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  1. #361
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    Haha! I knew there was a joke in there somewhere!

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    Quote Originally Posted by teesred View Post
    See what the FIFPRO representative said?
    Basically called FIFA out on their hypocrisy and bullshit on that WCC. He's right too, Infantino is more bent than the previous bunch of crooks.
    I'm sure he is mate, but that's not the biggest issue. It's like everyone simply refuses to see what is sat there in front of us all. The game is being bought 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' buy US billionaires and or consortiums. They have every intention not only of owning the majority of the clubs in the English top flight (which they already do now) but also in other lucrative European markets... but also the very clear intention to take it global. It will be the end of our domestic league as you and I know it. Absolutely NOBODY is talking about it. ... And why ..? Because the media is owned 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' by the very same corporate interests that have designs on the game.

    This is WAY bigger than FIFA, FIFA is bowing to their will. It is happening in front of our eyes and nobody - in the west at least seems able or willing to face it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Insidious View Post
    Man City sign a 10-year, £100m-per-season kit deal with Puma.

    Of course they do.
    Quote Originally Posted by miller0863 View Post
    £1bn?
    Yeah right…. and with City?? Why? They have a very small fanbase globally
    Quote Originally Posted by teesred View Post
    What a blatant scam that is. Transparent as fuck, they don't even try to hide how bent they are.
    Quote Originally Posted by Steveo View Post
    it’s not really a scam tees.

    Some things for Sid to ponder…..

    Yes - that’s £100 million a year
    up from £65 million a year and their 2019 deal.

    Want to guess how much of an increase in wealth our Cigar Smoking Wrinkled dick has seen since 2019?

    No - didn’t think so.

    Here it is.

    John W Henry net worth 2019 = $2.8 billion
    John Henry net worth late 2024 = $ 6 billion


    Yeah baby… Nothing to see here….
    Quote Originally Posted by CCTV View Post
    ^^^ Cobhams True Citizen

    Cituaes standing in football today is based on dodgy contracts and sponsorships to subvert FFP.

    Der Speigel and others have covered it extensively. They were even banned from the CL they won for cheating

    CAS overturned that ban for cituae. So, their contract with Puma might be legit, but its based on cheating enabled by sports governance.
    Quote Originally Posted by Steveo View Post
    Absolutely nowt. As many of us have long since suggested… The thing the minions still don’t get is that the Sheiks are only here and allowed to act with impunity to take the limelight off the real play. The theft of the sport to US business interest. And while those who witnessed the detritus of the Club World Cup shake their heads in collective disgust - and blame FIFA - blah blah blah - they’re still unable to see the clear and obvious villain.
    Quote Originally Posted by Steveo View Post
    Anyone notice ‘F$G Fan Boi’ try and get a dig in…. Loyal to a fault - to his master 🤣
    So many FSG fan boi's here, and as ever you are truly indebted to Sheikh Mansour...

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    Its funny people bemoan the corrupt stain that is Cituae, and your rebuttal Citizen Steveo is that it's not a scam, and point out that JWH net worth has increased....

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    Everything that is or was best of British has been sold off (or will be sold off ) by British owners for MONEY.
    Most money people are Arab or American. Take your pick, great ideas or inventions or product is and always has been at the mercy of richer organisations. Your opinions can only be a preference between Arab or Yank.
    Mine is decidedly the lesser of two evils,
    The best friendships are built on a solid foundation of alcohol, cake, sarcasm and a dislike of the same people.

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    It may not be specific to this mental case BUT it’s an explaination for why we may have a shill in our midst,


    Ireland didn't build prosperity; it auctioned its sovereignty to become a tax avoidance warehouse for U.S. giants. For decades, it operated a state-sanctioned scam: a laughably low 12.5% corporate rate was just the cover story. The real engine was schemes like the "Double Irish," deliberately designed so firms like Apple, Google, and Pfizer could funnel *trillions* in global profits through Dublin post-box subsidiaries, paying effective tax rates near 0% while pretending these profits were "Irish." This wasn't economic policy—it was industrial-scale tax evasion enabled by Irish legislation.

    The result is a grotesquely distorted economy utterly dependent on this exploitation. So-called "Irish GDP" is a fraudulent metric—inflated by phantom "exports" of iPhones that never touched Irish soil. Nearly 60% of its corporate tax haul - comes from just 10 U.S. firms, while ordinary Irish citizens endure crippling housing costs, underfunded hospitals, and personal tax rates far higher than what Silicon Valley pays. When Meta or Twitter sneezes, Ireland's budget hemorrhages.

    Now the facade is crumbling. The OECD's 15% global minimum tax—which Ireland fought like a cornered badger—finally exposes its parasitic model. U.S. officials openly call it a "tax scam," and the EU is closing loopholes. Ireland faces a reckoning: it fueled inequality worldwide, sold its soul for corporate crumbs, and built a paper empire destined to collapse when the tax arbitrage ends. The "Celtic Tiger" was always a vulture.


    The vultures preying on our sport have many shills scattered around hither and thither - for us though specifically - the burden is to endure the ‘F$G Fan Boi’…

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bredred View Post
    Everything that is or was best of British has been sold off (or will be sold off ) by British owners for MONEY.
    Most money people are Arab or American. Take your pick, great ideas or inventions or product is and always has been at the mercy of richer organisations. Your opinions can only be a preference between Arab or Yank.
    Mine is decidedly the lesser of two evils,
    And here is the proof - please explan how “most money people are Yanks or Arabs. Russia alone has more billionaires than the entire Arab world - like 10 times as many…. And China has more Billionaires than the US. This is before we mention India. I know most don’t know this but ask yourselves ..why?

    This is the point. It is ONLY US billionaires en masse / that are buying up club after club and colonising leagues - Even City are virtually 20% US owned. and they operate almost exclusively in markets closed off (via government or “legal” pressure) to open ownership from Chinese or Russian rivals…. While allowing in the Arab state money - specifically from their minions - the Petrodollar States in the gulf. Do you follow? The Arab money - specifically state money is there to create the outcry. How else could the US invasion work with just 2 Arab club owners as so called “independent” billiomares? They couldn’t / they would be bang in the spotlight and under scrutiny. They escape this by remaining in the shadow of the state ownership scandal. It’s a ploy.

    If people want to wake up and face reality it’s there for them to see, I suggest most of you are so well conditioned that you simply refuse to accept reality,

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    And the only evil here - is the destruction of the sport. I don’t agree with any Billionare making profits off institutions like football clubs BUT the over commercialisation of the game is killing it. The endgame is a closed shop European league - for now - then global. Your club will become 100% a franchise, The fans 100% customers and those with more money in the US or Australia will be far more important to “the club”…. ONLY one group will lead to that - ONLY one group is actively seeking that - yet STILL most at best will call it 50/50. Take your pick, It’s fucking nuts.


    Again for the record.... while we all debate the money men. Uncle John alone increased his net worth from:
    $2.8 Billion in 2019
    to
    $6 Billion in 2024

    PANDEMIC PROOF!!!

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