Forbes list of 50 most valuable sports franchises

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Unread post by asu66 » Sat Jan 03, 2015 1:27 pm

This may or may not come as a surprise to some...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenha ... eams-2014/
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Re: Forbes list of 50 most valuable sports franchises

Unread post by ComebackShack » Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:26 pm

asu66 wrote:This may or may not come as a surprise to some...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenha ... eams-2014/
What are we looking for?

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Re: Forbes list of 50 most valuable sports franchises

Unread post by huskie3 » Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:29 pm

crossza wrote:
asu66 wrote:This may or may not come as a surprise to some...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenha ... eams-2014/
What are we looking for?
All those futbol teams that play without their hands being the richest teams in sports.
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Re: Forbes list of 50 most valuable sports franchises

Unread post by asu66 » Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:27 pm

huskie3 wrote:
crossza wrote:
asu66 wrote:This may or may not come as a surprise to some...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenha ... eams-2014/
What are we looking for?
All those futbol teams that play without their hands being the richest teams in sports.
Exactly! Who knew? :mrgreen:
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Re: Forbes list of 50 most valuable sports franchises

Unread post by BeauFoster » Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:43 pm

asu66 wrote:
huskie3 wrote: What are we looking for?
All those futbol teams that play without their hands being the richest teams in sports.
Exactly! Who knew? :mrgreen:[/quote]

It helps that the owners of many of these soccer teams are billionaires from the Middle East. They can pump all the oil money into the team that they want, with nearly unlimited impunity. PSG was a waste of a team 10ish years ago (along with nearly every other French club), but are now riding high. This isn't the case for some of the teams in the list, but it certainly is for others.
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Re: Forbes list of 50 most valuable sports franchises

Unread post by DoubleA » Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:36 am

Soccer benefits from worldwide popularity and appeal, so it should come as no surprise that the top three franchises, in terms of franchise value, are soccer clubs. These franchise pull in a tremendous amount of sponsorship and broadcasting revenues due to international appeal. Man U for example, brings in over one half a billion dollars a year from sponsorship revenues (about $300MM) and broadcasting revenues (almost $220MM). Man U is traded on the NYSE and a wealth of info on the franchise is available from SEC filings. It is interesting to see American business interests invest in English Premiership teams, with the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool, FC sharing common ownership, for example.

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Re: Forbes list of 50 most valuable sports franchises

Unread post by newtoasu » Sun Jan 04, 2015 3:33 pm

DoubleA wrote:Soccer benefits from worldwide popularity and appeal, so it should come as no surprise that the top three franchises, in terms of franchise value, are soccer clubs. These franchise pull in a tremendous amount of sponsorship and broadcasting revenues due to international appeal. Man U for example, brings in over one half a billion dollars a year from sponsorship revenues (about $300MM) and broadcasting revenues (almost $220MM). Man U is traded on the NYSE and a wealth of info on the franchise is available from SEC filings. It is interesting to see American business interests invest in English Premiership teams, with the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool, FC sharing common ownership, for example.
Agreed. To me the more shocking thing was seeing so many NFl teams on the list and very few European teams other than those 4 or 5 top teams. For instance I would have expected to see Chelsea, PSG, AC Milan, Dortmund, Liverpool and possibly Tottenham.

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