Every player for any club is a commodity , he has a value cause the club paid money for him .
so while Laporta tried to pass Eto'o as a zero value in the accounts for both clubs he is worth something , i was watching Ibra introduction on Barca TV (through the Jazeera sports channel ) and the Barca broadcaster did mention Eto'o value as 20 Million
so when U add Eto'o + 49 Million for Ibra plus the Shag-Miss-key,Maxwell house and K9 you will reach the 116 (did it matter those 4 Mil ? )
it's the biggest ever spending spree by Barca in their history
regarding our spending
94 CR
65 Kaka
35 Xabi
35 /38 Benzema
4 Mil Granero
15 Mil Albiol
4 Mil Arbeloa
earned
24 Million for Robben
15 Million for Huntelaar
15 (18 with incentive ) for Sneijder
14 for Negredo
plus the undisclosed fees for Miguel Torres,Heinze,Codina,Ruud,Salgado (can't even remember if i forget anyone ? )say a combined fee of 10/12 Mil
our spending will be in the region of 160/180 give or take few
considering we have virtually formed a new team we are very far off from your spending
Then Barcelona's spending is below 100 cause you need to diminish "Eto'o's value". So still Real's is still double.
We bought four, you bought eight (two which you got on the cheap because they come from your cantera, like Piqué with us, it's a bit cheating with the balance).
Keirrison is not at Barcelona so if you are comparing spending in terms of building a team, and you are doing that, you can easily erase another 15 million from this year.
Which would make it 170 versus 75 at this point.
But as you were comparing the spending in building a team, and you very much were, Barcelona could also add the value of Hleb and Caceres, because we loaned them instead of sellng them (which might become the opposite of your Negredo action, meaning it will give us money where you lose money to receive the instant cash you needed this year depending on Negredo's comeback) and they are not part of the team. Hence, we could actually deduct roughly another 20 million this year.
Balancing in the end a nice 170 versus 55-60.
I know you will say that I cannot do that and that loaned players are still there etc. :chyg: