Few months ago i talked about the problems Italian teams experience with the huge taxes.
Italian teams have to pay 50% taxes for the wages of their players.
Back then i thought that if player X is getting 6m euro wages then the team will have to pay 50% of these 6m for taxes. It means that they had to pay 6m+ 3m euro taxes = 9 million euro.
Well, i was wrong.
The situation is even worse.
If one player wants 6 million euro wages then these 6m euro reprsent 50% of the total sum.
So, if the player gets 6m euro and it's 50% of the total sum, it means that the other 50% (taxes) are also 6m euro so the team actually has to pay 12m euro for the wages of the player.
Now where is the problem ?
Spanish teams for example, pay 25% of the total sum for taxes while player's wages represent 75% of the total sum.
So, if one player in some Spanish team earns 6m euro wages, these 6 m euro are actually 75% of the total sum while the taxes are 25% of the total, or 2 m euro.
It means that the Spanish team will have to pay 8 m euro for the wages of this player.
Compare this with the 12 m euro an Italian team will have to pay.
This is a big problem in case there is a war between two teams for one same player, because Juventus will have to pay 12 m euro in order the player to get 6 m euro wages.
But a Spanish team can offer the player 9 m euro wages and if we add the taxes the Spanish teams pay (25%) it means that the total sum the Spanish team will pay is 12 m euro.
Italians pay 12 m euro for the player to get 6 m euro wages while the Spanish pay 12 m euro for the player to get 9 m euro wages.
What will the player chose in this case, what do you think ?
And it looks much worse if we take the overall sum Italians and the Spanish pay for wages.
If Juve give 100 m euro for players wages in one year, Juve will have to pay a total sum of 200 m euro.
But if Barcelona pay 100 m euro for player's wages, Barcelona will pay a total sum of 133 m euro for wages.
The difference is 67 m euro for one single year.
I say this in case somone starts moaning this summer why did Barcelona beat us for Diego's signature or why did Real beat us for van der Vaart's signature.
