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Smeg wrote:has anyone seen Huntelaar play for Ajax? I think hes about 22, and scored 43 GOALS this season, including 33 in 31 league matches. Not gonna go and make assupmtions on him, was hoping someone may have seen him play? That amount of goals suggests he could be a great player now or in the future...

puroresu wrote:Huntelaar is quality but Ajax would never sell unless for silly money.

He's no Sissy though is he...

Lando_Griffin wrote:

bavlondon wrote:

passmeistro_#14 wrote:I do have my doubts about kuyt tbh, especially if we pay more than 10 million for him

The compilation of him is impressive, but as it has been said before, compilations can make any player look great... (Although i challenge the person who said a compilation on Titus Bramble can look good to make one and see!   )

I'll be keeping a closer eye on this lad in the world cup. does anyone know whether he actually starts for Holland?

I dont think we will be able to afford that anymore.

Even if we can afford 10 that could be asking a lot. I wouldnthave expected Rafa to comment on how the Cisse injury would affect his spending unless he realy was limited in his kitty and had t sell before he could buy.

Or this could all be a decoy to lure teams into thinking we have limited funds so we get ripped of when shopping. I wouldnt put it past Rafa and Parry to do that but sadley i think we really are limited.

Come off it!

Throughout this season, we've earned £44.2m in TV revenue and prize money.

Add to that approximately £1.1m revenue per match (19 in league, 4 in Champions League proper and 1 in the FA Cup (Vs Scum).)

£26.4m from that, then. (It's a bit more actually, but I can't be ar*ed to work it out, so I've assumed that all tickets are £25 and gone by the average attendance last season: 44,241.

Then the 3 home ties in the CL qualifiers, where Parry reduced the ticket prices to £10 each for TNS and, I believe Kaunas.

TNS attendance: 44,760 @ £10 per ticket = £447, 600.

FBK Kaunas: 43,717 = £437,717.

CSKA Sofia = 42,175 @ £25 = £1,054,375.


Add it all together, and that's £72,539,692 in prize money, ticket sales and TV revenue.

Then there's the shirt sales which will probably double that figure World-wide. (I am guessing that, though, as I cannot find ANYTHING on shirt sales stats.)
The basis for this assumption is this: LFC supposedly have 15m fans according to that stupid survey conducted around November, if memory serves. Right. Lets assume that it's slightly wrong. Let's assume there are ACTUALLY 10m fans, OK? Right. Now, let's assume that 1/10th bought 1 shirt @ £35 (3 main ones were available last season).

1m x £35 = £17,500,000.

Now let's assume that a further 500k bought the 2 league shirts:

500k x £70 = £35,000,000.

Add the "10,000" Champions League shirts @ £40 a pop, and shirt sales alone add £52,900,000 to the total, bringing us to about £125m. (Obviously a substantial cut will go to Reebok for the manufacture of the shirts.)

The shirt-figures are purely guess work, but I don't think it is beyond the realms of sanity to assume that 1 in 7.5 LFC fans bought 1 or more shirts last season, especially after our CL triumph (Asia particularly). Even the kids will have got one for their Birthday or something.
Even after the players and staff have been paid, it's still a sizable sum.

I think your comment suggesting that we might be unable to find £10m to buy Kuyt is silly, TBH.

No offence mate, I just do.

You also forgot to add prize money from the CHampions League and FA Cup, as well as the sale of players and sponsorships from CArlsberg and Addidas. This added up would also be quite substantial.

Just wathched the holland game Kuyt was impressive, all over the pitch helping the defenders but imo when he came on although he should have scored from Van Pierses freekick. Id never saw him before he looks incredibly Dutch with his mop of blond hair 

Flo-Po wrote:Just wathched the holland game Kuyt was impressive, all over the pitch helping the defenders but imo when he came on although he should have scored from Van Pierses freekick. Id never saw him before he looks incredibly Dutch with his mop of blond hair 

Kuyt only touched the ball about 3 times, so to call him impressive is a bit over the top imo.  Some of his touches were decent and he looked to have decent strength and a reasonable turn of pace, but beyond that you can say no more based on that performance.  Need to see a lot more of him before I believe the hype...

Smeg wrote:has anyone seen Huntelaar play for Ajax? I think hes about 22, and scored 43 GOALS this season, including 33 in 31 league matches. Not gonna go and make assupmtions on him, was hoping someone may have seen him play? That amount of goals suggests he could be a great player now or in the future...

woof woof ! wrote:Watched Kuyt a few times this season .
Always disappointed . May aswell sign Andy Johnson or Darren Bent if we're only looking for reputation as opposed to actual quality .

bavlondon wrote:

woof woof ! wrote:Watched Kuyt a few times this season .
Always disappointed . May aswell sign Andy Johnson or Darren Bent if we're only looking for reputation as opposed to actual quality .

Johnsons gone to the bitters and now that Dowie is in charge at Charlton i should think they will keeo Bent al all costs otherwise price him out.

Bav , I said that tongue in cheek .

woof woof ! wrote:

bavlondon wrote:

woof woof ! wrote:Watched Kuyt a few times this season .
Always disappointed . May aswell sign Andy Johnson or Darren Bent if we're only looking for reputation as opposed to actual quality .

Johnsons gone to the bitters and now that Dowie is in charge at Charlton i should think they will keeo Bent al all costs otherwise price him out.

Bav , I said that tongue in cheek .