Thursday, April 22, 2010

MANCHESTER UNITED RICHEST CLUB BY FORBES.

According to Forbes for the year 2008-2009 , Manchester united is the richest club in the world. It is valued at 1.19 b pounds or 184 b dollars. Real madrid are second with 859 million pounds or.132 b dollars. Third was Arsenal with 767 million pounds or 1.181 million dollars. Barcelona came forth in the 20 club list.Which included six clubs from the E.P.L.The biggest suprise was New Castle United was also in the list, we must remember that they played 2009-2010 in the second division. A.Cilan, Liverpool and Chelsea were in the top ten, but at the same time their profits fell by 19 percent as well.The club to make the biggest profits were the Italian club Juventus and french club Olympico Marseille, they both saw profits increase by 9 percent.
The data is counted from broadcasting rights, sponsorship and saleof tickets and merchandise only, not from selling players.

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