Porto's genius

Figured with all the talk about PSG/Monaco etc etc, it would be good to get a change of pace

This is something I found on twitter from @FootballBabble_

In the last decade, Porto have won 24 trophies while generating £340,240,000 in profit from transfers

That's not a typo. Not revenue, PROFIT.

Amazing.

The ultimate wheelers n dealers

£20-£23 mil for Anderson
£16 mil for Bosingwa
£23.7 million for Epep??

Master swindlers.

I think by now fans don't fear losing anyone with the confidence of finding someone new.

Though they will miss Moutinho the same way they missed Lucho before bringing Moutinho in a few years after.

some of those values are not accurate

according to FC Porto official reports, Hulk was bought in for €19.5m, Moutinho for €11m and Rodriguez for €8m

nonetheless, there's no doubt about the fact that Porto are some money making machine

Always said they had the best scouting system in the world

Like EE said, some of the figures don't seem accurate. For example, wikipedia says Hulk was sold for £32m, this thing says £39m.

Also, Porto do a lot of wheeling and dealing with third-party ownerships, meaning they don't always receive the full transfer fee if they don't own 100% of the player.

Moreover, their operating expenses outstrip their turnover usually at least by €20m every season, so what profit they make from transfers is really needed to keep the club afloat.

But it is a business model that works for them brilliantly, no doubt. As long as they can keep it up, they will be winning domestic trophies.

You have to consider that they regularly buy players in conjunction with other third parties. So their profits will only be like 30-40 % of this figure.

Impressive nonetheless

chelsea paid 13.3m for avb? thats the most shocking number on the list imo.

Selling club

Wenger is proud

the Udinese of Portugal

zizzle wrote:the Udinese of Portugal

lmfao was just thinking the same thing, would be interesting to see udinese's profits

Kamikaze692 wrote:You have to consider that they regularly buy players in conjunction with other third parties. So their profits will only be like 30-40 % of this figure.

Impressive nonetheless

This is an important thing everyone forgetting. Most South american players are owned by third parties and big chunck of the transfer profit goes to them.

Actually the reason the players are going for high fee is because both third parties and Porto wants profit. Two greedy parties=high transfer fee.

I demand a recount!

how on earth did they manage to convince the chavs into paying 16mill for bosingwa ??

BarcaLearning wrote:Thats 34M a year and very year profit, omfg! Porto is rich! Why the hell dont they splash out more for the bigger stars?????????

Because they prefer to buy "a Falcao" with 4m instead of 40

Well done Porto.

The Portuguese league is getting more competitive now methinks, till now they have the chance to experiment with players, but no doubt they have great management, they mean bussines.

HOLY SHITE  

I just read that Porto have only lose 1 League game in the last three seasons.