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  1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64150753 Juventus and their partners would have transferred players at inflated costs, because of Paratici's relationships with other executives. Allegedly, they would do each other favours, expecting favours in return. Manuel Locatelli moved from Sassuolo to Juventus in 2021 on a two-year loan with an obligation to buy, despite Arsenal offering to buy him immediately for a higher amount than the Bianconeri; Dejan Kulusevski moved from Atalanta to Juventus in 2020 for 44m euro, as part of a bigger strategy between the two clubs. A line of investigation concerning false players' salary cuts is still on the table at the FIGC. On top of it, Uefa opened an investigation in December. In order to take part in European competition, each club needs a Uefa Club License from its national association. If allegations prove true, Juventus received theirs thanks to financial violations. Juve in big trouble apparently. Hopefully Chelsea, Barca, Real to follow soon. No wonder they were so desperate for the Superleague
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    Chelsea

    The non big 6 should make a pact between them to stop signing big 6 cast offs unless they’re on a free. That’ll soon stop this bullshit business model and crush these clubs.
  3. I’d actually want this to happen purely to prove that Southgate hates Villa. You know he could score 50 goals in the remainder of the season whilst playing like prime McGrath… but get dropped for a sky6 centre back who hadn’t played a minute of competitive football in the last 6 years. Just because.
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    Unai Emery

    Emery breath you take Emery move you make Emery smile you fake Emery sub you make I’ll be watching you So pleased to see the back of slippy G And my poor heart breaks Thinking why the **** we didn’t get you before that scouse prick ruined 2 seasons. Yeah, the last line needs work, but thoughts?
  5. Eddie Howe? I swear I saw this guy managing the toon against Arsenal
  6. Also came to post that if that had been Matty cash, that’s would be given as a penalty 25 million times out of a hundred. VAR is a joke.
  7. Lol came to post the same thing! at first I was thinking that maybe my tv was in the wrong aspect ratio!
  8. My money would have been on a duck doing a Gerrard impression
  9. At one point, we had 6 in a straight line at the back. However, at no point did it feel like we had parked the bus. That’s Emery magic.
  10. No, got a ball ache. wanna come give em a rub, baby?
  11. There it is again, ‘whataboutism’. An idea invented by the prejudiced and peddled by the intellectually challenged. You’re absolutely right, this discussion is for a different place, and I’m happy to take it there as we are way off topic now.
  12. Lol, you’re the one stalking me, chappy. Every time I defend any country from the Middle East, you seem to pop up like magic, like you’ve got some notification enabled for certain words - if that’s even possible. Actually I have never suggested that you’re a US sympathiser. Indeed the only post of yours that I recall mentioning the US is one where you criticise Texas for their treatment of transgender people. My only issue with you has been that you will stop short of treating two wrongs with the same punishment. I can’t understand why. Let me give you a hypothetical scenario There are two children smashing windows. One is black, and one is white. You decide to reprimand the black child only, or indeed the white child only. And tell him he is grounded. Someone then highlights that the other child was equally wrong, and needs to face the SAME punishment. You ignore it. Maybe it had nothing to do with the race of the child, but it looks pretty bad, no? Saying one child was throwing ‘blood’ rocks implies that somehow the other child’s rocks were not as bad. You don’t need to say it, but your selective criticism implies it. Now of course it would be impossible to preface every post with disclaimers. But in my view there is nothing wrong with asking for clarification - so I did. So if OP says ‘Saudi blood money’, and I ask for clarification, and OP agrees that other countries also have blood money, then that’s fine, and hopefully end of discussion, and maybe even one less person referencing the money as such. Or maybe OP does have some opinions that need to be challenged. Or maybe there’s something for me to learn. History will teach you that language is very important in planting ideations. If you allow ideas like all Saudi (and indeed Arab) money is blood money to pass unchecked, then people reading it will assume it is true, or ok to believe it as such. It has almost become second nature to reference any Arab money as blood money on this board - and although 99% of the time it has no underlying intentional malice to it - it is damaging to a certain people none-the-less. The more you hear/read something - the more ‘true’ it becomes in the readers/listeners mind. Saudi money is no bloodier than US money. So let’s stop making out that it somehow is. I would expect you, more that most, to understand this, but you seem to take exception whenever I take exception.
  13. I’m so happy to read this. They chose him above our Keinan.
  14. Ok, let’s not generalise. Although if you search for blood and money you’ll see that reference is generally applied to Saudi, Qatar, Abu Dhabi) Most number of Wars started/involved in : USA Largest exporter of weapons in the world, THREE times its next competitor and 40% of global market : USA Only country ever to have dropped nukes: USA But yeah, sure. ‘Saudi’ blood money. Also it’s amazing how often you pop up when it involves a certain race, and disappear again when asked a question to justify your prejudiced remarks. (Still waiting for you to respond to my question about why it’s ok for the Americans to host the World Cup despite their paedophilia promoting child marriage laws, but not ok for the Qataris with their anti-homosexual laws? You’ve been side-stepping that for weeks - in the qatar World Cup thread, we’ll try to keep on topic here)
  15. We have one of the best finishers in the Premier league on the bench. We known exactly where we'd be with a proper finisher in his place. The real question you want to ask is where can we find a player that can do what Ollie does, but can ALSO finish, and how much does this kind of player cost?
  16. Possibly the worst signing in our history. But he got us Boubs, and for that, I will forever be grateful to The Slippery One.
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    Gerard Deulofeu

    No, no, no. They just have somebody who knows how to use those players. You could have swapped Cash for Trippier, or Kamara for Longstaff, or Watkins for Wilson, or even all 3 - and Newcastle would still be where they are, and we'd still be where we are, because Stevie G didn't have a **** clue. And you'd still be here writing the same post, that Newcastle had bought really well, and we had bought poorly. You underestimate the importance of a good manager. Newcastle got Howe, we got a fraud. THAT's the real difference. A good manager knows what he needs and how to use them. If Emery wants Delefeu, then I'd be confident that he knows why, and I wouldn't question it. I would be confident that it was because he felt that player had the right attributres to perform a role. That's not to say that he won't buy some duds, but that's just life.
  18. Historically whenever we’ve started to get praise in the media, we’ve gone shit. I’d rather stay off the radar
  19. I might be wrong, but from that picture it looks like they Perisic was onside even if Young was in the right place - so he did brilliantly to spot the run and do what he did.
  20. Why is Arab money ‘blood’ money, but all other money ‘normal’ money?
  21. With Emery you can bet your life it was a thought out decision rather than a tally of eye contacts in the previous week.
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