Good day, fellow sports fans.i need your opinion on this matter.for an example just think of the outragious sum Real.M are offering for C.Ronaldo or that which man.city once offered for Kaka.pls lets know your opinion

Football is big business and big Players cost money and they attract people to the stadia

oga, you are in the same school of thought with platini but no sum is outragious like u mentioned here. for a club like real madrid, they can cover the money they spent on ronaldo only in the pre-season.
those big players worth any amount and be informed that they are not useful only on the pitch, they are also useful inside the market. they can also attract big deal endorsements and the clubs will benefit depending on the contract terms.
moreover, it is not by force that a club must buy. so if the price no reach ur club, u go go look for somewhere else.

I think the price of any player
is dependence on how well
he or she can perform.

for me i think its not wise

platini and wenger have this same belief.
they shld go and seat down.
if we follow this theory, football will be a funny game to watch.
they don't want to make room for big teams and small ones.
they are both french stingy fellows.
obviously platini has nothing to offer as a uefa president. he has just completed last season as a controversial one but might anything go wrong in the new season, they will surely show him the back doors.

lol

at this rate the money bags will ruin the game.
Imagine valuing pato @ $50 million? it's crazy,
imagine man city offering eto'o 250,000 pounds per week?

soon the game will be all about the money.
it'll end up like wrestling (WWE).

chidichris:

platini and wenger have this same belief.
they shld go and seat down.
if we follow this theory, football will be a funny game to watch.
they don't want to make room for big teams and small ones.
they are both french stingy fellows.
obviously platini has nothing to offer as a uefa president. he has just completed last season as a controversial one but might anything go wrong in the new season, they will surely show him the back doors.

nice one there @chidichris
I also like this point u made

they are both french stingy fellows

.He wants to make football equal,so dat a french team will win the champions league(then he will b hailed in france ).cos the french people seem to b stingy,dats y no french team will EVER win the champions league.

@Topic
A resounding YES
If not some clubs will never be able to catch up with the big guns.

And something keeps telling me the bubble will soon burst my prayer is that it doesnt affect my club

You cannot put a control on players salary and transfers without also controlling the source of income. Either you run a free market system or you control everything. You cannot have bayern essentially getting a free stadium, while Madrid can negotiate individual TV rights, and some small clubs not allowed to play european games in their own stadia.

The conditions vary in the different league, and unless such rules are first successfully implemented on the domestic scene, you cannot seek such on the international stage. Bayern cannot be cash bullying other teams in the bundesliga, and turn around to cry foul when they in turn get bullied in Europe by the likes of Madrid, Chelsea, and ManU.

I wonder how they would determine the right figure to capthe fees.

The only thing I feel is needed is for transfer fees, salaries, and buy out clauses to be proportional. It is absurd for a player like toure to have a buyout clause of $100M, which exceeds the total amount of money the club would pay him for his services till the end of his contract (the guy used to be on $2M with a $60M buyout clause). Also the buyout clause should be pro-rated with the time remaining on the contract.

Ultimately, football lovers like you and, em, er

(I never buy original jersey or ticket before o )

Anyway, I dey buy the products of the companies wey dey advertise.

Ok, to return to what I was saying before the rude interpre―

Sorry, interr,

Na we dey determine how much players dey get.

Investors dey base their investment on to say we dey value the players (No be 80,000 fans go meet Ronaldo so?)
15 jerseys/minute (Pay as you go nko? )

Dem go make them money back by next week

Some of the large checks are a marketing strategy, to create buzz and drive ticket and merchandise sales.

No Long Thing: Everything Na Format!

If fans say dem no dey chop, fees go drop.

Na demand and supply be that.