Neymar Transfer and its Effects on us

[Mike D]

Absolutely
There was a great article posted on here a few months ago which explained this

Remember united (and any other club) only sell shirts from their shops. The rest of the sales are by other retailers who have bought the shirts from Adidas
If united make £20 profit per shirt, to make their money back on Pogba they would have to sell four and a half million shirts from their "megastore" or 900,000 per season over his five year deal
That's just Pogba. It's the same figures for Lukaku, so 1.8m shirts per season sold by united

United get a fortune in sponsorship from Adidas, that's where the money is. Not retailing shirts

But the argument to counter this is that the majority of rags would buying these shirts would have done so anyway regardless of whether its Pogba on the back or fat Phil on it.

The 1.8million fans who decided to go and buy a shirt because they just bought Pogba are not all new fans.

Granted there are some fans like that just like the ones that (probably rags) who went out and bought a Madrid shirt because they signed Beckham.

 

[trevorriley]

PSG will be dominant in France for the next decade and he'll be bagging three and four goals regularly and break every domestic scoring record

Neymar might get a better choice of hairdressers in "Pari" so will front page vogue more often.

 

[Marvin]

Sorry but this is won't happen the FFP is a load of old bollocks and It will just get swept under the carpet.

It maybe skullduggery disguised as fair play but clubs like Barcelona are going to get PSG by increased financial monitoring. They are not going to admit defeat and allow PSG to do what they want. There's no way they are going to give up and pass the baton to PSG.

Expect increased monitoring and financial reporting not less

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

That's if it happens!!! buyout rejected apparently by La Ligue

 

[Shaelumstash]

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The spending is not excessive in the era of modern sports, it is what the current market will bear. It is on par with what happened in the major American sports in the last 20 years, and what happens every year with fans moaning about too much money. I get that spending big on the wrong player sucks as well as the increasing corporatism when it comes to ticket prices and expenses.

Again this coming from a dumb Yank (I became a City fan because of Claudio Reyna as a young lad, plus as a Jets/Mets fan automatically became enamored with the masochistic side of being the little guy in the city with the true supporters) why can't if PSG or hopefully City win the Champions league a couple times in the next few years become the biggest club in the world. I always find it laughable when some Liverpool fan thinks some 20 something-year-old kid wants to play for them because of their history, or in this case, Barcelona like the club is bigger than whatever bollocks. Money talks and who is winning lately, UEFA can get f*cked....

It works slightly differently in Europe that the US. Here we have "old money" and "new money". "Old money" is to be respected, admired, bowed down to even, paintings are made about it, poems, architecture even. Whereas "new money" is to be derided as wrong, immoral, tasteless, plastic and abhorrent.

It will probably get like this in the US in a few hundred years or so. But in 2017, money is money in the US. I prefer the US system, by the way.

 

[quiet_riot]

Which team is that?
The team who have just spent £200m on one of the best players in the world or the champions and champion's league semi-finalists?

The champions and champions league semi-finalists have been pillaged.

 

[ancoats]

That's if it happens!!! buyout rejected apparently by La Ligue

i knew that would happen and the buyout is just for part of neymar and he's got a 3rd party owernship hidden and could be a higher share than barca neymar is not daft he holds all the cards and barca was trying it on and needed the league to back them up now they have don't be surprised if neymar goes on strike and calls there bluff nothing but good news for football players this morning and like i said yesterday this could be a new bosman for players and a pay as you play deal could be the new with club having no contract with a player other than from and no longer than a season

3rd party and image rights are taking over and full control will be with agents not clubs the greed is now all on the players and agents

 

[west didsblue]

Someone already said it best in the neymar thread.

Going forward we are now going to be called "teams like PSG & Man City" when the press are referring to PSG.

Even though we won't have a single player in the all time top 10 transfers. KDB will go down to 11 if this goes through.

 

[TotalFootballOne]

Good point. Although Occam's razor would suggest they just wanted a player, could afford him, and are buying him.

Either way it's nothing to do with Abu Dhabi's illegal blockade of Qatar.

Barca dropped Quatar as a sponsor maybe that's also behind this raid.

The late Johan Cruyff said when Neymar was being linked to us, "You cant have two captains on one ship.". This is exactly it at the end, for a short time it worked, but at the end Neymar wanted to be the leader, some reports say PSG approach him others say he approached them, whatever the case he got their offer presented to Barcelona and asked if they could offer him that or better, with Messi on the team it was impossible or you have Neymar and his papi being unhappy or Messi and his papi being unhappy. At the end they decided to stick with Messi and Neymar decided to go to PSG.

 

[glyncity]

Neymar for £190 million or Pog-bambi and the Belgian Emile Heskey for £190 million , the pair......mmmm tough one !!!