Merchandise, TV money, influence, social media. Its why utd stick with Pogba, he's a money making machine.
Sorry mate, but I believe you’ve been taken onboard by media propaganda, although I do stand to be corrected by someone far more knowledgeable about football finance than me.
If you go though it step by step, it makes no sense.
Transfer cost....no chance less than £100 million (isn’t his buyout circa £250mill?) spread over a 3 year contract (would never be any longer offered at his age). So that’s £33 million per annum straight off the bat.
I am aware he can apparently leave for ‘free’ at the end of every season, but this is a moot point as his signing on fee, if this were the case, would no doubt be around the same amount, or wage increase by this amount over the term of his contract.
Considering Raiola picked up £41 million for Pogba, how much would his agent want? For argument’s sake, say it was the same, another £13 million per annum
Messi is reported to be on at least £500k a week base & I’m not even sure if that’s met or gross, so wages would cost at least £24 million per annum & that’s without an increase or any bonus.
Win bonus/game? Goal bonus? Trophy bonus? Who knows how much they would be?
So that’s an extra £70 million extra per annum cost being conservative. Do you really believe Messi would generate directly?
Doing the maths, I’m not sure how anyone can conclude that?
Would our tv revenue increase due to Messi? No
Would our prize money increase due to Messi?
No
Would our £65mill per annum for 10 year shirt deal with Puma increase? No
Even if we do get a percentage of sold shirts as a poster alluded to earlier in the thread of 15%, which I’m not sure is correct. If we do get a percentage, I’d suggest it’s more likely a percentage of shirts sold over a specific amount of units. So if Messi (one player alone so unlikely) doubled our shirt sales from circa 1 million to 2 million per annum & we get 15%, I’d guess that’s £9.75mill. Do you genuinely believe one player would double our shirt sales (unlikely to me)
Not sure how you think social media would create extra revenue directly?
So we still need to generate an extra £61,250,000 from commercial business which would be directly attributed to Messi
City’s commercial revenue last year was £261 million, so are you really expecting one player to increase commercial revenue by an extra £61 million per annum, which is a whopping 23% increase?
Not having it mate. In my humble opinion, it’s purely a myth peddled by the media who love organic growth, money earned blah blah blah bullshit to blow sunshine up their team’s arses & to justify the huge transfers by chosen few who are ‘allowed’ to spend big.
Oh & if you really believe United keep Pogba for the reason you mentioned........well, maybe have a think about all of the above & you might come to a completely different conclusion ;)
To summarise, I strongly believe the media chat shit & can’t be trusted, so please stop perpetuating their bullshit. Or as 2 of our more esteemed posters may put it, the media are wankstains &/or cunts ;)
