I’ve been planning to grab a book called The Soccer Business which dissects the invasion of big business into footbal in recent years. When I’m done reading it, I hope it helps me make sense of this post.
Barcelona uber-forward and all-around good guy Lionel Messi is hot sh*t right now, so hot that where he be auctioned off today, he would fetch approximately 254 million euros (around USD $330 million).
There’s a lot in this story that I don’t get. Why is it practically a law that he’ll cost this much? Why must Messi have to fork over some of his personal cash if the deal goes through?
I gotta get this book.