How are we all feeling about our club today?

[yankblue]

Point of an agreement to agree (or a letter of intent as Chris in London alludes to) is to get you in the game but not fully commit you. So, you would sign in that context as you can pull out if the full due diligence reveals stuff not to your liking.

Like you say though, we are all guessing here and I think I read somewhere that JP Morgan are considering legal action so I might be totally wrong.

Hmm, interesting. I'll have to read Chris in London's post more thoroughly but I do see what you're saying about the soft commitment there.

One thing is for sure, if the details ever get out, this whole thing will make a cracking exposé one day.

 

[Phil1]

I feel like the love of my life for the past 45 years has just told me she slept with my most hated enemy but it was only once and she's promised me it won't happen again

Is this something that's happened before? Seems quite informative, like you're speaking from experience..

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Sorry, I know how those of you making the girlfriend/wife analogy feel — by God I do — but the analogy is only half applicable. It's more like your girlfriend telling you, “I slept with your hated business rival because I thought it was a way of getting inside his head and getting you into a position where you could go into joint ventures together and clean up the competition. O.k., I was naive, it was stupid. And by the way, he's lousy in bed.” That's far from a perfect analogy, but it's a bit more true, I believe.

 

[Sir peace frog]

Sorry, I know how those of you making the girlfriend/wife analogy feel — by God I do — but the analogy is only half applicable. It's more like your girlfriend telling you, “I slept with your hated business rival because I thought it was a way of getting inside his head and getting you into a position where you could go into joint ventures together and clean up the competition. O.k., I was naive, it was stupid. And by the way, he's lousy in bed.” That's far from a perfect analogy, but it's a bit more true, I believe.

Have we got any pics of your girlfriend, just for evidence of course

 

[Len Rum]

Sorry, I know how those of you making the girlfriend/wife analogy feel — by God I do — but the analogy is only half applicable. It's more like your girlfriend telling you, “I slept with your hated business rival because I thought it was a way of getting inside his head and getting you into a position where you could go into joint ventures together and clean up the competition. O.k., I was naive, it was stupid. And by the way, he's lousy in bed.” That's far from a perfect analogy, but it's a bit more true, I believe.

No forgiveness unless she says his dick was smaller than yours.
Otherwise all bets are off.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

It's possible we were a trojan horse but we managed to make a complete botch of how we did that.

It's not like we were faced with some double glazing salesperson with their "I can only give you this price if you sign now" spiel. This project has been in the offing for at least 2 years, probably more. What was the rush?

These clubs are absolutely skint, or should I say are crippled by debt?!

Barcelona and Inter (and Spurs who owe £150m to somebody at the end of this month and haven’t got it!) are on the brink of collapse.

They are absolutely desperate for this. You could hire Bale Gosling Pitt Carrell to do an ESL version of the film The Big Short, and Barcelona Inter and a few of these other clubs are at the point in the film when the phone calls are going mental and the banks are crashing.

Inter nearly sold half of their squad in the January Transfer Window. They can’t afford their team.

The ESL was a bailout for these clubs. That’s the top and bottom of it. It was never about football, it was a fucking bailout!

What all these clubs don’t understand is that in football, big clubs are not always big clubs. They were never always big clubs and they aren’t always going to be big clubs. They’re so insecure about having years in the wilderness but they’re too thick to realise that football success comes in waves and to sustain success is abnormal.

In any other era, Liverpool would have just faded into obscurity in the 1990s like Preston, Sunderland, Villa, The Wednesday, Newcastle, Burnley, City throughout football history; and even Liverpool themselves did in the 1950s. However, they worked with United and the other G14 clubs to make sure CL qualification going right the way down to 4th saw them still earning the CL coin and keeping them relevant, and they continually try and change the rules to cement their place at the top.

But that isn’t sustainable. Naturally, football clubs get investment with ambitions to win things and they get in the mix. But these insecure “big” clubs can’t handle it when there’s a threat to their power so they get into ridiculous debt to stay at the top. This debt is now coming to a head. These clubs are on the brink and their insecurities forced them to rush this ESL through.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Disappointed

 

[yankblue]

Sorry, I know how those of you making the girlfriend/wife analogy feel — by God I do — but the analogy is only half applicable. It's more like your girlfriend telling you, “I slept with your hated business rival because I thought it was a way of getting inside his head and getting you into a position where you could go into joint ventures together and clean up the competition. O.k., I was naive, it was stupid. And by the way, he's lousy in bed.” That's far from a perfect analogy, but it's a bit more true, I believe.

I think I've seen that movie before

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Best
CLUB IN THE FUCKING WORLD
All is forgiven

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I think I've seen that movie before

Confirms my point!