Messi for £250m

newyddion

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I’d rather have the money, in-fact I’d rather have £100m (at boro) to spend on players.

It would be really interesting to see him playing in the prem. The idea of him in the same team as Ronaldo (at Juventus) is a bit of a mad one too. Can’t see that ending well for either one of them tbh. Surely he has to leave Barca now to protect his legacy?
 
His £623 million clause has lapsed, there are rumours that he can leave on a free as its in his contract. Barcelona obviously want to negotiate a fee, but it sounds like Messi holds all the cards here. Man City would be mad to pay £250m for him, he's 33, he has what, 2, 3 years at the top remaining. Plus his current £90m a year salary is ridiculous in the current climate.

As good a player as he is, he's not worth it now, maybe 5 years ago, but its not a sound investment.
 
This is a myth as most people would still only buy one Man City shirt but trade aguerro for messi so it really wouldn’t make much difference.
I think you are wrong on this, they obviously wouldn't get all the money back, but kids from all over the world love Messi and buy his shirts. Shirts sales would take off in countries who do not normally stock City shirts.
 
I think you are wrong on this, they obviously wouldn't get all the money back, but kids from all over the world love Messi and buy his shirts. Shirts sales would take off in countries who do not normally stock City shirts.
Yes they would but most will be fake and others will be replacement for other shirts

Honestly shirt sales as huge revenue streams are a myth
 
More numbers here

If City make £18 on each sale (a big if), they would have to sell 5,555,556 Messi shirts to cover his wages. In 2018/19, City sold a total of 1,085,000 shirts worldwide, according to industry sources.
The thing is Shirt sales don't work like that.... how it works is Adidas, Nike, whoever pay the clubs a fee on how many shirts they THINK they will sell - so for example Adidas might pay Manchester United £100m per year, if they sell £200m worth of shirts, well that's their profit
 
The thing is Shirt sales don't work like that.... how it works is Adidas, Nike, whoever pay the clubs a fee on how many shirts they THINK they will sell - so for example Adidas might pay Manchester United £100m per year, if they sell £200m worth of shirts, well that's their profit
That’s from an industry expert mate not my opinion so it seems they do.
 
More numbers here

If City make £18 on each sale (a big if), they would have to sell 5,555,556 Messi shirts to cover his wages. In 2018/19, City sold a total of 1,085,000 shirts worldwide, according to industry sources.
Do you not think that this would increase if Messi signed? Not enough to cover his wage, as I mentioned above, but to offset some of the cost.

Yes, a lot of the Messi shirts are fakes, but a lot aren't.

I have added a link regarding David Beckham and the money he generated from boot and shirt sales in 2013.

David Beckham, set to make his debut for Paris Saint-Germain next weekend, has raised a staggering £1billion in shirt and boot sales in his career, with £15million worth expected from his five-month stint in the French capital alone.

The French club, bankrolled by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, expect to cash in on the Beckham factor by selling 150,000 replica kits bearing the former England captain's name before the end of the season.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2276177/David-Beckham-shirt-sales-1billion.html
 
Man U -

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...Paul-Pogba-NOT-pay-enormous-transfer-fee.html

One of the most commonly cited myths of any major transfer is that the fee paid will be offset by his shirt sales. It happened in 2009 when Real Madrid snapped up Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo in consecutive world record deals. It happened this summer at Old Trafford, first with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and then with Pogba, whose stardom continues the trend that began with David Beckham.
 
What tends to happen is that the license gets bought for X number of millions of pounds, and royalties are paid once a certain threshold of shirt sales have passed. If you're Man Utd, and your brand is worth fortunes, you can command millions of pounds up front and a higher percentage of future sales.'
However, even that higher percentage is not the most significant proportion of the money earned for each kit sale. Seligman continued: 'I would say probably not much more than 20 per cent. Obviously a lot depends on what flat fee you get at the start. It might not be 20 per cent of all shirt sales, it might be above a certain threshold.'
Take that optimistic 15 per cent increase in shirt sales Pogba might drive and factor in the club's cut. The club would only receive around a fifth of that value and that might only be worth £3.6m - one 24th of Pogba's £89m transfer fee.
'Never in a million years would Man Utd or Chelsea sell kits of the value to pay back the amount that is spent.'
 
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