nickjdavis
Head Pro
I predict a season of under-ambition for Newcastle.
I predict a season of under-ambition for Newcastle.
Well Mods LP’s given his approval ?Blimey - didn’t realise some were so precious about a thread - Mods - no issues if you wish to close the football thread to allow a new football thread to start ?
Similar chatter about Madrid, that they need to trim some of their earners to enable them to make the signings they want. Wouldnt object if it meant they wanted us to take Odegaard on the cheap
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.com/sport/football/57836300.amp
Messi taking a wage cut to stay at Barcelona who need to reduce their wage bill by £500mil !!!
Messi will go from £120mil a year to just the £60mil !
Players like Greizmann are also on nearly £1mil a week - no wonder they are in huge money issues
Can’t register their new signings until they reduce that wage bill - some great players can be got
That’s the sort of money the top sporting stars get paid - the sums in US sports are even worse and then of course some of the top golfers are up thereAbsolutely disgusting.
In Spain it works very differently to the UK with clubs being (for the most part) member owned and run. Real and Barca have Presidents that, IMO, hold large amounts of sporting and political sway and so they make outrageous promises in order to be elected. This has been going on for a long time with Laporte (returning, incoming Barca president) and Perez (Real president).
Real's Galacticos were a two-fold product of over ambition by the president (Perez again at the time) promising a "marquee signing" every year (remember they got Beckham for c. £35m) and overly generous government funding (Real being the "King's club").
Barca on the other hand have always had a bizarre commercial operating structure with the club carrying no shirt sponsor until 2006 (I think) when they entered a "reverse" sponsorship with Unicef and a little later a "normal" arrangement with Qatar Airways. They always relied on commercial revenue of merchandise, season tickets, membership payments and television rights.
The fact that the presidents hold so much sway is evident in what Phil describes in that the TV revenue is not distributed evenly with Barca and Real taking the lion's share.
Barca, in my opinion, lost their way with their scouting network and failure to capitalise on La Masia more and trying to follow the more "European" model of buying talent and then watching it go wrong. Overpaying for Dembele, Coutinho and Griezmann and not seeing the levels of return. Barca's most successful years saw La Masia players dominate their squads.
They also have appointed the wrong person in Koeman to take them forward IMO and their managerial appointments since Enrique (ok Valverde did alright) have been cost over quality (this constant hope that Xavi is going to return and save them because Pep and Luis did so) and have seen regression instead of progress.
Directorial moves, mainly losing Txiki Begiristain to Man City (no coincidence their recruitment improved around the same time Barca's went downhill) and years of board room feuding have cost them and forced the need to chase "marquee" signings and pay way over the odds.
Real will always have the backing of the government when they need it (sell a car-park for 200 times it's worth to the local council for example) or have debts mysteriously "cancelled"...
I for one would like to see the financial plight of Barca force them to start relying on the undoubted talent of La Masia graduates (Pedri, Puig, Fati and Collado for example) and hopefully get rid of Koeman and get back to playing fast, free flowing football that we know them for.
I’m surprised that Laporte didn’t bring in Xavi this summer but then I think he would stay away
When you look at the level of debt Barce have its criminal when you think of those clubs that have gone bust because of debt at a fraction of that level
great to hear Raul Jiminez is back playing for Wolves today in their pre season game
Goodison is going to be half empty if all the Evertonions who don’t like Raffa go through with their threat of not going the match.Basically, we have to post a number of times in order to get to page 2 and be past the picture .
Transfer talk, nothing really happening so far. At Everton Rodriguez is likely to go along with other fringe players. We are looking at a CH, we have lots already , and hopefully Dumfries (Netherlands) looks like he might be coming to us. We still need more creativity in the middle however along with a forward to either support DCL, replace him when tired or out of form. Mutterings of Richarlison to follow Ancelotti to Real. I can live with that if we get a chunk of money and can then get a replacement.
Not likely as we’ve recorded record Season Ticket sales.Goodison is going to be half empty if all the Evertonions who don’t like Raffa go through with their threat of not going the match.
As Paul has mentioned, 30,000 season tickets sold this year. Phone ins and social media may be full of angry people but they are only a tiny cross section. Saying that, if we don't start well then the atmosphere will get unpleasant quite quickly. I said it at the time, strange decision ?Goodison is going to be half empty if all the Evertonions who don’t like Raffa go through with their threat of not going the match.
That’s the sort of money the top sporting stars get paid - the sums in US sports are even worse and then of course some of the top golfers are up there
Tounge in cheek.As Paul has mentioned, 30,000 season tickets sold this year. Phone ins and social media may be full of angry people but they are only a tiny cross section. Saying that, if we don't start well then the atmosphere will get unpleasant quite quickly. I said it at the time, strange decision ?
I know, don't worry ?.Tounge in cheek.
They are saying that but know full well they will still go.
We have been winding them up a bit.
One lad won’t even use a red tee!
We asked him to auction his ST if he wasn’t going but he declined.
I think Raffa will do well there ,you do have a good squad.