Villa goes to Barca for £34.5 million

Originally Posted by redhegemony

According to Conn today our turnover was:

gate/match day £109m
tv/broadcasting £100m
commercial £70m

Maybe that includes all competitions. I'm talking about PL TV money. We got £53m for the 09/10 season. Barca got £100m for La Liga.

That is a massive gulf.

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/...nt-in-2009-10/

Originally Posted by razzle

he would burn to a crisp in seconds

And he'd be bullied out of the league

Originally Posted by Sloane

20mill a year apparently with the new deal, same as the scousers

Sorry, I thought I'd typed £20m, must have skipped a key.

Shocking that we could only get the same as the scousers. We're probably the most famous name in sports. I thought this was supposed to be the Glazers area of expertise "expanding the brand".

Originally Posted by Lok

Maybe that includes all competitions. I'm talking about PL TV money. We got £53m for the 09/10 season. Barca got £100m for La Liga.

That is a massive gulf.

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/...nt-in-2009-10/

Wonder what their total is? and how match day compares?

Originally Posted by redhegemony

Wonder what their total is? and how match day compares?

Ours is better as we have "Take me home" blasting 10 mins before KO, to "warm up" the crowd.

Originally Posted by redhegemony

Wonder what their total is? and how match day compares?

You would imagine it's at least another £30-50m. They got further than us in most competitions.

Match day is hard to compare. Their stadium is massive but their average attendance is slightly less than ours. Ticket prices are similar, not sure about their executive facilities but you'd imagine ours are better. I'm sure Marlo could confirm

so the current best team in the world show their intentions.

buying from a position of strength.

sound familiar?

meanwhile utd (supposed to be the biggest club in the world) are shopping round for basement bargins.

nft.

Originally Posted by redhegemony

Wonder what their total is? and how match day compares?

their sponsorship was €112 million a year before they won the champions league, thats without tv

Originally Posted by El Chalten

meanwhile utd (supposed to be the biggest club in the world) are shopping round for more sensible buys.

I've changed that for you.

Great deal that for Barca.

I just wish we would pay 30m for a striker one day, hang on, we did and we was £#%&!in useless.

Originally Posted by Appletango

Great deal that for Barca.

I just wish we would pay 30m for a striker one day, hang on, we did and we was £#%&!in useless.

Rather them than us.

Originally Posted by That Boy Ronaldo!

I've changed that for you.

sensible buys?

like Tosic, Diouf, Obertan, the Mexican, Smalling.

the money spent on these would of bought us one decent player for the first team.

oh well.

nft.

Rooney in Spain would be like Sparky or Ian Rush at Juve, a total fish out of water.

It would be like living in a foreign country.

Originally Posted by El Chalten

sensible buys?

like Tosic, Diouf, Obertan, the Mexican, Smalling.

the money spent on these would of bought us one decent player for the first team.

oh well.

nft.

Why are you still here you tawdry little man?

Fair play to Barca they really are a monster of a team, even if they are ungracious bastards.

David Villa is not worth £35m.

but then again Ibra wasn't worth £40m+ either.

nft.

Originally Posted by That Boy Ronaldo!

Rather them than us.

You wouldn't want Villa at United

30m for one of the best strikers in the world is a great deal.

Originally Posted by Turin

Rooney in Spain would be like Sparky or Ian Rush at Juve, a total fish out of water.

It would be like living in a foreign country.

Absolute %@#$&!s.

Originally Posted by Zorg

How will he dislodge Ibrahimovic?

with a jawbreaking right hook

Rooney would take an age to settle in Spain. He plays best in a fast powerful team that you don't really get outside of England.
Would be mental to go tbh.