Duchene2MacKinnon
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Meanwhile Laporta is in the wrong gulf country shmoozing.
Apparently madrid are done shopping. No benz replacement should give barca a free run domestically. Thanks papa flo
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Apparently madrid are done shopping. No benz replacement should give barca a free run domestically. Thanks papa flo
spintheblackcircle
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Oh man, if that's your best midfielder I get why Kane wants to leave haha
Duchene2MacKinnon
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hatterson
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I don’t think it’s profit either, but losing billions a year obviously isn’t sustainable, even given the oil money they have.
The goal would be to sportswash and try to maintain as financially neutral as possible.
Duchene2MacKinnon
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It would less costly than his war on Yemen which has concluded. I don’t think they’d want to waste billions. Every year but they do have a plan I just think it’s a stupid one and MBs won’t last but that’s just me.
Eye of Ra
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[Mike Verweij] Ajax are interested in 20 y/o right-back Anton Gaaei of Viborg. Asking price of around €4M telegraaf.nl
Nah good old white US boys.
Not shady Russians or middle east.
Or maybe he was forced by those damn Saudis.
Paulie Gualtieri
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Ange seems to want to shake up the midfield a bit. Hojbjerg is very good for sure but compared to others he is just more expendable.
Bentancur was our best midfielder pre-injury. Can't really sell him now due to the injury. Who knows how he ends up recovering.
Bissouma came in just last summer. Struggled with fitness and Conte didn't seem to fancy him. Not really worth selling if he can regain his Brighton form.
Skipp is a similar player to Hojbjerg. Less experienced but younger and homegrown. Little reason to sell.
Pape Sarr is showed a lot of promise last season but Conte doesn't trust prospects like him. Think he has great potential and should suit Ange. Little reason to sell.
Supposedly Ndombele, Kulusevski, Gil and Devine could potentially play a midfield role in Ange's system, and will get chances in preseason.
Wee Baby Seamus
Yo, Goober, where's the meat?
I am unsurprised that a sovereign wealth fund like PIF would have investments in Clearlake (given the size of both Clearlake and the PIF). But with something like Clearlake, you don’t invest in the company itself - you buy into particular funds, and don’t have any grand influence over a private equity firm itself through that.
The shadiness of this is just the shadiness of global capitalism and not beyond that, I reckon. The world of rich bajillionaires is incestuous, from top to bottom.
When private equity meets sports, every team’s owner is invested in every other team’s owner in some way or another.
The shadiness of this is just the shadiness of global capitalism and not beyond that, I reckon. The world of rich bajillionaires is incestuous, from top to bottom.
When private equity meets sports, every team’s owner is invested in every other team’s owner in some way or another.
hatterson
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Yea Clearlake has something like $75 billion under management and the Saudi fund has something like 600 billion in assets and they’ve been aggressively trying to diversify it in recent years. It’s not surprising that they’d be bought into funds at a major equity management company.
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I mean Chelsea blocked a Ziyech move to Paris last winter and now they are only sanctioning a cash move to Saudi League. Which is much more favorable to them? Let’s call it what it is
Wee Baby Seamus
Yo, Goober, where's the meat?
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Okay, so why block a move to Paris last January? So less clubs would want him this summer and Chelsea could haul themselves out of a bad contract? Inter supposedly wants Koulibaly, but they are only sanctioning a move to Saudi. They are refusing to loan Lukaku back to Inter; which to an extent is reasonable, but Saudi league is the other option on the table? This smells
Blender
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"Blocked"? They issued the wrong paperwork multiple times before the deadline and didn't issue the proper paperwork until after it officially closed. PSG tried to appeal to get the loan approved but L1 rejected it. You see conspiracies where there is actually incompetence.
spintheblackcircle
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He was on pace for consideration for PL Team of the Year, he was legit great. He was the only thing holding the thing together. They were in 5th when he went out and they only picked up 21 points in the 15 games without him. He scored more in 18 games than PEH did all season AND had just as many tackles.
He's class
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My understanding (which could be wrong) was that Chelsea were the ones that didn’t submit the necessary documents on time?
Did a quick google to see if I remembered correct and BBC had this article:
This was on Sky too. Sky link has an (alleged) time line.
Hakim Ziyech: Paris Saint-Germain claim Chelsea's document gaffe scuppered loan move for winger
Hakim Ziyechs loan from Chelsea to Paris Saint-Germain collapsed on transfer deadline day; Ligue 1 club allege Chelsea sent through incorrect paperwork after the terms of an agreement had been finalised; Sky Sports News understand there was an unforeseen technical issue at Chelsea HQ
I could be wrong though.
Blender
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Did you bother to actually read this article? The article says exactly what I said in my post.My understanding (which could be wrong) was that Chelsea were the ones that didn’t submit the necessary documents on time?
Did a quick google to see if I remembered correct and BBC had this article:
This was on Sky too. Sky link has an (alleged) time line.
Hakim Ziyech: Paris Saint-Germain claim Chelsea's document gaffe scuppered loan move for winger
Hakim Ziyechs loan from Chelsea to Paris Saint-Germain collapsed on transfer deadline day; Ligue 1 club allege Chelsea sent through incorrect paperwork after the terms of an agreement had been finalised; Sky Sports News understand there was an unforeseen technical issue at Chelsea HQwww.skysports.com
I could be wrong though.
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Chelsea getting bailed out is just gross. I don’t care about buddy-buddy investment capital whatever, even the appearance of quid pro quo means FIFA needs to intervene on this newfound incestuous owner class we’re seeing evolve.
Blender
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I'll take the 50-60m between the two of them. Their wages were horrific so any European club probably would have wanted them for close to free.
