I'd rather think of it in a way of how useful each player would be for my team if I was a manager... there's that guy whose job is merely shooting when teammates pass him the ball, and there's the other one who shoots, passes and dribbles.
As for the finance, it's true that it affected football everywhere.. even in South America.. I almost forgot how much I used to love the Serie A

Can we say Florentino Perez was the main reason to drive the prices of players so high? He's the asshole who started spending mega money, and if Spain wasn't giving him and his club 30% of the revenues, I doubt he'd have dared to be such a joke, and other clubs in Europe could have survived! It's annoying that he paid all those amounts (94 million euros for CR7, 67 millions for Ricardo Kaka, and other millions for other players) just few months after the 2008 financial crisis hit the entire world... so f*ck you mr. Perez, sincerely!