9 months, when the transfer window is actually open. Talk all you want now but Barca already couldn’t spend anything on transfer fees this last summer after selling future revenue to make ends meet
So funny to see english fans argue who the worst team is in their league. Meanwhile, football is fucked anyway and its a business first and a sport second, so no matter if its the Saudis sportwashing or an American pumping billions into it, the image of that pure, innocent and local football sport is long gone.
You have a red bull flair?
I mean… Tottenham are one of the more sustainable and less shady premier league clubs, and Joe Lewis is far from a moral and stand-up fellow.
No private entity with the money to own a top flight club got there by being decent.
Lewis is absolute scum, but most of the damage he does is outside football
Joe-washing
Spurswashing, surely
It’s the same like when people constantly complain that UEFA competitions are “greedy, only money, they only want big clubs” etc., but then we have Champions League games and 99,9% of the attention is for the big clubs lol. The small clubs only exist to be the background for them. But when asked in general, they hate that “greedy UEFA” thinks like that completely unlike the fans.
Omfg, people who are the best in the world at doing something very popular are making money off it, this is so dystopian and I am such a victim that I am forced to suffer through this.
Spurs fans need a wash yes.
Couldn’t agree more
So what?
The red bull multi ownership model is not good for the sport so the comment about business first and football second is a bit ironic
I am not basing my comment exclusively on the Premiere League, every professional league and club is a business, just like Red Bull.
funny to see english fans argue who the worst team is in their league
Flair of a corporation that started this multi-ownership bullshit
Huh never thought of it, was Red Bull really the first?
That’s not true. Their land and their old training ground was built near Paseo de la Castellana in 1963, but back then it was on outskirts of the city.
That land was worth fuck ton after 30 years when city grew, this is what the build on it after:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuatro_Torres_Business_Area
They moved to unconnected unbuilt outskirts of Madrid once again, which are still half-empty to this day, called Valdebebas.
Here’s HITC Sevens episode about it, when I learned it from:
https://youtu.be/ao5gccLtRL8?si=3EfB8NVAbfrOsg3e&t=319
Here’s article about it, title is:
“EU Court rules Real Madrid got no state aid in land deal”
https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/22/eu-court-rules-real-madrid-got-no-state-aid-in-land-deal
Daz just gud business!
Not good for the sport but very good for red bull and the clubs they own. That’s not ironic.
The Championship is a superb league. The quality might not be as good in terms of talent compared to the PL, but it is far more entertaining.
I just want to see fun competition. Eredivisie is high enough a level for me.
I do recognize I’m in the minority, though.
Like what?
Like /u/espret’s story! Like how the government helped Real with shady deals 20 years ago… … Duh
Like what?
Off the top of my head: real sold their old training ground to the municipal govt for a fee far, far in excess of what it was worth. The govt then sold/gave them long lease on new facilities for a peppercorn sum.
That’s not true. Their land and their old training ground was built near Paseo de la Castellana in 1963, but back then it was on outskirts of the city.
That land was worth fuck ton after 30 years when city grew, this is what the build on it after:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuatro_Torres_Business_Area
They moved to unconnected unbuilt outskirts of Madrid once again, which are still half-empty to this day, called Valdebebas.
Here’s HITC Sevens episode about it, when I learned it from:
https://youtu.be/ao5gccLtRL8?si=3EfB8NVAbfrOsg3e&t=319
Here’s article about it, title is:
“EU Court rules Real Madrid got no state aid in land deal”
https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/22/eu-court-rules-real-madrid-got-no-state-aid-in-land-deal
Daz just gud business!
I fail to understand your point. How is getting a loan “ruining the sport”?
Also where do you get that they get loans with hardly any interest, if any? What kind of bank or financial institution is gifting money away?
Can’t support a financial group mate
Football went wrong years ago, it’s not a working mans game anymore. It’s a business for the big clubs, not a sporting enterprise, hence the superleague.
Holier-than-thou? Andy Hamilton is a Chelsea season ticket holder, or at least was until last year. He is one of your own saying this, its not rival fans trying to banter you, or the media getting their knives out for the club.
I wrote my comment in response to the people in this thread, most of which have clearly not even read the article posted but just used the oppertunity to blame Chelsea for everything.
Should have clarified that, my bad.
As a Chelsea fan, it’s been depressing watching other Chelsea fans justifying what we have been doing.
Personally I think Man City, PSG, Newcastle and RB Leipzig/Salzburg are better examples but Chelsea are definitely up there
One is not like the others
how so?
I kinda of feel Poch will turn it around, he is a really good coach and works the best with a group of young players
How is Barcelona being in debt “where football has gone wrong”, or how does it affect other clubs?
You seem to imply that cash injections from shady owners is better than the levers which are just the club selling it’s own assets
American finance men who are just oligarchs
So like many other PL clubs. Why are we being singled out under Todd?
and middle eastern billionaires
We aren’t owned by middle eastern billionaires
You’re singled out because you spent a billion pounds in a year how is the difficult for some chelsea fans to understand. And then to further the singling out after spending untold money you are remarkably bad.
Barca literally sold their future income and merchandise rights for quick money. The gambled on short term success.