Gareth Bale

[Robbie]

<s>@</s>barcastuff <small class="time"> 1 h
</small> Zidane (assistant Real Madrid): "Last season, Gareth (Bale) was on the same level as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi." [via skysports]

 

[Hamzah]

 

[El Gato]

barcastuff at it again

 

[Galning]

Seems like that headbutt caused some brain damage.

 

[Hamzah]

that's exactly at I was going to say but I stopped myself because I thought I'd get an infraction.

 

[El Gato]

I'm in the mood of making some kind of mod joke, but I'd probably get an infraction for it too.

 

[Luftstalag14]

barcastuff at it again

What, Zidane didn't actually say that?

 

[oz187]

It's all about the market pool, really. The UEFA redistributes the income from the domestic tv deals back to the clubs in these countries. There's a lot of money to gain in TV rights in Italy, so a big slice goes to these clubs.
It's really nuts if you think about it: Juventus gained 44 million from the market pool and 8.6 million as a group fee alone. So without doing anything in the CL, they already earned almost as much money as Dortmund who reached the final.

Ok, so because Italy only had two representatives they got a massive share? Whereas with Spain having four they each got a lot less. On the one hand it means Juve and Milan can better compete in the Champions League which is good for a diverse competition, which in turn might eventually earn Italy an extra Champions League spot. On the other hand, it makes it harder in the meantime for other clubs in Italy to compete for the league title. If Juventus are easily getting 50M every year then that gives them 250M over five years.

When you look at the EL distribution, it really gets depressing:

http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/uefaorg/Finance/01/97/53/15/1975315_DOWNLOAD.pdf

Most of the clubs stuck in there are the ones who'll probably fight for survival in the future. I mean, besides the market-pool which one as a club can't do anything about, there's pretty much nothing to gain there.

Add in stadium income and I could see it being a reasonable earner. It's funny though that Chelsea earned 10M from the competition. More than they would have got from getting to the Champions League quarter finals.

 

[Flavia]

barcastuff at it again

So is espn, then

What, Zidane didn't actually say that?

He did.

 

[SoMa]

Zidane has said he thinks gerrard is the best in the world and that ribery is better than messi. who cares what the bald idiot says.

 

[Furia]

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[S7_MUFC]

It's all about the market pool, really. The UEFA redistributes the income from the domestic tv deals back to the clubs in these countries. There's a lot of money to gain in TV rights in Italy, so a big slice goes to these clubs.
It's really nuts if you think about it: Juventus gained 44 million from the market pool and 8.6 million as a group fee alone. So without doing anything in the CL, they already earned almost as much money as Dortmund who reached the final.

When you look at the EL distribution, it really gets depressing:

http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/uefaorg/Finance/01/97/53/15/1975315_DOWNLOAD.pdf

Most of the clubs stuck in there are the ones who'll probably fight for survival in the future. I mean, besides the market-pool which one as a club can't do anything about, there's pretty much nothing to gain there.

But English clubs low revenue was down to old TV deal and the renewed deal is supposed to eclipse or at least match the Italian Market pool......
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...d-1billion-jackpot-bonanza--Charles-Sale.html

 

[Yugi]

please real get him for 120M, this will be so sweet

 

[suckabov]

Zidane sometimes seems to be offended that someone (Messi) has surpassed him so shortly after the end of his career. He doesn't actually seem like that, but from what he says about Messi, not just now but repeatedly, I certainly get the impression.

 

[BarcaGirl]

Zidane must have been high as fu*k, when he said that. Or he's just stupid. More likely the latter.