Not many journalists actually do journalism any more. It’s like nobody gives a fook about real stories that could affect football, football fans and the sport in general. Todays crap journos just told to go out make shyt up and get some clicks. Clickbait brings eyeballs and eyes mean adverts and adverts means revenue. We have had a couple of good leads on this thread over the recent past. Chelsea owner and his links to Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund. The probability of Chelsea beating FFFP rules with the help of Saudis. Or how about the collapse of Chinese ownership in European football and the reasons why. Here’s another that deserves to be looked into. My hackles were raised when Bournemouth tried to lure Marcelo Bielsa last season. I asked myself why a village pub team with an average gate of 7k would want to try and get Bielsa. It was around the time a yank who owns a big sports team in Las Vegas was about to buy the club. Then you ask why a big yank sports owner would want that pub team? The answer is that the yanks see English football as a low cost entry into the massive world of football and broadcasting rights. In the words of Parag Marathe, you know the so-called king of sports contracts, it’s all about eyeballs and broadcasting contracts. When you look into it further you find that Arsenal, Villa, Bournemouth, Chelsea, Man Utd, Palace, Fulham, Leeds, Liverpool, Man City (Silver Lake act on behalf of Abu Dhabi), Burnley, Milwall, Swansea, Barnsley, Cambridge Utd, Ipswich, Portsmouth, Crawley and Wrexham are all Yank owned. There’s also a long line of yanks waiting to come in. 20 of the 72 clubs now Yankee dollar and rising fast. Everton to 777 Investments would make 21 clubs owned by yanks. Sky made billions from football but those in the know understand that the Sky model is dead and the yanks want to strip it back. May 2021, the Premier League confirmed it would extend its £5.1billion television deal, which started last season and will run until the end of the 2024-25 campaign. It is by far the most lucrative deal signed in world football. Only the National Football League (NFL) and cricket’s Indian Premier League (IPL) generate more domestic revenue per game than the English top flight. The NFL own the rights to its football and have their own broadcast arm who sell games to broadcast outlets. So just like F1TV it uses its own cameras and sells the feed to broadcast platforms. The yanks would love to take control of Premier League TV. There’s also ideas around some clubs not being happy with the share of tv revenue and wanting to do their own thing meaning LUTV streaming its home games worldwide to a huge fanbase. The likes of Man Utd, Liverpool etc would probably make a lot more than Leeds going this way, but clubs like Bournemouth maybe not so much but if you look into it logically Bournemouth would only need a couple of million fans from anywhere in the world multiplied by 19 home games plus any cup games and they would make more than they do from Sky. Amazon are now involved too, DAZN, BeIN Sports, Peacock, CBS and more. Yanks are not silly, they are greedy twats. Teams in the Championship get £4.5m per season in tv money and if Leeds told them to shove it and decided to stream their home games worldwide they could make many, many times more than that. Even at only a £1 charge per stream Leeds would make more than £20m per season in the championship. In 2012 one of the best midfielders in Italy, who was compared to Pirlo was transferred from Pescarro to PSG for £12m. This week Marco Veratti was sold to a Qatari club for £45m. Lets not forget that the player is now 30 and spent the last 12 years at PSG and he played way over 400 games for them. Why hasn’t a journo thought to himself: hey something not right here why would a Qatari club pay £45m for a 30yo Italian with no contract left. Oh and PSG being a Qatari club owned by the Royal Family? Obviously nothing fishy going on here with PSG FFFP issues.
Just been announced on BBC that 777 Investments (USA) are buying Everton from Moshiri and the deal should be completed by December. Half the prem now yank
Isn’t it 14 of the 20 PL clubs that have to vote in favour of any rule changes for the vote to pass ? Not saying American owners will all be in agreement but it does make you wonder.
Will Leeds go back into the market and sign an out of contract player. There seems to be a lot of stories that the 49ers are going to do so? A LB maybe or a real number 10?
Leicester top of the league smashed Southampton last night 1-4 and thats the 2nd slapping Southampton have had so could we see the first managerial casualty?
Saints set up all wrong with 6 players on the high press and played exactly as Leicester would have wished. So much space left in Saints own half that Vardy & Co had an absolute field day. Leicester to finsh top and hopefully us second.
Leeds fans loving blaming Kristensen for being crap at Roma but when you look more closely you see Jose Mourinho under massive pressure as Roma are in the bottom 3 and miles off the pace. They are skint and bet Jose’ wishes he had accepted other jobs he was offered in the summer. Another club and manager under pressure is PSG as Luis Enrique also struggling as PSG are usually way ahead in the French league by now but they got beat on Friday and struggling. Simeone at Athletico Madrid also took a hell of a beating yesterday so that’s going to be one to watch
We shouldn’t be. If he’s flopped in two of Europe’s top leagues then we’re not getting our money back for him.
The 49ers will not be bothered. They will be thinking of prem football and the club being valued at 500 million or more.
Without a shadow of a doubt we have some fantastic front men. Unfortunately Anthony hardly saw the ball when he came on, Rutter was brilliant but never really had a sniff until 80 minutes and scored with ease and he got another couple of assists, Pirie does what Bamford can’t. James back involved again, Summerville fairly quiet and Gnonto had a good game again
I still say that Gnonto should remain on the left. I just don't see anything like the same contribution when he switches to the right.
Difficult to tell from watching on TV why Farke made the switch but there will have been a very valid reason I'm sure. It's not all about the attacking play remember.
Sports media all talking positive about Georginio. High praise for Robin Koch with talk of him getting back into the German team. So Koch will bring in. Decent fee and so will Llorente, Wober and Roca. Sinisterra if he stays fit will get goals and assists so should also pay us back. Harrison still injured and in a relegation fight already
I hate to say this but if we don't go up then... Gnonto will be off for £30 million. Summerville for £20 million. Ampadu for £20 million (and the rest if his form continues). Meslier for £10 million. Rutter for £25 million. That's from the current squad never mind those out on loan. FFP won't be an issue next season. Recruitment might be though.
Sorry Doc but Koch is at the end of his 4 year deal with us next summer so can leave on a free and also he's able to sign a pre contract agreement in January.
