Would be nice to read in part 4 of those so called "leaks"
that City was just one example of a multi bn industry where all big players try to get to or stay at the top in order to have success.
Every aspect of human life where huge amounts of money are involved has a darker back side where we can find moral aspects
that have been ignored, mainly bad treatment of humans and natural resources.
Der Spiegel is just doing business. Print media are having a tough time, had to go online, and this sector is doing "investigative journalism".
You need to attack someone, that's key. Man City and PSG were easy targets in the market to attract maximum readers.
Instead of revealing the complex professional football market, including financing models of all big clubs, also the interest of UEFA/FIFA and of big sponsors or club owners in detail, der Spiegel started right in the middle of a complex story, picking out the most promising part in terms of click rate.
Man City tried to collect money to set up a successful football brand. Impossible without money, in this market.
Der Spiegel tried to make money selling our story.
Both are part of the same market.
If der Spiegel had a message how to reduce the influence of money in an absurdly inflated football market - looking at the rest of our planet's problems - and at the same time strengthening fundamental aspects of the sport we love, it would make some sense to me. But that's not the case.
They just fight to get their part of the cake, leaving out main parts of the story and influencing people who are not aware of the complexity.
That's bad journalism. At least.
Had to laugh reading an interview of Spiegel and Rob Wilson, where he said:
"Football is all about fair play, and FFP. Offside is offside and a penalty is a penalty."
Don't know on what planet he is watching football...
Whoever Rob Wilson is, he has summed up the mud, City fans are facing now:
(some of the replies are not too bad though!)
