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With his long-ass contract, no European club will buy him out for sure.. He either delivers on loan first to raise interests or agrees to agrees to the Saudis.
 
(not sure Saudis can accept his “only Jesus” necktattoo though.. he might have to add “Navas” or change it to “Only Mohamed”)

Hope that's Bettinelli.

CIES Football Observatory Monthly Report
n°77 - September 2022
Financial analysis of big-5 league clubs’ transfers
Drs Raffaele Poli, Loïc Ravenel and Roger Besson
https://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/mr/mr77/en/
1. Introduction
Since its creation in 2005, the CIES Football Observatory has been monitoring football players’ transfers through information published by clubs, governing bodies and the media. This Monthly Report analyses economic flows for transactions occurred during the last decade from or to clubs in the big-5 European leagues: the English Premier League, the Spanish Liga, the German Bundesliga, the Italian Serie A and the French Ligue 1.
The report covers the ten-year period between 2013 and 2022. It analyses transfer fees paid by big-5 league teams (chapter “investments”), the clubs and leagues having benefited from these indemnities (chapter “receipts”), as well as the net balances at both teams’ and leagues’ level (chapter “net spending”).
The figures published include fixed indemnities for permanent transfers, eventual “add-ons” regardless of their effective payment, as well as sums invested for paying loans. The amounts paid in the case of loans with an obligation to buy are computed for the year of the transfer. Within the limits of information available, data on beneficiaries take into consideration eventual “sell-ons” negotiated by former clubs.
2. Investments
After the pandemic years, big-5 league clubs’ transfer market investments have risen sharply in 2022: +61% compared to the previous year. This holds true for both the winter (+190%) and the summer (+49%) transfer windows. The level of transfer fee expenditure observed in 2022 is the second highest over the ten-year period analysed: €6.2 billion (just about -7% with respect to the record high of 2019).

A noticeable increase compared to 2021 was recorded in the English Premier League: +€ 1.3 billion to exceed the €3 billion mark. This is an all-time record! Growth was measured in all of the major European championships. The share of English Premier League clubs’ investments out of total big-5 league teams’ ones also reached a new record in 2022: 48.5% compared to 38.7% during the whole ten-year period studied.

The rankings for clubs having committed the most money (including add-ons irrespective of their effective payment) to sign new recruits over the last ten years shows the financial power of a handful of dominant teams. Chelsea is at the top of the table with an average of €181M transfer fee investments per year, closely followed by Barcelona and the two Manchester’s clubs. The spending of the twenty most active clubs represents 52% of the total big-5 league club expenditure.

Chelsea (€333M) also tops the expenditure table for the 2002 calendar year, ahead of Manchester United (€268M), Barcelona (€267M) and the freshly Saudi-owned team of Newcastle United (€259M). The investments of the twenty most active clubs represent in this case almost 60% of total big-5 league teams’ transfer spending, which reflects the considerable gaps existing in the financial means available to clubs.

3. Receipts
The analysis of teams having benefited from transfer fees invested by big-5 league clubs over the past ten years shows that most of the money stays within the five major championships: almost two thirds of the total. This reflects the fact that the most expensive transfers generally occur between clubs of the five biggest leagues. However, in 2022, the share of fees cashed in by teams from other UEFA associations was particularly high (23.9%).

The Portuguese top division is the non-big-5 league that benefited most from transfer fee investments of clubs from the five major European championships. Their teams have collected €2.4 billion over the last ten years (on average €241M per year). Next, we find the English Championship (€216M/year), the Dutch Eredivisie (€172M/year) and, following further down, the Brazilian (€119M/year) and Belgian (€110M/year) top divisions.

With almost €1.2 billion in income generated by transferring players to big-5 league teams, Monaco tops the clubs’ earnings table for the ten-year period studied. Four teams outside of the five major European championships figure in the top 20: Benfica (7th, €867M), Ajax (9th, €812M), Porto (14th, €694M) and Sporting CP (20th, €551M). Though several wealthy clubs, such as Chelsea (2nd, €1.1 bn), are in the top 20, as we shall see in the following chapter, their transfer operations are in the red.

Manchester City (€279 M) is at the top of the table for transfer fees received from big-5 league clubs in 2022 (Sterling, Ferran Torres, Gabriel Jesus, Zinchenko, etc.). The English team outranks Ajax (Antony, Lisandro Martínez, Haller, Gravenberch, etc.), Brighton & Hove (Cucurella, Bissouma, Maupay, Östigard, etc.) and Porto (Luis Díaz, Vitinha, Fábio Vieira, Corona, etc.).

4. Net Spending
For an optimum understanding of the transfer market, beyond the sums spent and received, it is relevant to study the net balance of operations. With an accumulated deficit of almost €9.5 billion, the English Premier League stands apart from the rest. Conversely, despite Paris St-Germain’s highly negative balance (-€868M), the French Ligue 1 is the only competition from the big-5 recording a positive net transfer spending (+€350M) over the last decade.

The league figures for transfer operations concluded in 2022 confirm the specificity of the English case. Premier League teams registered a total negative spending of more than -€1.7 billion. This deficit is ten times higher than that of the league with the second most negative balance: the Spanish Liga (-€144M). Conversely, the French Ligue 1 (+€76M) and the German Bundesliga (+€18M) have positive figures.

Three French clubs, LOSC Lille (+€379M), Olympique Lyonnais (+€282M) and Monaco (+€215M), are at the top of the rankings for current big-5 league teams with the most positive transfer balances since January 2013. Thirteen Italian teams specialised in the trading of players follow them: Udinese (+€190M) and Atalanta (+€139M).

At the opposite end of the picture, Manchester United totals by far the most negative net transfer spending over the past decade (-€ 1.27 billion), followed by Manchester City (-€902M) and Paris St-Germain (-€868M). Twelve clubs from the English Premier League are in the top 20. All of the current English top division teams have negative transfer balances, while only five French Ligue 1 teams are in this situation.

The over-representation of Premier League clubs among those with the most negative balances for transfers is also noticeable for 2022. Indeed, ten English teams rank in the top twelve positions. Only Barcelona and Paris St-Germain break this hegemony. Conversely, Manchester City, Brighton & Hove and Leicester City are the only Premier League clubs in the top 20 of clubs from the big-5 having recorded the most positive net transfer spending in 2022.


5. Conclusion
Transfer fee investments of clubs from the five major European leagues strongly increased in 2022 in comparison to the pandemic years: +61% with respect to 2020 and +28% compared to 2021. A record spending for a calendar year was observed in the English Premier League: €3.0 billion (+€878 M with respect to the previous 2018 record).
A new record high was also registered with regard to the share of transfer fees paid by English Premier League teams out of total big-5 league clubs’ investments. From an average of 38.7% during the ten-year period studied, this percentage reached 48.5% in 2022. Ten clubs from the English top division figure in the top twelve positions of big-5 league teams with the most negative net transfer spending in 2022.
At league level, during the ten years analysed, the English Premier League cumulated a transfer deficit of almost €9.5 billion, followed by the Italian Serie A with “just” €1.4 billion. The French Ligue 1 is at the opposite end (+€350M). Manchester United tops the table for the most negative last ten years’ net transfer spending at club level (-€1.27 billion), while LOSC Lille is at the other extreme (+€379M). For 2022, the totals stretch from -€259M for Chelsea to +€118M for Manchester City.

Pep? The manager who finished with a 100 points last season, finishes with 81, despite investments.he has had a better season than FL who managed a team who lost their best player and the best player in the league. Had a transfer ban. Experts did not even predict us to finish in top 6, forget top 4. 
Wow. That's some weird expectations.
Wolves finished 6th/7th last season and this season. What did nuno do to improve? They were expected to finish where they did. We did not. Rodgers did not. Wilder did not. Klopp had one of the best PL campaingns. The 4 managers who exceeded expectations are the ones in the running as they should be.

And Alonso deserved that nomination. Go to the "English football thread" and read my last post. "Alonso is a quality LWB but a pathetic LB". It's not his fault if people who decide TOTY don't understand the difference between LWB and LB. He was genuinely good at the role given to him. Hence the nomination.
And our attack? We are having a paradigm shift in culture. Tell me how many goals the Liverpool teams conceded under Klopp before vvd? Or pep in his first season despite being able to buy. 
What embarassment? Stop over exaggerating things. We were always going to buy a new striker this window. So it was imperative to give both Tammy and michy a fair shot to understand if either or both had a future at the club. Plus Tammy was golden in the first half. Once his slump had come, he was dumped and Giroud was played. No one including FL would have doubted giroud's ability. Did not he bloody start the uefa super Cup too? But this year was about building blocks for the future. 
"Players like Kepa, Rudiger, Kante, Emerson, Jorginho regressed this season..."
Another baseless and over exaggerated comment.
Jirginho - got dog abuse for more than half of the last season with almost every pundit and fan wondering why was he being played ahead of kante. 
Emerson - yes. Because he was a worldie under conte and sarri. Baseless
Kante - one of our best players when he takes the pitch.
Rudiger - this one I accept. But read his own interview. He had a bad year, lamps did not tell him to go fuck up each game.
Kepa - lol. He was on a decline since the man City fiasco. 
Hmmm. So I am sure that things like penalties is not something which is discussed right? Drogba and jt magically end up taking the final pens. (Btw fuck JT too? Lol). These things are pre decided among the players and staff. Even at college level. Such things don't magically happen out of nothing. Blaming it on FL - baseless.
 
"Acting like lunatic". Wtf. So if someone triggers him, what is he supposed to do? Bend over?
Not saying FL has been flawless, but the pros mightily outweigh the cons. We have exceeded expectations in every comoetition. We are now buying kai, werner, ziyech as compared to being linked with Zaha, arnautovic and what nots shit. Anyone who is NOT sold on FL yet, should take a deep and hard look at themselves, the PL table, the same thread in last June/July. It's easy to critisize and be the arm chair critic. You can do the same for the best ever players and managers in the world becayse everyone has their flaws. But only thing that matters is if the positives outweigh the negatives. And they do. Given the resources (or rather the lack of), and given what he is buying when given the chance, everything points to him being on the right path. 
Anyways, not surprised. It's the same people spreading their pointless agenda. 

LWB is priority because we have 2 players who can play RWB (Azpi, Moses). We have no left-footed players who can play LWB other than Alonso, and don't tell me Kenedy. RWB is not that pressing because we can rotate there, even Rüdiger can possibly slot in if needed. Ideally we upgrade both, but the left side seriously needs numbers first.

Prize money + Nike sponsorship + player sales + whatever funds were going to be there anyways out of Roman's pocket. We really could afford a Real Madrid/Man United/City style summer if we want to. More money available than ever before and with the club in a better position than ever before.
Alexis, Verratti, Kyle Walker, and Van Dijk and we'll be one of the favorites for the CL and clear favorites for the PL. We MUST go big this window! Give Antonio all the tools to build a dynasty. Mourinho and the club talked a big game after winning the league last time and we failed miserably to live up to it. No complacency and no settling for "good, but not great" signings.

I completely agree with you that we need starters, not squad fillers. Ideally the players who would be replaced by new signings could be persuaded to stay on as squad members. Alonso and Moses as reserve wingbacks would be impressive squad depth.
In terms of goals and targets mine are always the same; The Premier League, the FA Cup and the Champions League. In that order.
Transfer priorities:-
 1. Matic upgrade
 2. Moses upgrade
3. Pedro upgrade
4. Alonso upgrade
Beyond that, just replacements for anyone who wants to go, or opportunistic buying. For example, if Belotti is moving this summer then we have to try to get him because his next club will be one of the big boys and we'll never prise him away from them. I would proceed with the transfer even if it means agreeing to Diego's departure.
I know many people would say that a move for Belotti would be premature but we have to strike while we can. We are not at the top of the food chain so we cannot afford to wait untill players  prove themselves. If we try that, the best players will always be wanted by the biggest clubs, and we will always lose out.  In any case, "it's too soon", or, "he hasn't had enough good seasons yet", is what some of us were told when we suggested moves for Paulo Dybala and Ousmane Dembele over the last couple of summers. Clubs in our situation, clubs wanting to compete with the very best, but unable to go head-to-head with them in transfer tussles, have to beat them to the punch by making good judgements, and making them early.
 

Just looks like an updated version of last season's kit that will be used as the secondary GK shirt last season.
Another example is, in 2010/11, Cech wore an updated version of the 2009/10 home goalkeeper kit against MSK Zilina [away] in the UCL.
Original:

Updated for the 2010/11 season with new template:


You'll note the sleeve design is totally different, without all the excessive green stitching. Instead it is the 2009 colourway of the 2010 adidas goalkeeper shirt template:

Only sad bastards like me would notice the very intricate differences, but adidas do this quite regularly. That shirt will probably be our second-choice GK shirt for next term.

In 2006/07, adidas gave us one new GK kit (two different colourways, which we used to mix and match, for instance click here for a picture of Cech that season in a mixture of both):
Home:

Away:

In 2007/08 we kept the grey (above) as our second choice GK kit; the navy (above) as our third choice GK kit, and introduced this new primary strip:

in 2008/09 we used the black (above) as a third goalkeeper strip, but it was never used, as the primary kit was the orange number below (home):

We also had this gorgeous away kit (same style, different colourway), which we never actually wore (apart from in promos):

in 2009/10 we retained the orange kit as a back-up kit to this:

In 2010/11, the above kit was retained (albeit in a modified style) as a second GK strip, with the following as a primary shirt:

in 2011/12, we had a brand new white primary strip (below), but we retained the above black kit as a secondary kit (worn vs Barcelona in the 2-2, for instance, but noticeably it went back to the old 2009/10 version rather than the updated style) and the green as a third kit (worn vs Leicester in the 5-2 FA Cup game, for instance):

For the 2012/13 season we had that gorgeous green and gold kit, with the white retained as a second strip and worn, actually, surprisingly regularly due to referees regularly wearing green that season:

For 2013/14 we had the bumblebee kit, with the green/gold number retained as a secondary kit:

And this year we had the red/orange number, whilst the yellow was retained as a secondary strip but also worn regularly due to the number of teams wearing red in the Premier League:

My point being that one GK kit is usually retained for the following season.

Ofcourse we aint excited. Our brain capacity only allows us to remember the 2 most recent games. High five !!!

Sad if this is true. Since I started supporting Chelsea, Lamps has always been one of my favorite players. I can kinda understand his situation though, he wouldn't be playing much if he stayed with us next season, it's just a shame he didn't get a proper send off. Hopefully he'll get a testimonial soon, and I'm certain he will be back at the club in some sort of coaching role in the future.

Like Kalas, Petr Cech was invited to be part of a Czech talkshow which took place in London a few weeks ago. Here are some things mentioned and talked about -
PC was introduced as the best and greatest Czech in London at first, there were problems with his mic and port which both PC and the comedian laughed at because PC had not said a word until then it is the second time he has been part of this show, and since the first appearance he is still top quality there was a huge, huge fight in the stands during one league game in the Czech Republic and PC said that if the country made at least some progress that happened in England, it would be a good start every single seat in an English stadium is monitored and PC shared a story of his Czech friends who came to watch the Chelsea v Liverpool game. In the 20th minute of the game they took a flask out of their pockets, had a drink and from the 21 minute, they were following the game in a pub He was asked what he is doing for his own sake that he has been on top for so many years, which he replied to by saying that he is trying to learn something new every single day to improve, though sometimes it is very difficult as everybody has his limits, but at least he has the feeling that he is doing his best Right after that, he was asked what he did the day before to improve PC admitted that the day before he did not spend so much time improving himself they had a game. But he was immediately told that he should have done some work in the morning, like practising situations with own goals PC honestly answered that he did not prepare for a situation like that. Said he would be busy doing so next week There was a question whether he has some fears before a game, a game which could be really tough. His answer was that since 2006 he expects anything on football pitch. After that he said a very nice Czech proverb that if you fear something, you should not be doing it then. But he was encouraged by the comedian that in the Czech Republic there is a different time zone so PC can be more explicit, to which PC replied that before any game, you just can't shit in your pants and be a man, never think about it When PC makes a mistake, he thinks to himself - remember this and never do it again. Sure it's different when you make a mistake but still win 4-1 but when your mistake costs your team, then 'really, really remember and never, never do it again' PC also said that when he concedes a goal from a striker or any other typical goalscorer, he is angry at himself and thinks - 'fuck, I was studying this striker for two hours yesterday, I should have expected this kind of a finish'. Before every game, he studies all the strikers and their finishes, that's why he gets angry at himself During the game, though, he never thinks about the previous save or mistake. His state is that he always considers the game as 0-0, at every minute and every point of the game. Only this 0-0 thinking can keep him fully focused and calm After this they started talking about his passion to drumming which makes his wife really excited and happy about PC does not know whether he would like to take up a drumming career after football but says that when he starts doing something, he gives his all and best to it Every time he gets the oppportunity, he goes to a soundproof room next to his garage and starts drumming and he can stay there playing even 2 hours, no problem. The vibrations, though, show some pretty marks of him playing in the house He has some exercises but when he is not in the mood, he just takes an ipod, headphones and plays to the music. So he can hear the music and likes the belief that he is drumming well Petr's karaoke His wife always says - Couldn't you choose anything else, like a piano, because she likes pianos Back to football, PC can never understand when somebody says he enjoyed the CL final in Munich, as it was extremely nerve-wrecking. It is no fun playing a game that you have to win or all your work during the season is lost. Naturally, the victory tastes better then. PC was asked about the situation when a new manager comes in, to which he replied that he is used to it as they have a new manager at Chelsea every year It's an encouragement for all those who have not been playing recently. He was then informed about all this records, to which he responded humbly that he is lucky to be playing for 10 years at one club, not to picking up a lot of injuries and successfully fighting for the number one spot. Naturally, the numbers then grow. Again, those who understand Czech can watch it here

"Steven Gerrard walks into a Ba......well you know the rest."

:D Sitting duck

Sigs for everyone !

By the way, have you noticed the Wigan team and players?
McCann, McManaman, McArthur, McEachran, McClean

Manchester City have lost at home 4 times this season: Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Chelsea...

And Wigan Athletic.

That's one odd-looking heat map

SO FUCKING TRUE!!!

Mikel is lucky he doesn't play for Magath then, he'd go bankrupt!

Is that like a 'thing'? like the Barcelona triangle
Mourinho's Hexagon just sounds so more bad ass

Is that like a 'thing'? like the Barcelona triangle
Mourinho's Hexagon just sounds so more bad ass

i knew right from the beginnig that pellegrini is a very good manager with a very short fuse.....it was very evident from the days at real and malaga....
he always let off the pitch things effect his on the pitch decisions.....Mourinho has smelled blood long time ago and is going at him again and again....
Kinda felt sad for him after their match against chelsea(sucked into a well planned trap!)....now after the norwich game he had to blow some steam and he tought the best way was to go at jose?!
talk about sheep walking into lions den.....the word suicide is too subtle!!
End of the season if chelsea is celebrating the PL ....pellegrini will be getting drunk(anything else that can knock him out!) and cursing himself for trying to play mourinho at his own game!!
A few members always accused jose and kept asking in the posts why he kept saying we are not in the race for PL.... He said he didnt expect chelsea to win it since we are not a title winning team according to him but arsenal and mancity is!....if at all chelsea is doing well thats bcz they are underperforming!!(he took all the pressure from us with some cock and bull story and put it on the other teams....) the very fact hes not talking much about arsenal says what he thinks their chances are ........
people forget mourinho has played his games during the times of SAF(biggest cunt imo) and won the PL