I am watching Altletico madrid vs barcelona (sky sports 4) live and david villa just scored to make it 1-0.
Looking back, over the last 12(?) years, the 'star striker' at atletico has been:
2002: Torres through youth, joined by Aguero (2006-2007) for a season, then Torres was sold for 26 mil and replaced by Forlan (2007) for 16 mil.
2011: Forlan went to inter and Aguero went to city combined income (aprox 50 mil)
They were replaced by Falcao who joined for aprox 30 mil
Falcao this summer left for monaco for about 50 mil
He has been replaced by david villa who joined for 3 mil.
So over the last 11 years or so, atletico are up almost 80 million pounds through their transfer business of strikers, and all of whom have produced.
It really is impressive and along with porto, i cant think of a better team at maintaining a good team and at the same time making such a consistent profit through transfers.
Spurs selling bale for 90 mil does not count. thats a one off.
Atletico Madrid
posted on 21/8/13
Wright-->Bergkamp-->Henry-->RVP 1991-2012
posted on 21/8/13
during these 12 years they have:
won europa league twice and followed them up by winning the super cup
won copa del rey once, finished runners up once and reached the semis twice
as well as finishing consistently in or around the ucl places apart from 04-05, 05-06 and 10-11
posted on 21/8/13
We were spoilt for a long time
posted on 21/8/13
ian wright in for 2.5
bergkamp in for 7.5
henry in for 11 out for 20
rvp in for 3 out for 24
spent: 24
received: 44
profit 20
not quite the same for business and between 2005 and 2012 what did arsenal win?
posted on 21/8/13
although i admit before 2006 the buys were definetly returning good.
i think its safe to say that porto are in a league of their own when it comes to buying cheap, winning things and selling high
posted on 21/8/13
I watched Atletico at the weekend. They were impressive and Costa outstanding. Villa was crap though.
posted on 21/8/13
La liga has produced no good players outside of Barcelona and Real Madrid over the last 10 years. You compare that to the PL, where we have brought through proper class players like Silva, Torres, Aguero, Mata, Negredo, Navas, Soldado, the list goes on, shows how much better the PL is at bringing through talent, and not relying on signing players from other leagues like Barca and Real do.
posted on 21/8/13
I was talking more about the quality of the strikers rather than their eventual transfer value, arguably RVP was the only one of the 4 who left at his peak.
posted on 21/8/13
i think its safe to say that porto are in a league of their own when it comes to buying cheap, winning things and selling high
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People say that, but it's largely because of the relax Portuguese rules on 3rd party ownership. It might look like Porto make a fair wedge from their sales, but a lot of the time most of the money is going elsewhere.
posted on 22/8/13
spurs do count, you only need look at their net spend for the past 3/4 years to see they fleece idiots like lfc, utd, real for keane, borbaflo, modric and reinvest very wisely indeed