Zlatan Ibrahimovic: How AC Milan Hustled FC Barcelona Yet Again
Original article @ Bleacher Report
by Adi-Oula Sebastian (edited for totalBarça by OmarX)
AC Milan finally got their man… Adriano Galliani hustled FC Barcelona yet again. This time they managed to con FC Barcelona for their most expensive signing in Zlatan Ibrahimovic for a mere €24.000.000 payable next year.
Let’s do the math again.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic to FC Barcelona
€49.000.000 (in a one-off payment)
€20.000.000 (the supposed value of Samuel Eto’o)
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€69.000.000 Total Transfer Value
Amortisation over Ibrahimovic 5 year contract
€69.000.000 / 5 = €13.800.000 per annum
+ €10.000.000 wages
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€23.800.000 /season
Now let’s break it down:
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has already been paid for the 2009/2010 season which means he set us back €23.800.000 (after amortisation and including the value of Samuel Eto’o). He will be paid for the 2010/2011 in full by AC Milan who have the obligation to buy him next season for a fixed sum of €24.000.000.
That still leaves us with a net loss of €13.800.000 (the amortisation rate for 2010). AC Milan are only requested to pay his full wages.
FC Barcelona have paid €69.000.000 for Zlatan Ibrahimovic services. After amortisation his value should be set at €41.000.000.
€69.000.000 €49.000.000 (excluding Samuel Eto’o's value)
- €13.800.000 € 8.500.000
- €13.800.000 € 8.500.000
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€41.400.000 €32.000.000
In any case FC Barcelona are set to make a loss. If the loan deal for Zlatan Ibrahimovic would include a fee it would make some kind of sense but since such a fee is not mentioned I assume there isn’t one.
Now let’s analysize AC Milan’s deal in where they are obligated to pay €24.000.000. In 2011 AC Milan will make the loan deal for Zlatan Ibrahimovic permanent and offer him a 4 year contract.
€24.000.000 / 4 = €6.000.000 (amortisation rate per annum)
After their inital loan period their amortisation rate + wages will only account for €16.000.000 while FC Barcelona’s is €23.800.000.
AC Milan transfer fee for Ibrahimovic is essentially FC Barcelona’s amortisation rate + wages in 2012. Which in reality means after the Zlatan’s transfer the Blaugrana will subsidize his move to AC Milan with €7.800.000 for the 2012/2013; 2013/2014 seasons.
Because:
FC Barcelona amortisation rate: €13.800.000
AC Milan amortisation rate: €6.000.000
Regardless of what Sandro Rossell and his board are saying-this is by far the worst deal in FC Barcelona history.
Please note that this article is the opinion of Adi-Oula Sebastian and that the full and original can be found @ Bleacher Report.
Sad day. I suppose the club could use the money (the money we won't be paying Ibra + the fee), and it sounds like behind the scenes it just wasn't working out. But from a footballing perspective, I'm extremely disappointed we won't get to see what Ibra could do in Barcelona with a year of experience. I think we would have had a stronger, more dangerous squad with him on it. But from the looks of everything, the situation just wasn't that simple. Oh well, life goes on. We'll still probably win a match or two.
THANK GOD HE'S GONE !!!!!!!!
sorry guys but the sums of money you mention just dont add up. You cant add anything from the Eto'o deal … as if you think about it, .. taking into acount we "sold him", his wages would have been free'd up.
meaning Ibra would (I asume) get higher wages that Eto'o but with Eto'os wages not being paid anymore .. along with the merchandise from shirts etc that Ibra would have made .. then overall Barca probably only paid Inter the one off payment …. and never made a loss anywhere else.
Now, … the one off payment – was a joke … his transfer market value should have only been 35 mil at the most. to get 24 mil next year, .. another year older and 2 years older than when we bought him (30 years old by then) … coupled by the fact we are saving on his wages this year and when sold 3 years of saved wages (he was on a 4 year deal) ..works out at
9mil per season- saving 36 mil … plus making 24 – meaning barca are 60 mil better off between saving that money, .. and gaining 24 mil.
So as mentioned on fcb.com – barcelona will save 60 mil from him going there – WHERE IS THE PROBLEM?
By saying barca will save 60 mil you and FCBarcelona also say that ibra wouldnt contribute anything on the pitch. (Just like he didnt in last years elClassico?) That hes just a waste of space picking up his salary. If you dont consider his contribution on the pitch Barca have about 2 days to sell Messi. Calculate how much they would save in that transfer. And seeing they barely payd anything for him they could give him away for nothing. Do you think that would be a god deal, saving all that money? THIS WAS A BAD DEAL You can calculate all year if you want, it wont change the fact
I cant believe this happenning…
Most of our recent transfer failure is almost his faults.
he wasted tons of money,didn't give enough chance to players
and made our squad thin.
i love you pep but good-bye next year
you better leave, you ruined barcelona.
Lucho will take over.
i never liked him, never wanted him to come to barca and when he was with us i was hoping he leaves
i think if we gave him away ti Milan and then paid them some money its better for us (of course not financially) but on every other aspect
i say: the hell with IBRA or anyone who thinks he is more important than the team, and Visca El Barca
guys we support the team, the jersey, the identity but not a player (rather a bad player)
now its time we drop this and get behind our team for the forthcoming season
You guys need to get a grip on blaming pep.
Chyggy was still wanted by pep and could have came good – cacares? no that was Laportas crew that thought he would generate money to sell on, same with henrique and kerrison …If pep had wanted these players he would have gave them a shot.
Ibra wasnt our first choice, .. if you remember pep wanted Villa … but we didnt have a suitor for Eto'o. .. so enter Inter.
If one player is causing havoc amongst the team – HE HAS TO GO! … lets face it, .. it could have came down to Ibra going, .. or Messi going, becasue from what I understand, … Ibra has a problem with Messi … and I know who id rather be kept happy.
WAKE UP! … this is done for the good of the club – there is more to it that football, .. 21 goals and 10 assists tell you he is wasnt a bad player, .. there is more in the background and Pep has my full support on this
Don't worry man, as soon as we start winning the same people will hail Pep as a God. That's their nature!
ibra said he never has problem with players.
what's this coming from that ibra having problem with messi?
Pep is not gladiator, he is dictaor of Barcelona.
ok che
Ibra : poor oral hygiene= dirty mouth[youtube HOnh2CNuLWU&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOnh2CNuLWU&feature=related youtube]
Politics… (sigh)
It'll be interesting to read any comments from Pep, post mortem, as to the nature of the differences between him & Ibra…Unfortunately, however, it all ends up the same…Worst loss, financially, for Barca…perhaps ever.
And here I thought Rosell was supposed to be the corporate whore, he makes Txiki look like a financial guru by comparison
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Ibra should have done some of this
The Crap has gone out of Barcelona, we can earn it back no issue…
This is a very stupid analysis from an accounting perspective. An accounting perspective is totally wrong to utilize to estimate any kind of gain or loss. What needs to be done is a financial analysis with time value of money.
I have got to say if we spend 1/10th of the money we spend on players in getting professional negotiators we will save 10 times the money each season. At this rate we are indeed becoming "Mes Que un Club" in the wrong direction!! Imagine the summer discounts we put up, its more than $ 60 mio this season with Henry, Marquez leaving for free, Ibra (I dont even want to dicuss!) May be someone from Unicef should step in and help us out cause its the other clubs taking away big chunk of charity!!
at the end we have good squad only what we need is new striker or AM in the case if are someone injuring..
i dunno why so many are so sad. yes zlatan has huge potential. but u have to look ahead. the wages that zlatan has are disrupting the economy of the team. we saved a lot by not having to pay him now. rosell cannot please everybody. he is not playing football manager . he is in a real situation where he has to make sacrifices whether u like it or not.
I'll miss zlatan but his profile doesnt really suit barca. should we have given him another chance? maybe yes. but if he doesnt improve his value will decrease even more and once he reaches 30 years old how much money do you think we"ll get by selling him.
Its ok. it happened because it had to happen. we have great strikers waiting in la masia. dont forget rochina.
But we shouldn't sell him for cheap price either
Once upon a time there was what everybody thought a good coach. He couldn't stand the top scorer of his team. No one had a clear idea why? He wanted to trade him with a high profile player. Almost everyone will be happy for the arrival of the new player and eventually they will forget that top scorer. The coach was very smart that he chose that replacement with a reputation of certain personality. Everyone in the dressing room was worried of the new arrival because of what they know about his personality. Slowly they discovered that he is funny and loves to joke a lot. He was also a team player not a selfish one. The coach thought his plan A is not working he went ahead to plan B. He tried to demoralize the high profile player and replacing him by an inexperienced 19 years old player. He benched him more than half the time and sometime omits his name even from the list. He even stopped talking to him. The high profile player lost confidence; his performance was shaky till the end of the season.
The high profile player has no idea about what has been planned for him behind his back. He came out after the summer break ready to play and improve his image. The coach in his evil wickedness was still cooking the plan for the player to offload him. Earlier in the summer the coach even set a date to get rid of him “August 25". The club published posters about the game to be played on that date. The posters intentionally didn't include the high profile player. Instead it included what everyone thought is his replacement. On that day the coach declared that the player personality is the main issue not his football.
Well, if his football was okay, why did he insist on benching him? Why did he choose a 19 years old player ahead of him? Why did he insist to sub him all the time? Why did he give him less and less minutes every game? Why he wanted to limit his mobility on the field? Why he wasn't flexible with his game plan to give him some mobility as he used to? Why he insist on playing him the same way that is not working over and over again and left him exposed to his critics? Why did he leave him for the media to attack him aggressively and continuously for 8 month?
He never tried to defend him. He was not willing to change anything to stop their attack on him. Actually he was enjoying it because it was helping his plan.
The coach plan is firing back at him. The fans neither forget the top scorer nor were they happy about the recent events.
The coach used to be a football player but he was never a great player. I doubt that he will ever be a great coach either. Soon he will be exposed.
Pep ends up being more evil than any other coach I have ever known.
Raiola is it you?
what. the. f uck.
24 million?
guardiola is fucking retarded with his feelings bullshit, give a 30 goal/year machine + 45 million for a complete piece of shit then ship him out for 1/3 of the cost, dont even get me started on the 25 million of chryffyffgrgyhbufnsky.
"Why did he choose a 19 years old player ahead of him?"
Because he felt like doing and given that the team won, he was right. He never tried to defend him? Which world do you live in? The one guy who defended Ibra at the end of the season after Inter game, after Zaragoza game where he missed 10 goals, after every game he was criticized, was Pep. Indeed, a clueless mfer.
i cannot believe this. how much bullshit can someone actually write!?! i guess those 8 titles in two years mean nothing to you…sad, truly sad.
I'm already pissed that we gonna sell at 40m and after i woke up we sold at 24m WTF.
Even if 24m is his true value, 40m is already cheap price for Ibra!!! manshitty or chelski will comfortably buy him at 40m!!!
Now I'm expecting fast&fluid attacking football and another treble to make me forget how stupid the management is!!!:@
been a barca fan since i can remember and without a shred of doubt this is the worst deal ever not only barcas history but in the history of football ….
and since barca always compares it self to real Madrid …. as much as i hate to say it barca is being run by a bunch of amateur monkeys where as real Madrid id being run by shrewd business men …
the only thing i fear is that more of such mistakes could plunge barca into financial ruin and as a consequence trophies might dry up and stars would have to be sold , obviously this is the worst case scenario….donteven want to think abt it ……
which was a worse deal: the buying st deals eveof ibra or the selling of ibra? both rank 1 or 2 on the worse deals ever methinks
well buying him was a big blunder and we should have exercised some thought in negotiating his wages at the get go , we got him on board but finally realized oh shyte !!!! we are paying his astronomical wages and we dont want to anymore. i dont doubt ibras technical ability but in our system he was too much of a static stiker that could anticipate any of our plays or create goals in tough situations. in short he slowed us down.
We should have not bought him , etoo's replacement in my opinion should have been a 10 – 15mil euro striker after the david villa deal fell through.
and we got strong armed by milan and galiani …they cornerred us and rossell just gave up.
Cleuless I think the same way over it !!!
There's something bad about Pep, its like he wants to pay back the club for what they have done to him when he was a player. (The club sold him to Brescia )
yeah by making us win 6 trophies in a year. smart ass.
Why is everybody after Pep? The bandwagon effect in this blog is outrageous! How can you blame Pep for under performing Ibra? Even Puyol who has been from beginning of Peps tenure, Pedro one of Peps discoveries have openly said that Pep is not into speaking individually to players but if anyone wants to speak to him he is always available. The way Ibra and Raiola have gone about criticizing our coach is in one word disgraceful. Even after so much backstabbing Pep has never said anything wrong about Ibra instead he took responsibility to revive him. The only reason he was left out of squad v/s Satander was due to ongoing negotiations. If Pep was so bad why is there only one player complaining of him? Why arent Dani, Milito, Maxwell, Abidal leaving? In any big team you have got to earn your place as has Pedro, Bojan and others with performence on field not antics of it. So its time we showed some respect for the coach who is trying to salvage the grace left if any whatsoever from this distasteful event.
it's because football fans are idiots and even more those posting on the internet. I also read comments of people telling Ibra and Mino have no fault but Pep is at fault. I guess if either Dunga or Luis Milla coaches Barca next season, it's just what people deserve.
is zlatan's value zero (0) by the end of his contract at barca in case he stay?
Oh people, I kknow that Barca will pay him in few next seasons, but it's quite good deal because if he stays he would again play bad and Barca would pay him 9mil/season. Now the trouble (Ibra) is out and we will get 24 milions and waste only part of money which we could pay if he stays.
yes barcelona made a bad deal but don't bash rossel he did the best thing. as long as ibra remains barca will be damaged mainly because of his wages also he will cause rifts in locker room.stats prove that barca has scored more goals without ibra.who knows maybe bojan will show his real potential this season.and about next season valdez-alves-puyol-pique-adriano-xavi-masch-busquets-iniesta-villa-messi with this line up dirty mourinho tactics won't work
omg. we just threw 24 millions and samuel etoo out for NOTHING!
This is the worst transfer in the history of football.I have been seriously disturbed reading the details.
However,I think it makes financial sense to sell Ibra to help our finances but not at such a loss.
This will definately help the unity and harmony in the dressing room as we would not have any player painting the coach bad.Every player would work hard for their minutes.However,we are still short in numbers,injuries and penalties make it essential to have quality strength in depth.Any one remember the Champions league final and how we had to patch up our defence.
It would be wise to get another top class player immediately,but who I don't know.The good ones are cup tied,expensive,unruly and probably will not want to sit on the bench.I believe we have a solid first team already.
I can only advice that we all stay calm and positive and look forward with hope of a really better future.Pep is still young and he's making his mistakes but he's still the best Coach for us.We are more likely now to come out tops at the end of the season.Last year we played most games with 9 men because Ibra and Henry were on the pitch but not effective.With the new system we will not have our centre forward lost and struggling with opposition centre backs.So forget the loss of the past and enjoy the season.It will be remarkable and we will win the treble again.
the numbers are good but it depends how you look at it.
Marcotti kind of said the same thing on the BeyondThePitch Podcast. Barca can book now over 50 Million Euros in income for next season(24 transfer, 15 wages, 13 amortisation). Obviously, we made a loss, but in terms of finances, it makes sense for the new board too.
If you look at the deals Mino brokered in the past and how he moved Ibra around, it's not a first. The problem we had was that ManCity didn't qualify for the CL. Otherwise, there would have been 2 teams in the market to sell to and we could have made a better deal.
Sure, he says wonderful things about Barca and Pep, but he also sued Barcelona for millions of euros that he felt was owed to him when he was transferred. Samu was always contradictory like that.
Why the hell are guys having a go at Rosell? Laporta's board overpaid Ibra in the first place, now Pep wanted to get rid of Ibra, and Rosell doesn't have another choice than sell him for a low price after the Raiola-show.
You guys are all biased in anything Rosell has something to do with. Because you don't like Rosell and Laporta is the pope. Just blame Rosell, easy, isn't it? Sad ppl. I hope he shuts all mouths by winning La Liga and CL.
You're at least partly right. This is definately not the worst deal in Barças history. That was buying Ibra last summer and paying him a ridiculous wage.
The guy would have been our 5th choice striker next season, and seeing Villa tonight and Bojans end to the last season, Ibra wouldn't deserve anything else. That's a ticking time-bomb. I bet there was a sigh of relief from some players in the dressing room, knowing that he's gone.
Funny also how people say Ibra's worth this or that. He's worth what other clubs are willing to pay for him. And there's obviously no club willing to pay more than Milan's paying now.
Good riddance if you ask me. I dont claim to be a cule. Am not a registered member of Barca. I'm from Ghana, Africa where Micheal Essien, muntari, Kelvin-Prince Boateng, Marcel dessaily are from and i can be a bit arrogant and claim i know a thing or two about football. Btw who says football is like doing business at wall street. So please spare this vodoo economics and all that. who cares about the profit we make or the losses incurred.? Please you guys on this forum dont pay a dime. excuse me. Do you guys recall the great Rivaldo went to Milan for free after a splendid world cup in 2002. and what happened afterwards. The most important thing here is we get a very strong squad with the hunger to win trophies and lets end this unnecessary debate. Im worried our front line are short in height but it was obvious Ibra was not doing as expected when he was in games. You can mention his goals against Madrid, Arsenal and all but pls his contribution left much to be desired.
Pep you are the one in charge let anyone say whatever they like WE ARE BEHIND YOU TO LEAD US TO ANOTHER SEASON OF SUCCESS. VISCA BARCA.
So it's not so much that Milan hustled Barca. It's rather simply. Milan paid current market price for Ibra, and Rossel overpayed. When you put the two together, it looks as if Barca has been conned because of the difference in expenditure.