Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - Life and Death for South America, Pre-Season for Europe: The Club World Cup

[nyknick]

If that's true

One reason why Abramovich is good in Russia and hasn't had his ill-gotten assets returned to the state is he stays in his lane. He sticks to Putin's pact with Oligarchs: stay out of politics and pay your taxes

It's all fun and games until you take a sip of polonium tea


I can't get by the paywall but here's a comment from reddit

Main points of the article - via @Pierre_B_y

• Putin asked Abrahamovitch to withdraw from ESL. Because of Gazprom links with UCL, because 2022 final is in Saint Petersburg, and because Zenit needs to be in the best competition.
• JP Morgan was a middle man, the money actually came from Saudi Arabia
• UAE asked ManCity to withdraw because they try to build a progressist image of their country and don't want to be associated with Saudi Arabia
• 50 millions has already been spent in marketing and legal fees by the 12 breakaway clubs
• Florentino Perez construction company signed a 6.5 billion euros deal in Saudi Arabia, to built the new Saudi "Las Vegas"

 

[MikelArteta]

It's all fun and games until you take a sip of polonium tea


I can't get by the paywall but here's a comment from reddit

so we would have prob seen some real madrid vs liverpool live in riyadh on some wwe ish

 

[Trajan]

200,000 post

 

[TobiOT]

Ty has been on Talksports neck for years.

 

[TobiOT]

Maybe this is why Ray Parlour chats rubbish on Talksport..

Divorce settlement back in 2004

Two mortgage-free houses worth more than £1m
£250,000 lump sum
£444,000 a year

Get married brehs.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

It's all fun and games until you take a sip of polonium tea


I can't get by the paywall but here's a comment from reddit

Saudi tried to treat football like it does to its journalists

 

[Conan]

Maybe this is why Ray Parlour chats rubbish on Talksport..

Divorce settlement back in 2004







Get married brehs.

The army, better yet the navy

 

[Ukbrotha]

Maybe this is why Ray Parlour chats rubbish on Talksport..

Divorce settlement back in 2004







Get married brehs.

My gawd!

 

[TobiOT]

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Most of these footballers aren't charismatic or have any real command/presence.

 

[Roberto Firmino]

Love the front 4 all playing


Wijnaldum though

 

[Roberto Firmino]

Momo that's filth

 

[concise]

Maybe this is why Ray Parlour chats rubbish on Talksport..

Divorce settlement back in 2004







Get married brehs.

 

[Sukairain]

It's all fun and games until you take a sip of polonium tea


I can't get by the paywall but here's a comment from reddit

I never understood why Gazprom sponsors football so heavily. Like who watches football thinking "I really need to change my industrial gas provider" If they had some subsidiary which did gas for individual, home customers, I could see it, but Gazprom only does bulk gas supply straight to foreign governments

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

Surprised Salah passed there to Mane just then
Very unlike him to do that