6666 1,310 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 1 hour ago, McAzeem said: What's the possibility of Barcelona or Real going bankrupt if they keep losing money ? They'll always be able to show that they can bring in big money so whoever they owe money to will probably always give them a pass. Which is why their debts kept getting bigger as Real Madrid and Barcelona just used that knowledge to carry on as normal rather than pay off debts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadLinesman 5,938 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 1 hour ago, McAzeem said: What's the possibility of Barcelona or Real going bankrupt if they keep losing money ? Never, as the government would step in. They’re basically institutions of their country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 2,206 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 2 minutes ago, DeadLinesman said: Never, as the government would step in. They’re basically institutions of their country. Also the most global institutions Spain have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beelzebub 2,508 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 2 minutes ago, Danny said: Also the most global institutions Spain have @SirBalon Men's fashion thread !? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 2,206 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 1 minute ago, McAzeem said: @SirBalon Men's fashion thread !? Can't argue with that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverted 1,776 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 The best you can hope for Real and Barca is that eventually, when their debt becomes unmanageable and their credit runs out, is that whoever comes in to bail them out - be it the state or a bank - insists on some harsh conditions. Those conditions essentially being: act your size. Admit you can't hoover-up every decent Brazilian teenager, or buy the hype player every summer. Stop blowing hundreds of millions of other people's money up the wall every season to satisfy your megalomania and delusions of grandeur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoRoss 800 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 31 minutes ago, Inverted said: The best you can hope for Real and Barca is that eventually, when their debt becomes unmanageable and their credit runs out, is that whoever comes in to bail them out - be it the state or a bank - insists on some harsh conditions. Those conditions essentially being: act your size. Admit you can't hoover-up every decent Brazilian teenager, or buy the hype player every summer. Stop blowing hundreds of millions of other people's money up the wall every season to satisfy your megalomania and delusions of grandeur. That's basically what happened to Barcelona in 2003, when Laporta won the first time around. There's a pretty decent documentary around his first season at the club, probably floating around on YouTube somewhere. Seen it on BBC Four about 15 years ago. Huge amount of cost cutting and debt reconstruction was needed there too. Only problem being back then, the club was basically stuck about 20 years behind the biggest clubs in Europe when it came to revenue. Now, they have one of the highest incomes for any sports team in the world and still have rung up the debt. Much easier back then to ship out the overpaid, underachieving players back then than to suddenly declare to Gerard Pique and Sergio Busquets that they need to go. If it's a different world now, where there are only so many clubs that could possibly take on the bloated contracts they have rather than trying to shift an aging Patrick Kluivert to Newcastle. Laporta's election promise of the reforming of the youth development for the club wasn't so much of an emotional vote strategy as a necessity for them now. It's not only the match day revenue that they've missed out on in the last year, but the bus loads of tourists that turn up at their stadium everyday. Buying merchandise, going on stadium tours and spending money and time in the village of shops and cafes they have outside the stadium. And it's not just the football club, but they've made serious financial commitment to their basketball team over the last few years, and not to mention their investment in a new reserve stadium and their new indoor multisport arena. All of which have been empty for over a year now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Honey 3,767 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 If the Premier League create rule auto expelling anyone who joins a breakaway tournament that means the next attempt has to be complete exit from Premier League. Not this pop around on Saturdays to see your legacy nan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,386 Posted April 23, 2021 Administrator Share Posted April 23, 2021 Well duh. Misjudged is an understatement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beelzebub 2,508 Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 They were just checking how strongly the public would react. Come up with another plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dr. Gonzo 8,190 Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/super-league-politik-1.5273477 Heroes of football: Johnson, Putin & the UAE. I’m going to go drink bleach now to get out of this bizarro world I’ve found myself in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tar-Mairon 93 Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56873448 I don't know if he's genuinely senile or just such a megalomaniac that being told "no" has driven him completely insane but his rantings are a sight to behold right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,386 Posted April 24, 2021 Administrator Share Posted April 24, 2021 54 minutes ago, Tar-Mairon said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56873448 I don't know if he's genuinely senile or just such a megalomaniac that being told "no" has driven him completely insane but his rantings are a sight to behold right now. or just being a stubborn cunt who hates when things don't go his own way because that's all he's been used to otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,386 Posted April 25, 2021 Administrator Share Posted April 25, 2021 Who to believe?! The liar or the corrupt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber RandoEFC+ 7,664 Posted April 25, 2021 Author Subscriber Share Posted April 25, 2021 14 minutes ago, Stan said: Who to believe?! The liar or the corrupt The whole scandal was an open goal for Boris Johnson and fair play to him if he was as involved as some of his media cheerleaders have tried to make out in shooting it down, but with his reputation for saying what the person he's meeting at the time wants to hear to yield maximum immediate approval, telling Ed Woodward the Super League is a great idea and offering his support, then three days later running to the front of the angry mob and declaring himself its leader, doesn't only seem believable, it seems like the most Boris Johnson thing ever. Who knows though, Cummings has been the UK's truth-twister-in-chief for the last few years. Just because he's firing the shots in the other direction doesn't make him any more trustworthy. Our country . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,386 Posted April 25, 2021 Administrator Share Posted April 25, 2021 52 minutes ago, RandoEFC said: Who knows though, Cummings has been the UK's truth-twister-in-chief for the last few years. Just because he's firing the shots in the other direction doesn't make him any more trustworthy. Oh don't get me wrong they're all cunts. If anything it just goes to show how snakey Cummings is/was/can be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6666 1,310 Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 There was one massive winner through all of this, Sky Sports. Especially Gary Neville. They've had an outrage erection over this since the news broke. They can't stop milking it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNIQUE 65 Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, 6666 said: There was one massive winner through all of this, Sky Sports. Especially Gary Neville. They've had an outrage erection over this since the news broke. They can't stop milking it. UEFA aint done too bad either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNIQUE 65 Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 https://www.empireofthekop.com/2021/04/25/finance-guru-reveals-ludicrous-figure-liverpool-would-have-earned-per-esl-game/ thats a crock of shit though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Mel81x+ 3,613 Posted April 25, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted April 25, 2021 They made 4bn last year or thereabouts from broadcast rights internationally so its not totally unbelievable that they'd be somewhere close to those numbers. But, and this is a big but, they'd have had to have done the same amount of business internationally with the big countries that buy the packages and those are dwindling now from what I am seeing here so who knows where the other packages sold are generating revenue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Palace Fan 3,402 Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Listening to a podcast where Matt Slater has suggested that they would have called it a Super League as opposed to the European Super League to allow the eventual possibility of club owners overseas buying themselves a position in to the League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 2,206 Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 22 minutes ago, The Palace Fan said: Listening to a podcast where Matt Slater has suggested that they would have called it a Super League as opposed to the European Super League to allow the ecentual possibility of club owners overseas buying themselves a position in to the League. Completely expected, they want a competition of global franchises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beelzebub 2,508 Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 World soccer league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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