Media thread 2022/23

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eastlandsblue said:
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They still have the same note in their March 2022 quarterly reporting, so I am assuming it is United. Backed up by the fact that they are not named in the tweet. And, of course, they are held by a Cayman Island company.

Which reminds me of a little anecdote. Back in the day, when I was working in Switzerland, we had a Panamanian company that paid "bonuses" but we always said all companies complied with relevant financial requirements. Which was true. Panama required you to keep books of account, but there was no requirement for them to be true, fair, or even accurate.

Simpler times :)
 
LongsightM13 said:
Yep, apparently a press conference for last year’s Carabao Cup winners before a pre season friendly is the biggest story in football today, according to the BBC
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Is it open for replies? I would ask him how he finds the K-Pop star brought in before the match to shift the tickets football fans wouldn't buy :)

Or how a youtuber got hold of 20,000 tickets that wouldn't shift and tried to sell them at a discount.
 
halfcenturyup said:
Is it open for replies? I would ask him how he finds the K-Pop star brought in before the match to shift the tickets football fans wouldn't buy :)

Or how a youtuber got hold of 20,000 tickets that wouldn't shift and tried to sell them at a discount.
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On your last sentence, I cannot stand either club, but the prices of the tickets are eye-wateringly obscene. And that's by European standards, imagine how much the Thais are being fleeced?

It's an absolute disgrace.

Think they are playing at the Rajamangala stadium, where we had our matches back in about '05.
 
LongsightM13 said:
Haha is that true?
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To be fair, the cheapest tickets sold well as I understand it, but the more expensive ones were crazy prices. 750 USD or so is pretty unaffordable for locals.

Even the K-Pop fans didn't fancy it for an hour performance, hastily arranged, with poor acoustics, no lighting/effects, outside in the rainy season.

One of the problems having large fanbases in countries without much economic clout, I suppose.
 
halfcenturyup said:
To be fair, the cheapest tickets sold well as I understand it, but the more expensive ones were crazy prices. 750 USD or so is pretty unaffordable for locals.

Even the K-Pop fans didn't fancy it for an hour performance, hastily arranged, with poor acoustics, no lighting/effects, outside in the rainy season.

One of the problems having large fanbases in countries without much economic clout, I suppose.
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Cheapest were around £250-300 each i think. In a country where minimum wage is around £7 per day.
 
Bilboblue said:
Cheapest were around £250-300 each i think. In a country where minimum wage is around £7 per day.
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5K, 7K, 15K, 20 K, 22K and 25K THB (120-600 GBP) but, yes, against a minimum daily wage of 300 baht (in theory), pretty exorbitant.

Ironically, both clubs issued statements "apologising" to people who had already bought tickets at full price, not for the crazy prices to begin with, but the fact that tickets were being sold at a discount.

Modern football, eh?
 
halfcenturyup said:
5K, 7K, 15K, 20 K, 22K and 25K THB (120-600 GBP) but, yes, against a minimum daily wage of 300 baht (in theory), pretty exorbitant.

Ironically, both clubs issued statements "apologising" to people who had already bought tickets at full price, not for the crazy prices to begin with, but the fact that tickets were being sold at a discount.

Modern football, eh?
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I paid 800 baht when we played there haha!
Around 70 to the £ back then as well, not the low 40's as of now.
 
HelloCity said:
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Yep, pay licence fee money to send their chief football writer to Thailand for a meaningless pre season friendly between their redshirt darlings, while totally ignoring one of the biggest names in world football being publicly unveiled just a couple of miles from Media City
 
LongsightM13 said:
Yep, pay licence fee money to send their chief football writer to Thailand for a meaningless pre season friendly between their redshirt darlings, while totally ignoring one of the biggest names in world football being publicly unveiled just a couple of miles from Media City
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Just ignoring us hoping again and again and again and again and again that we go away,imagine if the rags or red scousers were unveiling haaland they’d be blanket coverage..
 
eastlandsblue said:
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As far as the taxman is concerned, it is the tax haven element that worries them most. Players should not be paid this route as it is the fruit of employment. (Hence we repatriated our players’ commercial rights when informed by HMRC such a scheme was illegal.) For agents there may be more leeway. It should be noted that “offshore” could be EU.
 
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