Football : Season 2012/2013

[thenry]

Originally Posted by Damien

You don't have to make a offer to buy the remaining shares at 30%. You used to get given certain rights as a part-owner which you don't get below that (access to the financial information I think) but the league removed those this year.

yes you do.

Originally Posted by thenry

yes you do.

Misread what you said. Edited post. I thought you said he had to make a compulsory purchase. Effectively getting to 30% changes little for Arsenal...

[thenry]

he will crank the pressure though.

[denphone]

Raheem Sterling agrees new five-year contract with Liverpool

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20792252

Excellent news.

[thenry]

yup.

[thenry]

Darren @DarrenArsenal1
"Officially" Alisher Usmanov needs 29 more shares as of today to reach the 30% thresholding of Arsenal football club
6:53 p.m. Thu, Dec 20
https://www.twitter.com/DarrenArsena...1595179008?p=p

400+mil profit for Stan if he takes Usmanovs money. people reckon hes going to wait a few years. value is just going up.

If Stan wanted to do it he wouldn't have to wait until Usmanov reaches 30%, he would have sold it already.

[thenry]

PSG secure new commercial agreement

Paris Saint-Germain have clinched a massive deal with the Qatar Tourism Authority that will bring the Ligue 1 leaders more than €150 million over each of the next four seasons.

m.espn.go.com/soccer/story?storyId=1271135&wjb

rising to 200mil plus the clauses. it was always going to happen wasnt it.

Surely UEFA aren't going to allow that. They haven't even tried to make it reasonable.

[adzii_nufc]

Didn't Man City pull a similar stunt or am I mixed up with something.

Wondering what the point of the new regulations were now. Seems pointless when it's now being exploited via shady sponsorship deals.

[colin25]

Originally Posted by adzii_nufc

Didn't Man City pull a similar stunt or am I mixed up with something.

Wondering what the point of the new regulations were now. Seems pointless when it's now being exploited via shady sponsorship deals.

Define shady.

If other teams get sponsorship...through other than strictly commercial means, is that shady?

Could possibly other teams have gotten some sponsorship that way?

Or is it the amount?

And, how would they prove it? Presume a sponsorship should only be a certain amount? Say based on fan size, turnover? Ultimately that could punish smaller clubs. And how to count fan base, purely through the gates?

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And financial fair play is spurious...it favours teams that have already built a fan base, over many yearts using whatever means

[denphone]

Mario Balotelli: Man City will give striker another chance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20811818

He's a bigger fool then l already thought he was.

[colin25]

Originally Posted by denphone

Mario Balotelli: Man City will give striker another chance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20811818

He's a bigger fool then l already thought he was.

No..it is as I expect, one idiot leading another

[thenry]

Málaga banned for a year from Champions League and Europa League for non-payment of wages

Uefa has handed Málaga a one-year ban from European club competition after the Spanish club failed to pay players wages and tax bills on time.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...-of-wages.html

Go get Isco Arsene!

[colin25]

Always about money

If you are racist, have bad fan behaviour (and not english), nothing much happens

But god forbid if you do anything to anger the money gods.

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On BBC Sport website, they asked what goes into making the perfect footballer

Best answer so far, in my opinion
Steve Beaven on Twitter: "Skill of Messi, Touch of Messi, Pace of Messi, Personality of Messi, engine of Messi, passing of Messi, height of Crouch."