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**Summer Transfer Thread: News, Rumours and Speculation**
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Lol, intresting few pages!
Gustov, you totally fell for the CL final question.
No I really didn't.
You fell for believing I fell for it.
Straight back down with McCarthy in charge, unfortunately.
That's what I think to a point but they seem to have made more moves in the transfer window than any other promoted teams.
Serbian captain, Doyle who can score a few, some young left winger from Southampton and Marseilles CB.
All area's they needed to improve.
I'm looking forward to seeing what Ebanks-Blake can do in the Prem as well, him being an ex United kid an all that.
They may have a fighting chance.
I imagine walking in on your missus with another man feels pretty much how I felt seeing Cristiano in that Real Madrid shirt 
I hate him so much but god what I'd do to have him back
God how long till the football starts? I cant take anymore of this transfer crap
I hate him so much but god what I'd do to have him back
God how long till the football starts? I cant take anymore of this transfer crap
I think McCarthy made a boob in the transfer market when he signed Halford. What a woeful defender.
It's really strange seeing Ronaldo in a Real Madrid shirt. Good luck to him though. I still reckon he could have done with a few more years at Old Trafford, but hey it wasn't to be. The turnout was incredible for him, it certainly made Kaka's unveiling look tame in comparison.
It's really strange seeing Ronaldo in a Real Madrid shirt. Good luck to him though. I still reckon he could have done with a few more years at Old Trafford, but hey it wasn't to be. The turnout was incredible for him, it certainly made Kaka's unveiling look tame in comparison.
He's been playing on the right wing for us (sufc) all season, and doing a damn good job at it. I was desperately hoping we could get him back. Our best player last season, bar maybe Naughton.
Not as strange as when Owen makes his debut for you.
Caporegime
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its pretty simple if someone has the money to put together either a cheap and good team(think fulham-ish) or a uber expensive team, like Chelsea/City. If someone gets a good team and manager theres nothing fundamentally wrong with the club, its not doomed, or cursed. However if someone buys Wigan, or Newcastle, starts winning games and doing well, the simple fact is Wigan have(IIRC) around 25k seats to fill, Newcastle have almost double that. There is NO coincidence between who the top 3/4 have been over the past decade(somewhat excluding chelsea) and the fact that they had pretty much the biggest gate reciepts. Arsenal had a lower capacity stadium, but have pretty expensive seats which makes up for it.
The fact is Newcastle IS a GREAT deal because if you spend 100mil on players for them instead of Wigan, the massive stadium means theres far FAR FAR more income to be made overall by a much larger club.
They are a steal because teams with stadiums in the 50k seater and above range are very very few and far between. if Wigan won the league, and the CL and all the cups, and Newcastle did it, newcastle would make an extra 50-60mil in doing it.
How?
£50-60m extra? Just on ticket sales?
Gimmie a break!
You're looking at around £20m tops.
Lets presume, that both teams played 50 games next season... half of those are home games.
So potentially they can have 25 games at home next season - for ease lets say both teams charge £30 for every seat in the stadium regardless of games.
Newcastle's maximum revenue from that would be £37,500,000.
Wigan's maximum revenue from that would be £18,750,000.
Difference of £18,750,000.
That isn't net profit either, Newcastle's wage structure is presumably higher right now (but they're probably doing their best to reduce this)... the sponsorship from live games and TV deals is not going to be anywhere near what Wigan would get for playing in the Premier League this season either. Not to mention the fact that a larger stadium means more out goings in heating, lighting, staffing and general maintenance.
£100,000,000 for Newcastle United is a decent deal still, but you've arguably got one of the toughest crowds to please in the English games simply because the fans have huge expectations and have such a huge passion for their club that they can't stand to see you, the team, the club or anything to do with Newcastle fail.
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firstly, you've got tickets the same price, there are more Newcastle fans, more demand and more seats, its easier to charge a higher price with more seats as you can still have a load of cheap seats, you get both sets of fans in. You're also missing that I said essentially a run to the final in every cup, thats a LOT more than 50 games, cup final tickets, that they get a massive slice of will be FAR higher in cost, they make money off their away game fans too.
Ad money is more as ad's work on people in the stadium too, of which their are more at Newcastle hence they can change twice as much in banners/posters around the stadium.
A huge chunk of cash comes into Arsenal purely from the food sales and stands, of which their are loads, more people, more profit again. Likewise, more people attending games, more programme's sold. Bigger stadium, more people seeing them weekly, more people buying shirts, more of everything.
Can't say I know what the office's situation is at Newcastle, most newer stadiums put a lot of effort into conference rooms and offices and make a lot of cash of those types of things, again, bigger stadium, what it has, it will have more of.
you also decided to change half the parameters of what i said with the number. Given the SAME TEAM and in the same position winning the same league and the same champs league, theres FAR more money to be had from a club with a stadium twice the size. Its a business, long term Newcastle can and will get back into the prem before Wigan get a 52k seater stadium.
Ad money is more as ad's work on people in the stadium too, of which their are more at Newcastle hence they can change twice as much in banners/posters around the stadium.
A huge chunk of cash comes into Arsenal purely from the food sales and stands, of which their are loads, more people, more profit again. Likewise, more people attending games, more programme's sold. Bigger stadium, more people seeing them weekly, more people buying shirts, more of everything.
Can't say I know what the office's situation is at Newcastle, most newer stadiums put a lot of effort into conference rooms and offices and make a lot of cash of those types of things, again, bigger stadium, what it has, it will have more of.
you also decided to change half the parameters of what i said with the number. Given the SAME TEAM and in the same position winning the same league and the same champs league, theres FAR more money to be had from a club with a stadium twice the size. Its a business, long term Newcastle can and will get back into the prem before Wigan get a 52k seater stadium.
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Any more News on arsenal signings/rumours? Is that Melo deal dead?
I wouldnt mind them going for Sneijder. Nice bit of experience in the team would do us well.
I am so looking forward to the start of the Prem, at least next year we have the world cup to keep us busy in the summer.
I wouldnt mind them going for Sneijder. Nice bit of experience in the team would do us well.
I am so looking forward to the start of the Prem, at least next year we have the world cup to keep us busy in the summer.
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