Knicked this from ja606. Our Spud invaders seem to be obsessed with making money and living within their means. Our North London accountants see this as more of achievement than winning football games. This is Porto's net profit on players. Season ----- Income ----- Expenditure ----- Net Profit 03/04 ----- 8,800,000 ------ 11,400,000 ----- -2,600,000 04/05 ----- 83,800,000 ----- 40,300,000 ----- +43,400,000 05/06 ----- 42,900,000 ----- 16,100,000 ----- +26,800,000 06/07 ----- 9,500,000 ------- 7,000,000 ----- +2,600,000 07/08 ----- 62,800,000 ----- 15,500,000 ----- +47,300,000 08/09 ----- 48,400,000 ----- 41,000,000 ----- +7,300,000 09/10 ----- 64,000,000 ----- 30,000,000 ----- +34,000,000 10/11 ----- 34,000,000 ----- 37,000,000 ----- -3,700,000 11/12 ----- 47,500,000 ----- 36,700,000 ----- +10,700,000 12/13 ----- 76,000,000 ----- 10,300,000 ----- +66,000,000 13/14 ----- 61,500,000 ----- 5,300,000 ----- +56,300,000 But they have also won nine leagues and three European trophies too during this period, no excuses.
Porto are a brilliantly run club and their scouting system is incredible. They get rid of top players constantly but replace them with ease. Buy low sell high.
Well run, meh. Easily aloud buy unknown south american players without need for work permit thus getting them in young, unnoticed and cheap. Definitely! Be honest barring the portugese players would Porto have unearthed the likes of Hulk, Rodriguez and Falcao if English clubs did not have to adhere to work permits
They have a real foot hold in the South American market meaning they get great players top clubs miss for cheap then sell them on for big money later its a sound business modal.
Seems to me we could do worse than form an association with them for their scouts, or use the Russian method, and make them an offer they can't refuse !!
They also take advantage of the part ownership rules that are allowed in Portugal to get players on the cheap. That distorts the figures in London's table quite a lot. Rodriguez is the prime example - they bought 70% of his rights for about five million euros, then sold 45% of his rights to third parties for around two or three million euros later that season. So they only 'owned' 25% of him. If they've now sold him for 45 million euros then they will only get around 11 million of that. So the total profit on the transfer for Porto is less than 10 million, rather than the 40 million it appears from the transfer fees. That gives them a massive advantage over clubs in England, Spain etc as they can take punts on players without having to pay the full cost - Rodriguez would have cost any other club around 16 million euros if they'd bought him outright, which is a heck of a lot for an 18 year old unproven in Europe. It does also raise the ethical question of all the money that's going out of the game to these third party owners, many of which are rumoured to be drugs barons, cartels or other criminal organisations in South America.
I wonder which of Benficas players will be bought in the next week by Monaco Last year they lost Witsel whilst Porto lost Hulk and nothing changed for them Monaco would be smart to sign Garay and Gaitan
