Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[hihosilva]

100 pages by 1pm come on!!!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

100 pages by 1pm come on!!!

Will that mean he's coming?

 

[hihosilva]

100 pages by 1pm come on!!!

Will that mean he's coming?

Two years ago this transfer would have been brushed aside as rubbish talk, but there's alot of people who I have time for that are now discussing this move as possibe.

 

[whicko]

100 pages by 1pm come on!!!

Will that mean he's coming?

Messi is now fit and set to return to the Barca team on Wednesday.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Would be a great signing if the fee was in installments or with the help of sponsors or something.

Without any uplifts from currently existing sponsorship deals, do you think we could do it financially PB?

Instalments wouldn't make any difference but I believe there would be uplifts from existing deals. We could possibly do it without but a large part of the rationale for this deal is significantly increased commercial income.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

There is simply no way we will be close to breaking even in the forthcoming accounts. The only question is whether the loss will be low enough for us to squeeze through the first licencing period. But the advantage of Messi as opposed to buying a group of players such as Luke Shaw, Pogba, Ramos, etc is that he wil bring additional revenue that they simply won't.

I'm not absolutely sure on this but I suspect that we have an agreement with Nike & Etihad that they will pay us more if he comes. That could involve another £15-20m from them alone. And don't forget the BT Sport TV deal has kicked in, which gives us over £30m a year more without lifting a finger. And there's all the other commercial deals that would follow him. Do 4 or 5 of those at £5m a pop and that's his gross wages paid.

yeah we may struggle on the accounts we're about to publish, but next year I envisage a huge jump that will set us way on the road to a long term immensely profitable future, I can't wait for 12 months time.

I can't see us being "immensely profitable" for a long long time, if ever. Our accounts are already fudged with friendly sponsorship deals so what you see is not what you get either.

We are a business running at an enormous loss. I would imagine the intention is purely to get the club to break-even, so it costs ADUG nothing more. But by the time that happens make no bones, The Sheikh will have invested well over a billion pounds, money he will never get back. Money he hopefully sees as well spent of course.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

There is simply no way we will be close to breaking even in the forthcoming accounts. The only question is whether the loss will be low enough for us to squeeze through the first licencing period. But the advantage of Messi as opposed to buying a group of players such as Luke Shaw, Pogba, Ramos, etc is that he wil bring additional revenue that they simply won't.

I'm not absolutely sure on this but I suspect that we have an agreement with Nike & Etihad that they will pay us more if he comes. That could involve another £15-20m from them alone. And don't forget the BT Sport TV deal has kicked in, which gives us over £30m a year more without lifting a finger. And there's all the other commercial deals that would follow him. Do 4 or 5 of those at £5m a pop and that's his gross wages paid.

yeah we may struggle on the accounts we're about to publish, but next year I envisage a huge jump that will set us way on the road to a long term immensely profitable future, I can't wait for 12 months time.

I can't see us being "immensely profitable" for a long long time, if ever. Our accounts are already fudged with friendly sponsorship deals so what you see is not what you get either.

We are a business running at an enormous loss. I would imagine the intention is purely to get the club to break-even, so it costs ADUG nothing more. But by the time that happens make no bones, The Sheikh will have invested well over a billion pounds, money he will never get back. Money he hopefully sees as well spent of course.

Depends how you define "get back" DD.

 

[Danamy]

What if buying his image rights are also included and part of the package?

 

[flb]

yeah we may struggle on the accounts we're about to publish, but next year I envisage a huge jump that will set us way on the road to a long term immensely profitable future, I can't wait for 12 months time.

I can't see us being "immensely profitable" for a long long time, if ever. Our accounts are already fudged with friendly sponsorship deals so what you see is not what you get either.

We are a business running at an enormous loss. I would imagine the intention is purely to get the club to break-even, so it costs ADUG nothing more. But by the time that happens make no bones, The Sheikh will have invested well over a billion pounds, money he will never get back. Money he hopefully sees as well spent of course.

Depends how you define "get back" DD.

He would own one hell of an asset, more than likely worth well in excess of £500 million, so him spending 1 billion doesn't look all that bad. The £500 million its probably worth wont include the much anticipated collar site development either.- we are a big big player now not just in football but sport globally.


We have become one hell of a power-making Chelsea look like a fucking corner shop in the next 5 years.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

There is simply no way we will be close to breaking even in the forthcoming accounts. The only question is whether the loss will be low enough for us to squeeze through the first licencing period. But the advantage of Messi as opposed to buying a group of players such as Luke Shaw, Pogba, Ramos, etc is that he wil bring additional revenue that they simply won't.

I'm not absolutely sure on this but I suspect that we have an agreement with Nike & Etihad that they will pay us more if he comes. That could involve another £15-20m from them alone. And don't forget the BT Sport TV deal has kicked in, which gives us over £30m a year more without lifting a finger. And there's all the other commercial deals that would follow him. Do 4 or 5 of those at £5m a pop and that's his gross wages paid.

yeah we may struggle on the accounts we're about to publish, but next year I envisage a huge jump that will set us way on the road to a long term immensely profitable future, I can't wait for 12 months time.

I can't see us being "immensely profitable" for a long long time, if ever. Our accounts are already fudged with friendly sponsorship deals so what you see is not what you get either.

We are a business running at an enormous loss. I would imagine the intention is purely to get the club to break-even, so it costs ADUG nothing more. But by the time that happens make no bones, The Sheikh will have invested well over a billion pounds, money he will never get back. Money he hopefully sees as well spent of course.

I do, in terms of the football club, in terms of Sheikh Mansour, well that depends on whether he has any intention to sell at any point, we could be the family corner shop but 2bh by the time he wants to up sticks the football club will be so big and lucrative I think in what will be an improved economic climate he would make a fortune selling us.