According to a recent soccer news rumour, Chelsea Football Club is reportedly tabling a record busting bid for Barcelona's Lionel Messi. With a plethora of expensive soccer stars already at the club, Roman Abramovich (chairman of CFC and part-time Russian oil oligarch) is asking coach Avram Grant to up the ante on the team's entertainment value by capturing the dazzling midfield wizard.According to the Bloomberg reportRussian billionaire Abramovich told coach Avram Grant that he wants the team's style of play to be more exciting next season and believes Messi, 20, would help Chelsea achieve that, the newspaper said. By all accounts, Chelsea Football Club has done well this year. It is done to the last game of the season to decide the league title and they are already in their first final for the European Champions League (something which the publicity-mad Mourinho never did). They are a very good team already. But yet, Roman still wants to pay over the top dollars just to make it entertaining. We are talking about sums which is 70% more than the previous record for Zinedine Zidane of 47m pounds.Why are they doing it? Simply, Because they can afford to.If you ask the other big clubs in Europe, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Juventus, AC, Inter.... none of these other big clubs can pony up 80m pounds to buy a player. For some of this club, 80m pounds may already buy you a majority stake in the club itself. This is the reality of the game now.To these other clubs, Messi is surely a great player, and i am sure they will only pay up to 20-25m pounds to grab him (no questions there). But at 80m pounds? No one else would. Only Chelsea can do that.So, if we take that analogy to Singapore, and we ask ourselves?Is Lee Hsien Loong worth 2m Singapore dollars a year? Is Wong Kan Seng worth 2m a year? Is Nathan worth more than 2m a year?Abosulutely, we say.Because when it comes to paying for superstars, we have the world's bigget wallet, the tax paying population of Singapore and the CPF contributors of the labour force. Why should we settle for an effective Lampard and dynamic Essien, when we can also add the dazzling wizardry of Lionel Messi.Why should we be contented with standard politicans who are paid more along the lines of public service civil servants when we can have chart topping glamourous superstars who are up there with the likes of investment bankers, top lawyers and architects.We, the population of Singapore, deserve the stars. We demand the very best. The cream. That's why we are willing to pay for them through the skin of our back.Forget that we are not the richest nation in the world (by a long mile). Forget that we have the bottom 10% of our population having its income lowered since the last decade. Forget that we have residents living in Pasir Ris whose whole family copes with a loaf of bread a day. Forget all that, because to have a Switzerland standard of living, we have to pay for it first.So why do we pay so much? Like Chelsea.... Because we can.Read news link:http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aknDGrjZiOaA&refer=uk