I couldn't give a toss what it was meant for, they have behaved dispicably especially for a club we are "in partnership" with and i just want the partnership, whatever it is for, terminated
Just found this article. Don't know if is credible or whether it has legs, but quite interesting. http://www.givemesport.com/376424-euro-mep-plans-to-investigate-bale-deal?autoplay=on investigate Bale deal Euro MP Derk Jan Eppink wants to investigate Gareth Bale transfer Tweet Patrick Surlis Published 11 minutes ago by Patrick Surlis, read by 337 people. Euro MEP wants to investigate how Madrid paid for Bale (©GettyImages) European politician Derk Jan Eppink wants to open an investigation to determine how Real Madrid afforded to sign Gareth Bale from Tottenham. According to Spanish newspaper AS, Eppink plans to ask the European Commission to investigate the deal between Spurs and Madrid. He believes the transfer was partly funded by Bankia - a nationalised bank in Spain. Bankia was bailed out by the European Union during the financial crisis - the institution received â¬19bn in recapitalization funds. Eppink, a member of the List Dedecker party, has confirmed he intends to send a letter to the Commission outlining his concerns with the deal. The Belgian MEP has hit out at Madrid for funding the Bale transfer through debt. According to Eppink "they [Real Madrid] have accumulated a debt of some â¬600m, financed to a large degree by Caja Madrid." Caja Madrid is a savings bank that is now part of Bankia. Eppink continued: "It [Bankia] was recently rescued by the European Stability Mechanism [ESM], requiring an injection of no less than â¬18bn and yet now they offer support in the transaction conducted by Real Madrid. "European Union funds cannot be used for such unsustainable practices." The European Commission already plans to look into the financial stability of several La Liga clubs - including Real Madrid, Barcelona, Osasuna and Athletic Bilabao. Tottenham reportedly received close to £85m for Bale from Real Madrid - a world record fee.
I hope they do investigate,and if Bankia did,come down heavily on both,using what is the public's money to buy a player is disgraceful prehap's it would stop Real using pressure to get players,like the did to us, as for bankia,they should be closed down
the EU can overule them,as they gave the money for a bale out (Pardon the pun),they overule our goverment on most things
OMG, i can see the headlines already! What sort of penalty could the EU hand down though? Just monetary? Surely they can't, say, get them banned from europe?
Anything happening as a result of this is just as likely as the FFP ever making any difference or England winning the world cup in 2022...
Was he drunk when he said that? The England team look less likely to win a World Cup in the next ten years now than they did a decade ago.
Advocating the devil is tempting. I'll wait to see how things turn out, but if we end up benefitting more from the money and losing Bale than Real does from spending money and having Bale, I wouldn't mind keeping the relationship going. It certainly is "special." They're slimeballs and ****wads, but their money still spends. Alternatively, what about a special relationship with either or both of Barca or Ajax? The Ajax connection could be great for both clubs, I think. That would be a great team for Carroll, for example.
Ajax would certainly be useful, although given the recent purchases of Vertonghen and Eriksen we'd be the master and they'd be the servant in that relationship (and that just sounds wrong) Dinamo Zagreb would also be very good.
