Josep Maria Bartomeu
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BarçaBarça
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If "prepare for life after Messi" = buy young stars (Dembele, Arthur, De Jong) + elite/world class players (Dembele, Coutinho, Griezmann), then I'm pretty sure the next 2 windows will be insane as well (this one will be good unless we buy Neymar).
Get ready for Mbappe PSG --> Barca for 300M€ in 2021 for the boards election-campaign. Don't worry about finance, because are wages+budget is f***** anyway
Barto could even be stupid enough to buy De Ligt for 150M in 2021 for his candidate to get elected. It seems like we don't care about being the biggest spenders and long-term financial stability at all.
Instead of this path we should buy smarter rather than expensive proven quality.
De Jong/Arthur is smart buying. Bernardo Silva for 50M would have been. Leroy Sané for 100M this window would be smart buying.
We need to find the balance between not going Juve-style and sign free agents mostly (Ramsay/Can/Rabiot etc.), and not buying to make headlines every summer like United (we did it with Coutinho, Dembele and possibly Neymar this summer).
Get ready for Mbappe PSG --> Barca for 300M€ in 2021 for the boards election-campaign. Don't worry about finance, because are wages+budget is f***** anyway
Barto could even be stupid enough to buy De Ligt for 150M in 2021 for his candidate to get elected. It seems like we don't care about being the biggest spenders and long-term financial stability at all.
Instead of this path we should buy smarter rather than expensive proven quality.
De Jong/Arthur is smart buying. Bernardo Silva for 50M would have been. Leroy Sané for 100M this window would be smart buying.
We need to find the balance between not going Juve-style and sign free agents mostly (Ramsay/Can/Rabiot etc.), and not buying to make headlines every summer like United (we did it with Coutinho, Dembele and possibly Neymar this summer).
Luftstalag14
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I am with Bartomeu here, promoting La Liga and gaining wider influence around the world, especially in the US and Asia is the way to go. The US is where the most money is. Dallas Cowboys (?!) of everyone attracted much better commercial deals than us and Real Madrid and the New York Yankees are more valuable than us, frggin' LA Clippers are spending $1b to get a new stadium, meanwhile we are struggling to find 600m to finance our Espai project and it keeps getting delayed (now rumored to be 2024 at the earliest).
If we want to keep up with the rest we have to do this.
If we want to keep up with the rest we have to do this.
Luftstalag14
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A couple of years ago we had a plan to enter the NWSL league in the US with a wholly-owned subsidiary with our brand name and image etc. but had a tough time getting it approved. So we discarded it, at least for now.
EdmondDantes
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Doesn't that implicitly corrupt the integrity and even fairness of a league though?
One of the foundations of a fair and unbiased league is the fact teams play home and away equally. Matches abroad would distort that completely.
I know financially it makes sense, but prestige takes a hit.
Luftstalag14
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It wouldn’t be too big of an issue since it is going to be just a couple of games a season tops. To mitigate the fairness issue, they can target games such as the Spanish Super Cup which are played on neutral grounds.
If it is league games, I understand it wouldn’t be completely fair to the affected home as they lose the home advantage, it is always going to be the smaller teams that will make the sacrifice, perhaps their incentives will be playing against a big team in front of all the cameras and hopefully that will raise the brand awareness of that small club. Also, the revenues received from the games played overseas should go to the home teams. In addition, the affected home teams will have to deal with ticketing (especially those who have season tickets) but for the greater good (financial growth and competitiveness of the league) I think it is definitely worth doing.
Wouldnt the smaller home team recieve a larger % in ticket revenue simply by playing in front of larger crowds. It could be ideal even to move a round of the copa del rey to the foreign markets then every team still in the comp travels and leaves a level playing field
MTL_Barca
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It doesn't make any sense sporting wise to a point where it could really influence the outcome of a whole season and it would also really suck for local fans especially of smaller teams but it's all about the money so sooner or later it'll happen anyway.
Nobody cares for something like the Super Cup of course, but if we talk about regular league games i think it's stupid especially because it will just be the 1st step if it's (financially) successful.
Nobody cares for something like the Super Cup of course, but if we talk about regular league games i think it's stupid especially because it will just be the 1st step if it's (financially) successful.
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Luftstalag14
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Technically for league games the home team should get 100% of ticketing revenue as well as other match-day proceeds (like from the concession stands etc.).
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Luftstalag14
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By the way La Liga couldn't even sell its rights in the UK and Ireland two weeks before the new season starts. Goes to show the mountain they have to climb to market the league to the world.
Andrew M
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Yes, the wording they used was 'no satisfactory bids', so it could be that they are being greedy and need to accept that the market for La Liga in the UK is pretty small
unknowngenius10
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I can't believe no one is talking aabout the Kubo fiasco.
a player formed in la masia went to madrid on a free transfer.......
a player who could end up being one of japan's best players of all time
a player who's already shinning for madrid
Bartomeu was so caught off guard that he ended up having to buy a japanese player to make it look as if he wasn't actually caught offguard and was being the more strategic person
Florentino perez has made bartomeu his b^#$c
Bartomeu shoudl have resigned after this
a player formed in la masia went to madrid on a free transfer.......
a player who could end up being one of japan's best players of all time
a player who's already shinning for madrid
Bartomeu was so caught off guard that he ended up having to buy a japanese player to make it look as if he wasn't actually caught offguard and was being the more strategic person
Florentino perez has made bartomeu his b^#$c
Bartomeu shoudl have resigned after this
clemente
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He is a snake cunt, that left out of pity, nothing else, why he was pity against us, is another topic.
He accepted a contract, that is 1m a year, for 5 years, that's literally a joke, if he stayed here and became what you are dreaming about here, he would earn that much per 3 months at barca, of course putting in consideration how the market is gonna keep progressing.
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