Re: [新聞] Yaya 確定到曼城

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Toure will become the first footballer in England to smash the
￡200,000-a-week wage barrier.

And today we lift the lid on the craziest contract in English
football - signed off by City chief executive Garry Cook.

The staggering sums will astonish fans already fed up with over-paid
stars failing to justify their super-sized salaries.

Ivory Coast midfielder Toure - who played just 16 games for the
Spanish champions last season - will receive a guaranteed ￡4.1million
a year basic salary AFTER tax.

On top of that he will get an image rights payment of ￡1.65m a year
(with a profit-share on his shirt sales) PLUS an ￡823,000 bonus each
time City qualify for the Champions League PLUS a ￡412,000 bonus for
winning Europe's top competition PLUS additional bonuses for winning
the Premier League and FA Cup - all tax-free.

It means City will pay him a basi c salary this season of a whopping
￡185,000 a week before tax.

Incredible

That figure will rise to an incredible ￡221,000 a week next April
when the Government's new 50 per cent tax bracket comes into force -
dwarfing the wages of England stars Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard, Rio
Ferdinand, Frank Lampard and John Terry.

It also means City will have to fork out a basic ￡55.6m in wages
over the five years - with that figure set to soar if Roberto Mancini's
team are successful.

That is on top of the ￡24m transfer fee - making the total deal a
minimum ￡79.6MILLION.

Toure - younger brother of City defender Kolo - passed his medical
in Manchester last Monday after the transfer had been ratified by
incoming Barca president Sandro Rossell, and the move was completed
on Friday.

Toure, 27, has joined a squad full of inflated salaries as City go
in search of the silverware to justify billionaire Arab owner Sheikh
Mansour's remarkable outlay.

"This is a dream come true," said Toure.

"I have always wanted to play for the same club as my brother and
I am so happy that it has finally happened.

"It's great for our family.

"Kolo told me that it's an amazing time for the club and a very exciting
project.

"I love the Premier League and I watch it all the time.

"City did very well to finish fifth last season but I hope we can improve
on that by qualifying for the Champions League.

"This is a big club and that has to be our first objective and then
we have to look at winning championships as well."

City have also signed David Silva from Valencia for ￡24m and ￡11m
Hamburg defender Jerome, and are still aiming to complete a ￡25m deal
to buy England midfielder James Milner from Aston Villa.

But it is the details of Toure's mega-contract which will send shockwaves
through football.

After lengthy talks with Barcelona and Toure's agent Dimitri Seluk at
the end of the season, Cook finally made his offer in the week before
the start of the World Cup.

City's in-house lawyer Simon Cliff, appointed from Shearman and
Sterling in April 2009 and previously a consultant for Sheikh Mansour,
helped mastermind the extraordinary deal.

History

Toure made just 13 starts for Barcelona in all competitions last
season after losing his place to Spanish World Cup star Sergi Busquets
and completed 90 minutes just nine times.

But now he will become the highest-paid player in the history of the
Premier League.

Toure will earn a basic ￡5.75m a year AFTER tax, meaning he will take
home ￡110,500 a week.

A trifle excessive perhaps for a player who has never played a full
league season for any of his previous clubs.

And a trifle excessive perhaps for a Barca substitute who manager
Pep Guardiola told was surplus to requirements at the Nou Camp.

Granted, Toure was outstanding in Barca's 2009 Champions League final
victory over Manchester United in Rome.

But, incredibly, City believe his arrival suddenly turns them into
major players and are convinced fans will all soon be wearing City
shirts emblazoned with Toure's name on the back.

And, despite having four defensive midfielders on the books in Gareth
Barry, Vincent Kompany, Nigel de Jong and Patrick Vieira, City still
felt the need for a fifth.

The figures went through the roof just as Seluk was threatening to
pull the plug on the entire deal.

Cook held several meetings in Barcelona with Seluk, along with football
administrator Brian Marwood and various other City officials.

During City's amazing bid for Toure, they also offered to use their
considerable "muscle" with sportwear manufacturers Nike and Umbro to
get the midfielder a better boot deal.

Italian coach Mancini now has to somehow shoe-horn Toure into City's
bulging team.

And Mancini has been left in no doubt by Cook they want Premier League
title glory this season.

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All this saga has an interesting twist. Now it turned out that his
agent Seluk retained 20% of his rights for all this time. Which means
if he is transferred for 30M, Seluk gets 6M.

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簡評: 小廟容不下大菩薩. 讓他去吧.

Yaya is a fine player, but he is not irreplaceable.

巴薩近年成功的 business model 當中十分重要的一點, 就是能夠以 La Masia
的農場球員組成球隊的骨幹, 同時還能補上球隊陣容裡的空缺. 使用農場球員,
不但對於足球的理解相近, 配合度高, 磨合的時間減少, 更重要的是大幅減少
球隊在轉會市場的支出. 這是巴薩能在去年夏天花費不及皇馬的情況下, 仍然
同時取得比對手更好的競技成績和經濟收益最重要的原因.

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再度強烈呼籲, 請給予皇馬球迷多點同情心吧!

他們無法理解巴薩球迷要擔心四強賽可能是 Messi FC vs. La Masia 的痛苦.


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