JamDav1982
Senior Member
I never said Qatar get money from Barcelona through shirt sales, and throughout my posts I say that top clubs get a percentage of the profit, that's where the 12 euros come from. Here's the thing, we don't know whether or not I guessed wrong. Most likely every club handles this differently with their sponsors, manufacturers and their respective rights.
Perez claimed after the transfers of Ronaldo and James that players like that would earn themselves back, mainly because of shirt sales. It turned out this couldn't be true, because a club does not receive the full 80 euros of a football shirt and it's impossible to make 200 million in 6 years for those two players alone.
You said that Barcelona could cut out the money going to Qatar Airways if there was no sponsorship. Which you then guessed was 12-15 euros a shirt 'maybe more'.
So that comes to around up to 18m a season that Qatar are getting from shirt sales that could be going to Barca.
The money is not getting paid to Barca but not coming to Barca so it is same thing.
It takes ten seconds to work out Perez was speaking rubbish.... Real would need to see James shirt sales increase Real Madrids overall shirt sales by a million a year for over ten years for it to be true and that would be with Real getting the full 70 euros for each strip sold as prices stand.
Percentage of profit is not 12 euros per shirt. For example Man Utds Nike deal they got a fixed amount each season but could benefit from 1-2 million more depending on sales. Nowhere close to 12 euros per shirt which would take them closer to 20m euros a season.