In January 2012, a private jet landed in Makhachkala, a city on the Caspian Sea that most Europeans could not have found on a map. Aboard was Samuel Eto'o, four-time African Player of the Year, treble winner with Barcelona, a man who had just signed a contract with Anzhi Makhachkala that made him the highest-paid footballer on earth. The deal was worth approximately €20 million per year after tax, roughly $29 million at the exchange rate of the …
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