Madrid have an absolutely colossal debt Wooden, please understand. £500m of it, we're only on £300m odd.
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Gareth Bale joins Real Madrid from Spurs in £85m world record deal
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Madrid have an absolutely colossal debt Wooden, please understand. £500m of it, we're only on £300m odd.
Real are more in debt than United.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Can't wait to get his jersey.
Hence 'leveraged buyouts'. Manchester United is/was a perfectly sustainable and well run football club. It's the FA and the Premier League that allowed the club to be saddled with hundreds of millions of pounds worth of debt for no good reason.
EDIT: And the only reason Real have a 'healthy' business is because of their fraudulent dealings done with the Madrid government and banks; detailed earlier on in the thread, and the massively skewed TV deals which considerably harms 18 other football clubs in the league.
Summarise that, I am not reading that all.
Broder Salsa
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" So, much of Madrid’s €590 million and Barcelona’s €578 million debt includes liability for what might be termed normal operations. If we apply the same definition to Manchester United, they have debt (total liabilities) of just under €1 billion (£824 million converted at a rate of 1.20). Even Arsenal’s debt on the same basis is €524 million, which the journalists would no doubt describe as “eye-watering” if they were talking about others and not their template for a well-run club. To use an old adage, you have to make sure that you are comparing apples with apples.
Of course, if you wanted to make a club’s debt look as bad as possible, then you would absolutely use the total liabilities definition. However, it is very conservative to say the least. Indeed, in response to their critics, Madrid and Barcelona might feel like misquoting Mark Twain: “The reports of my debt have been greatly exaggerated.”"
Then go look at the figures.
I'll just read it myself.
Broder Salsa
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Should get Kagawa to read it up to you, so he would at least be doing something useful for the United supporters.
Broder Salsa
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He was definitely in the top 10 last season, probably even top 5. If he can keep his level is another question however. Many will remember back when Spurs couldn't win because of him.
Let's see your top 10 list then...
lol, impressive penalty shot.
bonesmccoy
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Better than Giggs.
I don't even think he'd be that marketable for Madrid. I mean, he's obviously going to sell shirts, but nowhere near the scale that Ronaldo or previous Galácticos have done. I don't think a slightly simian Welshman is going to be selling truck loads of shirts in South America. Either way it's going to be interesting to see how he does.
Is that team Qatar Airways Vs Team HP?
I think we hate Real more, they are basically a mafia and yet UEFA say nothing to them.
A list without him, I haven't watched him play enough to know if he is top 10, but he's not worth the price they paid.
1. Messi
2. Ronaldo
3. Ribery
4. Iniesta
5. Ozil
6. Reus
7. Mata
8. Lewandowski/top strikers
9. Fabregas/Alonso ( I also like Javi Martinez or Schweinsteigger)
10. Lahm/ top defenders
~Devil Trigger~
In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
lol
Bale is awesome but cmon son!
Bale is awesome but cmon son!
R10Neymarfan
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Whose ass is that in you avatar? It's always mesmerizing to see.
Anyways I hope Bale flops. It will be grand. One of the stupidest transfers
Bren McGuire
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That's Gabor Kiraly.
Broder Salsa
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he was top 10 last season. but he's not worth the price they paid. only Ronaldo and Messi are.
The absence of Balotelli is inexcusable. So far, he has scored 13 goals in 15 Serie A matches, plus a few assists. He has a 100% penalty-kick record and is fucking badass.
He will not last as long as Giggs
345triangle
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i hate being a southampton fan sometimes.
SkepticalPanda
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This made me laugh because you genuinely sound pissed off.
IdreamofHIME
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There's no difference. Not sure about Madrid, but Barcelona has debts of over 600m and it gets bigger every year.
Thats not true.
They put the debt in a different column on their accounts so its not real. Everyone pretend its not there, k?
brokenbeans
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God I hope not, giggs just needs to go away.
How much is EL's transfer fee?
I guess around 50M
immortal-joe
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Here's the punchline: Mesut Ozil is leaving. Bale is great and all, but Mesut -fucking wonderkid - Ozil is leaving.
Isco doesn't hold a candle to him. Sad and pathetic how so many sports fans have short-term memories when it comes to their players.
Isco doesn't hold a candle to him. Sad and pathetic how so many sports fans have short-term memories when it comes to their players.
pants
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How much is EL's transfer fee?
Why is a famous football player running neogaf?
velociraptor
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£300,000 a week?
Fucking hell.
Fucking hell.
PumpkinPie
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Is he a famous football player? I've never heard of him. Normally even people not into sport would have heard their name if they were that good.
That's a really bad comparison
Anyway history in the making folks
biggest flop in history
It's scandalous.
Millions of Spanish people don't even have a job, the bank that Real loans from has been supported by the EU otherwise they would have fallen years ago, but it seems everybody in Madrid and the government think it's all good to let Real spend so much money on an overrated player.
Millions of Spanish people don't even have a job, the bank that Real loans from has been supported by the EU otherwise they would have fallen years ago, but it seems everybody in Madrid and the government think it's all good to let Real spend so much money on an overrated player.
sleeping_dragon
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The successor to Ryan Gigs?
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