1. its fairly obvious that ronaldo has worked out seeing that no context at all has been put into looking at who real were up against in his time at real. ROnalso has done what just about no-one else bar messi could have done. end of. one could argue that without messi at barca real would have won it all in spain 2. yes if a team at the end of the initial contract can look back and say that merchandising, etc and player value at that time exceeds the fee laid out then its a success. 3. its easier show diasters like veron (two clubs), aquilani or just baout every club who buys zlatan (bad move psg)
Which is the point of the thread really. It is far to easy to show flops and so thought it would be interesting to look at successes. On the note of Zlatan, hasn't the league with every club he's played for? re: Fabregas, I suppose I over looked those cups, Who else is there then. How about David Villa? Ronaldinho?
This. Judging by the shirt sales stats which get bandied around every so often, Real sell around 1.2-1.5 million shirts a year. Even if you assume a big price of £60 per shirt, that means in order to recoup £80 million every shirt they sold would be a Ronaldo one for an entire year. Also if you sell £80 million worth of Ronaldo shirts, that doesn't equal £80 million profit. You'll make around £30 million profit after paying materials, labour, distribution etc, and the club would only get around 50% of that as the rest would go to adidas. Still, hard to argue Ronaldo wasn't a good buy for Real, considering how far they were behind Barca when he joined them and the fact that he could probably be sold for at least as much as they bought him for if they were to sell him right now.
I would also say the Spanish - Portuguese thing doesn't matter, bet he sells a **** loads of shirts in Spain too. I would imagine Kenny would have sold a lot of shirts had it been the thing back in the day, despite him being scottish.
