seen it be quite good and very exciting a number of times.

Game just ended 0-0. Literally the single worst fucking game I've ever seen in my life in any sport ever on the professional level.

zeo

Serbia6334 Posts

July 11 2013 20:29 GMT

#670

I watched Norway versus Island, Island was fighting the whole of the second half but there was some truly pathetic finishing from them...but it was cute. In the end you don't watch womens football expecting mens lvl of play.
Oh and apparently fans from Sweden and Denmark clashed in the streets, don't think they really care who is playing

EDIT: oh and women referee's are lol, some of them are really good but the overall level is appalling

Maenander

Germany4926 Posts

July 11 2013 20:40 GMT

#671

On July 12 2013 05:17 Stratos_speAr wrote:
Is anyone besides me watching the Euro Women's Cup? I'm watching Germany vs. the Netherlands, and It's pretty disturbing for two reasons.

1) This is the worst fucking refereeing I've ever seen. I mean yea, I've given FIFA/UEFA refs a lot of shit for bad calls, but holy shit this stuff looks like they pulled some random idiot off the street and put 'em in a ref's uniform. Calls are completely inconsistent, entirely missed, or completely made up when there is no foul at all.

2) The skill being displayed is shockingly terrible. Germany is supposed to be (arguably) the best women's team in the world, and I think they've won the last several Euro's, but fuck, both teams are awful. Horrible strikes, horrible decision-making, everyone's on the ground after the slightest contact, no hustle, wow. And yea, you can just say, "Well it's the women's game", but I've had the lucky pleasure to be widely exposed to the American women's team, and this shit does NOT happen by either the U.S. team or anyone they play. Women's play is hardly this bad, as I've seen it be quite good and very exciting a number of times.

Game just ended 0-0. Literally the single worst fucking game I've ever seen in my life in any sport ever on the professional level.

The German team has lost like 5 or 6 key players to injuries before the Euro Cup. But frankly, even without injuries, Germany would not be as good as they have been in the past.

And still a draw vs the Netherlands is a very bad result.

aseq

Netherlands3993 Posts

July 11 2013 23:19 GMT

#672

Anouk Hoogendijk. The results don't matter

Ferrose

United States11378 Posts

July 12 2013 00:04 GMT

#673

Southampton sign Victor Wanyama. That midfield is going to tear up the Prem...

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

July 12 2013 00:13 GMT

#674

wtf how did they get him before arsenal

Copymizer

Denmark2105 Posts

July 12 2013 00:18 GMT

#675

Next season Bayern München will be interesting to see, especially Guardiolas tactics. Interesting info here guys http://www.marca.com/2013/07/11/en/football/international_football/1373527212.html

Ferrose

United States11378 Posts

July 12 2013 00:33 GMT

#676

On July 12 2013 09:18 Copymizer wrote:
Next season Bayern München will be interesting to see, especially Guardiolas tactics. Interesting info here guys http://www.marca.com/2013/07/11/en/football/international_football/1373527212.html

"No room for wingers?" This team is going to be fascinating to watch.

GTR

51522 Posts

July 12 2013 02:58 GMT

#677

Sucks for Ribery though, hard to find a place for him in that line-up.

Mensol

14536 Posts

July 12 2013 03:02 GMT

#678

Look what i've found haha.

It was even more scary in last year manu v gala.

Ferrose

United States11378 Posts

July 12 2013 04:24 GMT

#679

On July 12 2013 11:58 GTR wrote:
Sucks for Ribery though, hard to find a place for him in that line-up.

I read that apparently they had Ribery playing as like a second striker. And that article said Robben played the "Messi role," so maybe Ribery can as well?

Edit: Well, maybe not now that Goetze is fit