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[Re Agents Report - Sooner or Later, the League should be releasing its half-yearly report on how much each club paid out in agents fees. The last report, covering January-June came out in July; and the previous report came out last January -
[See QPR Report: - July 26, 2007 "Latest League Report on Agents Fees Released - QPR Paid Just £5,000 Jan-June 2007" --- January 19, 2007 "QPR's Agents Payments: Up more than 40% From Year Previously" --- July 13, 2006 "QPR's Low Agents Payments"
MIRROR - ECCLESTONE: I CAN SORT OUT PREM'S GLOBAL MESS EXCLUSIVE
By Oliver Holt, Chief Sports Writer 14/02/2008
Football's 39th Step crisis took a new twist last night when Formula One mogul Bernie Ecclestone said he was ready to offer England's 'Big Four' clubs a way out of the mess Richard Scudamore has dragged them into.
Billionaire promoter Ecclestone joined the chorus of those pouring scorn on the Premier League chief executive's ill-conceived plan for every club to play a 39th game outside England.
But Ecclestone said he would happily offer Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea a megabucks deal to play in a tournament he would stage.
The QPR co-owner said of Scudamore's scheme: "The current idea the Premier League is putting forward isn't very good.
"They probably wouldn't find it very easy to convince someone in Singapore to have Wigan playing somebody over there. I can't see a promoter going for that.
"But if somebody said to me today 'what would you do?', I'd have the top four clubs who are known worldwide and I'd want them playing six matches against each other in a mini-league.
"I'd run it completely separately and export it to whoever wanted to buy it. Nothing to do with anything. Not sharing the money with any of the rest of the league or anything like that.
"I would be very happy to enter into a contract with those four clubs to run in six events if I could put the events where I wanted to put them.
"I don't know how much money it would take but it would be pretty easy to put the deal together.
"But I've got no interest in bidding for anything the way the Premier League is offering it at the moment.
"I don't see how you could promote Man United playing Wigan. Nothing wrong with Wigan but if you went to a lot of places in the world, they'd think Wigan was another country actually." Mirror
Telegraph/Charlie Caroe - Ecclestone: Premier League idea not very good
Formula One powerbroker and QPR owner Bernie Ecclestone has stepped forward to offer a solution to the Premier League's plan to stage an 'international' round of fixtures.
Ecclestone, who co-owns Championship side Queen Park Rangers, has proposed staging a mini-tournament involving the Big Four of the Premier League.
The billionaire has suggested running a six-match mini-series between Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool.
He said: "The current idea the Premier League is putting forward isn't very good.
"They probably wouldn't find it very easy to convince someone in Singapore to have Wigan playing somebody over there. I can't see a promoter going for that.
"But if somebody said to me today 'what would you do?', I'd have the top four clubs who are known worldwide and I'd want them playing six matches against each other in a mini-league."
But Ecclestone's plan would not please everyone, focusing on just the Big Four as opposed to the Premier League's current proposal which has united all 20 clubs.
Ecclestone, speaking in the Daily Mirror, said: "I'd run it completely separately and export it to whoever wanted to buy it. Nothing to do with anything. Not sharing the money with any of the rest of the league or anything like that.
"I would be very happy to enter into a contract with those four clubs to run in six events if I could put the events where I wanted to put them.
"I don't know how much money it would take but it would be pretty easy to put the deal together.
"But I've got no interest in bidding for anything the way the Premier League is offering it at the moment.
"I don't see how you could promote Man United playing Wigan. Nothing wrong with Wigan but if you went to a lot of places in the world, they'd think Wigan was another country actually." Telegraph
World's Richest clubs does NOT include QPR
GUARDIAN - The rich list 2008
1 (1) Real Madrid £236.2m
2 (4) Manchester United £212.1m
3 (2) Barcelona £195.3m
4 (6) Chelsea £190.5m
5 (9) Arsenal £177.6m
6 (5) Milan £153.0m
7 (8) Bayern Munich £150.3m
8 (10) Liverpool £133.9m
9 (7) Internazionale £131.3m
10 (12) Roma £106.1m
11 (15) Tottenham Hotspur £103.1m
12 (3) Juventus £97.7m
13 (11) Lyon £94.6m
14 (13) Newcastle United £87.1m
15 (16) Hamburg £81.0m
16 (14) Schalke 04 £76.9m
17 (-) Celtic £75.2m
18 (-) Valencia £72.4m
19 (-) Marseille £66.6m
20 (-) Werder Bremen £65.5m
Last year's position in parentheses
Guardian
INDEPENDENT - Chelsea climb into top five of world's richest
Chelsea's income leapt an impressive 28 per cent last season to £190.5m to propel them into top five richest clubs in the world by income, according to a financial survey published yesterday. The latest edition of Deloitte's annual review uses figures from the 2006-07 season and puts Real Madrid top, followed by Manchester United (closing the gap), Barcelona, Chelsea and Arsenal.
The extent that Chelsea are still haemorrhaging Roman Abramovich's money will not be revealed until the club give details of their accounts next week. They lost £80.2m last season, a world record £140m in 2004-05 and £87.8m (the previous record) the year before that. More losses are expected this time but Chelsea's chief executive, Peter Kenyon, will at least now have some solid growth in income to set against them.
The survey compares club's finances on a like-for-like basis, stripping out some income for accounting reasons. Manchester United's MUTV and Nike income is not counted, for example, nor Arsenal's property earnings. ...
Source: Deloitte Football Money League 2008 Indepdent
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