Josep Maria Bartomeu

[Luftstalag14]

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.

 

[Devils]

Should sign some US female footballers.

They are the best in the world and have a big following and marketability in the US.

 

[Luftstalag14]

Should sign some US female footballers.

They are the best in the world and have a big following and marketability in the US.

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]

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.

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]

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.

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.

 

[frog-fcb]

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]

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.

 

[jamrock]

It has to happen, doesn't matter if it's unfair, uncool.

The league needs it

NFL
NBA

Washed with money, with really zero reasons to do it, and they are playing games overseas.

La Liga a joke of an organization definitely needs it

 

[Luftstalag14]

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

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.).

 

[Luftstalag14]

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]

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.

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]

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

 

[clemente]

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

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.

 

[El Gato]

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.

The salt and the denial of diminishing institutional value. Lovely.

 

[clemente]

The salt and the denial of diminishing institutional value. Lovely.

Lovely, slanders without any counter-arguments, classic barcaforum reply.
Tell me where is the salt and denial? He 100% clearly left out of spite, someone in the club got him really mad to make him do such a move, where do you see the denial? He is literally gonna get paid 1m a year for half a decade, this is a week for Messi, this is nothing if he becomes what you are talking about, where is the denial exactly?