This is a unique, ground-breaking relationship. |
We have been dragged into this on the basis that the player wants to come to us. |
We have the Vodafone contract, we are back in Europe and we will make sure the mix is proper with success on the pitch, |
We have the Vodafone contract, we are back in Europe and we will make sure the mix is proper with success on the pitch. |
We hope others will follow. |
We spent 151 million pounds, of which 141 has been spent on capital expenditure, primarily in the playing squad. |
We would like him to stay longer that that. |
We're delighted that Shaun has joined us, |
With continued success on the field and the resulting growth stemming from that of our fan base, memberships and revenues, we are confident of achieving our targets. |
With the talent that's on the pitch for both teams, it's going to be tremendous football. That's what the Champions League is all about. Bringing the best teams together. |
[Clearly, what the clubs are trying to do is promote each other in markets where the other has a relatively smaller fan base.] It is an alliance that links the greatest franchises in the world, ... This is the start of the process, not the end. |
[One area that the clubs are particularly keen on exploiting is the Internet, and in particular, the e-commerce potential. Kenyon also suggested the alliance would allow the clubs to explore the development of proprietary sports programming that could be repackaged for the Net or other digital media and sold to sponsors.] We are looking for technology to deliver more content to more people in more countries, ... Quite honestly, that's what our fans want. |