The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[ArchangelMadzz]

Wyrdness said:

ArchangelMadzz said:

They're still the parent organisation and have power in the situation, nothing will happen to PSG that will affect them in any significant way, I can promise that. 

He is facing inferioir teams but he plays against competitive teams in the champions league so if they can build something there they've got something. Monaco are growing and have a lot of money and constantly find stars and Marseille are on the rise as well, in 10 years Ligue 1 could become a force again. 

I thought the same, but buying a player for 200 million, making a butt tonne of money off of him and improving your club competitively making you more money and after 4 years of service selling him for 100 million at least is pretty good business in the long run. 

Facing inferior teams won't help them build anything it will be like the Greek teams from a decade ago where it was Olympiakos playing in the CL every season but not doing that well because the teams they're playing every week aren't that competitive compared to them. Monaco have had money for a while and are becoming a stepping stone club where you put yourself in the shop window for other clubs and players clearly seem to be playing to that, in 10 years the L1 will be in the same spot it is now because it's been in the same static position for 2 decades now all the potential but never close to ever being tapped.

They're not going to make a tonne of money off him that's the point, this isn't Man Utd who sell shirts from UK to Timbuktu and have even Eskimos watching their games this is PSG, not as many people in Europe follow the French league let alone the world and most people who will be aware of them outside of the French themselves will only catch them on the odd CL match if they're facing one of the big fish or if the are no other interesting matches on and that's the sad truth. That 200m is not going to translate into breaking even or profit.

Yep. Compare PSG, Monaco and Marseille etc growing into a bigger league in 10 years to a Ukrainian league that has never been big.

No club makes a lot of money from shirt sales that's a myth. Clubs get 10% of the money from shirt sales so even if Neymar makes 100 million in shirt sales they get 10 million back which is chump change. Neymar makes money because it grows PSG as a club, they will get more fans from around the world that will want to watch them and cable stations over years will see the demand rise and ligue 1 gets more money from TV rights. Neymar is the most marketable player in the world, PSG will be able to get more sponserships who will want to be affiliated with him. That's where the money comes from. Being a more global club means making more money from tours, PSG can't go to china and australia the club isn't big enough but as the years go on their fanbase globally will grow. 

All of your points are literally things that could change. PSG at the very least could make 25 million per year from deals for 4 years then sell him for 100 million if things aren't working out. 28 year old neymar for 100 million in this market is a bargain.

 

If you don't think they could make more than 25 million a year from him then I think the conversation is over there.