bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Im sorry mate but your treating 21m as if its not something we can use.
Charity begins at home.
Oh God mate, i know it won't happen, it's just one of my wierd musings i get from time to time.
But did get me start thinking out the box about the actual worth of having a Charity on the shirt compared to a 'middling' sponsorship deal, Barca for example eventually ditched UNICEF (paying them 1.5m a year from the club as a donation after doing so) but only when a stupendously high sponsorship deal was on the table for them, which the gut says that the put a commercial value quite highly on the UNICEF deal - otherwise they would have taken another sponsor way before they did.
It's for me anyway an interesting idea, just how much in abstract terms would the club benefit ultimately from a similar deal, and would it outweigh a straight money in the hand deal of the amount we can realistically attract.
In terms of 'what is 21m worth to us' though, using the most wasteful example it is worth roughly one Niasse and his wages we will have paid by this seasons end.
Will be honest here though, I'd love to see such a thing happen, we supposedly have money we can't actually bloody spend in buying players atm, we have money for wages we can't equally utilise so it will go to waste effectively, yet we would rather stick some dogshit company potentially on the shirt for the world to see (and i include any payday loan company, betting firm or anything to do with the saudi's, arab emirates, Qatar government owned crap that way) just for a few extra quid which ultimately will just benefit the owners/
P.S. Matchday gate reciepts are such a drop in the ocean as well that we should be capping those massively lower than they are, want our club to become seriously relevant again then we should not be looking at trying to emulate clubs whose gap over us is so huge that we never can match them on the same playing field. But rather try to be innovative in the way we go forward.
Cos right now I'm fully prepared for a low spend in january, STCC excuses to be rolled out once again next summer in order to explain the benefit of us selling Lukaku and the happy clapping circle continues.
Would also wipe any doubt there is about Moshiri being a carpet bagger in one swoop as well wouldn't it? And give us a currently unique selling point to all other commercial partners, truly 'the peoples club' we'd be then