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  1. Ryan Giggs set to captain the Team GB Olympic team. Not quite the World Cup, but we at least get to see him on the global stage once.
  2. what about Thiago Silva/Ibrahimovic to PSG?
    nice move i'd say .. mainly for the first one
  3. Tim

    Do you know something about Shinji Kagawa ?
  4. Bvb... Pato. Big midfield / forward talent, gyumreat buyll
  5. * great buy

  6. Pretty much this. Being tipped as signing of the summer in the Premier League. I have only seen videos of him on YouTube but he looks promising.
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    Thiago Silva + Ibrahimovic --> PSG
    62mil€
  8. That's a lot of money...
  9. sure .. and think they would have gone just for Thiago for 50€ a couple of weeks ago
    12mil for 3 years Ibra
    7,5 for 5(?) Thiago

    cool how Platini financial fair play counts only in some places ..
  10. Well the financial fair play doesn't come into effect until the 2014-15 season. The season just gone was the first to contribute towards the assessment. Nothing is fair in football really, but when it's your team benefitting and winning, why complain? Manchester City made a £194m loss in 2010-11, so they could cram in as much as they could before the assessment period came into effect. In some ways, it worked for them. They have Champions League football and a decent enough squad. Problem with them though is that they are only a small club and they fail to fill the stadium each week. Can they make enough money to cover the transfer fees and wage bill? Doesn't matter, there are loopholes that can cover it for them.

    Same goes for any club really. The financial fair play regulations are just an empty threat in my opinion. I can't see any of the old G-14 struggling with the rules, it'll be smaller clubs who get punished.
  11. but how can you think to adjust your financials for that time spending almost 200mil this year (are they done?) more or less the half last year? don't think PSG can effort just with merchandise .. they're not Man Utd uh?

    about your last statement how do you put Thiago-Ibra affair from the side of ac milan if not struggling with the rules? maybe there could be other reasons too...
    i don't put in count our last couple of years market ...
  12. Well PSG spent €108m in the 2011-12 season, second only to Manchester City. They only made €11m in transfer fees so that leaves them €97m out of pocket. Quite a distance short of the allowed €45m loss, which is too high in my opinion still. So PSG somewhere need to have made up €52m from gate receipts, TV revenue, advertising, merchandising and prize money. Of course though, that €52m doesn't include the wage bill which is counted as expenditure, so it's likely they need to find much more than €52m to meet the €45m threshold.

    AC Milan selling the players could be an attempt to balance their books, who knows? They have stated that they will save a lot of money by selling these players plus make a lot of money from the transfer fees.

    There are ways around it of course. Manchester City recently struck a deal to rename their stadium, as did Newcastle United. Manchester City's deal is worth £350m over ten years, which essentially is +£35m start in sponsorship each season.
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