Why do Barcelona get away with everything without punishment

[salford city]

To be honest, I am delighted these fuckers are about to exit the UCL, I hope Inter will not fuck it up.

Even if Barca beat Bayern and Inter lose to them, a win against Viktoria will take Inter through on head to head.

Yes, so as long as Inter beat Victoria plum in the next game Farca are out. That will nor help them financially so I'm all up for that. Could be fun if the red shite finish second and meet Farca in the play-off

Do you not feel sorry for Garcia and Torres though?

Yes poor little lambs sorry its not worked out too well

[Outcast]

They certainly won't be signing Haaland in 2044 nevermind 2024

[salford city]

They certainly won't be signing Haaland in 2044 nevermind 2024

It would be nice if they had long since gone bump by then

[Dameerto]

To be honest, I am delighted these fuckers are about to exit the UCL, I hope Inter will not fuck it up.

I'm an Inter fan tonight, and they're currently cruising 2-0 up at halftime - pulling a few footballing 'levers' of their own right now.

[sheblue]

They have had a really shit champions league. That's what you get when you think Eric Garcia is a good defender.

[Harry Dowd scored]

To be honest, I am delighted these fuckers are about to exit the UCL, I hope Inter will not fuck it up.

I'm an Inter fan tonight, and they're currently cruising 2-0 up at halftime - pulling a few footballing 'levers' of their own right now.

Finished 4-0 2 for Dzeko

[salford city]

Cue more talk of a super league now Juve and Farca bite the dust

[zuricity]

Cue more talk of a super league now Juve and Farca bite the dust

let's see Super League , 18 teams , 34 games .

that's it . no FA Cup , no League Cup , no CL or Europa Cup. no tv revenues there then.

[zuricity]

Altringhams finest after VAR turns over the penalty decision for Barca after Lewandowski dived !

I wonder how often he got away with it when actually playing for Bayern.

[zuricity]

spuds group is interesting at half time , losing 1-0 and Eintract in the lead .

[john@staustell]

Cue more talk of a super league now Juve and Farca bite the dust

let's see Super League , 18 teams , 34 games .

that's it . no FA Cup , no League Cup , no CL or Europa Cup. no tv revenues there then.

There are going to be stuffed, for sure. Might go and lurk on Sport.es to get the Catalan mood this morning

[Mase]

I used to want Bellerin over Walker just before Walker arrived. How wrong was I! I know he’s had his injuries but he was skinned left and right by Manè last night.

[Tokyo Blue]

Mané, while being a nasty piece of work, is sadly also a very good footballer indeed. He will trouble any full back.

Nice to see arseholeona out of the money competition. We should immediate demand payment for… what was that average forward player we sold them called?

[carl_feedthegoat]

Barcelona - dead man walking .

[johnny crossan]

Barcelona - dead man walking .

The client media are silent on the dire implications for Barca after the massive debts incurred thru' their failed big name signings. Word is they are struggling to avoid a catastrophic cashflow collapse without CL Knockout Stage revenues.

[BlueinBosnia]

Barcelona - dead man walking .

The client media are silent on the dire implications for Barca after the massive debts incurred thru' their failed big name signings. Word is they are struggling to avoid a catastrophic cashflow collapse without CL Knockout Stage revenues.

I read this morning that the TV revenues they sold were worth 6% of all broadcast revenues for this season. That was based on them getting to the last 8 of the CL, plus going who-knows-how-far in the domestic cup and supercoppa (where they play either 1 or 2 matches). As it's 25% of La Liga revenues, then CL + Domestic cups would have accounted for 76% of all TV revenues.

Now, as I understand it, the TV rights (market pool) for the CL are broken down in 2 ways:

50% goes on league position in the previous season (Barca get 30% of this 50% of the Spanish quota, i.e. 15% of a pre-set amount)
50% goes on the proportion of CL games of a country's clubs played by a particular team

So, Barca were counting on playing 10 games, but ended up playing 6. What also needs to be factored in is how far the remaining Spanish clubs go. With Sevilla and Atletico also out, this may not be as devastating for Barca as would have first appeared. However, it will massively widen the gap between them and Real on the domestic stage, as Real are basically going to hoover up more and more CL TV money in relation to the rest of the Spanish clubs due to their early exits.

Of course, prize money and matchday revenues (as well as sponsor-related contractual stipulations) will all be affected, too. But the fact that Barca's borrowing and selling relied heavily on them achieving their CL projection means they're in very dire straits indeed, with this season not even a third done. I reckon that by the time of the January window, they'll be trying to offload players left, right and centre, with some player contracts possibly being cancelled by mutual consent.

[Nickyboy]

Barcelona - dead man walking .

The client media are silent on the dire implications for Barca after the massive debts incurred thru' their failed big name signings. Word is they are struggling to avoid a catastrophic cashflow collapse without CL Knockout Stage revenues.

I read this morning that the TV revenues they sold were worth 6% of all broadcast revenues for this season. That was based on them getting to the last 8 of the CL, plus going who-knows-how-far in the domestic cup and supercoppa (where they play either 1 or 2 matches). As it's 25% of La Liga revenues, then CL + Domestic cups would have accounted for 76% of all TV revenues.

Now, as I understand it, the TV rights (market pool) for the CL are broken down in 2 ways:

50% goes on league position in the previous season (Barca get 30% of this 50% of the Spanish quota, i.e. 15% of a pre-set amount)
50% goes on the proportion of CL games of a country's clubs played by a particular team

So, Barca were counting on playing 10 games, but ended up playing 6. What also needs to be factored in is how far the remaining Spanish clubs go. With Sevilla and Atletico also out, this may not be as devastating for Barca as would have first appeared. However, it will massively widen the gap between them and Real on the domestic stage, as Real are basically going to hoover up more and more CL TV money in relation to the rest of the Spanish clubs due to their early exits.

Of course, prize money and matchday revenues (as well as sponsor-related contractual stipulations) will all be affected, too. But the fact that Barca's borrowing and selling relied heavily on them achieving their CL projection means they're in very dire straits indeed, with this season not even a third done. I reckon that by the time of the January window, they'll be trying to offload players left, right and centre, with some player contracts possibly being cancelled by mutual consent.

Cheeky bid for Frenke in Jan maybe?

[Pretty Boy Lee]

They have had a really shit champions league. That's what you get when you think Eric Garcia is a good defender.

This made me laugh. He was really fucking useless wasn’t be? Another year of that and I’d have been calling Pep baldie

[Mase]

They have had a really shit champions league. That's what you get when you think Eric Garcia is a good defender.

This made me laugh. He was really fucking useless wasn’t be? Another year of that and I’d have been calling Pep baldie

What made it worse is that he was given an opportunity that most of our youngsters aren’t, and he was still played and pushed in the first team even when it was clear he was shit and didn’t want to be here.

[carl_feedthegoat]

They have had a really shit champions league. That's what you get when you think Eric Garcia is a good defender.

This made me laugh. He was really fucking useless wasn’t be? Another year of that and I’d have been calling Pep baldie

What made it worse is that he was given an opportunity that most of our youngsters aren’t, and he was still played and pushed in the first team even when it was clear he was shit and didn’t want to be here.

It cost us big time in the CL playing that cunt .

*Nepotism at its best *