Originally Posted by
Crimson Dynasty
All of this assumes two things:
That he actually wants to move and leave PSG (and Ligue 1).
And that he's told PSG he has no intention of signing an extension.
Assumptions based on exactly NOTHING.
Nobody knows anything about where his head is regarding his future, and all the talk (read :delusional fantasy) that he wants to come to us are nothing more than (LFC) fan-based wishful thinking on the basis of some anodyne comment he once made about our club - which is about on the same level as any garden variety complimentary comment that any one of a million players before him have said about the club.
I also love how you came up with that 90 million figure like its where PSG would absolutely land on where they would not risk losing him for nothing.
They could decide tomorrow that they're fine not letting him go for anything less than 150 million this summer if anyone expresses interest, and if they don't get that much, then they're fine losing him for nothing.
They're a rich enough club to be able to take such a stance.
You do realize that Nike doesn't actually pay the players wages, regardless of how big that outfit deal is, right?
That's not now these endorsement deals work at all.
The deal is with the club, and it's the club that pays players' wages based on their own revenue stream versus overhead/expenses books.
At best, the Nike deal means we can afford bigger wages for bigger name star players, but it doesn't mean a sliding scale for opening the tap to pay an outrageous wage that's out of our structure and completely messes our balance books.
Again, Nike doesn't pay the players. They likely have a separate deal with him for endorsing him which would follow him to whichever club he goes to and likewise doesn't count as part of his wages, while still being a part of his overall income. It's the same for any player with an endorsement deal with Nike or anyone else.
Nike wouldn't be an extra incentive for anyone to come here anymore than it would be an extra help to us to be able to afford them.
You know where the Nike deal actually helps the club? It's in things like paying of any debt associated with expanding Anfield, for example. Or overseas pre-season trips (during times when those things are possible).
Sure, you could play around with the books and numbers to help fund high player wages thanks to money coming in from such endorsement deals. But .........that's literally EXACTLY what the blue Mancs got in trouble with UEFA for that got them banned (before it was rescinded by CAS). Not to mention the tax trouble with the govt. you risk getting yourself into by cooking books like that and playing funny maths with numbers like that.
There's a good reason you have a wage structure as a club and stick to it as much as possible - especially when you're not an oil-baron or Emirati-funded club.
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