Whenever you think that the football business has lost its last taboos, you are being taught otherwise. The wheel keeps turning.
200 million a year. So Cristiano Ronaldo should be earning 550,000 CHF a day (!) after his planned move to Al Nasr in Saudi Arabia. Bueser accumulated this amount in a pension fund after a busy working life in his old age.
Ronaldo’s wife will have to hide Agent Provocateur underwear under a black cape for exorbitant “pain and pain”.
And for 85,000 Swiss francs an hour, the good Cristiano will have to settle for a cold reception from the sheiks if he doesn’t score at least two solo runs per game. That the Saudis might fight back and that Ronaldo’s star could finally go out in the desert is a realistic scenario. He initiated the descent.
Football’s Golden Boy, who catalyzed the commercialization of businesses, sets new standards for the last time. At least in terms of wages. And he moves to the Arabian Peninsula. Like FIFA boss Gianni Infantino before him. The transfer and the planned change to seething springs were perfectly on time.
Because the panic in Qatar is also coming to an end. Many who have been there are dazzled by the gleaming façade, the short distances and the sheer beauty of the stadium’s cool palaces.
However, the World Cup should be more than a display of wealth and megalomania in a mostly sterile atmosphere. More than a chain of 64 games on a string of pearls. Like any major sporting event, it should be a diverse source of inspiration for the youth of the world.
Of course, this is a romantic idea. But you must not lose sight of them. From this perspective, this World Cup is not and will not remain a sparkling gem. But an annoying grain of sand in the eye of the beholder.
World Cup as an opportunity and a monument
But the World Cup in Qatar is also an opportunity. Maybe a memorial. Perhaps the moment for many people to understand in which direction or impasse the sport should not move on. But perhaps here, too, desire is the father of thought.
Qatar is also a sporting disappointment for the “golden” generation of Swiss players. They are victims of self-excited expectations. Difference with Portugal? Nati’s players drove themselves into a frenzy and lost their humility. And now I’m curing my hangover from Qatar. The Portuguese drove themselves into a frenzy.
Let’s go back to Ronaldo. In the area where I spend my holidays, a Burmese hotel gardener would have to work exactly 6950 years for a single monthly salary of 7 CR.
What would otherwise be possible with 200 million
For these 200 million, it would probably be possible to give each African village a new leather ball. Imagination knows no bounds. As for the Federal Council elections: with 200 million you can also order 20,000,000 Rösti. Admiral Baume-Schneider from the New Year’s “Dinner for One” would not only have something to drink with him.
However: Ronaldo’s salary is not enough for everything. The bonus payouts that were soon to be paid to the managers of the declining Credit Suisse could not even begin to be paid with it.
However, the bank, like the FIFA world football association, has a “jeans office”. Rivet in every important place.