12-08-2021, 10:25
(12-08-2021, 08:28)Blue Baggie Wrote: Giving any money to a charity is a worthy attribute. But the total sum is very revelant when it's compared to your actual wealth.
Let's not put Messy on a pedestal, he has fleeced his employer for years, so much so he has made a large contribution
to Barcelona's current situation. And now they can't afford to pay him he's off to the next. Maybe the blame is the owners fault, but morally within the game it's wrong IMO.
Just for us normal folk to grasp how much he has taken from the game. His tax dodging caught up with him a couple of years back.
His fine was £3 million (euro's) and his tax bill was £370 million (euro's)
Not really the act of an upstanding law abiding citizen.
I must say I agree with the sentiments of this post much more!
However I think it's football's fault in general, and Barcelona's fault here, that individuals are paid these obscene wages - you can't really blame the player for taking what's on offer! And it IS to his credit that he's done a lot of good with a chunk of his wages that he probably just couldn't spend!
But yes - crocodile tears then off to the next paymaster.....