How football has changed over the years...Bale & Real Madrid will make a fortune from each other. Splitting his image rights 50/50 and he has even trademarked his goal celebration.
fecking hell, has it really come to this?
Gareth Bale is...The most expensive player ever?!
- Thread starter Mickey
- Start date
-
In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
fecking hell, has it really come to this?
So, despite the confidentiality agreement. the financial story of the transfer is starting to appear - including a possible explanation of why Spurs (off the record) said 100m Euros and Madrid (off the record) say 91m and why both may be telling the truth. 
The following is speculative but may interest some sad souls interested in how businesses move big money.
The Euro MP who accused them of borrowing the money from Bankia, and by extension from European taxpapers, has provoked some of the financiers etc to start putting their side. It's summarised here:
http://futbol.as.com/futbol/2013/09/04/primera/1378321005_631768.html
I await Swiss Ramble or someone similar explaining it, hopefully after some more details dribble out.
Meanwhile, what I'm told by my corporate law "friend" (OK - enemy given how much he was laughing at us last week) who has been reading around the subject, is something like. Madrid are paying 16m Euros now, followed by three further installments. Banco Santander are acting as guarantors for the 2014/5/6 payments - not actually handing over money in a loan. Madrid are using TV money as collateral for the guarantees.
Spurs are getting a payment using those guarantees - from Deutsche Bank who have basically bought the debt, using the Santander guarantees as collateral.
His guess (and it can be no more than a guess at the moment, because the clubs want to keep it obscure) is that Spurs got 91m Euros (£75m), but it will cost Madrid around 100m (£86m) because Santander and Deutsche Bank need to make a profit.
Incidentally for the curious that would equate to an interest rate of about 6% - not far off a typical safe bet commercial loan rate or Euribor + 5%
The following is speculative but may interest some sad souls interested in how businesses move big money.
The Euro MP who accused them of borrowing the money from Bankia, and by extension from European taxpapers, has provoked some of the financiers etc to start putting their side. It's summarised here:
http://futbol.as.com/futbol/2013/09/04/primera/1378321005_631768.html
I await Swiss Ramble or someone similar explaining it, hopefully after some more details dribble out.
Meanwhile, what I'm told by my corporate law "friend" (OK - enemy given how much he was laughing at us last week) who has been reading around the subject, is something like. Madrid are paying 16m Euros now, followed by three further installments. Banco Santander are acting as guarantors for the 2014/5/6 payments - not actually handing over money in a loan. Madrid are using TV money as collateral for the guarantees.
Spurs are getting a payment using those guarantees - from Deutsche Bank who have basically bought the debt, using the Santander guarantees as collateral.
His guess (and it can be no more than a guess at the moment, because the clubs want to keep it obscure) is that Spurs got 91m Euros (£75m), but it will cost Madrid around 100m (£86m) because Santander and Deutsche Bank need to make a profit.
Incidentally for the curious that would equate to an interest rate of about 6% - not far off a typical safe bet commercial loan rate or Euribor + 5%
Bloody Hell ! Am I the only one who see's a pair of overgrown balls and a tiny dick there? They seriously want to trademark this shit?How football has changed over the years...Bale & Real Madrid will make a fortune from each other. Splitting his image rights 50/50 and he has even trademarked his goal celebration.
Personally I saw some kind of sea creature - an ugly one. Which is fitting really, if he screws up they'll dip him in batter, deep fry him and serve him as half time tapas.
Ha, well spotted. Trademarking a fecking hand gesture indeed.
What a cock. Kids nowadays!How football has changed over the years...Bale & Real Madrid will make a fortune from each other. Splitting his image rights 50/50 and he has even trademarked his goal celebration.
We need more Scholesys, fewer agents.In the 90s, i think, the Los Angeles Lakers coach after winning two championships said they were going to "threpeat" in the post match press conference.
The next day he started trademark paperwork.
How did it all work out?
he should have trademarked this...
How football has changed over the years...Bale & Real Madrid will make a fortune from each other. Splitting his image rights 50/50 and he has even trademarked his goal celebration.
And I was just about to make a sculpture of that out of horological and chronometric instruments. Drat.
They threepeated and he apparently made a lot of money off the trademark.
He wanted to but you'd beat him to it.he should have trademarked this...
Pat Riley, and yes he's made some money off "three-peat," but the actual three-peat came up short in 1989 when an aging and bangedup Lakers squad were swept by Detroit. Odd stat about that Finals was the Lakers had become the first club to sweep through all three conference rounds only to then be swept in the Finals. Granted, Byron Scott missed the entire series and Magic was hobbled throughout and played five minutes in Game 3 and missed Game 4.
Here's a few more. http://xfinity.comcast.net/slideshow/sports-athletetrademarkedphrases/1/
Here's a few more. http://xfinity.comcast.net/slideshow/sports-athletetrademarkedphrases/1/
Not sure if serious? If taxpayers money was being used for the advancement of any professional football club including utd I'd be fecking furious!
I assumed he was being sarcastic.
On the story itself, it's very unlikely - Bankia know they're under scrutiny. They've already denied it and so have Real Madrid.
The banks thought to be involved (though neither have actually made a loan) are Santander UK and Deutsche Bank.
See <a href="https://www.redcafe.net/threads/gar...ive-player-ever.307012/page-168#post-14173165">Gareth Bale is...The most expensive player ever?!</a> for the accountant version.
I'll license it to you for your avatar.
http://www1.skysports.com/football/...eth-bales-transfer-fee-in-move-to-real-madrid
Edit: Sorry for the shit formatting.
The feck? Feel sorry for Bale going into that circus. I know he's on 300k a week and all but still.
It must be nice to be signed for £85m and Zidane says there is room for improvement with the lad
Wasnt it only a few months back where Zizou said something like "Bale being worth a world record transfer?"
That's when they wanted him, now they have him, they're preparing the "woe is me" in case he doesn't bum the league.Wasnt it only a few months back where Zizou said something like "Bale being worth a world record transfer?"
My bad. Didn't say he should or is worth it. Just said it will or might take a record bid to persuade Spurs. On the money he was.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ord-admits-Zinedine-Zidane.html#ixzz2VpLGeUmB
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ord-admits-Zinedine-Zidane.html#ixzz2VpLGeUmB
He's great, he's like an upmarket Diego Capel.
Zidane is becoming quite the mouthpiece for Madrid, isn't he?
Zindane looks like he is trying to get sacked or leave!
"Gareth, your hair is shit. And wheres your manbag? You have much to learn"
He has a man bag though, it looks like a plastic one from farm foods.
He is also in need of instruction in the art of not having a fecking great phone showing through your designer jeans pocket.
Bale needs some serious lessons in fashion.
"Brothers don't shake hands, brothers gotta hug."
He just looks so Welsh in that pic. The carrier bag!
Ronnie appoints himself as mentor for the new kid's first day at Real school.
I'm not a fan of the hang-glider cuffs look.
I'm more worried by that grey velour(?) hoodie Bale's wearing. I thought I sent that to the charity shop a couple of decades ago.
Kids today
I'd go gay for Ronnie and his manbag.
Ronaldo has to be gay? I mean surely no straight man can be that camp?
I'm more worried by that grey velour(?) hoodie Bale's wearing. I thought I sent that to the charity shop a couple of decades ago.
Kids today
Was the first thing I noticed too!
As an aside, I wonder if it'll be as much a culture shock for Bale as it was for Owen.
I would put a lot of money on the fact he's not gay, based on the fact he has a girlfriend.
Ah, I was wondering where the fashion forum was.