swipe right wrote:If he’s so mediocre how come the Italians are paying him 300k per week?
Weekly salary is irrelevant it's the total value of the contract that the club has to depreciate on its accounts that matters ...
He will cost the Italians 300k a week for four years, but zero in transfer fee ... that's a contract value of 60m
If they'd paid us 40m in transfer fees and paid him 120k a week ... that's still a contract value of 60m
However because Gazidis and Wonger had some brain-dead fantasy contract management theory ... we gave him away for free ... thus permitting Ramsey to stall on a new contract for two years, then pocket the 40m in wages that should have been ours in transfer fees ... somehow that's all The Don's fault according, to some of the mathematically challenged on here ....