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I'd imagine it's probably not even that specific. The number in the press release is probably something like the number of people who indicated they're interested in both soccer/football and wine and then extrapolated that across the populations in those combined regions.

At current exchange rates, Umbro was bought for about £153m. City should try and get a minimum of a £30m a year kit deal. In all likelihood, the deal would cost a similar amount as Umbro itself.

What a fantastic timeline of events. Well done! Read through it all quite happily.

Most players just restructure their deals, but on occasion you'll find an older veteran will take an actual pay cut since they've made a ton of money already. Tom Brady and Peyton Manning have done it in recent years. It happens in the NBA sometimes as well to allow teams to bring in the best...

This is how a lot of American fans became fans as well. It's a common theme among people in our local supporter's club. My user name is an oasis song and I actually met my wife thanks to her wearing an oasis shirt on the first day of a class we had together (her first day in college actually)...

Kane would be at least 5 times as much and wouldn't even want to leave Spurs. He's unattainable. Vardy would be. And for those expecting him to be a one hit wonder -- he's now scored against Germany, the Netherlands and Turkey. Seems to me he's staking a claim for continued success.

If City can get £20m or so for Bony, I'd make this deal in a heartbeat personally.

Again, it's completely negligible though. A drop in the bucket. They spend $3 billion plus a year on advertising -- they don't need to sell a single shirt for the City deal to be an exceptional value to them due to the advertising that results from it. They had an ad with Drake at the Super Bowl...

Sorry, this just isn't true. Nike does $30 billion a year in sales. The $17.5 million this City deal costs them means absolutely nothing. It's worthwhile to them without selling a single item because of the exposure it provides. Ubiquity is far more important than the sales.

I don't agree with that guy's valuation but the shirt sales are completely negligible to these companies. They pay these fees because of the advertising that is associated with it and the fact that every official piece of club gear carries the Nike, Adidas, Puma, etc. logo somewhere. When Nike...

Just was called into the provisional Swiss squad for the Euros.

If you release a player without their mutual consent, you owe them the full remaining amount in their contract. You can come to an agreement and maybe pay like 75-80% of it if they're not a total money grubber who would be willing to just sit out a season without playing. I don't think City...

Don't know how this is even a question. I see the thread was started 6-7 weeks ago but it was a stone cold sell all season. Should have gone after the 13/14 season when his value was at his peak. And then again last summer when his agent kept spouting off again. And again now that his agent is...

Well played.

He played well for them in the limited time he was there the previous season while they were in the Eredivisie as well. I think he has a good future as a pro but it will take awhile for a work permit so it probably won't be at City.

He's not a midfielder -- certainly not one you would compare to City's. He's a CB. Is he better than Adarabioyo or Humphreys? Hard to say.

A guy like Maffeo isn't good enough to play regularly yet, so we should ideally we bring in a player who has shown that he's quality and is around 22-23 to replace Zaba, then work in Maffeo has a long-term replacement for Sagna.

I think a lot of people are ignoring that he also takes a valuable foreign player slot. This was another season where we had to drop a first team player from our Champions League squad due to the lack of flexibility. He really should be allowed to leave.

Hate to say it but he is completely done at least as far as the PL is concerned and shouldn't play for City again. Way past it and we need to think long term. Have Maffeo play when the first choice isn't needed.

Because you can't let a new pro dictate your pay scale like this. Think of it this way -- David Silva makes somewhere in the neighborhood of £150k a week. One of the best players in the world over the last decade. If you give Iheanacho his second ever pro contract at £150k a week -- what will he...