[han2503]

All Summer Transfer talk here

Let's hope it's a good one

[han2503]

Btw, we've extended the deal with Puma, it will be for 30m per year and they get naming rights for Vismara. A good improvement. We really need to milk sponsorships for all they're worth especially now.

Emirates also needs to be drastically improved or we should change sponsor on the front of the shirt as well.

Starting next season we have 5m from BitMex, 8m from WeFox, 30m from Puma and if I'm not mistaken it's around 20m for Emirates. Plus we've signed on with eSoccer for the training kits and that's a pretty good deal as well, over 20m if I'm not mistaken. So we are making progress. Obviously it's peanuts compared to clubs like Real or Barca who get over a 100m from Nike/Adidas. But at least we're starting to exploit some of these avenues a bit more.

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Btw, we've extended the deal with Puma, it will be for 30m per year and they get naming rights for Vismara. A good improvement. We really need to milk sponsorships for all they're worth especially now.

Emirates also needs to be drastically improved or we should change sponsor on the front of the shirt as well.

Starting next season we have 5m from BitMex, 8m from WeFox, 30m from Puma and if I'm not mistaken it's around 20m for Emirates. Plus we've signed on with eSoccer for the training kits and that's a pretty good deal as well, over 20m if I'm not mistaken. So we are making progress. Obviously it's peanuts compared to clubs like Real or Barca who get over a 100m from Nike/Adidas. But at least we're starting to exploit some of these avenues a bit more.

Sorry Han, please don't take this the wrong way, but who gives a sh*t! The numbers and all are looking great, but fans don't care about any of that. Fans care about the results on the pitch, about Maldini and Leao renewing, about signing Botman, Sanches and all our other objectives. Instead we continue to increase revenues but become stingier every summer with our spending.

I'm sick and tired of losing deals for peanuts, of the salary cap, of this policy of letting players leave for free. I feel like we're at crossroads right now, and we could either take the path of becoming a great club in Europe again, or continue to operate as a sustainable business with no ambition.

The only entity in all this that is benefitting from such politics are Elliott. And nobody please mention the Scudetto, cos that was all Maldini, Pioli and the lads. We could have finished 4th for all Elliott could care.

Anyway, it's Wednesday afternoon and still no signs of any renewals in sight... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

[han2503]

Sorry Han, please don't take this the wrong way, but who gives a sh*t! The numbers and all are looking great, but fans don't care about any of that. Fans care about the results on the pitch, about Maldini and Leao renewing, about signing Botman, Sanches and all our other objectives. Instead we continue to increase revenues but become stingier every summer with our spending.

I'm sick and tired of losing deals for peanuts, of the salary cap, of this policy of letting players leave for free. I feel like we're at crossroads right now, and we could either take the path of becoming a great club in Europe again, or continue to operate as a sustainable business with no ambition.

The only entity in all this that is benefitting from such politics are Elliott. And nobody please mention the Scudetto, cos that was all Maldini, Pioli and the lads. We could have finished 4th for all Elliott could care.

Anyway, it's Wednesday afternoon and still no signs of any renewals in sight... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

But getting the revenues up will help in all that you mentioned. We are operating within a very tight parameter because revenues are worse than what teams at the bottom of the PL get, let alone the clubs we want to compete with.

Inter for example keep doing back-flips, summersaults, and every other maneuver in the book to keep signing these high cost players, who are long-term strains on the finances, yet they've achieved the same thing as we did. And in the long run it will become even more unsustainable than it already is. They got lucky on the Lukaku deal, but they're basically paying 18m just to have him for this year only. They'll have to go back in and re-negotiate with Chelsea next summer, and I don't think it will be easy or cheap, so everyone saying that they screwed them over, I think in the long run Chelsea will come out the winners. Do I think we should operate in this manner? Maybe it's less frustrating but I don't think it's a sustainable approach, not in Italy where revenue steams are as dry as the desert.

So I am happy to see all these deals being improved getting more cash flow in, maximizing the potential of the brand. Especially considering where we were just 5 years ago. Basically having lost all our big deals which were still there since the Berlu days, we even were without an official motor partner for a while there after Audi was lost.

So I get all of your frustration. This Maldini saga has been seriously f@cking annoying, and now that we're in the final 2 days of the contracts with no word yet, it's even more concerning. Because something is just not sitting right with me. We had Botman and Sanches wrapped up. I can only imagine that the guarantees we had given them were no longer there. I've been banging on about this ownership switch since that Paolo interview, and you were trying to be the voice of reason there. Now that we're in the final straight, I want to wait to see what happens. We've waited this long, 1 and a half days won't kill us.