Football Leaks/Der Spiegel articles

[BlueBas]

Durham’s lsd is a blue ??

That's a bit acerbic!

 

[BringBackSwales]

One thing that’s lost in all this, regardless of FFP, it’s legalities, competitiveness etc is the term ‘Arab money’ keeps popping up.

All the posts about the leaks and FFP keep mentioning ‘oil money’ and how City’s/PSG’s owners and their respective governments are corrupt/involved in human rights abuses, but we’ve heard precious little about Chelsea or Abramovich. Chelsea were of a similar size to us pre-takeovers, with us having 1 more First Division title, 1 more FA Cup, the same amount of League Cups, but them winning a trophy more recently. Their stadium capacity is just under our average attendance for our 2007 campaign.

This isn’t an attack on Chelsea or their fans, but where was the cries for FFP back then? Or does it coincide with United’s poor form in the past few years? Or Bayern losing the best manager and missing out on KDB? Smacks of racism if you ask me.

Yes Arab money gets mentioned, but there is fuck all said about American debt

 

[Pigeonho]

Ahhh. A cockney rag.
Edit. Defending us.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Yes Arab money gets mentioned, but there is fuck all said about American debt

Or ‘Jewish debt’, more to the point.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

That's a bit acerbic!

WTF

 

[BlueBas]

WTF

lsd - acid - acerbic - it's not funny if you have to explain it ;-)

 

[Sir Joe Aguero]

Yes Arab money gets mentioned, but there is fuck all said about American debt

I understand they don’t mention American money, because it’s a private company (one that’s bleeding the club dry, mind), rather than a government involved in international activity, but isn’t having an owner who’s effectively almost barred from the country and is best mates with Putin comparable to our owners?

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

lsd - acid - acerbic - it's not funny if you have to explain it ;-)

Yeah What about it ??

 

[Trojan63]

One thing that’s lost in all this, regardless of FFP, it’s legalities, competitiveness etc is the term ‘Arab money’ keeps popping up.

All the posts about the leaks and FFP keep mentioning ‘oil money’ and how City’s/PSG’s owners and their respective governments are corrupt/involved in human rights abuses, but we’ve heard precious little about Chelsea or Abramovich. Chelsea were of a similar size to us pre-takeovers, with us having 1 more First Division title, 1 more FA Cup, the same amount of League Cups, but them winning a trophy more recently. Their stadium capacity is just under our average attendance for our 2007 campaign.

This isn’t an attack on Chelsea or their fans, but where was the cries for FFP back then? Or does it coincide with United’s poor form in the past few years? Or Bayern losing the best manager and missing out on KDB? Smacks of racism if you ask me.

Regardless of which club and the source of the finance - aren’t all potential new owners subject to a fit and proper scrutiny before any takeover is approved ? And if I’m not mistaken that process has to be approved by UEFA ? So if Abramovich HH Sheik Mansour the Glazer family or all the other benefactors that have made recent PL acquisitions had unscrupulous moral or financial issues - the purchases would have been vetoed ?

 

[Metalartin]

I understand they don’t mention American money, because it’s a private company (one that’s bleeding the club dry, mind), rather than a government involved in international activity, but isn’t having an owner who’s effectively almost barred from the country and is best mates with Putin comparable to our owners?

If the argument is what is good for football... owners who heavily rely on leveraged buying to go about their business is NOT it surely though.