metalalloy wrote:
Kabalega wrote:
Prince wrote:
You know how much Neymar was being paid in Santos
Care to enlighten us?
Was it more than the offers that came from Europe?
Kabalega wrote:
I wouldn't laugh if I were you.
Neymar got many offers to move to Europe early, but stayed at home for a few more years before he made his move to Barca.
It helped that his father is his agent and was looking out for him.
Another agent would forced an early move and probably ruined his career like Pato.
But look at how Neymar later made out like a bandit.
Making up for lost wages and more.
BTW, I hope you are not suggesting that Neymar did not develop his football at Santos.
He was reportedly getting paid $300,000 a month at Santos. He was able to sign a ton of lucrative sponsorship agreements e.g. the one with Nike where he kept 100% of the sponsorship $$. More importantly, he was able to convince Santos to let his dad negotiate his future contract out of Santos, and Neymar was to keep 40% of future transfer fees which he and his dad immeidately sold to a third party. This incentivized his dad to go out and seek the highest bidder during the duration of his renewed Santos contract in 2011 (in fact they got santos to agree to let him leave a year early). Months after he renewed his deal with Santos, He and his dad pledged to join Barca in 2014 and his dad was promised $40 million when he moved.
Neymar stayed in Brazil to drum up interest and get as much $$ when he moved. It had little to do with developing his football.
Read more here.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/bl ... s-transferWell, that is one narrative.
Do you see what’s missing though?
All the shenanigans that Santos pulled off to keep Neymar, were still not good enough to keep him from going to Europe. Chelsea, Barça and Real Madrid alone were willing to pay serious money to get Neymar.
You cannot convince me that it was all because of the sponsorship deals and Santos' welfare management program.
He must have stayed for other reasons.
Euro teams have experienced welfare management programs and certainly Neymar could request the best welfare amenities from any club.
Also, no sponsor will delay the exposure of their brand to a wider, more affluent audience.
There had to be other factors.
For starters, Santos was a good team at that time with the likes of Adrano, Paulo Henrique Ganso (Neymar’s best friend), Elano, Pará, Danilo, Jonathan, Alan Patrick, Alex Sandro and Zé Eduardo. Unfortunately, they slowly started dismantling that team. All those guys I mentioned left Santos for Europe.
With their exit, Santos declined tremendously and were not in contention for the Libertadores or Brasileirão. Neymar was left with lame talent around him. This precipitated his exit. He didn’t want to stick around until the World Cup anymore.
Another clue, is the fact that Neymar turned down a more lucrative offer from Real Madrid, even with their 50% sponsorship grab policy.
Let's not for get Emenalo's compelling and polished spiel from Chelsea too.
Clearly Neymar was not primarily motivated by money.
But enough with Neymar. The focus on him is just derailing my earlier POV.
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