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Just been told that Makems v Toon won't be live now...Thats the Pardew effect for ya. Villa v Brum instead

 

True?

 

That was announced 2 weeks ago

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Barcelona have agreed a £125million deal with the Qatar Foundation for the sponsorship rights on their jerseys.

 

The Qatar Foundation, a non-profit organisation from the gulf state, will share the shirt space with UNICEF.

Children's charity UNICEF became the first company in Barca's 111-year history to have their logo on the club's kit in 2006.

 

But the Catalan outfit have opted to change their policy on corporate shirt sponsorship by agreeing to the deal that will be worth £25million a year from 2011.

 

The club said they would look to combine the two logos but the Qatar Foundation would be the prevalent one if a solution could not be found.

 

Barcelona financial vice president Javier Faus said: "With this deal, Barcelona places itself as the indisputable brand leader in world football ahead of our international competitors."

 

Barcelona's maroon-and-blue striped shirt was without a sponsor before it put the children's charity on its front in 2006.

 

Unify

 

But after establishing themselves as one of the best teams in the world, the Spaniards have become a lightening-rod for market interest.

 

The likes of Lionel Messi, Andres Iniestaand Xavi Hernandez have helped boost the club's image further after winning eight major trophies in the past two seasons.

 

The picture off-the-field is not so healthy, however, with Barca carrying a reported debt of £369.5m. They recorded a loss of more than £64.36m in the 2009/10 season.

 

Barca insisted their new deal did not mean the end of their association with UNICEF, who have received £1.25million toward humanitarian projects.

 

Faus added: "Marketing experts are working to unify the UNICEF and Qatar Foundation logo."

 

The Qatar Foundation was set up in 1995 to help boost education, science and development in the tiny state.

 

The deal only tightens links between Barca and the the 2022 World Cup hosts, who won the right to stage the tournament at the recent Fifa vote in Zurich.

 

Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola was a public ambassador to Qatar's bid, while president Sandro Rosell was one of the leading forces behind the development of a Qatari football academy that aims to emulate Barcelona's revered La Masia school.

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Our revenue to debt ratio is smaller than a lot of clubs out there.  :dontknow:

 

Yeah your right, it's still a big amount though.

 

It is, and it is good that our new board has pledged to reduce it. But isn't comparatively bigger than say, Madrid, Atlético, Valencia, ManU, Chelsea, Liverpool before the takeover, and quite a few others...

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Our revenue to debt ratio is smaller than a lot of clubs out there.  :dontknow:

 

Yeah your right, it's still a big amount though.

 

It is, and it is good that our new board has pledged to reduce it. But isn't comparatively bigger than say, Atlético, Valencia, ManU, Chelsea, Liverpool before the takeover, and quite a few others...

 

Just as important is with whom the debt is with.  Real have almost 1 billion of debt but they will likely never need to pay it back.

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Why not? I can see that case being made for ManCity and Chelsea, but Real owe it to banks and banks aren't in the business of giving away money.

 

I've been told that those banks will only ask for the money back as a last resort because of Reals status in Spain ???

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Why not? I can see that case being made for ManCity and Chelsea, but Real owe it to banks and banks aren't in the business of giving away money.

 

I've been told that those banks will only ask for the money back as a last resort because of Reals status in Spain ???

 

Banks aren't just going to forget about €700m. Now, they can get favors like the training pitch business, but they had to do that because the banks were calling in the debt. Banks are banks.

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Why not? I can see that case being made for ManCity and Chelsea, but Real owe it to banks and banks aren't in the business of giving away money.

 

I've been told that those banks will only ask for the money back as a last resort because of Reals status in Spain ???

 

Banks aren't just going to forget about €700m. Now, they can get favors like the training pitch business, but they had to do that because the banks were calling in the debt. Banks are banks.

 

So when will be the crunch then, cos that amount of debt is ridiculous.

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The debt's not necessarily a problem, losing 70M a year will be though, if they keep it up.

 

Spending over 1 Billion in a decade on transfers may be a problem as well.

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There's always been this conspiracy theory around, that Pérez wants to buy Real Madrid outright by forcing it to become a PLC (his net worth is €2b). But fans would run him through a thousand sharp stakes if he did.

 

Yeah, surely something like that would get voted out by the members ???

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