Stan Kroenke knew this was on the horizon and this must have influenced his decision not to sell the club to Usmanov.Quote:
Originally Posted by hobson's choice
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Stan Kroenke knew this was on the horizon and this must have influenced his decision not to sell the club to Usmanov.Quote:
Originally Posted by hobson's choice
Look at the La Liga table on the Rel Betis website :lol:
https://en.realbetisbalompie.es/
Never mind, looks like they removed it.
Of course he did!Quote:
Originally Posted by WGC Goon
There's a very important lesson to learn here, as Mr Wenger himself would say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
These "surprises" do not happen by surprise. They are planned long in advance, in the shadows, while denial is issued left, right and centre in public. That's how Wenger knows - because conspiracies (which is precisely what this is and has always been) leak out, little by little. You don't always know precisely what's going on, you don't always know the details, but you can see the direction all the birds are flying.
Thinking back two Wenger's great teams striding around a sun soaked Highbury, going toe to toe with what was essentially a gang of hoodlums from Manchester, the anticipation, the build-up, the rage, the joy, the packed pub afterwards. Or the disbelief if we somehow lost, the genuine hatred for Mike Riley (who now seems like a half decent ref by today's standard).
It's not so long ago. When rotten individuals get control of something they can destroy it very quickly.
That should be remembered in all aspects of life, not just football.
I think you are overestimating their reliance on what you call "fans"Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
You probably mean fans who live in this country and want to actually attend games in, relatively speaking, tiny stadiums that are potentially dwarfed in audience size by the great god pay per view TV.
When they say "European" league - have a bet right now that it will become a global league with mega-bankrolled teams from China and the USA.
The "fans" they are salivating over are not the same as the lower income, local lads who used to turn up in person. Unless we're going to go all Red Star Belgrade, the traditional fans will simply be sidestepped as irrelevant. The greedy pigs have said as much - Covid, the gift that keeps on giving, saw the stadiums shut down. You can say that was an unfortunate consequence of an unforeseen pandemic - fine. However, purely coincidentally of course, it has also been a fantastic trail run for future sport in general, where evrything will be consumed from a distance provided you have the credit card in hand.
Modern players can't take corners properly, so that'll be one of the cheap slots. I suspect diving and rolling around screaming will be prime time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aubameyang's Wang
They're after the revenue, not the football. So an ex-giant that happens to be shite carries as much weight as a present day giant with an ever expanding revenue base. And this is just the start. Endorsements, advertising, sponsorship, football players plastered over every screen selling every product imaginable.Quote:
Originally Posted by IBK
I hope they can still find the time to turn up for the match, prior engagements permitting.
Absolutely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Imagine a penalty kick...........
'a penalty advertising slot is £30m sir'
I always wondered why Amazon was suddenly interested in streaming sporting events. And now they have all that extra loot they picked up from a million competitors shut down during year of nonsense I guess they be one of the mega-corporations that can buy in at ground level and own sport thereafter. Really opens up a lot of opportunity when you don't have to pay tax.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
There will probably be a 10 minute interlude so they can run 9 minutes of ads and a 1 minute pre-penalty kick show. Hosted by Gary Lineker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aubameyang's Wang