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How so? It seems more stable from the players perspective, they have these nice long contracts so they know they’re still a part of Chelsea despite being bounced from club to club and country to country on expiring contracts.
Barca literally sold their future income and merchandise rights for quick money. The gambled on short term success.
The government was helping Real 20 years ago with some shady deals.
Like what?
Like /u/espret’s story! Like how the government helped Real with shady deals 20 years ago… … Duh
Like what?
Off the top of my head: real sold their old training ground to the municipal govt for a fee far, far in excess of what it was worth. The govt then sold/gave them long lease on new facilities for a peppercorn sum.
Daz just gud business!
I don’t get what we’re doing here trying to paint Chelsea’s spending as some new wave ruining football.
Exactly!
This isn’t even the first time Chelsea’s spending ruined football!
Are you really using Nazi Germany for an example as to why Chelsea aren’t “the only ones ruining football”?
No, he’s using Nazi Germany as an example of how football has been corrupted by less than benevolent interests for a very long time.
That’s not true. Their land and their old training ground was built near Paseo de la Castellana in 1963, but back then it was on outskirts of the city.
That land was worth fuck ton after 30 years when city grew, this is what the build on it after:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuatro_Torres_Business_Area
They moved to unconnected unbuilt outskirts of Madrid once again, which are still half-empty to this day, called Valdebebas.
Here’s HITC Sevens episode about it, when I learned it from:
https://youtu.be/ao5gccLtRL8?si=3EfB8NVAbfrOsg3e&t=319
Here’s article about it, title is:
“EU Court rules Real Madrid got no state aid in land deal”
https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/22/eu-court-rules-real-madrid-got-no-state-aid-in-land-deal
This is the definitive slogan of /r/soccer
Economic levers and being £400m in debt
Lol you got downvoted for asking a question, typical
Like what?
Like /u/espret’s story! Like how the government helped Real with shady deals 20 years ago… … Duh
Like what?
Off the top of my head: real sold their old training ground to the municipal govt for a fee far, far in excess of what it was worth. The govt then sold/gave them long lease on new facilities for a peppercorn sum.
That’s not true. Their land and their old training ground was built near Paseo de la Castellana in 1963, but back then it was on outskirts of the city.
That land was worth fuck ton after 30 years when city grew, this is what the build on it after:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuatro_Torres_Business_Area
They moved to unconnected unbuilt outskirts of Madrid once again, which are still half-empty to this day, called Valdebebas.
Here’s HITC Sevens episode about it, when I learned it from:
https://youtu.be/ao5gccLtRL8?si=3EfB8NVAbfrOsg3e&t=319
Here’s article about it, title is:
“EU Court rules Real Madrid got no state aid in land deal”
https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/22/eu-court-rules-real-madrid-got-no-state-aid-in-land-deal
Daz just gud business!
are you assuming that Roman kickstarted it despite Blackburn doing the same ‘overspending’ a decade prior.
Ties as in Saudi have money handled by Clearlake? i’m sure every team has someone tied to them that’s dodgy if that’s the thread you want to pull at.
Suppose Arsenal have one of those good billionaires that exist despite there being not a whole lot of difference between him and Todd
Personally I think Man City, PSG, Newcastle and RB Leipzig/Salzburg are better examples but Chelsea are definitely up there
One is not like the others
Football went wrong years ago, it’s not a working mans game anymore. It’s a business for the big clubs, not a sporting enterprise, hence the superleague.
That logic just makes no sense. The reason chelsea are the poster boys, is because they went from a stable club owned by a dirty oil Oligarch, who then due to geo politics was forced to sell, and he did so to American finance men who are just oligarchs and middle eastern billionaires with more governmental restrictions. And those men took transfer spending to a level no one ever could’ve imagined ball in 1 year. Not only that, but they have been utter shit. Spending a billion and still being so bad is horrific.
American finance men who are just oligarchs
So like many other PL clubs. Why are we being singled out under Todd?
and middle eastern billionaires
We aren’t owned by middle eastern billionaires
You’re singled out because you spent a billion pounds in a year how is the difficult for some chelsea fans to understand. And then to further the singling out after spending untold money you are remarkably bad.
Scenes when Chelsea recruit Thomas Crimp and Scumspawn as their new COOs
I think Scumspawn is gunning for the England job
Yep wev won it all and got our owner taken away by the government becuase of a war… keep hating we dont care.
We will be back and you can hate us soke more Hamilton you prick
Ohh yeah, sorry. I am at work and saw wages pop up in some comments, and replied as per that. But I do agree, loans are taken to pay for transfer fees. It’s standard for every major transfer irrespective of the club.
No worries
And may all the bankrolled teams at the moment end up like Blackburn.
So what does their state now actually have to do with the roman era? They barely have players from that era, different manager different staff.
It’s more or less a different club. And the article was about him not caring about the club after the Todd era.
Chelsea was the first to bring it to a ludicrous scale
Yeah they just did that slightly earlier than other clubs, earned lots of trophies and international fans and now you cannot criticize the clubs because of their “prestige”