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Qatar holds Spurs talks as it pushes to add Premier League club to portfolio

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Coys1955 said:
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If he's out of heaven by this point, there's always this guy.

mgid:arc:content:southpark.intl:a72918ba-ed00-11e0-aca6-0026b9414f30
 
Given that Qatari dirty laundry has just been aired to the world during the World Cup, I just wish it was not that bunch of cunts that we were aligning ourselves to.
 
For better or worse said:
same and you're bang on if people are flipping cars every 2-3 years, but that goes back to my point of the 'must have it now' nature of society. Ten year old cars, aren't old rotters of yesteryear. People used to buy and own a car for quite a long time, and it was a balance between running costs, depreciation and the cost of buying new.

Whichever way you buy a car it's expensive, I tried to limit it with the following strategy:
  • Buying petrol (knew diesel would see their prices drop)
  • Pre-reg (to garage due to them hitting sale targets and getting rebate from manufacturer) so essentially new
  • £9k (20%) saved on list price
  • Pay cash/trade-in £26,000
  • Keep for 10 years (on year 8)
  • Current value £18k
Cost to date of ownership £1100 per year (inc. mechanicals, deprecation, etc.). We cover few miles so it's only on 35,000km

For me I couldn't get it much below this if having a new car...
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You're either single or your wife is rational.
Mine wants the best and newest available and wants to complain about the price.
She also wants me to do all of the maths and explain it to her but fail to understand it all, and she also seems to not want to have any of the cost associated with a brand new, high end car despite actually earning more than I do.

So yeah, we still have our 120k mile 2012 diesel X3 we've had for nearly 7 years because it's impossible to get a similarly new car to what t was when we got it that is ULEZ compliant. It's costing me the best part of £250-£300 a month on average even though we bought it out right and she pays nothing to run it.
We can both get brand new EV lease cars through work salary sacrifice schemes but they ain't cheap. An IX3 or IX is £650-£750 a month (although all running costs included)
When I told her I ain't paying all of it and am not all that happy with half given salary proportions AND the fact she utterly fucking abuses cars she nearly had a hissy fit.
So to summarise, she is probably the person you're talking about.
 
Airfixx said:
Surely a lack of credibility is strongly linked to their reputation?

Ditto why, despite their financial clout, they've not accumulated a level of influence relative to their wealth and the clout that the essential resources they are sat on would otherwise command?

......Isn't that lack of visibility similarly entwined too?
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Until recently these were desert backwaters , they're rapidly becoming global financial powerhouses. Their credibility as investment partners and places to do business (UAE, Qatar, SA) has been soaring. The reputation of their culture in the West is neither here nor there in terms of their economic development. I'd say their influence has grown massively in the last 20-30 years.
 
LeParisien said:
I think there’ll be many reasons for their investment and the bit in bold is surely correct - good point.

However the fact that they haven’t changed their behaviour is consistent with reputation laundering. If they were intent on opening up then they wouldn’t need to launder their reputation - the change would speak for itself.

I think another reason for buying is the same as Abramovic - a successful western football team raises the stake of attacking the owner. It is political capital. A kind of protection. All 3 Middle Eastern countries that own western clubs exist in a fairly fragile geopolitical climate right now. There are a lot of proxy wars and this looks like the least important front.
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My point is I don't think they see their investments in, for example sports teams, as laundering their reputation in cultural terms. They don't need to.

They are buying influence and closeness with Western society, as you suggest. Though as we saw with Abramovich, that can dissolve overnight once the political tide turns.
 
TottsAmazeballs said:
Haha.. not child workers? But killing thousands for a footie game is OK?

Wait. This is about the dongles, isn't it?

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Mate our country and usa killed almost amillion people for oil/politics. So...there are definitely levels of cuntery. None of us have moved out of the Uk because of that.

UK sex education lessons advise kids aged six about 'touching private parts'

When this is what they want to teach in our schools, no point in finger pointing at someone elses culture.
 
OffTheBench said:
My point is I don't think they see their investments in, for example sports teams, as laundering their reputation in cultural terms. They don't need to.

They are buying influence and closeness with Western society, as you suggest. Though as we saw with Abramovich, that can dissolve overnight once the political tide turns.
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We disagree but there’s no way to know.

The massive increase in brand recognition for Etihad / Emirates and my (intangible) perception that far more people now visit eg Abu Dhabi suggest that these countries have succeeded in attracting far more people to visit than they might otherwise have done.
 
iz futbal said:
Mate our country and usa killed almost amillion people for oil/politics. So...there are definitely levels of cuntery. None of us have moved out of the Uk because of that.

UK sex education lessons advise kids aged six about 'touching private parts'

When this is what they want to teach in our schools, no point in finger pointing at someone elses culture.
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Is that equivalent to murdering journalists and torturing dissidents?

Didn’t know Gianni Infantino was a yid.
 
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