ATLETICO DE MADRID SPENDS 112 M€ ON NEW SIGNINGS

This post may interest more the Atletico de Madrid fans. But overall it does also reflect well the increase spending on transfers-new signings by the Spanish Liga for the second year running: 471,7M€ between all Clubs.

Atletico de Madrid closed yesterday their transfers-signings for season 2014-2015. The Club spent this new season 112,1 M€ in signings to reinforce their squad after important

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REAL MADRID | 80M€ FOR JAMES RODRIGUEZ TOO MUCH ?

Is 80,000,000 € too much for a Football Player? Depends, Cristiano Ronaldo cost 96M€ & now everyone is in accorde that he was relatively "cheap". But what about Colombian International JAMES RODRIGUEZ? Real Madrid has paid Monaco close to 80M€ to have the 23 year old Football player whos only jump to fame so far has been his 6 goals in the last World Cup in Brazil. Too much?




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REAL MADRID THE MOST VALUABLE SPORTING CLUB IN THE WORLD

The prestigious American Financial magazine "Forbes" has released its list of the most valuable Sporting Institutions in World Sports. Spanish Football Club REAL MADRID CF maintains the Top Spot with an estimated economic value of 3,4 Billion dollars, followed by another Spanish Football Club FC Barcelona. 

English Premier League giant Manchester United has just received an important shot in its

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REAL MADRID EARNS 57.4M€ WINNING UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

UEFA has released today the revenue distribution to Clubs for the Champions League competition season 2013-2014. The winner Real Madrid got the biggest UEFA payment with 57.4M€ ($78.3 M).



French Club Paris Saint-Germain was second in the revenue share, getting 54.4M€($74.2 M) despite losing in the quarter-finals stage of the Champions League competition. The reason for this is that PSG has big

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REAL MADRID CF RICHEST FOOTBALL CLUB IN THE WORLD 2014

The prestigious American business & finance magazine "Forbes" has published its list of "Richest Football Clubs in World Football". The study was done last month of May & two Spanish Football Clubs top the list as the "most valuable".UEFA Champions Real Madrid stands at the Nº1 spot with a economic value of 3.440M US$ followed by Spanish rival & Club FC Barcelona with 3.200M US$. The rest are

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SPAIN THE MOST VALUABLE TEAM IN FIFA WORLD CUP 2014

Have you ever wondered which Nation participating in the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil is the economically most valuable? That is, if we sum up the current Football Market Prices of the individual players in their respective squads, which National Team would have the highest value?

The answer is the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM according to the prestigious American magazine "Time"

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LIONEL MESSI HIGHEST INCOME GENERATOR IN WORLD FOOTBALL

French Sports magazine "France Football" has published the list of the "Best Income Generating Football Players", with FC Barcelona player Lionel Messi taking the Top spot with 41M€ ahead of Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo with 39,5M€. The difference is "peanuts" compared with third placed FC Barcelona player Neymar with 29M€, however this will be on the rise as many expect the Brazilian to

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FUNNY GUY NEYMAR | QUOTE OF THE WEEK

The arrival of Brazilian Neymar to Spain & concretely to FC Barcelona has had its collateral damage, in this case unprecedented for Barça. The fall & disappearance of a Barça President, Sandro Rosell,  & the formal accusation by the Spanish Anti-corruption Agency through Judge Ruz of possible tax evasion by Barça which the Club will have to appear in Court to prove its innocence. 

The storm

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REAL SOCIEDAD QUALIFIES FOR THE SEMIS OF THE SPANISH CUP AFTER GAME SUSPENSION

We have the four remaining teams left in the Spanish Cup - Copa del Rey which will meet next week in semi-finals:

Atletico de Madrid - Real MadridReal Sociedad - FC Barcelona

Real Sociedad qualified for the Spanish Cup semis without playing their 2º leg return game against Racing de Santander. The players of Racing refused to play because their demand that the Club President Angel Lavin quit

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FC BARCELONA - NEYMAR AFFAIR - ROSELL RESIGNATION

The Spanish news paper the began looking under the FC Barcelona carpet with the Neymar transfer deal, "El Mundo", continues finding dead skeletons & the "problems" for the Club are spreading to the now put new President Bartomeu who is under the microscope as accomplice to ex-President Sandro Rosell. As the newspaper explains the resignation of Sandro Rosell still leaves all the questions without

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FC BARCELONA PRESIDENT ROSELL RESIGNS - LEAVES THE PRESIDENCY

A few days back a post was uploaded here with the title "NEYMAR TRANSFER COMMISSIONS TIME BOMB | FC BARCELONA PAID 95M€ NOT 57M€ ?". Here was alerted the first signs of possible existing irregularities in the signing of Neymar by FC Barcelona this summer. There are indications of possible undefined commissions with an important difference between the said cost of 57,1M€ & the unofficial cost of

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NEYMAR TRANSFER COMMISSIONS TIME BOMB | FC BARCELONA PAID 95M€ NOT 57M€ ?

How much did Brazilian player Neymar Jr cost FC Barcelona?The FC Barcelona President Rosell says 57M€, however other sources put it closer to the 100M€ & Brazilian Club Santos around the 140M€. This discrepancy in the figures has lead a Barça Club member, Mr Jordi Cases to file a law-suit against the FC Barcelona Directives which has been taken up by Spanish Anti-Corruption Judge Ruz who is

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LIONEL MESSI IS THE MOST VALUABLE FOOTBALL PLAYER IN WORLD SOCCER FOR 2013

A great way to get media coverage is to release studies that call the attention of everyone, especially news hungry media. Brazilian Sports Consultancy firm, "Pluri Consultoria", has released their report focusing on the "Most valuable Football - Soccer Player in the World" for 2013. The figures are debatable as the term "value" has been questioned & redefined by philosophers & economist for 000s

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FIFA - FRANCE FOOTBALL GOLDEN BALL 2013 | IS CRISTIANO RONALDO ALREADY THE WINNER ?

Tomorrow night we will have a new ( or renewed ) "King of World Football". FIFA-France Football will announce the winner of the "2013 FIFA Golden Ball Award" in Zurich in front of a "creme de la creme" audience from three candidates: Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich), Lionel Messi ( FC Barcelona) & Cristiano Ronaldo ( Real Madrid ).Whoever of these three "Titans of Football" is proclaimed the winner,

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TOP PAID FOOTBALL - SOCCER COACHES MANAGERS IN WORLD FOOTBALL

A Brazilian Consultancy "Pluri" has released the list of top World Football - Soccer Coaches ( Managers ) & their salary before taxes ( that is, Gross ). Spanish Coach Josep Guardiola currently training German Club Bayern Munich is the highest paid Coach in the World with 17.000.000€. The second placed Coach is Chelsea FC Manager Jose Mourinho with 10.030.000€. Another Spanish Coach on the list &

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THE LEGS OF CRISTIANO RONALDO VALUED AT 140M US$ - 103M € | REAL MADRID

According to "Economia & Negocios" - a Spanish Online Financial source - the value of the legs of Real Madrid player is 140M US$ ( or 103M€ ). The Spanish Football Club Real Madrid has renewed its "insurance policy" & has lifted the value of the legs of Cristiano Roanldo 3% more than the last policy.



In case of a severe & serious injury that would risk the "future" of the Portuguese star Real

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WORLD SOCCER | MESSI THE MOST VALUABLE ( MONEY ) PLAYER IN BRAZIL 2014

Once the 32 Nations were determined which will participate in the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup Final in Brazil, the financial firm "Pluri Consultancy" asked itself: what is the monetary value of each the 732 players that will be present & participating in Brazil 2014?The results are no surprise, FC Barcelona player Lionel Messi is a current monetary value of 139,6€ putting the Argentine in the

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SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM PRESENTS NEW UNIFORM | MARKETING | FINANCE | POLITICS

The Spanish Football Federation presented today to a packed media audience the "new" uniform that the Spanish Football National Team will wear in the upcoming FIFA World Cup to be held in Brazil 2014. It´s an all red uniform which has been "sold" as a good luck omen for the current double European ( 2008/2012) & World Champions (2010) as Spain will attempt to make Football History if they manage

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FIFA POWER POLITICS | BLATTER vs CRISTIANO RONALDO | THE REAL STORY

The storm caused by FIFA President Blatter & his comments in reference to the question of who he preferred, Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, has been magnified & blown out beyond what simple outside Football observers would have expected. In fact no one knew in Spain that Blatter had spoke at the Oxford University forum until yesterday night. The comments took place on Friday & came to light 3 days

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MICROSOFT TO SPONSOR THE "NEW" REAL MADRID "SANTIAGO BERNABEU STADIUM" ?

This post is more for the Real Madrid followers outside of Spain. As you may already know the Spanish Football Club wants to modernize & put its current stadium well into the 21st Century. Like other Clubs around Europe ( Bayern Munich & Arsenal comes to mind ) Real Madrid wishes to expand their home ground & make their "Legendary Santiago Bernabeu Stadium" the crown jewel of the city of Madrid &

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