please log in to view this image Interesting to see Schalke have jumped 6 places to just behind Liverpool who have dropped a place. Apart from that things as normal. Thoughts?
Schalke got boosted a lot by the CL last year - they'll fall back next year. But City are going to blast past Liverpool with the CL money they get and the money from the Etihad deal. And if Napoli do well in the CL this season they might be pushing top ten next year. Other than that, not much is likely to change in the near future.
If only we could spend it, we dont need a sugar Daddy or a TV deal at the expense of our league rivals, we just need the Glazers to **** off and leave us alone.
Cause we didn't just spend over £50m or anything. The Glazers aren idiots ad this isn't an Arsenal situation where the owners won't find transfers, the Glazers know in order for the club to make money they have to be at the top. In order to be at the top, you need spend money to improve the squad.
This. And as long as we are at the top, why spend £30-40 million on a big name player who may just end up being another Veron? CM is one of the hardest positions to guarantee you will buy quality immediately - Scholes, Lampard, Gerrard, Keane, Modric, Alonso, Fabregas, Vieira - pretty much all the best PL CMs have needed time to bed in at their clubs before they reached world class level. Hard to think of a recognised world class midfielder who has been bought by a PL club and actually lived up to their billing straight away - Toure's the only one who springs to mind and even he took a bit of time to find his feet.
Actually that's purely due to currency movements. From 2010 to 2011, Real grew their revenue by around 40m Euros and Barca grew theirs by around 50m Euros. Utd grew their revenue by around £45 million. Problem is the exchange rate worsened over that time, so the whole of the UK fell behind Europe in relative terms. Based on current exchange rates our revenue for last season was almost 400 million Euros, and if Greece all goes tits up we may be back to the summit in a year or two
United's revenue will go down due to CL elimination next season and the gap between them and the Spaniards will get even bigger. SAF never got to grips with the Spanish teams in Europe on the field even when they bought big in the early 00s; now, off the field, United are facing similar problems as Real and Barca pull away, in the main to TV deals. It's only the Glazers brilliant work in the commercial sector and SAF that keeps United hanging on to their coat-tails
If you are right then considering United make more revenue than Chelsea, but we are allegedly struggling, then you lot etc are screwed.
It's amazing how much more the big 2 in Spain get than the rest of the league, a newly promoted Blackpool earned more in the EPL than Valencia, a regular in the Spanish top 3, did in La Liga that same season, yet the big 2 in Spain received over double what the big clubs in England were given.
I'm pretty sure there was a campaign about it in Spain not long ago but I have no idea if it's still ongoing or not.
The Tv rights are being redistributed more fairly in 2015 by which time Barca will be on five times; and real on 10
