Can you as a Juve supported shed any light on the Agnelli-Ceferin connection? I seem to remember having read that Ceferin is a personal friend of the Agnelli family, but I cannot find this anymore. Is there anything suggestion that these guys know each other well?
Can you as a Juve supported shed any light on the Agnelli-Ceferin connection? I seem to remember having read that Ceferin is a personal friend of the Agnelli family, but I cannot find this anymore. Is there anything suggestion that these guys know each other well?
"Ceferin says that he has heard the stories about how Agnelli arranged for Ceferin to take a spin in a Ferrari (Ceferin said that he has never sat in one); about the private jet trips on the Italian’s plane (they have never even flown commercial together, Ceferin said); and even the whispers about the motivation behind Agnelli’s decision to choose Ceferin to be the godfather to his six-month old daughter (Ceferin called it an “honor,” one that transcended soccer).I'm not aware of any peculiar personal connection between Agnelli and Ceferin. They surely know each other, since Agnelli is ECA's chairman (you can find his latest ECA speech on youtube) and Ceferin is UEFA's chairman.
If I recall correctly, UEFA and ECA have recently had some disagreements over the future of European leagues.
Thanks mate, this was what I had read. Does have a funny smell when you know one is ECA chairman wanting to reorganize the CL, the one is UEFA chairman profiting from the CL reorganization and obviously plotting to harm a competitor of the ECA chairman's club. Getting even more concrete when the UEFA chairman is working to ban a club so Juventus can steal its manager. Crooks, mafiosi are the nicest terms I can think off in this connection."Ceferin says that he has heard the stories about how Agnelli arranged for Ceferin to take a spin in a Ferrari (Ceferin said that he has never sat in one); about the private jet trips on the Italian’s plane (they have never even flown commercial together, Ceferin said); and even the whispers about the motivation behind Agnelli’s decision to choose Ceferin to be the godfather to his six-month old daughter (Ceferin called it an “honor,” one that transcended soccer).
Still, the close relationship between the men and their families and his decision to accept Agnelli’s offer to serve as godfather at such a delicate time professionally has raised eyebrows in soccer circles, given the high stakes of the Champions League negotiations, with several officials privately raising the issue in recent weeks."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/sports/for-europes-soccer-chief-the-outrage-arrives-in-waves.html
"Ceferin says that he has heard the stories about how Agnelli arranged for Ceferin to take a spin in a Ferrari (Ceferin said that he has never sat in one); about the private jet trips on the Italian’s plane (they have never even flown commercial together, Ceferin said); and even the whispers about the motivation behind Agnelli’s decision to choose Ceferin to be the godfather to his six-month old daughter (Ceferin called it an “honor,” one that transcended soccer).
Still, the close relationship between the men and their families and his decision to accept Agnelli’s offer to serve as godfather at such a delicate time professionally has raised eyebrows in soccer circles, given the high stakes of the Champions League negotiations, with several officials privately raising the issue in recent weeks."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/sports/for-europes-soccer-chief-the-outrage-arrives-in-waves.html
I know as a club we want to promote the "homegrown in house manager" vision, but it's extremely risky.This would be a huge risk, Arteta has no experience as a manager, unlike paddy who has some experience with NYCFC and also with OGC Nice. I would like to see a management team of Paddy V and Arteta but handing the responsibilities to Arteta alone? hmmmm....not sure about that one.
It does support the angle of a conspiracy to ban City and get Pep to Turin though, doesn't it? At least it is a win-win situation for those 2 personal friends. Funny coincidence.So the first two things are "stories" that have been denied by Ceferin. They could be either true or false, there's no evidence in one sense or the other.
I didn't know about the godfather thing, that means that they have a good relationship or at least they're trying to.
I don't know what this has to do with Manchester City to be fair. If we go along this line, FIFA's president is a lifelong Inter fan (our bitter rivals), so what? Chairmen aren't robots, they're bound to have personal relationships and have a team they supported as kids.
Apart from that, as I said UEFA (led by Ceferin) and ECA (led by Agnelli) haven't always seen eye to eye in recent times. And I haven't seen any favorable episode towards us in recent CL matches.
Thanks mate, this was what I had read. Does have a funny smell when you know one is ECA chairman wanting to reorganize the CL, the one is UEFA chairman profiting from the CL reorganization and obviously plotting to harm a competitor of the ECA chairman's club. Getting even more concrete when the UEFA chairman is working to ban a club so Juventus can steal its manager. Crooks, mafiosi are the nicest terms I can think off in this connection.
Pep did apparently say no thanks though :-)Oh come on, do you really think UEFA is a one-man organization? Do you think your owners are helpless fools that couldn't do a thing if that was the case?
And apart from that, do you think Guardiola would go to such a club if a club operated like that? You sure hold him to a high standard.
Or perhaps you were going to say that we would kidnap him, yeah that would be more like our style. Grow out of mafia movies mate.
We're used to being pictured as the villains but sometimes it's just ridiculous.
Pep did apparently say no thanks though :-)