(01-22-2015, 06:03 PM)honsano Wrote: I was just going to post that Reza. So the mighty have fallen. Interesting to see the top 8 making substantially more than they were in previous seasons especially 3 through 8. I'm curious to learn how big teams like Chelsea, PSG or even ManCity can increase their revenues by 20+%!
They win titles and invest in big names every year, more and more fans are attracted each year.
demand from fans = more product from club
Their games are shown more on TV (bigger broadcasting deals), advertised more (ref. to Barcelonas Ebola ad. campaign, this reaches out to people in a way that joins football and the world/togetherness in a sense), moreover, more shirt sales, more ticket sales...
For example, Madrid was making a lot of money with Ronaldo and everyone else, after the world cup James Rodriguez had he probably has 75% of football fans around the world watching him (casually or not) play for Madrid, not to mention there are probably many fans (Colombian or otherwise) who follow him because he is one of their favorite. It just goes on.. A good example is one of my friends who is croatian, he doesn't have a favorite team - but he does buy Barca/Madrid jerseys and watch both of them because his two favorite players (Rakitic&Modric) play for them. We don't have any worldwide appealing names in our roster, unfortunately. But that's the least of our problems.
My friends from soccer were all getting bored of Milan I remember when all our older players were getting set to retire.. They'd make fun of Milan, not watch them, not buy their jerseys and show up to practice with them like they had started doing w. barca jerseys. Suddenly, they bought Ibra and Robinho - everyone starting watching them, talking about highlights every weekend at our games, buying the same cleats as Ibra or whoever, and so on so fourth. Adidas/Nike know this stuff - hence, they'll pay more to the clubs + players because they are advertising their brand to a large extent.
Bottom line is - a lot of things are more attainable with a competitive team, and that's the root of our problems. Some think it's the stadium, but I think thats just a large dent, not the whole story though. If we had a competitive team, our stadium would be packed, jersey sales would skyrocket, nike/adidas would pay us more money for advertising, our players would be included in their deals, thus more attraction for better players to come play with us(opportunity to make more money through bonuses as well), we also have CL money, and potential money from winning any titles, broadcasting deals go up due to CL exposure etc. A new stadium will give us a good base revenue to work off of if we need to be self run, for example if we had our own stadium and were doing this poorly, maybe our losses would be more manageable. But the rest of the big money comes from elsewhere.