Footballers and Salary Earners

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During the European club football summer break, we saw some crazy transfers of players taking place.

Cristiano Ronaldo went to Real Madrid for 80 million pound sterling, Kaka to Real Madrid for slightly lower transfer fee. Many players come and go.

Now the interesting part... how much salary they are earning. Several of them are earning in excess of 100,000 pound sterling per week. Remember that 100,000 pound sterling a week. Roughly it is about RM600,000 per week minimum.

I am just wondering, should the same scenario be applied to us salary & wage earners. Instead of peope resigning, they get transfered. There is a transfer fee paid by the new employer to the previous employer. Why? The previous employer had invested in the training & development of the worker.

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