Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Shrewd Businessmen in Ferguson, Berlusconi


Good article by Peter Sevdin that comments on the inflated spending in world football today, and the shrewd business sense of Sir Alex Ferguson and Silvio Berlusconi .


Obviously, these prices thrown down are a result of the ego's of some men and the crazy inflation going on due to the sales of Kaka and Ronaldo and to some degree Benzema.

Ferguson himself said that United bid for Benzema but wouldn't budge over €35 million, which is still a pretty astronomical number, but Real Madrid had no problems with going over that value.
These days players like Sergio Aguero have €60 million on their head, and everybody is saying,

"Well if Kaka is worth this much, then my guy is worth twice as much."

That's why I personally like people like Berlusconi and Ferguson, who instead of using the vast sums of money they received from the sales of their two best players, are just going about picking up players in the "bargain bin" who might turn out to be great, keeping a low profile and waiting till everything calms down a bit.


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