Meatwad wrote:

damn that's a long era of dominance.

Yeah but like Bayern & PSG they have a financial advantage over the rest of the league along with RM, with both clubs taking 65% of total TV revenues from La Liga - not just the top division = the entire league ffs.

That was the case some ten years ago when there was no collective TV marketing deal for the league and every club had to negotiate on their own. Under the current deal Madrid and Barca take less than 25% of La Liga TV money home.

Also Barcelona didn't dominate because of their money, they did it because they had the undisputed best ever and two top 10 ever players come through their academy at roughly the same time and a bunch of other World class players which they paid nothing for.
No other club has ever had that kind of luck and none probably ever will, although ironically if PSG weren't owned by the QIA they actually could have a similar generation looking at the roughly 2000 potentially world class players born in Paris's banlieues between 1998 and 2005.

The only team that spent more than Barca in the 2010s was City. Sure they had some good players come through but they spent a fortune supplementing the team with more stars and they paid everyone astronomical wages.

Yeah but the core of that team was from their academy, Messi Xavi Iniesta Busquets Piqué Puyol Pedro. They did spend but they earned a ton of money as well during that time to be fair.
Wasn't the point anyway I was talking about if people "deserve" some barren years because of how well they've been doing it'd be Barca because of how their academy produced the aforementioned plus Cesc Alba etc all at the same time.

Precisely. Thanks to that academy crop, even a lot of expensive transfer markets flops made zero difference for them in the end.

Links with Serge Aurier who is out of contract

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Links with Serge Aurier who is out of contract

Only if Cedric accepts to go. We are trying to offload him and Turkish clubs are interested but he doesn't want to leave as he won't get such a long contract and high wages there.

No fucking way. He's utterly brainless in his defending and rash. Clown defender.

100% agreed. He would be a worse signing than Willian or even Silvestre.

Don’t want either. Wouldn’t fit the possession game

jones wrote:

That was the case some ten years ago when there was no collective TV marketing deal for the league and every club had to negotiate on their own. Under the current deal Madrid and Barca take less than 25% of La Liga TV money home.

Also Barcelona didn't dominate because of their money, they did it because they had the undisputed best ever and two top 10 ever players come through their academy at roughly the same time and a bunch of other World class players which they paid nothing for.
No other club has ever had that kind of luck and none probably ever will, although ironically if PSG weren't owned by the QIA they actually could have a similar generation looking at the roughly 2000 potentially world class players born in Paris's banlieues between 1998 and 2005.

https://interestingfootball.com/la-liga-prize-money-tv-rights-money-distribution/

so 10% goes towards the 2nd division
whilst 50% of the remainder is shared equally amongst the 20 top flight clubs,
then half of the remainder goes towards 'merit' based upon success over last 5 seasons
and the last of the money goes towards those clubs with the biggest resources.
An earlier article indicated that only the top half of the table were eligible for the last 2 payments. 

The changes were made in 2015, and an earlier article indicated they were not introduced all at once and only came into full effect with season 2019/20.

Yes Barca and RM no longer receive more than 50% of total revenues, however only the big3 received over 100mE of the revenues, with the top earner getting almost double the revenues of the club receiving the 4th most revenues = it's still skewed in favour of the big3.

I refuse to accept spurs sloppy seconds. we get bantered enough with Chelsea's sloppy seconds as it is