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Disgusting.
It is financial sh!t, even more than what we saw with Chelsea and City.
£25M per year. That is fucking mental.
Players only have so many years in their bodies and the opportunity to exchange a couple of them for life-changing wealth and an adventure at a young age has understandable appeal on some level.
Why any manager would bother with it is beyond me.
I assume that at least some of them go in with the mindset of making a lot of money over a relatively short period of time before dipping back to Europe.
With the added option that they can argue "I was paid X amount at my old job, you have to offer me at least Y".
Could be a £50m contract.
These days, managers can find themselves perma-unemployed with just one bad job choice.
Not at all comparing apples to apples, but there have been plenty over the years who one minute are linked to huge jobs and then next thing are in the relegation-vacuum that I doubt they'll ever escape. I think Ancelloti has been the only one to ever do that, and Sven Goran Erikson or Benitez being examples to the contrary.
It's not like taking a Saudi job actually damages your rep; it just puts it in stasis more than anything. I doubt many people would know who is coaching or playing there outside of C Ronaldo
Yeah but do you reckon anyone could live on only 50m for the rest of their lives? Borderline poverty that is
If there's concrete involved , I wonder if we'll swoop in?A “concrete possibility” … these fuckers are shameless.
On the serious side - there's way too much capitalism now, so even a straight £50m would get you a very comfortable normal/celeb life, but I doubt it'd get you that far with it in terms of a 'dream life'.
I often fantisise about winning £100m on the euromillions, but unfortunately the Dream Team storylines of buying a PL club are no longer a reality. You could probably buy a lower league team, but I reckon you'd easily blow through half of it buying a funding 5 seasons, assuming you didn't "do a Wrexham" and get 3 successive promotions.
I'd be interested to know the stats of how many of the seemingly regular £50m+ lottery winners take to spend it all. Obviously very easy if you stay in a £200k normal person house and stick to a middle-class lifestyle.
Just to clarify a point behind this - the mrs works for a company that does holidays for the wealthy types and celebs - they quite easily spend £250k on a summer holiday. It's similar to the maths of owning a £1m supercar (as per recent Mark McCann videos) - the servicing is £20k, the insurance is (probably) at least that. So to actually own a £1m car you need to have probably 10 times that. Then you're rubbing shoulders with people who have a collection of those cars.
Not a coach but our old buddy Paul Mitchell got let go by/left Newcastle after a season.
Oh for sure. I'm on holiday near Cartagena in Spain. Huge yacht in the marina, I googled it to see who owned it. It's some American billionaire who bought it with a view to it being a support vessel to his new super yacht under construction. Ridiculous to have that yacht as your back up toy. And to make matters worse....he changed the name of the smaller yacht to Q. His new yacht is called Skyfall. What a fucking twat
Tbf : I know plenty of contractors ( oil , construction , water etc ). who went over to Saudi in the 70’s / 80’s . Nurses and care-workers too . And good luck to them .
The money was 4-5 times better and tax-free . They didn’t stay for the rest of their careers; they didn’t need or want to ( for that matter) .
It’s the same thing today; Saudis paying big for things they can’t do themselves ; to achieve things they want .
As it happens, this videoOh for sure. I'm on holiday near Cartagena in Spain. Huge yacht in the marina, I googled it to see who owned it. It's some American billionaire who bought it with a view to it being a support vessel to his new super yacht under construction. Ridiculous to have that yacht as your back up toy. And to make matters worse....he changed the name of the smaller yacht to Q. His new yacht is called Skyfall. What a fucking twat
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftWRxtRYp9kI reckon, with those numbers, you'd be reconsidering if you could afford to own one if you had £10m in the bank, so to own 33 supercars... its just on another scale for us mere taxpayers.
So I can fully understand why a football manager wouldn't turn his nose up at saudi money. Make hay while the sun is shining
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He arrived, won a super cup, beat Inter a couple of times. And left.
I'm surprised no one has thought of Gasperini as a possible replacement for Ange. He's been working miracles with Atalanta for years and even won them a trophy last year.
The only drawback is that he's getting on a bit (67).
Gasperini would never work with Levy.
He's a high maintenance character. Loves to piss and moan and has a history of bullying.
He's only really worked more than one year at two clubs. Two spells at Genoa and one at Atalanta.