Absolutely.
Based on the way they govern, it's probably a safe bet they want a controlling stake.
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Absolutely.
Based on the way they govern, it's probably a safe bet they want a controlling stake.
Well, we have now sold, Eriksen, Kane, Dele, Jan, Toby, Dembele... so, we pretty much have sold our best players and are yet to replace the team that we had when we moved into the stadium.
Is a false equivalent. You can't compare golf, where you can entice the best players to play in it, because they'll be playing each other regardless of the organization the tournaments are organized by, to a sport with teams in numerous FAs in numerous countries and already set trophies with prestige that goes back decades.
Much more difficult to replicate in football what they did in golf.
Mohammad Bin Salman, same story as Todd Boehly.
Dumb guy.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Dumb guy.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
So that's where the Kane money has gone!
But not Lenglet !!
Maybe dumb but also ruthless billionaires. They won't be losing billions for fun because they are dumb.
That's a pretty naive assumption to make.
Boii... not Lenglet!
(Meh... We enjoyed the peak of every one of those players........ You make it sound like we cynically cashed in on them and trousered the cash, FFS!.)
Are you suggesting the upside to that era means nothing to you?
For me they were the most fun and most prolonged good times I've ever experienced on the terraces.
Would I swap that period just to say we're on par with the Scum in the painfully tedious 'net spend wars'? ..........No; I sure as fuck wouldn't!
Uh huh. Ok. I know very little about Orban and very little about Ange’s striker philosophy. You thought he would want a more fulcrum type to hold up and bring others into the game, a Firminho type eg.
That’s a bit disappointing if true. I’m not a fan of the Bent, Defoe genre at all.
What with the global demonising of Oil, and the push to greener futures they realise their tap of money is going to dry up somewhat, so better to funnel that enormous pile of cash into another revenue stream, what better than the global #1 sport of football.
They already own or have stakes in the biggest clubs in Europe and are buying more, now having their own league is a natural progression.
However with that said I'm skeptical of the future and success of their newly invented league, bit like the Chinese league, football has deep history in Europe and South America etc, it's a tribal game, families are divided over it, blood is spilt over it, it has taken many years to become the beast it is today.
Simply inventing a new league with teams means sod all if there's no history and reason to support other than some aging star names on the team sheets. No one wants to watch games in empty stadiums, and culturally there's a huge difference between Europe clubs and their vision.
How many European teams have global fans that relish the idea of getting the full match day experience of going to the ground and a pub before or after etc, people travel round the world to watch premier league games and experience this, you won't get a similar experience with their new found league.
Bit early to be marking it out of 10. Theres still 2 weeks left.
And its going to take months to make a proper judgement of players like Vicario and VdV.
I assume a hold up type would also work. He had Cahill for the Australian national team.
But all I know are his Celtic days. And he had Kyogo in that role, who'd get very little touches but had supreme movement and a great finish.
I don't know any of his other teams, the strikers he used or how he used them.
It's why I always thought Son would have been best served as a striker in this system as opposed to a winger. Play on the last shoulder and asked to put away chances he's given
Not on purpose anyway.
Saudi Arabia obviously wants the 2030 World Cup and may well bribe and cajole their way to it. As has been done by others many times before.
In terms of making their domestic league a power center of the global game, they don't really have an angle that I find terribly convincing.
You jest i hope.....
.......Nostradamus you mean?!
There's 2 times to make a judgement on a transfer window :
1 Towards its end when you can see most of the 'ins'
2 In arears, whether that's 6 months down the line, 12 months or even longer.
ATM its a quick snapshot - for example really like Van De Ven but it only one match.
Measure in retrospect, 6 or 12 months, fine, but really becomes part of 'what we need to do in next TW.
Nope, when you sell a player you take the transfer fee less the carrying value of the player and that is recognised in that accounting period as a profit/loss on disposal.
So let's say Havertz was originally bought for 60m on a 5 year contract (I can't be arsed to look up exact figures) and was 3 years in to the contract, his carrying value would be 60m less 3 years of 12m amortisation costs= 24mill. When they sold him to Woolwich for 60mill ish then they recognise that profit on disposal of 36mill there and then.
Mount has a zero carrying value as he was an academy profit. So the full transfer fee from United was an instant profit.
They're using those in-period profits to offset the amortisation of their mad spending spree, the latter which they can spread over the long contract lengths.
They will get caught out if they can't get profits on disposal by selling their assets in future, like with Mount and Havertz. They are reliant on having not bought duds really!
It is a huge risk, that much is obvious.
Ange is still an unknown quantity. You're not going to go balls deep in year 0. Next year, however, if he has proven his mettle in the PL, I'd expect more investment will be made. If not, then I'll blame the chairman.