Match Day Thread 2016/17 Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

Where are the claim forms? I want to claim those two minutes of my life back!

 

AC Milan has been sold to a Chinese consortium with the new buyers promising to spend €400m in the next two seasons.

This comes a month after another Chinese company took over Inter Milan.

 

See a pattern here?

UEFA 'A' Coaches:
Eng - 1,178
Ger - 5,500
Spain - 12,720

Cost of Course:
Eng - £5,600
Ger - €530
Spain - €1,200

 

Is it cheaper to buy into the Italian league than others?
I could understand them buying into the PL, it's a license to print money at the moment, not sure if they will get decent profits out of Serie A

 

Germans don't like spending money?

 

I've no idea Diego, but I'm genuinely pleased. AC Milan is a great club and it sad to see what's become of it over the last decade. At its best it was the most exciting club to watch imo. Better than Barca, Real or any other European club. Expansive free-flowing football with tactically clever football. Loved it.

 

A lot of our ex-players do their badges abroad because of cost

 

I would've hoped that you learnt lessons off the likes of Hicks & Gillett, Glazer family, Vincent Tan, Randy Lerner etc. that these foreign owners rarely, if ever, stick to their promises when they first arrive at a club.

 

Can't be worse than where they were. And lets not forget they had Berlusconi before lol

 

Haha true. The problem with getting big money owners these days is that they are restricted with what they can do because of FFP, which gives a lot of them the perfect excuse for not investing that much in the squad. Another Mansour/Abramovich is very unlikely in today's football, IMO.

 

I disagree - as with most laws, loopholes will be found. Look at the revenues for Man City and PSG, neither of whom have massive global reputations on the same level as Man United, Barca, Real but yet are still recording revenues on a similar scale.

It's because They record artifical deals with other companies within their portfolio which then increases their revenue. By boosting their revenue figures, they're then allowed to spend more. It's just a form of transfer pricing which is used by most big companies to avoid paying more tax etc.

FFP is just bullshit .

 

Ask Portsmouth that lol

 

The other point is many thought that FFP was really brought in to protect the bigger clubs. Clubs like AC Milan! They'll turn a blind eye to them I'm sure.

 

There's definitely some truth there, but PSG & City owners have been there for a reasonably long time now. If you look at the profile of owners that are now investing in football clubs, they aren't people who are buying the clubs as a hobby or to raise their own profile with no real thought of making money a la Abramovich. Its groups of investors from China, USA etc. that have seen the amount of money is in football and are trying to cash in on it.

 

hmm Brendans reign at Celtic not started too well losing to Lincoln Red Imps of Gibraltar 1-0

 

John Barnes is renowned as Celtic's worst ever manager, looks like Rodgers might take his crown.

 

Wasn't a big fan of the guy, but its only preseason, give him a break.

 

It's a Champions League match

 

Celtic will win the 2nd leg about 4-0 though so doesn't mean much.