It’s Always the Little Clubs That Bleed
By: Inara | July 10th, 2007A Portuguese site posted the top five clubs which profited the most from player sales this summer.
1. Porto - €63m (Pepe, Anderson, Ricardo Costa, and Hugo Almeida)
2. Lyon - €51m (Abidal, Tiago, Malouda, and Berthod)
3. At. Madrid - €38.5m (Torres and Galletti)
4. Marseille - €33.85m (Ribery, Pagis, Maoulida, Luyindula, Cantareil, and Gimenez)
5. Sporting - €27.3m (Nani and Custódio)
Lyon could potentially increase their “revenue” to €60m should Alou Diarra and Sylvain Wiltord be sold, but it’s not an achievement to be proud of.
Depressing, depressing, depressing.
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You can bet Marseille raked in the billions from Alain Cantareil.
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It is depressing but those players didnt want to stay. The team is a victim of its own success. No more challenges for them so they want to move on.
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They forgot the 700 lira and half a stick of bubble gum that Roma will get from Inter for Chivu. That should be on there.
Atletico’s inclusion is somewhat unfair. They just sold one player with a ridiculous buyout clause to an EPL team. The league with no clue whatsoever in regard to player valuation.
I’d expect to see Sporting rocket up that list when someone comes in with silly money for Joao Moutinho (don’t know why, he just screams Valencia to me).
I’d also prefer to see the net gain/loss list, as opposed to the gross version. At least Atletico and Lyon reinvest their cash. Porto is just bleeding like a stuck pig.
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You forget Bettiol ! But it isn’t important (700 000 to 500 000 euros)
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Your right chris, joao moutinho will end up at valencia, he is quique sanchez flores’ type of player. but would it be a pipe dream to see him at lyon? or even roma in a year or two? he is more talented then juninho right now, that would be a great investment.
Inara, Bettiol… I never knew much about him. was he a prospect or just a throw away like William Viale a few years ago? Did not make much money off him anyways, but i wonder if they will regret selling off their youth team players every year.
Torres was over valued by 20 million. he averages 15 goals a campaign, which means about 2 million per goal, which can equate to one or two against Arsenal, Man U, Chelsea and Tottenham, and the other 13-14 coming against Derby County and Wigan. He plateued fiercly, and i dont like to make predictions like this, but he will flop. EPL “expert analysts” (dumbasses) say he can bag 30+ goals, and he will have to as to justify his price. and i take a crap on a golden toilet seat every morning…
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I would love to see Moutinho here, but I think the window of his possible arrival to Lyon shut last year. He’s too well known and too expensive now, and naturally, he’d prefer Valencia to us. The only way we could ever get him is how we got Tiago, who moved from Benfica but was benched at Chelsea and was therefore more receptive to a move to France.
As for Bettiol - well, he was terrific in the CFAs though I guess he didn’t impress in the senior division. But he wasn’t that bad though, and I think originally, Perrin included him in his plans. What I imagined happened is that Bettiol didn’t want to stay because he knew he’d be playing reserve matches most of the time at Lyon, nd it’s better that he get experience, even if its in L2.
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I agree, which is why i thik the reserves should consist of more 16, 17 and 18 year olds then 19 20 21 and such. Sporting Lisbon sends out all most all of their youth players 18-22 on loan every year, and their reserve team is who ever isnt in the first team and 15 year olds. Its all about playing above your level when your younger, so this system would let the older youth team players play in the National or Ligue 2 while the really young guys (Salamand) play in the reserves before they eventually go out on loan. Maybe im crazy and this is pushing the young guys to much.. what do you think of that?
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It is kind of weird how OL’s reserve players are on the older side, with Remy, Bettiol, Paillot, etc just about to turn 20. But I think Lyon integrates as many youth team players as it dares because there has to be a balance age and experience. Even Barca has similar problems - they let go of Fabregas, and they nearly lost Giovanni dos Santos (to us, ironically) and Bojan Krijic.
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Right, but what really bothers me is how far away clubs are from using their own youth players, who typically are from the town/city and can identify with the club. Real Madrid is a perfect example, they let Juan Mata go suposively to Valencia, he is incredible, he has the most exquisite first touch. Because they bought RVN and Saviola. It just makes no sense to me, these players are in the youth team for a reason, to play in the full squad sme day, but they dont use them. so why have an academy at all? they go and buy the best foreign talent and hot as balls sergio ramos
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