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AlanK wrote:

bjkman1903 wrote:Sneijder left Galatasaray (mutual agreement)

Mariano (Sevilla) -> Galatasaray (4m€)

Oh, man, I assume that's Mariano Ferreira to whom you refer--hate to see him leave Sevilla. His centering pass to Gameiro at the beginning of the second half in the EL Final against Liverpool in 2016 marked the turning point of that game.
It looks as though Berizzo's "new" Sevilla is "cleaning house."

bjkman1903 wrote:

AlanK wrote:

bjkman1903 wrote:Sneijder left Galatasaray (mutual agreement)

Mariano (Sevilla) -> Galatasaray (4m€)

Oh, man, I assume that's Mariano Ferreira to whom you refer--hate to see him leave Sevilla. His centering pass to Gameiro at the beginning of the second half in the EL Final against Liverpool in 2016 marked the turning point of that game.
It looks as though Berizzo's "new" Sevilla is "cleaning house."

Yes, that's the one.
It looks like a good transfer to me as they needed someone in his position.

Galatasaray is heavily investing in new players at the moment (Belhanda, Maicon, Gomis, Mariano, ..) and it does not look like it's over yet.
But I am afraid that it's too late for EL already, and they might do the same mistake Fener did a few years ago.

Duketown wrote:Between 2013-2015 Galatasaray had an loss of €163 million. They had a UEFA ban (like Bursaspor and karabukspor)and failed FFP again in 2016 and need to break even compliant untill 2018.

Galatasaray settlement agreement:
http://www.uefa.org/MultimediaFiles/Dow ... WNLOAD.pdf

Galatasaray had not implemented any concrete strategy to comply with financial fair play during the settlement regime (in particular, it had failed to properly manage its expenses, as shown by the fact that its transfer expenses and employee wage expenses had increased during this period).

In 2015-2016 the loss was €56 million.... Nuff said. Failing FFP with such numbers and not being mentioned in Uefa update means only 1 thing: exclusion + new FFP agreement untill 2021.

And €3.8 million for this Dutch player? This is a joke. He most have become really good playing in mediocre teams in mediocre leagues. In the Netherlands he was good enough for 2nd division. And all other clubs h played the wanted to get rid of him. And Gala gives him a 2021 contract. Seeing transfer like this, makes me understand Gala's troubles. Same goes for Donk.

Checked out Gala's other contract and only a few less important (and thus inexpensive) players leaving so payroll reduction needs to come from sales. Many unsellable expensive players (Sneijder, Podolski, De Jong). Even 2017 can't be breakeven anymore.

Man, all this is plain stupid. Is Gala managed be a Fenerbache fan? It looks like they are killing this club from the inside. Never seen such mismanagement. Only Inter and AC came close and they needed a new owner to pay €700 million while still not being repaired.

Anyone a link to English annual report? I wonder about their debts..

Duketown wrote:€21m purchase and €17m sales, isn't exactly "heavily investing", lol.

bjkman1903 wrote:

Duketown wrote:€21m purchase and €17m sales, isn't exactly "heavily investing", lol.

Just wait, and you will see more transfers soon.
And what I meant here is for Turkey standards. As you are an expert in those things, you can easily check how much other Turkish teams did spend in transfers and compare it with the average.

Duketown wrote:

bjkman1903 wrote:

Duketown wrote:€21m purchase and €17m sales, isn't exactly "heavily investing", lol.

Just wait, and you will see more transfers soon.
And what I meant here is for Turkey standards. As you are an expert in those things, you can easily check how much other Turkish teams did spend in transfers and compare it with the average.

Haha, you sound like those Portuguese forum members overhere. Talking about future transfer value...

It's normal for Turkish teams to overspend. That is the average. In this case, this overspending is really modest but that's only since UEFA is helping to do the bookkeeping. Normally Turkish teams are the losers on the transfermarket.
Still, Gala is completely senseless with their stupid management; see my earlier post.

So I compare your statement "heavily investing" while for Gala or for other Turkish topteams, investing €4m is peanuts. So your statement is kinda silly. Hope you understand.

But you don't like financials and you've shown me that before so no problem: continue hoping Gala needs to invest in players while in reality they are close to being bankrupt, like Parma.

At least, try to make sense before your fantastic views take over.

BurningStorm wrote:Jorge Meré (Gijon) -> Köln (8,5m €)