Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Manchester United have moved from fourth to second in the list of the world’s richest clubs and Barcelona has reached second place, as Real Madrid stayed top for the third straight year.
Deloitte’s Football Money League, which is based on revenues generated during 2006/07, was headed by United for eight years until the Spaniards deposed them.
Chelsea are fourth in Deloitte’s table, even though the Blues regularly make huge losses. Arsenal are fifth. In all, there are seven British clubs in the top 20.
Three of the four clubs that dropped out of the list were also British - Manchester City, Glasgow Rangers, and West Ham United.
And, looking ahead to next year’s report, the authors state that “2007/08 could see England providing half the Money League clubs”.
The list shows that the game’s riches continue to be monopolised by the same group of clubs, with only one change in the top 10 from the previous season.
Deloitte’s figures take into account income from ticket sales, merchandising and broadcasting contracts but do not include transfer revenues.
Between them, the collective revenue of the top 20 clubs - all European - grew by 11% to £2.5bn in 2006/07, the highest rate of growth since 2002/03.
The 5 first places of that League are ( in millions of £): Real Madrid 236.2, Manchester United 212.1, Barcelona 195.3, Chelsea 190.5 and Arsenal 177.6.
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
The performances against Manchester United last week have proved that the team from Juande Ramos can compete with the best. Tottenham played against Manchester United twice in a week with a 3-1 defeat in the FA Cup on January 27 followed by United snatching a 1-1 draw in injury time in the Premiership on Saturday. The team from White Hart Lane was certainly deserved more than the 3-1 loss in the FA Cup tie as it took the lead and missed key chances at 1-1. However, the game changed with Michael Dawson’s dismissal and subsequent penalty converted by Cristiano Ronaldo, but the 10 men still managed to strike the woodwork with five minutes left.
Tottenham was even more unfortunate at the Lane as Berbatov’s 21st minute goal was contested by Carlos Tevez goal in the fourth minute of added time and where was only time to restart before the final whistle. According Juande to play against Manchester United, who is second of the league table, is very difficult.
Tottenham has lost five games out of 24 since Juande took charge of his first game against Blackpool on October 31, moved from 18th up to 11th in the league, made it to the Carling Cup Final and progressed to the Round of 32 in the UEFA Cup. Therefore Hotspur supporters are now very exciting and expect even a better performance during last months of the season.
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