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Hashtag Banterzone posted:This is only partially on topic, but didn't Wenger come out and say that he thought the football bubble was going to burst and he was positioning Arsenal to be in pole position when that happened? Yes lol he should go back and re take economics one this is not some competitive free market with an equilibrium
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:This is only partially on topic, but didn't Wenger come out and say that he thought the football bubble was going to burst and he was positioning Arsenal to be in pole position when that happened? Yeah. Oh well. At least there's a nice stadium.
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Von Linus posted:Yeah. Oh well. At least there's a nice stadium. Arsenal supporters should consider themselves lucky Wenger hasn't heard of bitcoins yet.
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:Arsenal supporters should consider themselves lucky Wenger hasn't heard of bitcoins There's a basement full of Gold bars and automatic weapons in the emirates
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May 20, 2014 18:37
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Modus Trollens posted:There's a basement full of Gold bars and automatic weapons in the emirates If you hold a season ticket for more then 5 years you get invited to the training camp
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Modus Trollens posted:There's a basement full of Gold bars and automatic weapons in the emirates
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TheGoatFeeder posted:Thats sort of how I read it too, but I guess i'm biased. It seems to me it stops any of the so called 'smaller' clubs, being bought out and being able to compete at the very top end. It just seems to raise the draw bridge as far as I can tell and helps maintain the status quo. I think there's a definite argument to be made that the new megabastard clubs have negatively impacted the market for player wages and yet again massively inflated the amount of money that flows directly out of the game. This is not just the top tier of players, but particularly for the Scott Sinclairs and Joleon Lescotts of the world, who are making more money playing for the ELITE SQUAD than they did for a mid-table club, and therefore anyone who wants to keep their players is obliged to try and compete with that. To a certain extent, though, that's how football works anyway. As long as you have a relegation trapdoor and a seller's market for players, any new TV money that comes in just goes toward paying more money to the same players you had last year, because if you don't, some other club will.
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:This is only partially on topic, but didn't Wenger come out and say that he thought the football bubble was going to burst and he was positioning Arsenal to be in pole position when that happened? Not really, although it is a popular TRP myth that Wenger is waiting for the financial apocalypse. He's very strong supporter of FFP, much like Manchester United and the other historically rich clubs in europe. quote:Wenger, preparing his team for the FA Cup game against Plymouth on Saturday, added: "At the moment, people in football are not conscious of what is facing us economically. People still think we are in a bubble, but we will be hit like anybody else in this economical crisis, I am convinced of that. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/jan/02/wenger-says-arsenal-will-not-spend-crazy-money He does have a point, although it has more or less isolated england and the premier league as a the big financial power rather than individual clubs. With the exception of Bayern, Barcelona, Real Madrid, PSG (and to some extent Monaco) no one in europe is anywhere near competing financially for the best players and resources. Just look at the situations in italy and spain where several big clubs have had to reduce themselves massively in order to survive. This was a few years before PSG and Monaco come along though.
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FullLeatherJacket posted:I think there's a definite argument to be made that the new megabastard clubs have negatively impacted the market for player wages and yet again massively inflated the amount of money that flows directly out of the game. This is not just the top tier of players, but particularly for the Scott Sinclairs and Joleon Lescotts of the world, who are making more money playing for the ELITE SQUAD than they did for a mid-table club, and therefore anyone who wants to keep their players is obliged to try and compete with that. United was the original "megabastard"
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Modus Trollens posted:United was the original "megabastard" Yes, but we did it the right way, by repeatedly trolling Kevin Keegan
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Modus Trollens posted:United was the original "megabastard" United were lucky enough to win the first Premier League and get all the benefits that entailed. The global audience, the legion of plastics around the country due to the TV deal. Once they had that much money being pumped in of course they were going to reap the benefits.
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serious gaylord posted:United were lucky enough to win the first Premier League and get all the benefits that entailed. The global audience, the legion of plastics around the country due to the TV deal. Once they had that much money being pumped in of course they were going to reap the benefits. And others were lucky enough to be born on top of oil
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Crazy Ted posted:And fifteen years worth of dehydrated food stock. That's no way to talk about Wenger
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...m-FFP-fine.html UEFA are thinking about not pocketing the money fined from FFP but redistributing it around the leagues. I'm shocked that this might happen
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Jose posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...m-FFP-fine.html Until there is a literal photo/video of Platini giving Derby a phat stack I will not believe a single word of that.
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Jose posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...m-FFP-fine.html Hahaha, if that happened i'd feel much much better about it, but obviously it won't.
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Jose posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...m-FFP-fine.html Knowing Platini the only league it'll get redistributed to is the Qatar Stars League.
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Jose posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...m-FFP-fine.html What were they going (to say) they were going to do with it before this?
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Ewar Woowar posted:What were they going (to say) they were going to do with it before this? 
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Cristiano Ronaldo is the world's most marketable footballer. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27606005
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Puseklepp posted:Cristiano Ronaldo is the world's most marketable footballer. Bought some of his range of underwear for myself, so the article is true obviously.
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25 euros for a single piece of underwear holy poo poo
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David beckham has the superior underwear range
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Does 84% of the world's population really know who Cristiano Ronaldo is? Seems a bit much.
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Syncopated posted:Does 84% of the world's population really know who Cristiano Ronaldo is? Seems a bit much. A lot of us know it twice so the numbers may be skewed
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Syncopated posted:Does 84% of the world's population really know who Cristiano Ronaldo is? Seems a bit much. My housemate knows precisely three footballers. John Barnes Bruce Grobbelaar Ronald-Zero. Close enough.
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Syncopated posted:Does 84% of the world's population really know who Cristiano Ronaldo is? Seems a bit much. Doesn't really surprise me. I think that almost every person with a television and Internet can at least associate him with football/soccer. Probably the only people who don't are the extremely elderly and people in really remote areas.
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Apparently two of Reading's board members has made things difficult for potential buyers for the past 6 months and are part of the US/Irish group bid to buy the club. The bid is bankrolled by Virgin Islands based Vibrac who have previously loaned Everton, Fulham, Southampton and West Ham eight figure amounts as advances on future income and broadcasting cash. We've literally hit a point in football where people are selling clubs back to themselves using money from tax haven pay-day-loan companies. What the gently caress. *EDIT* Apparently we already owe £10m to Vibrac and Madejski is no longer in charge of the sale as Vibrac appointed a corporate rescue and recovery service to manage it last week. We were for sale for £1 + clearing our £21m debts, but Vibrac have increased the min bid to something substantial and want a guaranteed % of future equity to go directly to them. The two board members mentioned above were Zingarevich appointments and are refusing to budge, as they want any buyer to guarantee they remain on the board for at least two more years on £5k a week. The preferred bidder wanted to build a mall on the stadium carpark and sell our training group and youth academy. We are so absolutely hosed it's untrue. Bacon of the Sea fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jun 9, 2014 |
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Hereford have been expelled from the Football Conference for failing to pay Ā£220,000 debts (70k tax 150k football creditors). Chester have been reinstated within the Conference Premier and Hayes and Yeading to the Conference South. A bit mad that Rooney (or AN Other laviciously paid player) could give up a weeks wage to save them. Not that he should.
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Reading are in poo poo with the football league now and as a result potentially West Ham with the Prem, because we're letting Vibrac make business decisions for us and they've not passed the fit and proper owners test and more specifically aren't our owners. No idea what happens in this case. Has it happened before?
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Bacon of the Sea posted:Reading are in poo poo with the football league now and as a result potentially West Ham with the Prem, because we're letting Vibrac make business decisions for us and they've not passed the fit and proper owners test and more specifically aren't our owners. Cellino didnt pass the test for leeds initially but he appealed and got the decision overruled, only case i can think of
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"We're totally serious about FFP and won't go soft, we promise!" City's and PSG's FFP sanctions reduced
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Pompey are crowdfunding the creation of a new academy based in the middle of the city https://www.tifosy.com/campaigns/pompey-academy One quote:Pledge £10,000 Limited (1 left of 1)
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Total Meatlove posted:Pompey are crowdfunding the creation of a new academy based in the middle of the city John Portsmouth Football Club Westwood is counting how many pounds he has in his savings as we speak.
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TelekineticBear! posted:Cellino didnt pass the test for leeds initially but he appealed and got the decision overruled, only case i can think of This was on a technical point of Italian law though. Not sure if it would help Reading.
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Total Meatlove posted:Pompey are crowdfunding the creation of a new academy based in the middle of the city I wonder if Tal Ben Haim would be interested?
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Total Meatlove posted:Pompey are crowdfunding the creation of a new academy based in the middle of the city Who owns Pompey these days, anyway?
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quote:Sportswear giant Adidas has signed a £750m deal to make Manchester United's kit for 10 years from next season. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28282444 Jesus christ, someone at Adidas is getting sacked right?
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The Big Taff Man posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28282444 holy gently caress
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