No tenemos dinero... Beneath the glamour Spanish football is going broke is a post from: Just Football
No tenemos dinero... Beneath the glamour Spanish football is going broke is a post from: Just Football by Kane Prior pain is currently in recession and facing an uncertain future. A decline in GDP last quarter of 1% follows an expected annual decrease this year of 1.
In this special podcast recorded for Forza Futbol, we have Simon Kuper, author of the recently
published Soccernomics 2nd edition.
Simon is also the author of "Football Against the Enemy", "Ajax, the Dutch, the
War" among others. Simon writes a weekly column in Financial Times.
In this special podcast I recorded for Forza Futbol, I talked to Professor Stefan Szymanski,
economist and author of the recently published Soccernomics 2nd edition. Stefan is a Professor of
Kinesiology at School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan and is an author of various books on
economics in sports.
English Football Finances 1981 to 2011 - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Football finance has been a hot topic for several years now, and we often cite the influx of Sky
money, the formation of the Premier League, the modernisation of FIFA and UEFA, football club
takeovers and of course, the rise of player wages as key indicators of how football has become more
and more a business and is completely divorced from the football that we knew a few decades
ago.
Roberto Martinez plays guerrilla football. Sure, he seems a decent guy – mild-mannered and
well-behaved on the sidelines – but underneath beats the heart of Che Guevera. The Latics have
been in trouble every season they have played in the Premier League. Yet, once more, Martinez's
Latics narrowly escaped relegation last year, returning to the DW Stadium to play another day.
Roberto Martinez has been in the news quite a bit lately, and for all the right reasons, it seems.
His Latics managed to avoid relegation, and he was courted heavily by Aston Villa. He said no,
apparently out of loyalty:
"Over the last two years the chairman has been very supportive to me and loyal, and now
I feel I need to be loyal and supportive back to him.
They lived the dream" became an expression synonymous with failure following Leeds United's demise
in 2004.
Sadly lessons haven't been learnt from the West Yorkshire club's misfortunes if recent events
are anything to go by.
First up Crystal Palace, who after battling all season finally lost the financial war and fell
into administration with debts of more than £30 million, becoming another sad statistic in the
grim, foggy, world of football finances.
Football fans have become better educated in the mysteries of football finances over recent
years out of necessity as much as anything else, but just occasionally old naiveties come to the
fore. It might just be that they can't believe that things could be as bad off the pitch as on it
at the moment, but Hull City fans are less concerned than they should be about the lack of
financial information coming out of their club in recent times, and now that the information has
come out and has proved as grim as one may have feared, they still don't sem to believe that things
can be as bad off the pitch as on it; despite the phrase "significant doubt over their ability to
continue as a going concern" appearing not once, but three times in a relatively short annual
report and statement of accounts for the Tigers' promotion year.
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- Deloitte's Annual Report on Football Finances has been released.
Portuguese Football Website specialized in Football Finances, "Futebol Finance", has handed in it
list of Top Money Earning Football Managers/ Coaches in World Football. REAL MADRID Coach JOSÉ
MOURINHO tops the list with 10M€ per year, followed by FC BARCELONA Coach JOSEP GUARDIOLA with
7,5M€ per year.
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QPR-related and also QPR nostalgia, this site has both - along with assorted eclectic non-QPR
football material.
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events or films or music or food. And no ad-hominem attacks on fellow posters. Just a (usually)
intelligent focus on QPR and Football
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- Les Ferdinand on What Happened to Newcastle
- Crystal Palace Warn of Fake Facebook Account for Palace Captain
- Fans Should Accept The Reality of Football Transfers
- Football Finances: Deloitte's Annual Report - Including re Championship Clubs
- Clubs Better Equipped to Avoid Administration
- Internet Vote to Decide if To Sell a Player
- La Liga - Team of The Season
- The Greatest Fifty Players Ever List
QPR Official Site: Rowan Vine - INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS
- Rowan Vine is relishing life under Jim Magilton.
While Darlington have grabbed most of the recent headlines in the race to the financial bottom
that the bottom of the Blue Square Premier seems to consist of this season, Kettering Town
remains in a critical condition itself.
On Saturday, their home match against Forest Green Rovers was called off at lunchtime, which
is unlikely to have done the stricken clubs bank account a great deal of good, and this morning the
Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph, a local newspaper which has been criticised by some supporters
as being too ready in the past to toe the Ladak party line, also stepped off the fence to deliver
its viewpoint of the recent difficulties that the club has faced.
I was just catching up on the news from the last few days and I came across Tottenham's Benoît
Assou-Ekotto issuing a plea for his club to do whatever it takes to hang on to their top stars and
bringing in new ones... or risk becoming another Aston Villa.
Ouch!
The way things stand at the moment, it's not hard to at least partially agree with him and his
message will definitely resonate with a fair number of Villa fans disgruntled by the recent
austerity measures.
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Rebecca Wilson didn't mention the Asia Cup once during the tournament, now she fires up all
passionate and concerned about the dire states of our A-League Club finances.
Peter FitzSimons is all over the Australian World Cup Bid, dead interested in football he is,
nearly filled his whole page with football (finances that is) fair enough perhaps but he hardly
gave 100 words of wisdom in the two years of the bid, not even in his boring repeated Xmas columns.
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Phil
Gregory, Righto, here we are with the final part of my musings on the general state of football
finances for the Commons Inquiry. Since starting this report, I've decided to do my dissertation
along similar lines, so if you have enjoyed [.
At least we can't be sure that it is. We can't even be sure what it is.
It's tough being football fan nowadays. It has become more and more demanding. Not just do we
need to watch and then read a football match, to decide whether the result was fair, deserved,
lucky or the death of football as we know it, we also have to complete a long list of extra
tasks.
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Football in financial awareness shocker! Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso has revealed that
footballers are feeling the pinch of recession and said it was up to Britain's political leaders to
address the problem of his dwindling salary. "Of course we footballers think about it; we are not
stupid, we keep an eye on it.
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