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This is why I dont rate Barcelonas greatness.
Our TV money is shared equally. If Manchester United got greedy and negotiated their own tv deal they would blow the Spanish teams out of the water.
Barcelona are 500m in debt, Madrid the same. Their TV deals run into the hundreds of millions when the other Spanish sides get around 5m each.
Judging by the face on Platini last night I dont think he is an admirer either.
I think it's monthly.
To be fair to Barca though they have hardly bought their success.
To be fair to Barca though they have hardly bought their success.
I agree with this. Most of their team have come through their youth academy. Valdes, Pique (though he re-signed from Man Utd), Puyol, Busquets, Pedro, without mentioning the main three Xavi, Iniesta and Messi.
They've spent big on Mascherano (£22m), Dani Alves (£23m) on David Villa (£35m?) apart from that nothing really huge.
United have spent more on Berbatov, Ferdinand and Rooney.
I guess the money allows them to pay Messi the reported £250k per week he's on though!
Zlatan(£40m+Eto'o) plus a whole host of £15m~ players.
Maybe take a look at their wage bill. Average of 97k a week.
To be fair to Barca though they have hardly bought their success.
If Chelsea bring through all their youngsters over the next five years would we say that they hadn't bought their success? Probably not because the bottom line is that those youngsters wouldn't be there without Abe's money just like the Barca boys wouldn't be there without the money gained by the skewed payments in Spain. I accept that this argument would carry more weight if Chelsea actually could bring the boys through but I think the point stands anyway.
On the table there is a facilities column does anyone know what this is?
Spend!
We need to secure a big name striker in June to send a message to the rest of the squad about our ambitions.