Re: Yaya Toure
Somewhat interestingly, do you know what the original source of that £220k a week wage figure for Yaya was?
Dmitry Seluk in an interview with the Sun when he first signed. He claimed Yaya "could earn over £200k a week" if bonus conditions were met. Rodney Marsh who was on the radio at the time then claimed his wage was £220k and it has stuck since then.
I'm always fascinated on how these little pieces of information become well known. You see now the newspapers who read those quotes put in their article that Yaya is on £220k a week and they can tenuously source it to quotes from his agent. And anybody else in the future sees that The Times puts his wage at £220k so therefore that's a reliable source. It's a sort of feedback loop, xkcd did a comic about it:
[bigimg]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/citogenesis.png[/bigimg]
Zin 'messiah' Zimmer said:Damocles said:CHAMPIONS 2014 said:Well, last season we basically gave him the contract he wanted. 4 year contract for a 30 year old is unheard of .
Will we bend over this time ? I don't know.
Errr...no it's not. It's not even uncommon. It's not even uncommon inside of City
It is when it's £220k per week!!!
Somewhat interestingly, do you know what the original source of that £220k a week wage figure for Yaya was?
Dmitry Seluk in an interview with the Sun when he first signed. He claimed Yaya "could earn over £200k a week" if bonus conditions were met. Rodney Marsh who was on the radio at the time then claimed his wage was £220k and it has stuck since then.
I'm always fascinated on how these little pieces of information become well known. You see now the newspapers who read those quotes put in their article that Yaya is on £220k a week and they can tenuously source it to quotes from his agent. And anybody else in the future sees that The Times puts his wage at £220k so therefore that's a reliable source. It's a sort of feedback loop, xkcd did a comic about it:
[bigimg]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/citogenesis.png[/bigimg]