Offering an annual salary of eight million euros, and that's before tax, had already stretched them to their limit. Another raise?
'A small temple can't house a great Buddha!'
To take it to an extreme, even if Wang Shuo went to Dortmund and told them, "I don't need a raise. I'll stay for the eight-million-euro annual salary."
Dortmund still might not be willing.
Even if Wang Shuo's salary didn't increase, others would still want a raise, right?
Homegrown players like Götze and Reus would want one, right?
It was standard procedure.
Just like in 2010, after Inter Milan won the Champions League, didn't all their key players get massive raises?
A year later, how many people were calling Inter Milan idiots?
From the club's perspective, they should have sold Maicon, Sneider, Eto'o, and the others right then and there to rebuild the team.
But what happened? The players all stayed, their performance plummeted, and their salaries had ballooned. What could they do then?
