Top 5 in the world

Comment originally back in August. I would be seriously amazed if we overhaul both Arsenal and Chelsea in the next set of revenue figures. We have got the extra £30M a season from the TV deal which will help us get closer to Bayern though. I can see us pulling in £340-£350M.

Just some musings:

City have announced another two commercial deals this week (188bet and BT) which will push our revenues even higher.

For the 2011, our income was about 170M Euros and we sat 12th in the table just below Spurs by 10.5M Euros.

For 2012, our income rocketed up to 285M Euros leaving us in 7th spot, just behind Arsenal by 5M Euros. Spurs had slipped a couple of places and their revenue had dropped by a couple of million (probably due to no Champs League footy).

The next set of numbers will be very interesting as 3 of the 6 clubs above us are English and all of them have new commercial deals (especially Arsenal's new shirt sponsorship and kit deal and Utd.'s myriad of kit/training kit/training ground etc. deals) so it may be tough catching them and the two Spanish clubs and Bayern are far ahead of us. The new tv deal will bring us about £30M, but I think it is how far we can leap from that 285M Euros which will help us find our position in the money league.

In one year we cut the deficit to Utd. by 95M Euros (though they aren't our yardstick). I can't see that happening again but, if we can seriously eat into the 'advantage' that the 6 clubs above us have, we should be even more serious players in terms of the ability to buy players and comply with FFP (if that ever starts to be enforced).

Glick said we're catching Bayern up 
That would be a serious leap

Bloody hell!  

We've come an awfully long way in five years.  Those figures being bandied about are nothing short of incredible.  I mean, I knew we'd get financially stronger, but this sort of increase is the stuff of dreams.  To think we're not far shy of being in the top five revenue earners and are closing in on a team of Bayern's standing is astonishing.

But yeah, we're ruining football, we'll never be self-sustaining and the Arab will get bored and leave us with nothing...  Just thinking about those phrases now, you can almost hear how hollow they are!

Just trying to work a few things out.

We are 90M Euros behind Bayern. If those 2013 numbers included their CL triumph (and our failure) then that gives us room for improvement.

Our TV deal is worth £30M and getting out of the group stages is worth maybe £20M to us. Ignoring all other small deals, and general increases for both clubs, that gets us within 30M Euros of the current CL winners.

The stadium expansion should be worth upwards of 10M Euros so we will be there or there abouts in 3 or 4 years time. Catching the two Spanish clubs, and even Utd., is probably beyond us for a very long time indeed.

I echo Leo's thoughts...those figures are amazing.

I spoke to one or two away fans outside the stadium the other week....and they said The Etihad is by far their favourite away stadium and they go to all away games.

They said the atmosphere created and the way it is set-up for fans, they've never seen before, anywhere they reckon.

When the Shiekh came in, he said he had a 10 yr plan.....well 5 yrs in and it's looking bloody brilliant.......the next 5 with the academy, ground extension......should be incredible.

Topdawg wrote:Catching the two Spanish clubs, and even Utd., is probably beyond us for a very long time indeed.

Oh, without a shadow of doubt it is.  We'd have to have a sizeable slice of sustained domestic and European success before we'd even get remotely close to their revenue streams, and even then it's dependent on tapping markets and switched allegiances.  But that's not really important and I don't believe it's even in the medium term agenda.  I'd say the remit now is to be sustainable, competitive and have some degree of success.  If we can achieve those, then we're in a strong position to go after the biggest clubs financially.

leopold wrote:

  I'd say the remit now is to be sustainable, competitive and have some degree of success.  If we can achieve those, then we're in a strong position to go after the biggest clubs financially.

Those 2 sentences just about sum it leo.

Utd are forecasting revenue of over 500M Euros for 2013. They've had some major new deals recently (kit, training kit etc.).

If we an catch Bayern that'd be cool. 4 English teams in the top 6. All we have to do now is have some success in Europe and that'll help attract other top quality players that we wouldn't have to pay the earth for in wages.