Remembering Barcelona blogs that have routinely accused clubs of standing in the way of players’ “dreams” of coming to their team.
New reports are that Gio is stuck in a Big Ben-sized pickle: he wants to leave London, and Tottenham doesn’t want him to stay; Sevilla wants him, but Tottenham rejects bids for him. Good idea, u gize!!
Gio was courted by a few sides this summer, but said several times that it would please him to play for Sevilla. I would expect the Barca fan base, so concerned with players’ dreams in the past (Cesc, Sánchez, Afellay) to be posting about this development very soon. Where is the Dream Police? Here’s a copy/paste of a recent assessment of the Arsenal/Barcelona/Cesc menage a trois mud fight, with the teams and names changed:
“Gio wants to leave. What is the point of keeping him? But Tottenham don’t want to ‘lose’ in this deal. So it’s X number or get lost, which is their right. But that right makes them no less stupid.”
Tottenham! You, dream crushers and overall poor business practitioners!! It is shameless for you to hold onto him any longer now that he’s made it clear he wants to leave. Why pay a player when you don’t intend to use him? It’s silly. Let him live his dream!
Screw Spurs, hopefully they keep losing.
Fulham sign Bryan Ruiz from Twente for 10.6M. If we had fair TV revenue sharing, we would have him or a better striker now because we would have that money instead of zero money.
Pedro Leon back to Getafe today on loan, with Getafe obligated to purchase him for at the end of the loan for 6 million Euros.
In other news, Sevilla does nothing…
FTVCN!
That. is. UNBELIEVABLE. Getafe owns a player. Real Madrid buys player. Real Madrid pays €10M, uses player in 14 competitive matches. Real Madrid sells player back original club for €6M (+ whatever loan fee).
If any more young Spanish players go to RM I will blow a cow! IDIOTS! THEY DON’T WANT YOU! This all happened after Barcelona won all those trophies and won them with Spanish nationals that RM freaked out and started buying (or bringing back): Xabi, Granero, Albiol, Canales and Pedro León. Ugh. And how many of those regularly play for them? ONE. Capital UGH!
And seriously, Cheap Trick is one of the most underrated bands of all stinkin’ time.
Yeah it really helped Arsenal to desperately try and hold on to players who were for all practical purposes gone for quite some time. Now they hurry about Europe bidding for any player they can in a hope a few of them work out before the deadline. It was real smart.
And as I said before, ‘fair’ is the incorrect term as the current structure is fair in that each team gets the amount that they can best negotiate. Communism is not ‘fair’. Fairness would only come in the compete at an equal level sense but then you have to negate the effect of sponsorships and history/prestige factors among others as well.
Oh and btw, it was the mid-table clubs who wanted the separate negotiation of TV rights in the first place not EE. So they suffer the consequences of their own actions.
Agree to disagree about current TV revenue sharing structure. We’ve covered that enough …maybe : ).
The principal concern, at least of this post, is that big clubs are allowed to go deeply into the red every year and exist on credit and good faith. Granted, transfer seasons being in the red for RM and Barcelona does not affect them much because of the huge sponsorship deals, shirt sales, etc. What other team can afford to buy a Cáceres, a Kaká, Ibra, Chygrynskiy, Gago or Huntelaar, and when they don’t pan out – or simply aren’t used, just dump them for less money and not suffer financially? Lesser teams don’t have the luxury of making all the terrible signings that the big two make. It’s absurd that Sevilla et. al. are told: “Practice shrewd business, buy good players when you can, don’t overspend, build slowly and eventually you’ll be a big club like us.” How can someone say (not that you have, but many culés and madridistas have) the latter when faced with the reality of the former (tossed-off 10M+ signings)?
I’m not trying to put you on the defensive either, I’m just so confused that big two fans think us smaller clubs even WANT to become what Barcelona and RM are. This may sound strange, but I don’t want Sevilla to be THAT big. I’m sure you enjoyed the 5-0 as much as the next Barca fan, but if Sevilla became that I’d probably go fishing for a new club. I don’t want to have the biggest payroll in Europe or the biggest transfer season year after year. I want good-to-great success: winning La Liga again, for example, or winning a major trophy every couple of years. I don’t want to be Barcelona, but I do want to break the duopoly — for La Liga’s sake. You’ve said you enjoyed La Liga more when it was more competitive. Winning the CL… that’s for you guys. We’re not going to all of a sudden take the league away from you, but at least we could give you a fight. Don’t think I wouldn’t celebrate it crazily if Sevilla did actually make it to the CL final, but it’s about being realistic. Realistically, RM/Barca’s league will continue to starve unless something is done. That should at least be some common ground between us.
“Agree to disagree about current TV revenue sharing structure. We’ve covered that enough …maybe : ).”
Never covered enough until something actually changes…
I don’t think anyone here would begrudge the EE their huge advantages in sponsorship deals nor merchandise sales. In that respect, Barca and Real exist as separate entities and should be rewarded for their history of success and subsequent building of their respective brands worldwide.
But the fact remains, as an inconvenient truth if you will, that the EE play in La Liga. The Liga contract should be negotiated as a single entity, with more even payouts to all teams. And yes, that means that Barca and Real should give up some of their lion’s share for the good of the Liga. Does that mean less speculating on purchases such as last year’s Leon by Real? Absolutely, and that is a good thing. This is not to be confused with acquiring players for need…I am ok with Fabregas moving to Barca, as unseemly as the pursuit was, because obviously Pep saw him as a difference maker who could actually help the side. It is the stockpiling of players for ‘depth’ that is the issue for me, where a player moves to one of the EE with little to no hope of actually seeing the pitch simply because a huge transfer fee is waved in his face. When the EE can field a second/third team of depth players equal to or better than a majority of first team Liga sides simply because they can theoretically afford to do so, well, that is simply ridiculous.
As someone else noted, La Liga is fast becoming SPL south, and seriously, is a 5-0 thrashing of last year’s fourth place, CL-qualified side fun for anyone who is not a Barca fan to watch? Until the EE get on board with a realistic TV revenue sharing plan La Liga will keep hurtling down the road to irrelevance while the EPL, playing consistently less attractive football, is the league of choice for viewers worldwide.
Yes, I totally agree with you. The key is convincing the EE that in the long term, the size of the overall pie (GLOBAL TV revenues) will increase to the point that their TV revenues may take a temporary dip but eventually get back to today’s level, and then grow more sustainably. If La Liga could get TV deal $ in the U.S., China, India, etc. similar to the EPL, this is a definite possibility. I don’t think there should be TV-revenue parity by any means but the current model is way too lopsided and certainly decreases the long-term value of the overall rights package (aggregated worldwide TV revenue for all teams in the league).
window about to close on transfers…
I realize del nido loves to drive a hard bargain, but at this point he’s rapidly becoming the neediest party at the table, unless he’s trying to convince others that he’s satisfied with just negredo and kanoute. if we don’t get a third striker today, we are really asking for trouble.
We should check in with barca b and see if they’d be willing to loan us rodri for the season.
HA! I laugh so that I don’t cry.
haha, UGH! worst transfer move of season? maybe.
at this point I’d say our best signing this transfer was the non-sale of negredo.
No striker I guess… we’ll have to wait till Jan’.
The Marca Bartra to Sevilla rumor is a hoax, created by some funny guy. Extreme trolling hehe, now he’s got some sources to report ” Granero 2 Sevilla”. *An applaud*
going into season with negredo and an aged kanoute?!?!??!?
JEREMY ANGRYYYY!!!!
total del nido fail. total. fail.
boooooooooooo ssssssssssssssssss