How much Liverpool and Tottenham have earned from reaching Champions League final
Both of their semi-final comebacks were priceless, but the accountants at Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur are sure to have been impressed with the efforts and Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino's men this week.
Of course you know by now that Klopp's Liverpool overcame a 3-0 first leg deficit to beat Barcelona 4-3 on aggregate at Anfield on Tuesday, and then Pochettino's Spurs followed that up by scoring three times in the second half to beat Ajax on away goals. Both will contest only the second-ever all-English Champions League final in Madrid on June 1, and while that gleaming trophy is the real prize, the money made along the way is a pretty good one too.
And numbers crunched by British blogger @SwissRamble show just how lucrative the runs to the final have been. He calculates that the Reds have made around £92.5million from reaching Madrid, which - due to a huge increase in Champions League revenue - is roughly £22.5million more than their run to the Kiev final last year.Tottenham, meanwhile, are said to have earned just over £88million from their exploits, compared to £52.7million from reaching the last-16 last season.Those priceless comebacks will never been forgotten by both teams' fans, and also their bean-counters.
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