Let’s do a little thought experiment.
If Barcelona generates over a billion dollars a year, who should be entitled to that money? The players or the executives, since the club has no owners but its dues-paying members who can’t take a profit from it?
The players, surely.
And if one of those players is the sport’s best ever, who has brought a truckload of silverware and shattered all kinds of scoring records, and papered over the cracks for years as the squad steadily declined, is he not entitled to a disproportionately large share of the pot?