Jota - Welcome Home!

His sell on is 30 percent right?

 

See Phil Mac saying 37m dollars with another 7.5m dollars add ons... So 44.5m dollars. No * way surely... Hope to fk it's right though.... that is £35 million UK.

 

You seemed to contradict yourself in two paragraphs.

Are they from a parallel universe or do you agree with them.

Or are you also from a parallel universe

 

if that al ahli fan mob want to get their club into a bidding war for jota then go ahead, drive up his price as much as possible please.

 

Sounds absolutely mental, but then so are the wages he's being offered apparently, 20-30m would be more realistic, but what does realistic matter when you've got the kind of money those * do.

 

We can always change it up and make up a new song wake me up before you go go who needs jota when you’ve got Kyogo.

 

All this “oh if i was earning 20k, playing at paradise each week” is just * talk and non comparable.

For starters jota isnt scottish, didnt grow up idolising us, 20k a week to a normal lad is mental money but to a footballer at the highest level isnt much these days.

So yip callum from glasgow might need to think it over, to jota its a no brainer ffs.

 

Cards on the table. If I'm in Jota's position - with the additional caveat of growing up supporting Celtic all my life - and if those types of numbers were slapped down in writing Infront of me then I'm gone pronto.

Folks are kidding themselves on in saying they'd turn their nose up at that offer, it's incredible.

Fair play to him. We'll also come out of this betyer off so I don't see the big problem.

 

I didn't say he was wealthy for a footballer; I said he is wealthy. And he is. Extremely wealthy. How wealthy? Well, £10k a week pre-tax income puts you well into the 1%. In fact half this wage probably puts you comfortably in the 1% (I say "probably" because the last official figures I can find are for 2020/21). https://www.gov.uk/government/stati...1-to-99-for-total-income-before-and-after-tax

Let's put that to bed. He is part of the 1%, all his needs and those of his family are more than covered. This is assuming he wouldn't have moved to the EPL where average players are regularly getting £30k or more a week. I don't even know what percentile that would put him in. He is wealthy in absolute terms.*

So the question is not a choice between being extremely wealthy and giving himself the best chance of making it to the top, because he already is extremely wealthy.

The question is whether he wants to prioritise not being "wealthy" but rather being "wealthy for a footballer" (as you put it) or giving himself the best possible chance of achieving everything he can in the game. Put like that, I genuinely believe that some footballers would choose the second and many of us on here would too. I don't think these people are liars.

Notice that I'm not looking at this as a Celtic fan (as a Celtic fan, I don't want him to go to the EPL) and that I've said nothing about guarantees (I agree that there are no guarantees in his career, exactly as you say).


* Yes it's a short career, but on a plausible career of 12/13 years compared to an average of 50 years for us plebs, we can quarter his wage to make the maths easy and he still comes out in the top 3% of earners even if he stays at Celtic, doesn't move to the EPL and then never works a day after retiring as a footballer. If he goes to the EPL, he's straight back into the 1% even if he doesn't do a day's work after his football career. On the plausible assumption that he will probably want to work, that gets even more secure. He is wealthy.

 

Aw it’s very silly and I’m not giving him any *, just saying how I’d feel.

But you’re right about the injury.

 

Sorry mate. Totally get it now :giggle1'

 

Look at your ratio of posts to likes compared to mine, I’m not posting anything ground breaking either.

You’re the definition of a * talker.

I’m also not the one that threatens to mute people, because I really couldn’t care less. You have an issue with people challenging the pish you post.

 

20k a week is the stuff of dreams and nobody needs more than that. But Jota is now in a position where he can make sure his grandchildren and their grandchildren don't need to work and can live more than comfortably.

If that means taking a few years away from the pinnacle of football then so be it. If he goes there and stays for 4 years, he'll still only be 28. That'd give him another 5 or 6 years back in European football if he wants it and he'll have made his money.

 

Yeah so if they where to give us 25m and pay benfica their 30% then it wouldn’t be any cheaper than just paying us 30m and letting us pay Benfica their dues

 

Some folk genuinely would turn it down though, I don't doubt that.

 

Generational wealth then.

Yeah just what we need, more gimps with more money than sense.

I really should start separate thread for this because it's not about Jota, I don't think he's even left yet

 

You also completely ignored the other aspect of this also, he gets a career ending injury.

Again like I said all ifs and buts.

Is he earning enough to sustain his lifestyle at the moment in time for the next 30/40 years, will it last probably not.

He would have to cut his lifestyle back, not even started a family yet so that’s to factor in it as well.

We all know the majority of footballers p
Spend, spend, spend.

The more money you earn the more you spend, that’s even in normal situations also like a well paid job in normal terms as you can afford more luxury items, holidays etc.

What if he doesn’t want to work when his career is finished, you haven’t factored that into either.

Again all assumptions but the fact is, at this moment in time he has been offered a large contract that WILL change his life, families life, future partner etc life’s.

The maybes and if and buts of going to another team in a big league are not an option at this time.