Im certainly no accountant, and please feel free to correct me on this , but its seems like a fairy tale that Ronaldo, earning around £540,000 a week (this is the estimate i found online at least) , wont have an affect on our wage structure.
Yes, he sells an incredible amount of merch and our social media follwing quadrupled, but im not thinking about the juventus brand, im thinking about
our squad.
There surely must be a budget/wage structure and if one player takes up a huge percentage of the overall budget, it has to affect the potential to give other players wages/bonuses etc too ?
What if we wanted to sign another player that demands a relatively big salary and this breaks our structure? you just raise the budget with no consequence?
Im finding it hard to believe that having this enormous expense (at least when looking at percentages of our overall wages ) dont give us any sort of limitations.
When we needed a replacement for Pjanic we had to take a shortcut and go for Arthur, who earns in comparison £60,000-a-week ( at least thats what i found online, again please correct me if im wrong here), We also brought in Mckennie and although i dont think he is terrible, he is far from what we should expect as an improvement in our midfield. This feels like a result of shortcomings and limitations rather than improvement.
When it comes to it not being Ronaldos fault that we have wasted money i offcourse agree and under no circumstance am i blaming Ronaldo alone for that.
However, at some point you have to cut your losses and look at whats going on and where we want to be in the future:
We brought Ronaldo in to win champions league, that was a clear objective: 3 years later, no champions league, and a bunch of embarassing CL exits.
heck, not even serie A this year and our squad is arguably worse than i can remember for a long time.
Not Ronaldos fault? fair point , but the facts is we have degraded our squad and our overall quality has decreased.
This year, and the next will be crucial for us in terms of rebuilding and transitioning into (hopefully) a modern squad with new and fresh blood.
We have a bunch of players that is getting close to the end ( at least in Buffon and Chiellinis case) and the rest are not getting any younger either.
My point here is that i completely understand people being a bit anxious and negative towards putting all our eggs in the "Ronaldo basket" and just hope for the best, when it clearly hasnt worked out according to plan. Personally id rather spread out the quality on a refurbished team, which IMHO is the way to go for the future.
Its a question of how the squad will look like, not only next season , but for 5-10 years in the future.