how much money does a team lose for not qualifying from the group stages? could that affect their January transfer window?

Each of the 32 clubs that were involved in the group stage will receive a participation bonus of €3.9m. In addition, they will be entitled to a match bonus of €550,000 per match played in the group stage. Performance bonuses will also see €800,000 paid for every win and €400,000 for every draw in the group stage.

The sides competing in the round of 16 can also expect to pick up €3m each, the quarter-finalists €3.3m and the semi-finalists €4.2m. The UEFA Champions League winners will receive €9m and the runners-up €5.6m. Apart from that ongeza revenue from media rights and commercial contracts concluded by UEFA.

Here are the figures for last season

http://www.uefa.com/Mult...07/1661107_DOWNLOAD.pdf

Both Manchester clubs will feel the financial impact of early exit in May 2012 especially if one of them (both) fail to win the EPL....ooooh and whoever gets knocked out of the FA cup in January. Man City will probably get more money from the Sheikh but Man Utd will definitely have to sell some of their valuable players to get some money to spend on new signings.

i typed manchester in my gprs phone i received an error msg "sorry not in europe" that said manchester united have been in 3 finals in the last 4 yrs. in terms of revenue no clua beat it in the globe.

who should Arsenal draw in the last 16?
CSKA Moscow, FC Basel, Lyon, Bayer Leverkusen,Zenit St Petersburg, AC Milan

Travelling to Russia in the middle of the league would probably be as bad as if not worse than AC. Basle, Bayer or Lyon for me but knowing the Arsenal's luck would mostly likely be AC or those Russian teams.

Next season...

Analysts put the figure Man Utd stands to lose at about 20M pounds, judging by how far they have reached in the past 4 season - that is a creative midfielder we could have bought with that money. Still, I think David Gill should coerce Fergie to buy or eventually stamp his foot.

Picture this - first 6 games with Anderson n Cleverley (Cleverley got injured in the 5th game against Bolton)in EPL = Goals scored = 21;Goals conceded = 4;Ronney = 9 goals. The rest, as they say, history.

We have conceded in half of the games where Vidic was missing and kept 8 clean sheets when he played, so we're f***ed, seeing as he'll likely be out for the rest of the season with cruciate ligament knee injury.

I think the only realistic title we should focus on is the EPL and ensure the back 4 is constant - Smalling, Jones, Rio, Fabio/Evra - like someone pointed out, Evra is a liability nowadays and seems to get away with it.

Fergie will play weak sides in Europa and FA 3rd round so we're out of those.

As for CL, I'll support Napoli the underdog for now

@smano, you say Fergie will play weak sides during FA Cup 3rd round. I disagree. Last season's 3rd round, we were paired with Liverpool. It was a strong line up that only missed VDS, Vidic and Rooney, I guess coz of injury. Fergie never played a weak side coz of the magnitude of the tie.

Likewise, I don't expect the same to happen this time round, more so because he knows the fans want something big to nurse their wounds, having seen the team out of the Carling Cup and out of UCL. Against Man City, expect a strong lineup.

The best for Arsenal is just to avoid the Italian teams and the Russians. Napoli and AC are not easy to beat whereas travelling to Russia midweek and to play in extreme weather conditions is not fun.

Arsenal ALWAYS unlucky!