Barcelona - more than just a club... a model blah blah blah

£#%&! off Barca. @#%&!s.

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Barcelona, which added World Cup top scorer David Villa this offseason, is negotiating a 150 million- euro ($188.6 million) bank loan after falling behind with salary payments to players. The soccer club denied it’s bankrupt.

The 2009 European champion hopes to secure the loan in a few days, Barcelona President Sandro Rosell said, according to the team Web site. Rosell, who replaced Joan Laporta last week, didn’t identify the banks the club is negotiating with or name players affected by the wage delay.

“We have to finance” our short-term obligations such as wages, Rosell said, adding the team also plans to trade defender Dmytro Chygrynskiy back to Shakhtar Donetsk for 15 million euros, 10 million less than it paid for him in August 2009. Club members “can relax,” Rosell added. “The club isn’t bankrupt.”

Last week, Barcelona said it became the world’s biggest sports team by sales, overtaking Real Madrid. Revenue rose 16 percent to 445.5 million euros for the year through June 30 following its 2009 Champions League title. Net income was 9 million euros.

Spanish soccer clubs are under pressure from spiraling payroll costs, two years of recession and a credit crunch, according to a study last month by Barcelona University professor Jose Maria Gay. On June 16, Mediaproduccion SL, owner of the broadcast rights for the domestic league, said it sought bankruptcy protection.

TV Deal

Barcelona’s seven-year, 1 billion-euro contract with Mediapro through 2013 isn’t secured by a bank guarantee, unlike Real Madrid’s accord, Rosell said. While Barcelona has had assurances from Mediapro, concern over the contract remains, Rosell said, according to the website.

The team’s costs soared the last year as it paid out 40 million euros in bonuses to players and coaches after winning several trophies, the team said last week.

Barcelona, which is owned by its members, acquired Villa from Valencia for 40 million euros in May. He has scored five World Cup goals in five games.

Rosell played down speculation that the club is poised to sign Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas, even though he said “everyone knows he wants to come here.”

He “denied adamantly” that there was any possibility of Barcelona paying 50 to 60 million euros for the midfielder. Publicity about the possible deal was “the worst thing that could have happened,” he said.

They don't even need sponsors they've got unicef etc and they donate organs to sick lambs etc £#%&! off.

They donate all tickets to the orphanage, which is situated behind their turnstiles where they are raised on a diet of organic veg and beans.

£#%&! off.

LOVE UNITED
HATE BARCA


hope we get the £#%&!ing @#%&!s in Europe again next season

If we could negotiate our own TV deal we wouldn't need sponsors either.

if you watch that documentary on barca around the time Laporta took over and they signed goofy there is a section where you get an inside look into their commercial strategy. it was very simple, United do it best copy them

Originally Posted by Sullingtons

They donate all tickets to the orphanage, which is situated behind their turnstiles where they are raised on a diet of organic veg and beans.

£#%&! off.

Fabregas was raised at that orphanage, that's why they want him back for nowt

Originally Posted by Father Christmas

If we could negotiate our own TV deal we wouldn't need sponsors either.

if we could negotiate our own TV deal we wouldn't be £800m in debt

it £#%&!s me off that shite like Stoke, Blackburn, Burnley, Wigan, Bolton etc get pretty much the same TV revenue as United from Sky

Originally Posted by £#%&! KFC

if we could negotiate our own TV deal we wouldn't be £800m in debt

it £#%&!s me off that shite like Stoke, Blackburn, Burnley, Wigan, Bolton etc get pretty much the same TV revenue as United from Sky

There really is no hope

Thats what you get when you do mega mong deals like the Eto plus 50mil deal for the Sweedish Berbatov.

Originally Posted by £#%&! KFC

if we could negotiate our own TV deal we wouldn't be £800m in debt

it £#%&!s me off that shite like Stoke, Blackburn, Burnley, Wigan, Bolton etc get pretty much the same TV revenue as United from Sky

as opposed to the gimps getting more like

Originally Posted by TripDownMiseryLane

as opposed to the gimps getting more like

if we had negotiated our own TV deal under the PLC there wouldn't be any gimps

Originally Posted by £#%&! KFC

if we could negotiate our own TV deal we wouldn't be £800m in debt

it £#%&!s me off that shite like Stoke, Blackburn, Burnley, Wigan, Bolton etc get pretty much the same TV revenue as United from Sky

I know they need all teams to vote for this but i'm suprised ( specially with their owners ) that United, Spurs, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal have not kicked off and forced this to happen.

The shit teams would still get atleast the same amount of cash they do now ( they could write into the contract that if a team does not reach x amount, the rest is made up to that amount from the larger teams who wanted this deal )

Originally Posted by £#%&! KFC

if we had negotiated our own TV deal under the PLC there wouldn't be any gimps

how do you work that out?

Originally Posted by ScarFace

I know they need all teams to vote for this but i'm suprised ( specially with their owners ) that United, Spurs, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal have not kicked off and forced this to happen.

The shit teams would still get atleast the same amount of cash they do now ( they could write into the contract that if a team does not reach x amount, the rest is made up to that amount from the larger teams who wanted this deal )

it's ridiculous....every one hates United appaarently but who has the biggest vieiwing figures for any game every season and has been since TV games started being screened live

we should have £#%&!ed the rest off years ago and got our own TV deals like they have in Spain

Originally Posted by £#%&! KFC

if we had negotiated our own TV deal under the PLC there wouldn't be any gimps

so why do you think the gimps bought us?

Still it would be nice to see the likes of cubic getting 15% dividends every year.

Originally Posted by £#%&! KFC

it's ridiculous....every one hates United appaarently but who has the biggest vieiwing figures for any game every season and has been since TV games started being screened live

we should have £#%&!ed the rest off years ago and got our own TV deals like they have in Spain

Yeah, we could be like the Harlem Globetrotters

Originally Posted by florentino ariza

how do you work that out?

the club would have been worth a lot more than those @#%&!s 'paid@ for it for a £#%&!ing start


hypothetical I know but you can't even begin to imagine the revenue United would have been able to generate in the last 20 years with their own TV deal

£#%&! KFC, you are a tit. already english club football is as distorted as it can get. And you want it worsen by having individual TV deals.

No wonder english football is on its knees.

£#%&! KFC, you do know that if United play Liverpool 38 times in a season, no one would give a shit. United generate that much fans and viewership is because they play in a competitive league. Stoke and bolton are entitled as much money as united.