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Message: [QUOTE="Cuango, post: 5341365, member: 3834"] I had heard the W had already offered to give them 4 times what they are making now and were summarily rebuffed. That equates to one million plus for some (actually quite a few) in the league. My point was merely that if you are getting that kind of money from a league that is at least arguably on shaky financial ground (and overly reliant on the popularity of one player, who they are seemingly constantly trying to injure or drive out of the league) it would not be surprising that the owners would attempt to prevent their players from exposing themselves to injury I missed the reference to Dee’s Russian payday for 54 players. I have no idea what that means. Why would the W invest in a competitor league anyway? That would not solve their concern about injuries to their star players? As far as I know, players play in other leagues for the money, not as some sort of skill development thing. It is very clear that the final numbers as to salaries is going to be [B]more [/B]than four times the current rates as the players have already rejected the 4x offer. I just think the owners, should they spring for that much of a raise, are going to demand some kind of agreement that players not expose themselves to injury risk beyond that which we all face in everyday life. I could be wrong of course, but given the salary increases being bandied about, I don’t think so. [/QUOTE]