porto :simple selling lessons

[ederson]

Ajax was considered as a the biggest footballer production plant in the world. They had the eye to find talented youngsters , develop them and finaly sell them at very high prices...

I think now the new factory is Porto

take a look at their record :

Adrante to deportivo la coruna  16m (cost 1m)
Postingha to tottenham 12m  (cost 0)
Murinho to chelsea 6m  (cost 0)
Deco to chelsea 20m  (cost 8m)
Derlei to Din. Moscow 9m  (cost 0.5m)
Carvalho+P.Ferreira  to chelsea 56m (cost 3m)
Costinha to Din.Moscow 5m (cost 2.5m)
Seitaridis to Din.Moscow 10m (cost 3.5)
Maniche to Din Moscow 18m (cost 0)
Luis Fabiano to Sevillia 10m (cost 5m)
Carlos Alberto to Fluminense 10m (cost 3.5m)
Anderson to Man Un 30m (cost 5m)
Pepe to Real Madrid 29m (cost 3m)
Quaresma to inter 27m (free from barcelona for Deco)
Bosingua to Chelsea 20m (cost 0)
Lysandro to Lyon 24m (cost 7m)
Ali Sisoko to Lyon 15m (cost 0.4 just 6months earlier!!!!)
L. Gonzales to Marseille 18m (cost 10m)
Bruno Alvez to Zenit 21m (cost 0)
Falcao to Alt Madrid 37m (cost ??)


that`s almost 400m in the last 9 season for players that costed less than 60m......

[CaptainJackLee]

Falcao cost 4.5 million. And Deco didn't cost 8 million - not even 800k: he was released by Benfica and was playing in a very small Portuguese club.

Porto is the best managed sports club in the world. Their ordinary revenues - gates, tv deal, sponsorships - are at the level of Swansea or Sporting Gijon. Yet they always have great teams, amongst the best in Europe, thanks to the ability of finding grossly underpriced talent. Been doing this since the 80s: Futre, Madjer, Rui Barros were the first he sold by millions after acquiring them for basically nothing. Pinto da Costa is a genius, the Pelé of sports management.

Next in the pipeline:
Alvaro Pereira - 4m
James Rodriguez - 4.5m
Rolando - 0.5m
Hulk - 5m from the Japanese II division
Moutinho - 10m
Kleber - free transfer
Guarin - 1.5m


Some intriguing prospects for the next generation too: Iturbe, Defour, Mangala, Danilo, Alex Sandro, Souza, Sérgio Oliveira.