Media Thread 2017/18

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depps said:
Interesting piece with Vinny in today's FT: https://www.ft.com/content/f658afb2-f7cc-11e7-a4c9-bbdefa4f210b

I hadn't realised he was doing an MBA. Article says he is planning on staying in football after retiring. Are we possibly taking an element of the Bayern model here and starting to help players towards senior, non-football managerial roles after retiring?
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VK is a highly intelligent individual who knows the club backwards, has married a local girl, has a deep knowledge of football and now a universally recognised business qualification. I can't imagine that he has done the MBA (a) without the club's blessing or (b) without some role in mind for him when he eventually retires
 
city saint said:
fuck me chris evans and that smug vassos mentioned us in passing it went like this after talking cricket and other shite.oh and man city reach Wembley chris evans then said but they are struggling to fill the Etihad for champions league game vassos then says struggle to fill it most games despite the football they play.switched off the wankers
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https://twitter.com/vassosa?lang=en ask the smarmy **** on Twatter to explain the myth
 
Chris in London said:
VK is a highly intelligent individual who knows the club backwards, has married a local girl, has a deep knowledge of football and now a universally recognised business qualification. I can't imagine that he has done the MBA (a) without the club's blessing or (b) without some role in mind for him when he eventually retires
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Doesn't he also co-own a Belgian lower league club?
 
MillionMilesAway said:
Doesn't he also co-own a Belgian lower league club?
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Yep according to the article he does. It portrays it as more of a community initiative (footballing opportunities for kids from disadvantaged backgrounds) than a project aimed at serious sporting success though.
 
depps said:
Yep according to the article he does. It portrays it as more of a community initiative (footballing opportunities for kids from disadvantaged backgrounds) than a project aimed at serious sporting success though.
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Have't read the article, but I thought I remembered it from past coverage, although not all the details.

Yes, it's no Salford City vanity project.
 
Just how can Conte be blaming US for the money that United paid to Sanchez?

In today's Daily Mail back headline he labels us with United as paying 'Danger Money'. And it is all about the £450,000 a week to Sanchez (which was £600,000 in the same paper yesterday). Which we declined to pay and are not even paying to KDB in his new contract. Which is one of the reasons we declined to match United so as not to destabilise our sensible wage strategy. It is not what we do.

But we and united are 'seriously dangerous for other teams in the league' because of this.

He adds 'we never were in this race for Sanchez ever. Only one or two clubs can pay this type of salary.'

Us again. Yet the same paper has been saying for days we were 'outbid'.

How can we be dangerous because we might have paid but sensibly didn't?

Should not Conte be complaining about United spending loony money and praising us for choosing not to?

If the salaries for all future stars go to this level and Chelsea are unable to cope there is only one team to blame here. Not two.
 
Healdplace said:
Just how can Conte be blaming US for the money that United paid to Sanchez?

In today's Daily Mail back headline he labels us with United as paying 'Danger Money'. And it is all about the £450,000 a week to Sanchez (which was £600,000 in the same paper yesterday). Which we declined to pay and are not even paying to KDB in his new contract. Which is one of the reasons we declined to match United so as not to destabilise our sensible wage strategy. It is not what we do.

But we and united are 'seriously dangerous for other teams in the league' because of this.

He adds 'we never were in this race for Sanchez ever. Only one or two clubs can pay this type of salary.'

Us again. Yet the same paper has been saying for days we were 'outbid'.

How can we be dangerous because we might have paid but sensibly didn't?

Should not Conte be complaining about United spending loony money and praising us for choosing not to?

If the salaries for all future stars go to this level and Chelsea are unable to cope there is only one team to blame here. Not two.
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I have to smile a bit when I read of anyone at Chelsea complaining about high transfer fees, especially when backed by wealthy owners. The rags and Arsenal have always been high spenders, but it was Blackburn and, later, Chelsea themselves who started the wealthy backers trend of outbidding everyone else and both with various degrees of success. With Conte now complaining, it is looking ever more likely that Abramovitch is pulling the plug on him and is actively looking for Conte's successor.
 
nice picture on the BBC website in the article on us signing Laporte showing him being skinned by Suarez
 
Healdplace said:
Just how can Conte be blaming US for the money that United paid to Sanchez?

In today's Daily Mail back headline he labels us with United as paying 'Danger Money'. And it is all about the £450,000 a week to Sanchez (which was £600,000 in the same paper yesterday). Which we declined to pay and are not even paying to KDB in his new contract. Which is one of the reasons we declined to match United so as not to destabilise our sensible wage strategy. It is not what we do.

But we and united are 'seriously dangerous for other teams in the league' because of this.

He adds 'we never were in this race for Sanchez ever. Only one or two clubs can pay this type of salary.'

Us again. Yet the same paper has been saying for days we were 'outbid'.

How can we be dangerous because we might have paid but sensibly didn't?

Should not Conte be complaining about United spending loony money and praising us for choosing not to?

If the salaries for all future stars go to this level and Chelsea are unable to cope there is only one team to blame here. Not two.
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Haven't Chelsea got a bigger wage bill than us?
 
Healdplace said:
Just how can Conte be blaming US for the money that United paid to Sanchez?

In today's Daily Mail back headline he labels us with United as paying 'Danger Money'. And it is all about the £450,000 a week to Sanchez (which was £600,000 in the same paper yesterday). Which we declined to pay and are not even paying to KDB in his new contract. Which is one of the reasons we declined to match United so as not to destabilise our sensible wage strategy. It is not what we do.

But we and united are 'seriously dangerous for other teams in the league' because of this.

He adds 'we never were in this race for Sanchez ever. Only one or two clubs can pay this type of salary.'

Us again. Yet the same paper has been saying for days we were 'outbid'.

How can we be dangerous because we might have paid but sensibly didn't?

Should not Conte be complaining about United spending loony money and praising us for choosing not to?

If the salaries for all future stars go to this level and Chelsea are unable to cope there is only one team to blame here. Not two.
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Rule of thumb, If PSG do something outrageous it is clubs "like PSG and Man City". If Utd do something outrageous, it is clubs "like Man Utd and Man City".
 
This article goes to show that it's not just us that are subjected to this type of nonsense:



Everything is just a race for clicks nowadays. They're motivated solely by revenue, they're not arsed about journalistic integrity or seemingly even their reputation.
 
jonmcity said:
He will have to swap that for a Chevrolet. Ha Ha
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When the rags were sponsored by Audi I was in the process of buying a Merc (a used one) from Mercedes Macclesfield and I asked the salesman if any footballers came in with Prestbury being just round the corner
The guy wasn't a football fan as he told me that Wayne Brown (obviously meant Wes Brown) had been in recently and had done a deal for two cars and with Audi sponsoring the rags, Mercedes were desperate to get him seen in their vehicles. So Wes got a Merc SL500 for himself and an SLK for his Mum, both at £199 per month

As for the Chevy's, I do believe there's a car park full of them that the rag players refuse to drive
 
moomba said:
Haven't Chelsea got a bigger wage bill than us?
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Yes Chelsea pay higher wages than us and always have done. Just more fake news I'm afraid. What concerns me about these sort of stories is that no one challenges what people like Conte says. Arsene Wenger makes comments about financial doping but his club has even wealthier owners than Abramovich and the sixth highest revenues in world football. Again no one challenges it. Most of our sports media is truly sub-standard.
 
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