United Thread | 2024/25

[deano ou812]

You can see Brentford scoring two in the first minute!

Only two !

 

[East Level 2]

Villa away, it doesn’t get an easier for them. Then Brentford after the international break. They worked hard against City the other week, they will have some fun against the rags.

I can see the rags getting something from those games; not because they are good but because the opposition will miss a hatful of chances. It's been going on for years.

 

[horlock_was_super]

I think someone may have done a cheeky wee edit on the Rooney pic.

True. It is said that the telly puts a few pounds on you.
But - stones?

 

[Bald fraud]

Just the 22 articles about these chumps on the daily mail at the minute!

 

[RodneyRodney]

He looks like Garnacho.

He looks like Joe 90

 

[stonerblue]

apart from Southgate, who would be mug enough to take the job. wasn't that the problem in the summer, nobody wanted it.

A grand a week and ferguson gurning at you from the stands...

 

[eyalluvitt]

I think someone may have done a cheeky wee edit on the Rooney pic.

Give him a week or two and it will be a true representation

 

[ROBSH34]

Don't forget the forthcoming Super Sunday games including Aston Villa v Manchester United in the battle for the top
FOUR(teen).

 

[Vienna_70]

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And full-time granny shagger.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

I thought the Chelsea supporting scruffy twat was supposedly their saviour. And then the realisation hits them over the head like a baseball bat. 13th you devil worshipping cunts.

 

[deegee33]

I am 60 tomorrow.

60 years and nine months of hating the scum!

My dad was a rag twat and I am the only perfect tadpole the **** produced I can still remember hitting the back of the net and realising that I was a Blue.

Happy Birthday, Blue!

 

[mexico1970]

I am 60 tomorrow.

60 years and nine months of hating the scum!

My dad was a rag twat and I am the only perfect tadpole the **** produced I can still remember hitting the back of the net and realising that I was a Blue.

Happy birthday and as for the 9 months? That's dedication.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I am 60 tomorrow.

60 years and nine months of hating the scum!

My dad was a rag twat and I am the only perfect tadpole the **** produced I can still remember hitting the back of the net and realising that I was a Blue.

Welcome to the junior FOC club.

 

[Blue Mist]

I now see why the Premier League is the envy of the world and why broadcasters pay so much money to televise it.
No other League has a top 13. In fact by the time they play Villa it could be a top 15. Wow.

 

[jacko74]

Maybe the PL should just keep there fucking noses out of any clubs sponsorship. A fair price is what's someone wants to spend. Am guessing tax relief plays a big part. CTID

How on earth can they actually gauge just what a fair price is?

There are so many sponsorship deals being done, all with so many factors to take into consideration from both sides of any deal... it would take a whole army of the most qualified business analysts, auditors, accountants to try and assess them and even then "perceived value" of any deal is still largely subjective and open to personal opinion.

 

[jacko74]

That's why he's safe

I'm sure their chums in the PL will allow them to write it off as "Exceptional Expenditure" as far as FFP/PSR is concerned.

 

[jacko74]

It's clearly about building brand awareness and recognition as you say. But who knows the marketing strategy behind it? This is what makes valuing sponsorships so difficult. And pointless.

As if the heads of parts procurement at the likes of Apple, AMD, Intel and all other large manufacturers of tech stuff aren't already fully aware of who Snapdragon are and what they produce?

I just can't see who they need to actually "make aware" of their brand and products that aren't already aware of them.

It must purely be a vanity exercise with no business purpose.

 

[cheekybids]

How on earth can they actually gauge just what a fair price is?

There are so many sponsorship deals being done, all with so many factors to take into consideration from both sides of any deal... it would take a whole army of the most qualified business analysts, auditors, accountants to try and assess them and even then "perceived value" of any deal is still largely subjective and open to personal opinion.

The way they do it is consider any sponsorship City has as suspicious & look over it with a fine tooth comb. They start by asking why would anyone want to sponsor a record breaking, current club world champions, 4 in a row winners of the toughest league in the most watched league in the world. They then look at washed up has beens who may or may not play in the champions league so won’t get the viewing figures & if it’s comparable to theirs it’s rejected.

True story…….

 

[halfcenturyup]

As if the heads of parts procurement at the likes of Apple, AMD, Intel and all other large manufacturers of tech stuff aren't already fully aware of who Snapdragon are and what they produce?

I just can't see who they need to actually "make aware" of their brand and products that aren't already aware of them.

It must purely be a vanity exercise with no business purpose.

But you have no idea what their business plans are .....

 

[mancboy]

How on earth can they actually gauge just what a fair price is?

There are so many sponsorship deals being done, all with so many factors to take into consideration from both sides of any deal... it would take a whole army of the most qualified business analysts, auditors, accountants to try and assess them and even then "perceived value" of any deal is still largely subjective and open to personal opinion.

They cant and they never have been able to and that is the whole argument, there is no singular outside entity that can determine what a fair market value is, the market decides the value it always has and it always will that is the central tenet of free market economics.

There can be no way to determine the value of a sponsorship deal because quite simply what is valuable to one may not be valuable to another, take snapdragon and standard chartered they are not commercial entities, you cant buy them in the high street or walk into a standard chartered branch so what is the commercial value to these companies of sponsoring a football club, where does the uplift in their revenue come from? So any funding by the premier leagues own admission would be above market value because on the face of it their is no market value.

BUT if the company decide there is some non direct market value to their brand then that is up to them on how they spend their money and that is how economics works, can you imagine ford being allowed to tell ferrari how much they were allowed to sell their cars for because they thought it was unfair that ferrari sold their cars for more than ford did.