Idk.... we are talking about spending 3.5m fee on our dp and they are about to make another 70m+ transfer fee... makes me jealous
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Can't be jealous... the EPL has a massive TV deal that fuels the teams' transfers. MLS has a middling TV deal and the owners fork the transfer fee out of their pockets. Would you rather spend other people's money or your own?
So how can Man City throwing out a 100 mill bid feel like a punch in the stomach?
In MLS even $3-$5 mill is considered high. We're a salary cap league. Transfer fees are included in salary if you don't have enough allocation $$ to buy it down. Obviously a bit different with DP if I recall. Still, I think record transfer fee in MLS is $8.5 this year by Atlanta for Almiron.
Well based on those number NYCFC has a 7x Value/Revenue multiple while Man City is only at 3.5x. So we're actually the more expensive team.
Also, say we sign someone off a record 50M+ transfer fee and make him the highest paid player in MLS, more than some teams are maybe worth. He's probably not going to be as good here than on Man City because of the players around him. De Bruyne is only as good as the players receiving his crosses and passes. Pirlo is only as good as the players next to him defending.
If it makes you feel better most mls teams are jealous of us
In 2014 Toronto fc paid a 10m fee for Bradley and a 10m fee for jermain defoe 20m in fees on 2 players and this was before the new tv contracts
Why do people think this is a DP acquisition? If he's working with his current club to cancel his contract or negotiate loan terms, it would seem to me that it's not intended to be a DP contract.
If I missed some news, I apologize. But I saw no mention of fees in what I read yesterday.
If I missed some news, I apologize. But I saw no mention of fees in what I read yesterday.
I get what ur trying to say but it took Toronto many years to splash that kind of cash. Give the them some time bro .
The league paid a large chunk of both those moves like they did with beckham.
Do you have a twitter? I'll tag you in the post that says they're paying a fee
A little murky. If we arent paying a transfer fee, he would have be making over a million, but the rojas post makes it seem like leon is trying something from us.
Want to talk about Man City? Do it in the Mac City thread in other football. This is for NYCFC players for NYCFC's roster.
5th as I type this. Not sure how relevant that is though as the 2nd through 6th teams are separated by 2 points. And if City wins tomorrow they're in 2nd. Going to be tough for anyone to catch Chelsea but it's definitely possible if they somehow lose a couple.
As to spending, Man City is at £225m which is a lot, but it's only £7m more than Chelsea so roughly equivalent. To keep this on topic compare that to our last year's spend of $21m ($3.5m if you don't count the DPs).
Note that £225m is about $280m.
Sources:
http://www.totalsportek.com/money/english-premier-league-wage-bills-club-by-club/
http://www.spotrac.com/mls/new-york-city-fc/
Our combined salaries last year were 21m and our revenues were 36m. I really shouldn't have to do the math here to show we operated at a loss last year (factoring all expenses). I guarantee that $15m isn't no where near enough to cover all the other expenses we had.
The majority of people here understand that we are a new franchise and we can't snap our fingers and splash cash for shits and giggles.
I'm fine with how the club is being run. Not as ok with some signings we've made but I'm fine with the amount of money we've spent to get players here. Being realistic and thinking in MLS terms we are ahead of the game as far as that's concerned.
Bottom line, stop being such a negative nancy and leave Man City out of our discussions.
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