Olympiacos Piraeus

[Covenant]

Roberto in the bench?

[fyure]

Good luck with Jara!

I think everything about him was already said.
Just have patience with him and you may get a useful player at the least.

By the way isn´t Olympiakos interested in another package deal like Bebé and Djalo... You get 2 and only pay for 1...

I'm pretty sure, officials of Olympiacos and Benfica got round a table and said... ok, you still owe us X million for Samaris...

Benfica: Perhaps you would like one of our players?
OSFP: mmm which one would you be interested in selling us?
Every Benfica official at once: JARA!!!!!!

I think it was more like this:

Benfica: So, Fejsa is still injured.
OSFP: Yeah... He usually gets injured quite often...
Benfica: We paid 5 LK (Leo Kanu is the currency here. 1 LK = 1 M€)... You said it was all fine with him...
OSFP: Yup... Yes... Well... Maybe we can make an arrangement. Send us someone you don't want. Maybe a youngster or a player from your reserves...
Benfica: We'll make it better. We'll send you Jara !

[Faliro]

The Basketball team is owned by the Angelopoulos brothers who are pharmaceutical magnates.

I don't think they make a loss but I am unsure as i don't follow the basketball team..

[Faliro]

Roberto in the bench?

Injured.

[Covenant]

Roberto in the bench?

Injured.

Serious?

[Faliro]

Roberto in the bench?

Injured.

Serious?

They say around 10 days. Meniscus injury.

[Nico10]

I know you've probably been asked before, but how is Roberto doing at Olympiacos?

[Faliro]

Very very well.

[Lycaon]

The Basketball team is owned by the Angelopoulos brothers who are pharmaceutical magnates.

I don't think they make a loss but I am unsure as i don't follow the basketball team..

I haven't read about it but Madrid and Barcelona make huge losses and they have better average attendances.

[Cloughie]

It sure is an improvement from Vitor Pereira 5 years ago.

Gipsy?

[Faliro]

The Basketball team is owned by the Angelopoulos brothers who are pharmaceutical magnates.

I don't think they make a loss but I am unsure as i don't follow the basketball team..

I haven't read about it but Madrid and Barcelona make huge losses and they have better average attendances.

True but Barcelona has many people with their fingers in the pie...who make money even if Barcelona loses money.. For a few reasons I find it a little difficult to believe the Angelopoulos brothers make a loss with the Basketball team. Maybe they do...

Savvidis... the retarded Greek Russian who owns PAOK acts like he has made a huge loss the last few years... but not sure how true it is... he buys exceptionally cheap players... if any and has fairly good attendances... I think the money he spent was on buying the club and building his small VIP section in the Toumba.. I think the rest of the club pays for itself... the pain in his shoe is the €30 - €40 million debt PAOK has from before he bought it. He has been negotiating unsuccessfully with the Greek Government to get the debt reduced since he bought PAOK.

PAO have about €30 million debt also, with no plan of removing it.

Olympiakos has 0 debt and made a fortune the last few years.

Here is the table for earnings only..

[Baron_Davis]

Faliro,

while in Olympiacos, Fesja spent more time playing (fit to play), or injured?

here, the guy is injured since god knows when, and media are reporting that he'll return to the surgery table again...

[Covenant]

Barcelona don't have good attendances.

[Lycaon]

Barcelona don't have good attendances.

But Real Madrid does.
9k for Madrid and 5k for Barcelona.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013–14_ACB_season#Attendances


Obviously I can't find stats for the greek league but based on the Euroleague stats, where Olympiacos is only slightly behind Real Madrid, they should be somewhere between the two.

I think some Olympiacos league games have very weak attendances from what I seen on Eurosport but that's obviously because the small greek clubs are way less attractive than the small spanish clubs.

But I honestly think every top european basketball team runs on the red. I think it's just not profitable at the moment.
The numbers for Barcelona, for example, are shocking:

In the last 21 years the Spanish basketball title has been won by clubs outside Madrid and Barcelona on only five occasions. Investment in both clubs' squads has been significant, with Barcelona Basquet, for instance, operating on a €28m budget last year despite just €4m in earnings.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/how-tax-break-gives-real-madrid-and-barcelona-an-unfair-edge-8749146.html

And we have to take into account that revenue from tv rights must be higher in Spain than in Greece.

[Faliro]

Faliro,

while in Olympiacos, Fesja spent more time playing (fit to play), or injured?

here, the guy is injured since god knows when, and media are reporting that he'll return to the surgery table again...

From what I remember, injured..