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@LEGS. Yeah I remember Morgan. Imagine if he had bought the club.
Did we dodge a bullet when the DIC deal fell through? ( Maktoum under fire for kidnapping his own daughter, now being asked for proof of life!).
I'm sure there would be plenty of potential suitors should the club become available but at what price in terms of public image and decency, FSG have been guilty of some absolute blunders in their time but nothing close to what could have been considered really bad ( which could happen if we are sold to an oligarch or Chinese consortium?). I said earlier, they're c$#nts but they are our c$#ts.
Not saying I like them but like Miller said, be careful what you wish for.
How can the PL make it more competitive? They already divide the tv money out on a near communist level, or as people might like to call it democratic.
Should they give teams money to ensure Bournemouth have the same budget as Manu?
Ffp, really ? The CAS put an end to that with their verdicts on appeal. FFP will only incur fines and small impacts on squad sizes. It's dead and the big traditional clubs are at risk of competing with other clubs bankrolled by states. I suppose lfc, real and the like have won enough conpetitions already. So it might be nice to see city and PSG win a few titles.
UEFA/FIFA next , what you've seen is a mighty flex of institutional power over their members. Prime ministers jumping to their tune.
Future economic growth is going to be in the digital market, the clubs have survived a year without fans. They couldn't survive a year without tv revenue. That's where future growth will be.
The various bodies have managed to prevent clubs from taking their cash cow into the club's control. It's a fantastic day for UEFA/FIFA.
They may have won the battle but the war has just begun. Its just going to take more planning and getting the fans onside,might take a while but it will get to something like their vision by the end.
UEFA and FIFA are surely not stupid enough to think this has been put to bed?
That Ceferins embarrassing statement on City made me laugh. Almost like saying "you've been a naughty boy and you've apologised. Aslong as you promise not to do it again you can play with your toys"
Nothing to do with who we buy CC - please understand it is about sharing..
I understand that growing up in a indoctrinated Catholic nation you are totally programmed to hate the term - but socialism is the best of humanity. It is what gave us the NHS the greatest and only true socialist legacy this country has..
“Team spirit is a form of socialism. I’m my own politics – I don’t go in for politics. But that kind of forms a camaraderie and it us a basis for socialism. When you hear people running down fellas that are socialists I think they are wrong. They don’t know what they are talking about…..I’m talking life. I’m not talking about politics in the true sense of politics…..I’m talking about humanity. People dealing with people and people helping people.”
“The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life.”
Bill Shankly
Im clearly talking of FFP why cant they do it they have just yapped on about sporting merit.
Yes it is a good day for UEFA etc but they are arseholes too why no backlash for them.
FIFA the same people who selected QATAR cos of .?????? The same thing they are moaning about now.
The whole thing is a mess but nowt will change and by next week this will become old news.
This is your assertion and it is obviously wrong. There is no universe where you might admit you're wrong of course. I, unlike you, have spent a great deal of careful energy pointing out the errors of your basic formulation. I know you want to believe it is true, but at some point you'll have to admit (to yourself presumably) it just doesn't add up.
Firstly, there is some truth to the idea that it is like a real estate investment. If you are in a market that undergoes price inflation then all assets within that market do rise in value. In that case, being an absentee landlord is good enough to generate profits at the point of sale. (But it isn't merely a property - it is a business with employees, income and expenditure)
Is that what FSG have done? If you really believe that then you are miserly in your ability to give the devil its due. It's so obvious that FSG have overseen a period of modernisation, innovation, progress on and off the field. Even this ESL debacle was an attempt to drag their asset into a higher realm of excellence, whether we like it or not. There has been no absentee landlordism during their reign.
The new asset value is in part a reflection of the work they have done. It would be easy to measure that too - track the changing value of all the clubs during this FSG period, and observe the percentage differences. Your real estate argument would sink.
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