Football news part Trois

[Steveo]

Yep - but what do you expect from the Murdoch media.. Millions will simply accept it and move on despite the fact that the article is completely missing the real playbook... it frames this entire trend as a simple story about 'smart business' - cost-cutting - and private equity firms realising European football is a bargain compared to the closed-franchise system of the NFL or NBA. That is just the surface-level symptom... the actual drivers behind this American takeover are far more insidious and trace directly back to global hegemony and the mechanics of FIAT currency.

When the US decoupled the dollar from gold in 1971 and established the petrodollar system - they gained the ultimate macroeconomic superpower - the ability to print endless amounts of fiat currency without facing the hyperinflation that would destroy any other nation. Because the global financial system requires US dollars for international trade and reserves - America can export its inflation to the rest of the world... creating a massive - hyper-inflated surplus of capital inside the US financial sector.

This brings us directly to the private equity firms and billionaire syndicates buying up our clubs... they are sitting on a staggering mountain of printed fiat cash that desperately needs to be parked in real - tangible assets before its purchasing power is eroded. They aren't flocking to English football because they love the game... they are doing it because the US financial machine has inflated domestic asset prices - like American sports franchises - to absurd levels of six to eight billion dollars... making historic European institutions look artificially cheap by comparison.

By allowing US private equity to weaponise this printed capital to buy up the cultural fabric of our communities - from what are still working-class clubs in the EFL to the giants of the Premier League - we are essentially letting the US export its financial hegemony directly into our sport. They will commercialise it - package it - and extract the value to service their own debt... and the article treats it like a clever management trend when it is actually the direct consequence of a rigged global monetary system.

[miller0863]

Divock Origi has retired from football age 31.
That lad had one very odd career. Brilliant at times for us, mostly off the bench admittedly but he started against Barcelona and along with his achievements in that game scored some tremendously important goals for us, not least in the Champions League Final.

A genuine Cult Hero.

[teesred]

Yep - but what do you expect from the Murdoch media.. Millions will simply accept it and move on despite the fact that the article is completely missing the real playbook... it frames this entire trend as a simple story about 'smart business' - cost-cutting - and private equity firms realising European football is a bargain compared to the closed-franchise system of the NFL or NBA. That is just the surface-level symptom... the actual drivers behind this American takeover are far more insidious and trace directly back to global hegemony and the mechanics of FIAT currency.

When the US decoupled the dollar from gold in 1971 and established the petrodollar system - they gained the ultimate macroeconomic superpower - the ability to print endless amounts of fiat currency without facing the hyperinflation that would destroy any other nation. Because the global financial system requires US dollars for international trade and reserves - America can export its inflation to the rest of the world... creating a massive - hyper-inflated surplus of capital inside the US financial sector.

This brings us directly to the private equity firms and billionaire syndicates buying up our clubs... they are sitting on a staggering mountain of printed fiat cash that desperately needs to be parked in real - tangible assets before its purchasing power is eroded. They aren't flocking to English football because they love the game... they are doing it because the US financial machine has inflated domestic asset prices - like American sports franchises - to absurd levels of six to eight billion dollars... making historic European institutions look artificially cheap by comparison.

By allowing US private equity to weaponise this printed capital to buy up the cultural fabric of our communities - from what are still working-class clubs in the EFL to the giants of the Premier League - we are essentially letting the US export its financial hegemony directly into our sport. They will commercialise it - package it - and extract the value to service their own debt... and the article treats it like a clever management trend when it is actually the direct consequence of a rigged global monetary system.

Fully agree. Like pretty much everything in life that's become normalised we've shrugged our shoulders ( as a society) and accepted it.
Most football fans don't know it's happening.

Lots of people seem to think this current Iran attack is their last play and that the days of them running the globe through bullying and destabilising are coming to an end.
We can only hope. Most of us have never known anything different to them being the big bully and painting anyone's who's not in their camp as the threat to "democracy". A world where they're not would be interesting.

[teesred]

Divock Origi has retired from football age 31.
That lad had one very odd career. Brilliant at times for us, mostly off the bench admittedly but he started against Barcelona and along with his achievements in that game scored some tremendously important goals for us, not least in the Champions League Final.

A genuine Cult Hero.

What a lad. Some memories.
I hope he's happy and going to enjoy life without football.

[RedMagic]

Origi's goals against the BS and Prickford in particular always get a chuckle out of me.