No joke either; finally got the balance right on the 4-3-3 system that I use with Arsenal the other right. Frustrating when you think you've got it correct and then Real Sociedad decides to score 4 goals against you in the blink of an eye.
Uhhhh wait a sec? Are you talking about sponsorship deals on shirts/kits/uniforms? Because I hate to break it to you...
Remember the other hopelessly naive crap that RA bought chelsea as insurance against Putin LOL Similar to how Lebedev was somehow a big Putin opponent
Wow what a coincidence EXCLUSIVE: Qatar-based investment group to bid for Manchester United. Would arm Erik ten Hag with huge transfer kitty aimed at taking club to the top of world football. Excited by the project & confident their bid will be the strongest. Full story: https://t.co/6anXwNBFEm #mufc— Mike Keegan (@MikeKeegan_DM) February 7, 2023
I was fully aware of how RA came about his wealth, but not as familiar with how much Putin may have guided RA's hand regarding CFC. Compared to the many other ill-begotten oligarchs RA seemed comparably personable and devoted to making a life for himself in a more hospitable climate than in the New SSR. Clearly under a transparent, law-based governance none of them would've been created, let alone eff up the balance in the Premiership. Wenger and the Ashburton Grove plan certainly did not account for the introduction of a sugar daddy system.
https://dailycannon.com/2023/02/mesut-ozil-retirement/ Seems somebody jumped the gun. Ozil started last Thursday and is going to play out the remainder of the season.
But they have to keep the fly wheel spinning. With revs maxxed out, or even in decline, the only way forward is influxes of dumb capital
If anyone is interested, Athletic have a good indepth piece on Juve's Enron style player scam. Essentially they began to use fictitious accounting and deals to hide huge problems on their balance sheet - this kicked into overdrive when Covid hit and ended with them being investigated for fraud "Plusvalenze" is basically a scam where you 'sell' a player to a colluding clun at an overvalued price, and at the same time buy back an inflated player. Thanks to how the book value of players works, you can then book the full profit for the sale in the current year, while amortising the cost of the purchase over many years. The accounting treatment is legit but the reason this is fraudulent is they are not real deals and no money changes hands - you simply trade players at fake prices to generate paper profits. https://theathletic.com/4141896/2023/02/07/juventus-crisis-paratici-ronaldo-chiellini/
Jitty, Newcastle, United and LFC will likely all have new owners, Chelsea already does. All those ownership groups have the right UK types on their team. I guess City just didn't have enough white British advisors. Too many swarthy types in that hierarchy. I was listening to a podcast, essentially EPL is charging City with filing false financial statements/projections which is a massive allegation. Even funnier, the UK accountancy that fact checks those before filing them would or should be liable (they would be if they were in the US) it is all hilarious man. City v Wrexham is gonna be a barn burner next season in League 2
They probably get away with this if they hadn’t become a publicly traded company. Artificially inflating profits on what are in reality player trades affects share prices. In addition, Chiellini’s whatsapp revelations about deferred salaries aren’t inherently illegal as long as those payments are debited from the accounts when they are made, but the public statement by Juventus which suggested the players were giving up four months of wages instead of giving up one month of wages and deferring three months could also affect share prices. In the end, Juve appear to have been counting on the European Super League to get them out of the financial mess that they probably incurred in anticipation of the Super League.
Newcastle already have new owners too, but given that the financial investigations of both Man City and Juventus took years, neither Newcastle or Chelsea’s new owners have been in charge long enough to run into trouble yet.
WHAT According to transfermarkt, Newcastle have spent 300m euros net on transfer fees in the last 18 months. Citeh have spent something like 50m net on transfer fees in that time.
Anyone watching ManU-Leeds? just turned it on, Sancho (forgot he played for them) just leveled it up at 2-2 with ~20 mins left. Would be nice if we got a favorable result from this one.
This is doubtless true based on all the ownership turnover of erstwhile stable products. Pool, United, etc
It didn’t take long for United to do their internal investigation of Greenwood, he came on in the last minute of the game today.
My bad, maybe it was Varane on the right side of the games timeline, for his own goal, that tripped me up. Maybe it was assuming the worst about United.
This has been going on so long that most Italian fans believe pluzvalenze to be normal. But there has been hoards of people crying for this to be exposed as fraud and Juve always had the most glaring "wth?" deals. The scary part was that Moggi's son ran a talent agency and was strong-arming players into agreements. If you did not sign, you would never sign with a big team. Alessandro Rosina is the biggest example.