Neymar

[mushRTID]

Looks like he's off, £198m.

Unreal.

[Bezza]

one in the eye for Barcelona.

[balbyrover]

A joke to be honest but its the way the games gone.

[rtid88]

The amount of money in football is an utter disgrace.

[GazLaz]

The amount of money in football is an utter disgrace.

If Qatar weren't putting it in to football they would only be funding terrorists with it.

[glosterred]

Neymar's contract at PSG:

💰 Per year: £30,992,000
💰 Per month: £2,384,000
💰 Per week: £596,000
💰 Per day: £85,142
💰 Per hour: £3,547

[DonnyBazR0ver]

But how can it be that football clubs can find themselves in a position to pay that sort of money?

Me thinks the TV companies are paying too much for the rights me thinks. Where there's a boom, there's normally a bust.

I can see football coverage being saturated to a point where no matter what time of day, there'll live games being streamed with wall to wall advertising. The traditional 3pm kick off is likely to become an exception rather than the norm so all you have to do to watch your team live is pay a subscription and press a button. You can see attendances suffering as a result with gate receipts becoming 'irrelevant' as clubs receive money for their slice of TV/advertising money etc.

It's a bleak picture ahead!

[mugnapper]

The amount of money in football is an utter disgrace.

If Qatar weren't putting it in to football they would only be funding terrorists with it.

I'm pretty sure they're doing both.

[RedJ]

But how can it be that football clubs can find themselves in a position to pay that sort of money?

Me thinks the TV companies are paying too much for the rights me thinks. Where there's a boom, there's normally a bust.

I can see football coverage being saturated to a point where no matter what time of day, there'll live games being streamed with wall to wall advertising. The traditional 3pm kick off is likely to become an exception rather than the norm so all you have to do to watch your team live is pay a subscription and press a button. You can see attendances suffering as a result with gate receipts becoming 'irrelevant' as clubs receive money for their slice of TV/advertising money etc.

It's a bleak picture ahead!

In the Premier League gate receipts are already virtually irrelevant.

[GazLaz]

But how can it be that football clubs can find themselves in a position to pay that sort of money?

Me thinks the TV companies are paying too much for the rights me thinks. Where there's a boom, there's normally a bust.

I can see football coverage being saturated to a point where no matter what time of day, there'll live games being streamed with wall to wall advertising. The traditional 3pm kick off is likely to become an exception rather than the norm so all you have to do to watch your team live is pay a subscription and press a button. You can see attendances suffering as a result with gate receipts becoming 'irrelevant' as clubs receive money for their slice of TV/advertising money etc.

It's a bleak picture ahead!

They are state backed. The deal will be purely funded by the Qatar royal family.

[selby]

Hope nobody goes straight through him, and puts him out for a long time then.

[southwestexile]

Good deal for Barca if they get it all at once, won't it give La Ligament more grounds to pursue a UEFA fine against PSG for overspending?

[Draytonian III]

The French league is the 5th/6th best in Europe, after the English,German,Italian,Spainish ( alphabetical order ) maybe just ahead of Dutch or Portuguese.

[GazLaz]

The French league is the 5th/6th best in Europe, after the English,German,Italian,Spainish ( alphabetical order ) maybe just ahead of Dutch or Portuguese.

Monaco and PSG were better than any teams in England last season.

[acko]

Yes the money paid for and to Neymar is redicules but its not just about football the commercial side can go along way to funding the deal,As for Neymar hiself who would turn his personel deal down.All sport seems to be going the same way financialy,golf,tennis,boxing and even athletics there is money to be made if your good enough Its the way sport as gone i wish them all luck only wish it was me.

[RobTheRover]

The French league is the 5th/6th best in Europe, after the English,German,Italian,Spainish ( alphabetical order ) maybe just ahead of Dutch or Portuguese.

Monaco and PSG were better than any teams in England last season.

And the rest would struggle in the Championship.

[MrFrost]

But how can it be that football clubs can find themselves in a position to pay that sort of money?

Me thinks the TV companies are paying too much for the rights me thinks. Where there's a boom, there's normally a bust.

I can see football coverage being saturated to a point where no matter what time of day, there'll live games being streamed with wall to wall advertising. The traditional 3pm kick off is likely to become an exception rather than the norm so all you have to do to watch your team live is pay a subscription and press a button. You can see attendances suffering as a result with gate receipts becoming 'irrelevant' as clubs receive money for their slice of TV/advertising money etc.

It's a bleak picture ahead!

People have said the boom will become a bust ever since the Premier League started. It hasn't happened, and it won't.
What will happen is clubs like ours will become more and more irrelevant.

[vaya]

But how can it be that football clubs can find themselves in a position to pay that sort of money?

Me thinks the TV companies are paying too much for the rights me thinks. Where there's a boom, there's normally a bust.

I can see football coverage being saturated to a point where no matter what time of day, there'll live games being streamed with wall to wall advertising. The traditional 3pm kick off is likely to become an exception rather than the norm so all you have to do to watch your team live is pay a subscription and press a button. You can see attendances suffering as a result with gate receipts becoming 'irrelevant' as clubs receive money for their slice of TV/advertising money etc.

It's a bleak picture ahead!

People have said the boom will become a bust ever since the Premier League started. It hasn't happened, and it won't.
What will happen is clubs like ours will become more and more irrelevant.

Not to their fans they won't.

[acko]

The premier league is just a dream for teams like Rovers but one season is worth millions,but its here to stay and some teams and players will get richer for it.

[MrFrost]

But how can it be that football clubs can find themselves in a position to pay that sort of money?

Me thinks the TV companies are paying too much for the rights me thinks. Where there's a boom, there's normally a bust.

I can see football coverage being saturated to a point where no matter what time of day, there'll live games being streamed with wall to wall advertising. The traditional 3pm kick off is likely to become an exception rather than the norm so all you have to do to watch your team live is pay a subscription and press a button. You can see attendances suffering as a result with gate receipts becoming 'irrelevant' as clubs receive money for their slice of TV/advertising money etc.

It's a bleak picture ahead!

People have said the boom will become a bust ever since the Premier League started. It hasn't happened, and it won't.
What will happen is clubs like ours will become more and more irrelevant.

Not to their fans they won't.

Not to their fans, but it will become harder to attract younger fans when you have the draw of commercialised success and Sky etc ramming big names down people's throats.

[vaya]

But how can it be that football clubs can find themselves in a position to pay that sort of money?

Me thinks the TV companies are paying too much for the rights me thinks. Where there's a boom, there's normally a bust.

I can see football coverage being saturated to a point where no matter what time of day, there'll live games being streamed with wall to wall advertising. The traditional 3pm kick off is likely to become an exception rather than the norm so all you have to do to watch your team live is pay a subscription and press a button. You can see attendances suffering as a result with gate receipts becoming 'irrelevant' as clubs receive money for their slice of TV/advertising money etc.

It's a bleak picture ahead!

People have said the boom will become a bust ever since the Premier League started. It hasn't happened, and it won't.
What will happen is clubs like ours will become more and more irrelevant.

Not to their fans they won't.

Not to their fans, but it will become harder to attract younger fans when you have the draw of commercialised success and Sky etc ramming big names down people's throats.

The potential for that scenario's there, but you'd hope clubs would be proactive about this and try things like altering the pricing structure to get people involved early in life.

[steve@dcfd]

La Ligament this morning have refused to accept the payment for the release clause 5 lawyers representing Neymar left after 15 mins according to news report

[GazLaz]

La Ligament this morning have refused to accept the payment for the release clause 5 lawyers representing Neymar left after 15 mins according to news report

La Liga have now power to stop the transfer. They are embarrassing themselves. La Liga clubs have been doing what PSG are doing now for years.

[RoversAlias]

Apparently Neymar's lawyer has paid La Liga the release clause or something? PSG want him in the team this weekend for their opening league game, or so I'm reading.

EDIT: Apparently Marca say it's paid, AS say they refused. Crossed wires in the Spanish press perhaps.

[GazLaz]

Yes the release clause has to be paid to La Liga as they hold the registration. They then deal with the club. La Liga kicking up a fuss about the FFP stipulations of the deal. That's none of their business. What's the difference between PSG paying £200m on one player or City/United paying £200m on 5 players in regards to FFP??

[Colemans Left Hook]

The amount of money in football is an utter disgrace.

If Qatar weren't putting it in to football they would only be funding terrorists with it.

the other countries with graffiti on their stamps are just as bad if not worse -- we get very biased news reporting from the BBC

and to think we once ruled it (bet they never told you that at school )shame nobody put a sell on clause of 20% on the oil revenue when we gave them independance

as you can see from the quote from wikipedia they don't get on with their Arab neighbours 

"The influence of the British Empire started diminishing after World War II, particularly after the Independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. In the 1950s, oil began replacing pearling and fishing as Qatar's main sources of revenue. Oil earnings began to fund the expansion and modernisation of Qatar's infrastructure. Pressure for a British withdrawal from the Arab emirates in the Persian Gulf increased during the 1950s. When Britain officially announced in 1968 that it would politically disengage from the Persian Gulf in three years' time, Qatar joined Bahrain and seven other Trucial States in a federation. Regional disputes, however, quickly compelled Qatar to resign and declare independence from the coalition which would eventually evolve into the United Arab Emirates."


Qatar will do anything to upstage the other "lot"  (see above) getting publicity for the word cup  they are buying up all the artwork opening museums  winning the european champions league is a must

the man city "owner" is
is the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates

so we have a competion UAE versus Qatar

on who can spend the most money


the point is these lot above (UAE & Q ) ruined my hobby of stamp collecting

how long before BOTH ruin your hobby once known as football ?

and remember we are told petrol cars will be outlawed by 2040 (ha ha) so the dependence on oil will allegedly be "not a lot" so they build their influence

 

[Filo]

Neymar claims he needs a new challenge 😀😀😀😀😀

Nothing to do with the £700k a week then?