Fixed that for you.
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Somehow I think I will manage to go on.
But like, are they happy to lose him on a free?
Who is so sure Mbappe won’t re-sign? Won’t PSG be able to pay him more?
I’ve said it a million times, as a business Spurs are exactly like PSG in every possible way with the lone exception of the percentage of their revenue they invest on the field.
PSG and City and Chelsea got to where they are in a different (and bad!) way then we did, but it’s the same operation now. The undeniably inflated sponsorship deals of PSG and City are a marginal impact.
I think we can see why Nuno was brought in over say a Conte because he appears a yes man a nice fella but a yes man.
We know we don't win anything so that's out and top four is not available so fifth or sixth will have to do.
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Let’s be real, PSG was absolutely on board with the ESL, they just couldn’t say so publicly because of the temporary stumbling block of FIFA holding the keys to the 2022 World Cup
Total bollocks.
Can I borrow your crystal ball to make some investments?
Well yeh.... Very much my point.
The thing you need to understand, and I point this out because it is fundamental to realizing that PSG and Spurs are one and the same, the ESL would have immediately imposed levels of revenue sharing and expenditure restriction that would be anathema within their national league structures. PSG would not just pour its resources into dominating Spurs and Woolwich, they would collude and integrate with Spurs and Woolwich.
Closed leagues can be anticompetitive, and anticompetitiveness equals profit (see: all American sports). And that is what the Qataris and Levy alike are after, a permanent anticompetitive sinecure that owns the sport of football to the exclusion of every other club and league on earth, and bleeds the public love for the game into an endless spigot of money.
If that analogy sounds a bit like an oil well, guess what, you're thinking up the right tree.
(The American owners know this works from experience, the petro-dopers understand the value of a resource monopoly, and the continental clubs are skint and desperate. The cheese stands alone in terms of which ownership group should have joined with the German clubs standing against this thing. But then, it’s not like this was just out of the goodness of their hearts, German regulations make them genuinely accountable to their fans in a way the PL doesn’t.)
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I assume it was started by someone I have on ignore.
Probably, but it's been changed to admin now...
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Woolwich have been on a downward spiral for a few years now. We're just having a blip, due to the squad not being refreshed when it should. Even last year we could have comfortably made top 4, bar those stupid last minute goals we conceded in 4-5 matches. Fine margins.
Fine margins getting coarser all the time.
The new Big Four in the PL looks even more ironclad than the old one, with the possible exception of Liverpool’s squad aging and them being unwilling to invest in refreshing it, I guess we’ll see on that front.
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SchmoodSpur
back on ignore.
No offence, it's just better that way, you being a Covid fearmonger paid worker and all.
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SchmoodSpur
back on ignore.No offence, it's just better that way, you being a Covid fearmonger paid worker and all.
:nunoout:We backed Poch for those signings.
Not always sensible to do that. Let’s see how our new signings work out this time.
A per reports so far:
1. He wants RM (boyhood fan blah).
2. PSG have been trying to get him to renew for over a year and have done everything they can to convince him (inc. bringing in Messi).
3. RM have been gearing a move up with him behind the scenes since before he even signed for PSG.
He's done everything he can at PSG..... Apart from win the CL and he either ticks that box this year with Messi or succumbs to the fact that even with Messi they couldn't get it done and he could be waiting forever.
No guarantees until pen is put to paper, granted; but ultimately PSG have proved they are absolutely prepared to lose him on a free.
No trf fee means RM can pander to every last whim of his to get him.
They don't have the sheer wealth of PSG, but they'll still make him obscenely rich whilst providing the one thing PSG can't buy.... A bigger stage from week to week.
Yes... And you're fundamentally wrong because of the origins of the money that provided the footing and revenue generation that they are only now able to exploit.
You ignore this time and time again (let's not have the same conversation).
(Ahhh, shit! ....Looks like we are having that conversation again then.)
.....This is nothing more that a token acknowledgement from you when in fact it is what fundamentally separates the clubs (on social, moral and economic levels). Ultimately, you're happy to draw a line under this stone cold fact and just see us as the same from here on in as if how they got to the dance is no longer relevant for no other reason other than it's already happened.
I'm sorry... It doesn't just wash away.... People should not forget/ignore it or draw a line under it.... In a very specific way, to do so is to be complicit in the very sports washing they seek
By your token, you have no real reason to harbour a rivalry with Woolwich beyond some compliant notion of 'red shirt bad' when in fact the truth runs far deeper.
Nope...... Not unless you're preaching to me the idea that the history and culture of our club and the ethics of the game have no meaning/value and that all this (the game and it's roots) amount to nothing more than some numbers on a spreadsheet.
.....You seem totally subservient by the Sports = Entertainment = Business ethos.
I counter:
Sport = competition(*)
Club, culture & ethics = the people & the soul.
.......These are the things worth clinging to in whatever's left of our increasingly shit-stained game.
(*Not entertainment..... Of course, a surrounding industry sells it as such; but to draw a parallel: Art is still art; no matter how much a painting is sold for and how many people profit from it's sale.)
Sidenote: This is where those in our midst that prattle on about "spreadsheet fans" and "Levy-lovers" highlight their ignorance.... Most people that think like me are in fact 'romantics' who will be the very last to jump on board the train when the last trip to Cortporate Football-ville eventually leaves the station.
ESL would (will!) suck.... Corporate football sucks...... Well yeh. Your principals are apparently far less resistant to the the New (Football) World Order than mine though. Whilst I don't disagree with your final passage, I'm not sure of it's direct relevance to your insistence upon whitewashing the unsavory, dubious means, methods and motives that it took to get the petro-clubs to the big table.
As noted above; you're all too happy to draw a line and afford them the legitimacy that they crave; the very thing that their deeper motive seeks.... "Hey, we know it's immoral... We know blood has been shed and people have been abused, but hey never mind; you're here now... Welcome aboard"........ Fuck that(*).
I know things are too far gone to put the genie back inside the bottle, but 'Spurs = Just a less rich version of City/Chavs/PSG'???? .....Again; fuck that(*).
(*No offense, like.)
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I am so sick of reading this every. single. year.
I really don't care what City, Man U, Liverpool, Chelsea do with their transfers.
Not sure this theory holds. The ESL would have had negligible impact on FIFA, it was UEFA who were getting shafted by it. In fact there were rumblings that though FIFA publicly backed UEFA against it, in private wouldn't have minded a weakened UEFA.
I wouldnt say levy got levied but yes aurier didnt get bullied into just going wherever levy sends him to make the most money. He stood firm and stuck to the contract and got what he wanted, Like levy does. Oh i guess levy did get levied.
It's a big who cares from me. You're not really on my radar. Can't even remember who you are.Goodbye thread
No offence, it's just better that way, you being a Covid fearmonger paid worker and all.
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