Speaking of the return on the investment, did anyone ever calculate how much the players get paid per each goal scored, based on their salary?
Quite often we compare Dzeko to Aguero but we forget that Aguero is paid 80,000£ per week more than Dzeko.
Mathematically speaking Aguero's salary is 65% higher then Dzeko's salary.
For the season 2012/13 each Dzeko's goal comes at approximately 346,000£ discount when compared to the cost one of Aguero's goals. If you include the fact that Dzeko scored two goals more during the regular season, Aguero got paid over 400,000£ more than Dzeko per each goal that he scored.