Student musing
Got sent this by a mate who studies in Manchester
I'm going out on a limb here but bear with me. football sides are all about non-footballing revenue these days and you'd have to wonder about financial funny bunny's going on behind the scenes with personal sponsors wanting to get their star players to teams with their name on the shirt. nike's (united's shirt sponsor) new advertising campaign centres around rooney, ronaldo, torres, ronaldinho etc. no secret in SAF admiration for torres and nike's belief in his marketability, so then with the shirt numbers at united being ronaldo 7, rooney 8. .doesn't torres have 9 tattooed on his wrist?! Number 10 u may ask? Whats the number behind ronaldinho's new clothing line? hahaha torres makes sense as united's global appeal will sell more shirts than atletico (better off for torres and nike) and you'd reckon sales would go through the roof if ronaldinho joined him at united. rumours of beckham also make sense because united will erase their debts far quicker with shirt sales rather than european glory. if the glazer's are smart investors, which they are, i would believe the cost of transfers of these players (could be upwards of 50 million pounds) would be paid back to them with interest by shirt sales etc and nike would surely also be willing to chip in! just a thought from an economics student!
If only
I'm going out on a limb here but bear with me. football sides are all about non-footballing revenue these days and you'd have to wonder about financial funny bunny's going on behind the scenes with personal sponsors wanting to get their star players to teams with their name on the shirt. nike's (united's shirt sponsor) new advertising campaign centres around rooney, ronaldo, torres, ronaldinho etc. no secret in SAF admiration for torres and nike's belief in his marketability, so then with the shirt numbers at united being ronaldo 7, rooney 8. .doesn't torres have 9 tattooed on his wrist?! Number 10 u may ask? Whats the number behind ronaldinho's new clothing line? hahaha torres makes sense as united's global appeal will sell more shirts than atletico (better off for torres and nike) and you'd reckon sales would go through the roof if ronaldinho joined him at united. rumours of beckham also make sense because united will erase their debts far quicker with shirt sales rather than european glory. if the glazer's are smart investors, which they are, i would believe the cost of transfers of these players (could be upwards of 50 million pounds) would be paid back to them with interest by shirt sales etc and nike would surely also be willing to chip in! just a thought from an economics student!
If only
