That Usimov (spl) fella who had shares in Arsenal and sponsored Everton's training ground was odd. Concerning city, I would like to see fairness, that's all. For me the FA shouldn't allow owners like that but once they do you know fair play goes out the window.
FA are a joke anyway. Same as uefa and FIFA. Supposed to govern the game, but its more like a business nowadays. Morally wrong!
calling it state.owned is probably doing real states where people might actually have a say in their taxes is wrong. we are talking about royal despots who have,by virtue of pure luck and their ancestors ruthlessness, a position of unlimited money to play. It's not so much state run club as one where the so called state and all the arms of it's investment companies and brought to bear to artificially swing our league and the European champions league. it is in short ultimately corrupt and their little despotic courts deserve to be over thrown really
btw in 50 years time Qatar will return to the desert and man city to league 1. lfc will still be a top club.
well you could easily argue City are not state owned since it is owned by a fund owned by Sheik Mansour rather than the Dubai investment fund. PSG are state owned as they are owned by the Qatari investment fund. The real problem is enforcing FFP against such wealthy , and therefore influential , owners who have multiple "vehicles" they can funnel funds through.
They are indivisible. mansour says jump and Dubai says how high.my.lord. oh you.need 500mil for city? do you want it in gold bullion, diamond, bitcoin??
They seem , along with the Saudis and the other Gulf states , quite keen on speeding up the timescale
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