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Saturday, June 13, 2009 real madrid
11:27 PM
If you haven't heard of Real Madrid, then I've got nothing to say.
SERIOUSLY.
The World Footballers Of 2007 and 2008 have been snapped up by them.
IN A SPACE OF LESS THAN A WEEK.
Namely, Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Put it in Sing dollars and the price for the two of them is S$408 million.
Not forgetting the contract that they signed.
Ronaldo will earn S$ 1.67 million
a week in the year 2015.
Staggering.
Mind-boggling.
What more?
Even this article agrees with me:
Unprecedented spending on Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka has Real Madrid's opponents grumbling the team is trying to buy a championship, economists warning of ruin and complaints that the club's US$223 million moves this week are
an insult to people in a country suffering severe financial hardship.
The club says high-cost players are the price of greatness and claims it will get the investment back and then some when television and marketing deals are factored in.
The deals — US$92 million paid to AC Milan for Kaka and a stratospheric US$131 million promised to Manchester United for Ronaldo — were the first moves made by Real Madrid's new president Florentino Perez.
Perez made a name for himself with similarly eye-popping transfers during a previous stint as head of the club earlier this decade, including tens of millions of dollars for "Galacticos" David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane.
