do you think the prem will ever see the likes of kaka or messi or that sort of big name in europe and how do you think they would cope? i dont think they will ever come over here as i think they will be scared of failing with the more physical game!
I don't think they would come to a diddy EPL to be honest. The real proper football is played in Spain, Germany and the likes.
I dont see why not. Other than the current top 6 and possibly Aston Villa, the rest of the clubs in the Premiership are utter ****e. Norwich, QPR & Swansea are only a couple of solid signings away from staying up. The league is very top heavy and not what its cracked up to be. The Bundesliga will overtake it in the next 5 years, you can only throw money at the game and fool people with clever marketing for so long.
Well they've just agreed their first paid sponsorship for 30m euros a year for 5 years with the Qatar Foundation, that'll certainly help. I'm a little disappointed they've not stuck by their stand of not having a commercial sponsor, even if they are keeping UNICEF on their shirts too. Edit: Wait, I never tagged UNICEF in that post, and its not exactly a shopping result, is everything we typed now being hyperlinked to whatever is on the internet?
They made a £124m off TV deals alone back in 2008/09, and that's no doubt increased these past two seasons.
I believe the figures are than Man United got 1.4 (might be 1.6) x the amount of money West Ham got last year in Premier League television revenue - Barcelona who negotiate their own tv deals got like 14 times the amount of television revenue that the bottom club got. The English system is much better.
Aye, they had to buy Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Pedro and Messi right enough Also they and Real Madrid negotiate their own TV deals, meaning they get much more dough than the rest. Something that would be interesting if they did that in the UK, could you imagine that? We wouldn't be trumped anymore for wages by nomark lower end premiership clubs
OK, but say Chelsea wanted to buy Kaka or Messi, what do you reckon would be accepted, £100million? That's getting on for a whole season's earnings. I guess Barcelona bought most of their squad a lot, lot cheaper and developed them.
I doubt any offer would be accepted. Nou Camp or Stamford Bridge? Best club in the world against one that was on its knees and won the square root of bugger all before Abramovich came along? Staying in a more technically gifted settled squad or going away to play in one that changes from year to year? Tough one that. Barca went about their team in the right manner, developing the core squad over time with team ethic and their own style while making the odd key addition from other clubs. Simply chucking money in the hope it brings success doesnt work. Prime examples are Man City right now, in the past few years Newcastle & Tottenham and admittedly back in 1997/8 when we signed a load of Serie A stars and the rest trying to get 10 in a row and failed miserably.
