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So this united kit deal
#424797 14/07/14 05:17 PM
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What does it mean to the premier league and football in general? With united raking in £75m a season from Adidas + £52m a season from Chevrolet + £15m AON training ground naming rights they now have to be the richest sports team in the world. FFP will mean that united can now outspend all other teams in the premier league and probably in europe.

One day in probably the near future the huge clubs in each league will need to break away from their domestic league because we will see the same teams winning the league year in and year out. It's not sustainable to have one or two teams in a league that are so much more powerful than the rest.
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It won't be long before Chelsea and City get similar deals. The only thing preventing it before was that sponsorship deals had to be done at arms length. If one of Abramovichs companies decide to give Chelsea a 75m per year sponsorship, no one can question it as they'll just say its the going rate.
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I thought that was against the rules these days? Weren't Citeh and PSG investigated for sponsoring themselves through their owners & companies they're affiliated with?
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something has to give. the situation is not sustainable. If you've ever played monopoly you'll know that when one person owns Mayfair, Park Lane, etc. and has hotels then you soon get to a point when someone flips the board over or simply doesn't want to play anymore.

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I think its ok as long as the deal is done as an arms length transaction so they don't get an unusually large deal that would put them at an advantage. But now united have set a precedent of deals that large they'll be able to argue any large deals they sponsor themselves for are in line with market rates.

At least that was my understanding of it
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boxmonkey #424808 14/07/14 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted By: boxmonkey
What does it mean to the premier league and football in general? With united raking in £75m a season from Adidas + £52m a season from Chevrolet + £15m AON training ground naming rights they now have to be the richest sports team in the world. FFP will mean that united can now outspend all other teams in the premier league and probably in europe.

One day in probably the near future the huge clubs in each league will need to break away from their domestic league because we will see the same teams winning the league year in and year out. It's not sustainable to have one or two teams in a league that are so much more powerful than the rest.


Don't know why Adidas would do that, if only they fail to get in tgd CL again. Others sponsors will surely follow.
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EnergisedReds #424809 14/07/14 06:14 PM
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This is what I was trying to get through to the FSG crowd the other week. Manchester United are a bigger club than Liverpool their Nike deal was £23m a gear this Adidas deal is £75m.

And their season was a disaster

Why is this so ?

Take a walk round old Trafford they have a huge ground and they are a huge club, That is the brutal truth unless we match they we will be a second rate club always in their shadow and city as well.

It's heartbreaking

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Originally Posted By: Stanley Park
This is what I was trying to get through to the FSG crowd the other week. Manchester United are a bigger club than Liverpool their Nike deal was £23m a gear this Adidas deal is £75m.

And their season was a disaster

Why is this so ?

Take a walk round old Trafford they have a huge ground and they are a huge club, That is the brutal truth unless we match they we will be a second rate club always in their shadow and city as well.

It's heartbreaking


Nonsense, nothing to do with OT, it's all because of their world wide fan base earned through success over the last 25 years. The newest stadium in England is the Emirates, so using your logic of a brand new stadium, they should be bagging the biggest sponsorship deal.

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Vish Manchester United have the biggest stadium (which came first) they then became the biggest club in the world via global marketing (that came second)

You can't be a big club with a small ground

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Originally Posted By: Stanley Park
Vish Manchester United have the biggest stadium (which came first) they then became the biggest club in the world via global marketing (that came second)

You can't be a big club with a small ground



Chelsea's ground is smaller than Anfield. Are they a smaller club than us?
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