A disastrous campaign took a hard turn for Manchester City when their exit from Champions League was confirmed – but their loss was a potential profit of € 23 million (£ 19 million) for Real Madrid.
The side of Pep Guardiola traveled to Spain for the second stage of their play-off meeting with muted ambitions. The last-minute intervention of Jude Bellingham saw City losing the first stage 3-2 at home a week ago, and alleged concerns about the fitness of Erling Haaland meant that he was an unused replacement in the Bernabeu.
In the meantime, Kylian Mbappe's hat trick helped a 3-1 victory in the night for Real to continue as dominant 6-3 victors on aggregated. And President Florentino Perez will be in the clouds with the impact it could have on the treasury of the Spanish powerhouse.
In fact, it would have represented a considerable budgetary blow if Los Blancos could not have reached the last 16. That is after the ruling kings of Europe have the goal of reaching the quarterfinals of the Champions League as their minimum this period.
Instead, the two-sided overthrow of the Premier League title holders keeps their goal to reach the last eight. And Real will discover their fate on Friday whether they are confronted with Bayer Leverkusen or Bitter Nemeses Atletico Madrid in the next round.
Relevant reported that reaching the last 16 of the European top tournament will result in a windfall of € 11 million (£ 9.1 million). And the side of Carlo Ancelotti is rewarded with a € 12.5 million (£ 10 million) or so if they take it one step further to return to the quarters (a total of £ 19 million).
That is without taking a potential prize money that comes after that phase if the Spaniards still make a deep run to defend their crown. Every failure to make the last eight means that it will really have a considerable gap in their budget for the season, and the competition has really been performed in the knockout phases of this season.
The re -formatted Champions League has brought an increased prize pool, which is now in accordance with around £ 2.07 billion. This includes a bump of about 3% for reaching the quarterfinals.
It is estimated that Real had achieved around £ 66 million in prize money after navigating through the competition phase, which is in line with what they had earned last season at the end of the group stage. However, they could do no less than £ 119 million banking if they close the crown again, which is about 5% more than they took nine months ago by winning the title.
The superior coefficient of City means that they have still earned more prize money than certain teams that placed above them in the competition phase, such as Aston Villa. However, their income is now off to approximately £ 64 million or so after bending brutally.
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